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Huws, my caffeine intake has reached epic proportions too!
You cold turkey or NRT?
Good luck fella (be prepared not to poo for a while 😥 - Is this why ex-smokers put on weight??)
Edit- Morgs yup you should be VERY proud!!
Elfinsafety - Member
Forundred.So, youse what are giving up, youse are pretty much all 'heavy' smokers then.
Have you tried giving up before? And if so, why did those attempts fail?
I used to smoke about 10 a day when I gave up, so not exactly a heavy smoker, but I was a regular, habitual smoker, i.e. light up first thing in the morning, smoking after meals and drinks, etc., the nabit was strong.
I probably tried to give up 20+ times. Not sure of the main reasons for failure - weed sometimes played a big part though.
The very act of cutting some cheese had managed to work me up into an apoplectic frenzy
This doesn’t bode well for the barrage of stupid questions I’m likely to get at work this afternoon
Elf, not overly (about 10 a day) but for the last 20 years, with a 2 year hiatus when I thought I’d actually kicked it. Unfortunately I fell off my bike and spent 2 weeks at home full to the brim with tramadol with no one to talk to but the man in the newsagents and my neighbours cats.
fenred, 16 hour patches. I keep finding myself absent mindedly rubbing the patch trying to squeeze more delicious nicotine out of it.
This is really taking off isn't it, welcome to the party all you awesome quitters 8)
An thanks to TJ for putting the [i]Fear[/i] of god in to it 😯 that's what I call an incentive to quit.....
In case it helps anyone... I've just had a meeting with a colleague who smokes (at least) a pack a day, as I used to.
He smells like sh1t, I was gagging slightly.
Worst part is realising I used to stink like that.
Best part is realising I no longer do.
TJ - i need a kiss 🙁
I have just, after 337 hours and 35 mins succumbed to a smoke.
Work stress-related.
I felt good at the time, but now feel like a shell of a human. dissappointed with myself, feel guilty, told MsMorgs and got the 'i'm dissappointed' rather than the shouting and screaming (which is far worse as we all know) and now I need a rollicking by you lot.
Come on - no holds barred.....flame me to my very core.
I have already ripped off the shoulder boards of awesomeness
Oh no. You didn't get the 'D' word? EEK! 😯
*shudders*
Don't worry about it. You're still awesome. Just get back to the same mindset as you were a couple of hours ago. Nowts changed. I'm keeping going by thinking how much money I've not spent, and how these none-spent funds are to be re-directed 😀
Satsuma?
Well I can't protect you from TJ, morgs...
... but I can tell you what you probably already know - that one smoke does not take you back to square one. It's a small setback, nothing more. You're not addicted again already; the nicotine in your system is minimal. etc. etc.
So, forget about it, pucker up for TJ and start sewing those shoulder boards back on, dude!
As binners says, regain the mindset and off you go!
No flaming from me. Just a big man hug!
Morgs.... next time you can make it in excess of 500.
Greatness is achieved through adversity, through getting back up when you've been knocked down.
I started smoking again last Thursday week, precisely so I could be on hand to pick you up and help you at this point (well the temptation of some magic smoking substance might also have been a little too much) so let's do this together.
Yeti.
40 hrs and 44 mins smoke free.
Yeti and Morgs – you're both still posing for my inspiration poster, right? 8)
Yeah course... I'm proving that you can fall off the wagon for a little while, get back on and act like nothing's happened 🙂
Smoking still sucks...
The Southern Yeti - Member
Morgs.... next time you can make it in excess of 500.Greatness is achieved through adversity, through getting back up when you've been knocked down.
I started smoking again last Thursday week, precisely so I could be on hand to pick you up and help you at this point (well the temptation of some magic smoking substance might also have been a little too much) so let's do this together.
Yeti.
40 hrs and 44 mins smoke free.
No way Yeti 🙁
I guess that it was a funny one though.
S'alright Ho Hum... this time I've taken the Mrs with me. Seems that smoking jsut before you get into bed is one way of making someone realise how bad it smells.
I wouldn't advise it though and I smoked <5 a day.
*Puckers up*
Comehere big boy - you is mine now
mwaaah mwaaah mwaaah
It's... too horrible... to watch.... 😯
* assumes the foetal position and rocks back and forth, humming *
Morgs - see it as a set back not the end of your efforts. Have some nicontine replacement therapy to hand perhpas?
its a wicked addiction and the things it does to your head is just crazy the way yo can convince yourself that you deserve or need this one fag and its Ok.
So - take your punishment like a man and put it behind you
Oh Dear God! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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its a wicked addiction and the things it does to your head is just crazy the way yo can convince yourself that you deserve or need this one fag and its Ok.
