[Closed] Stopping smoking!!

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?

The very act of [b]cutting some cheese[/b] had managed to work me up into an apoplectic frenzy

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binners - des that mean your beloved is the really awesome one? after all she has not dismembered you and hidden you under the patio

Put it this way TJ - I wouldn't put up with me! She's a saint! An [b]AWESOME[/b] one 😀

🙂

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

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...

fenred - Member
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

Smoking used to keep me regular as well and I would always struggle when I stopped 🙁

As a result I would switch to All Bran for breakfast and keep some Fybogel or Sennokot in the cupboard if things get really.

You have my sympathies, but give it time and your body will regulate itself again.

Day 2 in the Huw not smoking house, not going too badly, full to the brim with coffee, satsumas (2 for one in waitrose) and hate but no one’s dead yet. Although last night after being told there were going to be a bunch of redundancies at work my studio nearly looked like Francisco de Goya’s Great Deeds Against the Dead. Didn’t smoke though. 🙂

Fenred, I feel your pain, I once went 2 weeks without a poo due to the side effect of some serious pain killers, not something I’d like to repeat again.

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.

Elf, not overly (about 10 a day) but for the last 20 years

I'm curious as to what people think is 'heavy' smoking. 10 a day = 70 a week = 300 a month = 3600 faygs a year.

Three thousand six hundred cigarettes a year, or thereabouts. Times that by something like 20 years, and what's that, [i]seventy two thousand cigarettes[/i].

Think about it.

Personally, I think any more than a couple of cigs a day is 'heavy'. I don't get through 10 cigs a week, let alone a day, on average. In fact I'm probbly smoking less than 20 a month I'd say.

Considering the cumulative effects, I'd still say that's too many. Food for thought. I'd ideally just like to have the odd ciggie now and then, on a night out as a little 'treat', that sort of thing. I know folk like that, and they're perfectly healthy.

I'm wondering how many people on here genuinely 'want' to give up. Putting aside the physical addiction side of things, it seems that many folk actually enjoyed smoking, yet are giving up cios it's bads for their health. Good reason enough.

But how many others have considered just cutting down, to say my level of smoking, or feeling that it's ok for them to have the odd ciggie now and then? Does it [i]have[/i] to be complete abstinence?

I probably tried to give up 20+ times. Not sure of the main reasons for failure - weed sometimes played a big part though.

does not in any way sound like you actually 'wanted' to give up, tbh. Did you not consider cutting down instead of giving up completely?

Ho Hum, cheers for the tip. If I've not been by cob today I'll be heading for the pharmacy tonight to get some 'help'.

huws, go fella! Stress was one of my triggers too....as was getting out of bed, getting away from desk, getting home, getting drunk...Actually when you break it down, every feeling/emotion/event is a trigger. 😕

Elf, I'd put you in the 'recreational' smoker category, wish I could have done that but I'm a bit 'all or nuthin' 🙁

Elf - A "heavy" smoker, in my opinion, is 15+ per day.

You, at 10 per week, are an occasional smoker in my opinion.

I would go as far as to say that you smoke just as something to do and you enjoy it (I am sure this the case from having read your previous postings about smoking and you), which is fair enough.

Addiction is a strange disease, for me it is a progressive illness and by that I mean that if I started smoking one or two per day I would be back up to 10 a day within a week. It is all or nothing for me, so I chose nothing. Interestingly enough I am a heavy drinker, but I have been cutting that back recently without any ill effects and so I do not consider myself addicted to alcohol, but I have had serious problems with other substances in the past.

Prior to giving up this time you are probably correct in saying that I truly did not want to give up and that is where I failed. This time it was different as I had promised myself that I did not want to be a smoker when I reached 40. Also, up until a few years ago I did very little in the way of aerobic exercise and as a result the smoking wasn't a big issue, but I did find that the smoking was holding me back cycling-wise and that was another thing that helped me to give up.

Wouldn't life be boring if we were all the same?

fenred - I hope things improve for you. It will be interesting to hear what advice your pharmacist offers. I don't think we are alone in suffering such problems when having stopped smoking.

I'm wondering how many people on here genuinely 'want' to give up. Putting aside the physical addiction side of things, it seems that many folk actually enjoyed smoking, yet are giving up cios it's bads for their health. Good reason enough.

The only times I’ve ever given up for any length of time have been when I’ve just really not wanted to do it anymore, the cost and health benefits are nice but unimportant.

But how many others have considered just cutting down, to say my level of smoking, or feeling that it's ok for them to have the odd ciggie now and then? Does it have to be complete abstinence?

I can’t just have one, I’m either a smoker or a non-smoker. If I have one the chances are I’ll be back to full smoking within a few weeks. 🙁

I can’t just have one, I’m either a smoker or a non-smoker. If I have one the chances are I’ll be back to full smoking within a few [s]weeks[/s]hours.

From past experience one fag means Im a full on smoker again pretty soon.
16 days without smoking for me and I hardly think about it now some days!

I can’t just have one, I’m either a smoker or a non-smoker. If I have one the chances are I’ll be back to full smoking within a few [s]weeks[/s]hours.

This for me too. 😳

Nice one, cheese@4p!

Just wanted to check back in on this tread, hope everyone is still off the fags. Congratulatins if you are.

Keep up the good work

Rusty

All,

I am delighted to report that at 14.21 I had the 'call', squeaked my way to the gents and let nature take it's wonderful course. All I can say is eating half your body weight in satsumas, pistachio nuts and last nights Chilli seems to have had quiet an effect on ones metabolism. 😯

Thank you for your kind words of support throughout this difficult time. I am now left with a slight sweat on my brow and a MASSIVE nicotine craving 😳

Fair enough.

Yay!

Now it's satsuma time, Fenred!

8)

I might hafta lay off the satsuma's for a little while Camo 🙁

Understood.

😉

I wondered why there was a mushroom cloud over Basildon..........

😀 There's always been a mushroom cloud over Baz mate, the concern for the town now should be whats going on underground 😉

...I should never have looked down....

Not having a curry tonight then... 😯

Nah, meat and two veg tonight...Need to replace lost nutrients...Nuff said 😉

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear - this is just not going that well for me 🙁

Yeti!!!! your the one that made me give up!!

I only snog non smokers you know? 😆

Lady G - Whats happening? Stop rolling those ciggies matchstick thin and grab this thing by the throat!!!!! 😕

I am a non smoker emsz!!

I just decided to have a week of self-loathing. TBH these stopping smoking threads seem to make me want to smoke more thatn anything else 😆

I have to admit to buying another pack of baccy - I'm so ashamed 😳
but I'm still cutting right down on 'em.

well.. I'm still smoke free

I've had a couple of years of bungled attempts but it's going very smoothly this time around..

I have many different reasons for giving up.. no one stand alone reason that is any more or less valid or dominant than the others..

Health, fitness, curiosity, family, the challenge, pride, money.. blah blah blah
it doesn't matter which ideas you instill in yourself to help you succeed..

I have to admit to buying another pack of baccy - I'm so ashamed
but I'm still cutting right down on 'em.

To the naughty stair with you M'Lady...That is all.

How long's it for you, Yunki? Great to hear you're quitting so smoothly! 8)

I quit 15 days ago. Can't say it's been smooth exactly, but it's getting better. The unexpected smell of smoke still initiates a major craving, but I'm trying to MTFU and keep my cool!

To everyone quitting right now (including Lady G * tsk tsk tsk * and Yeti * tsk tsk tsk *) I raise my glass and salute you!

*ching* back at you camo...despite being the noob I know I wouldn't have come this far without this thread/support network so cheers!

Double *ching* goes to binners for the smoking in cars thread...Nearly a new head gasket required there, the rant to end all rants! 😆

Afternoon Quiters,

Quiet here today, we fell onto page 3 so thought a quick bump and update was appropriate.

Everyone cool or have there been numerous a&e admissions with vit C OD's?? 😯

After my blip, I am sound! Not having a problem at all...aided my a migraine yesterday and the aftre affects today....so all is gravy in the non-smokingness! 🙂