I can remember before (and almost did this last night) stopping at a garage not even thinking about smoking, filling up and driving off. A mile down the road I realised what I'd done...
'sweet, I'm not actually addicted... so this means I can smoke tonight'
Then stopping at the next garage down the road 😀
its a wicked addiction and the things it does to your head is just crazy
The things it does to your backside is crazy! I still haven't been and I've had 5 satsumas and 2 plums today 😯
Morgs..It's not over yet, instead if thinking about the one you had, think about the few hundred you havnt, in the face of adversity..stiff upper lip.. n'all that.........
BUT.......TEEEJAAAAAYYY!!!!!......... 😆
The things it does to your backside is crazy! I still haven't been and I've had 5 satsumas and 2 plums today
Tape up the bog door when you go....... 😯
You'll know when I do finally go man, there will be a HUUUUUuuge disturbance in the force!
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TAKE COVER!!!!!!
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brilliant guys - absolutely brilliant....
~Tj - dare I say it......
mwah
(SPITS AND GARGLES SINK CLEANER)
Feeling any better, morgs?
In light of morgs minor 'blip' may I propose that anybody that gets tempted enough to even consider touching a ciggy to immediately post up for instant support/councelling/bollocking?
Fenred later....
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I look bloody happy though don't I?
It's not going so well for me - a total of 4 yesterday and 4 (so far) today - but at least it's a step in the right direction. There is hardly any baccy left, and I really don't intend to buy any more.
Probably doesn't help that I'm feeling pretty down at the moment, due to lack of money and long-term lack of a man.
Lady_G - you should have snapped me up a few months ago....I'm a reet catch me 8)
TJ will confirm that........
i remeber once arriving home with 4 packets of rizzla as I bought them from the kiosk without even thinking. i had stopped for over 2 years and I just laughed when I unpacked them - no tobacco though. its odd when you do this. Done it once since as well. Once took a fag of someone and ash e lit he said I did not know you smoked .. i dropped it on the floor saying shit I dont I just forgot and walked off.
Good work people good work
Well hello there. How's everyone doing today?
So far, I've saved £80 by not smoking... and this morning I powered up a hill I normally just about wheeze over. Suh-weet. 8)
I think you are all awesome, in varying degrees. Yeti, I am dissapointed in you old chap, I thought you were iron willed and inspirational. I am sure my mancrush will return over time.
My best defence after 3 and a half months of not smoking is to ask myself if I want to be a smoker again if I am tempted (which is almost never now). The answer is, and always will be, no.
The flipside is that it would almost be worth starting again to get a kiss from TJ. *suppresses the bad thought*
Good morning Camo, good morning everybody.....
Not too bad ta.....onwards and upwards from the slip
Good man!
Have you managed to rinse away the eau du TJ yet? I'm told the aftertaste lingers...
Glad you're back on track!
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Morning all! I seem to be struggling this week more than last. No particular reason why I should. I may go up to 15 Satsumas today 😕
Morning All,
Day 3 for me and feeling strong, particularly as I've just spent an hour and a half stuck in grid-locked traffic for a 7 mile journey to work 👿 I reckon I would have ploughed through 4 or 5 smokes during that time and I didnt even flinch...Chuffed!
However my ongoing blockage problem remains unresolved and I am now feeling VERY uncomfortable 😕
I was stuck in horrendous stationary traffic this morning too. I watched the bloke in front of me puff his way through about 4 fags in about 20 minutes, while listening to some whining, sanctimonious, bleating, mummy-knows-best, health-nazi pussy from the BMA, on five live, proposing banning smoking in cars.
Its enough to make me start again just to piss people like that off. Strokers!
However - I did feel a lot better that the bloke in front used to be me, but isn't any more 😀
Morning all, onwards an upwards morgs, top man! Nearly two weeks now an still have moments where I could murder a cig, they're getting a bit less frequent now though and when temptation arrives it leaves quicker,
Fenred, when you finally let go it's gonna be awesome 😯
However - I did feel a lot better that the bloke in front used to be me, but isn't any more
Nice one, binners! 8)
I had a weak day a while back, so I pulled out the big guns. Away went the satsumas and out came the ORANGES. Strangely, it made a difference.
Given Fenred's imminent Event Horizon, are we all DOOOMED?
Khani is, he only lives down the road from where I work...Police are apparently already considering cordoning off the immdeiate area.
Please dont mock me guys, I've actually been an ex-pooer for longer than I've been a ex-smoker 😥
Sorry, fenred... no mockery intended.
Feeling for you, buddy. These things have a habit of working out in time...