Smokers – on and off and back on the wagon for 2011 – motivation thread.

The Southern Yeti – Member
Binners, emsz this is the only time being a quitter is a thing of pride – when you see someone else smoking in their car, outside their work, the pub… feel pity for them, not jealousy… the mindset change!

That’s an interesting way of looking at it actually!

Have pride in being a quitter, I like that.

Weird shit happens at night. I think it’s your brain going “Wow, all this extra oxygen man. And even better, no Carbon Monoxide. Weeeeeeeeeeee!”

I had great sex dreams at first. 🙂 Now they’re just back to the same old ones of trying to beat Jamie off with a shitty stick. 🙁

I’m loving the decisions to give up. It also helps to not just chuck out the ciggies and baccy but to also get rid of any paraphernalia too. Lighters, rizlas, rolling machines, filters. I actually had a weak moment when I was washing an old work fleece and found a lighter and a packet of green rizla. I was a fraction of willpower away from buying a pack of tobacco to go with them.

Quitters are awesome.

I had great sex dreams at first. 😀

Now they’re just back to the same old ones of trying to beat Jamie off with a shitty stick 🙁

Same thing innit? 8)

Remember kids:

Smokers are Jokers !

but to also get rid of any paraphernalia too

I second that, having to buy everything to have cheeky puff has stopped me more than once. Having to just buy some baccy, too easy to just think… why not?

Having a £100 bet with a mate is also acting as an insentive this time.

This thread has strengthened my resolve just a little bit more today.

I made a cake with some extra herbage. I’ve found all my lighters and thrown them out as well. Flatmate thinks i’ll last till the weekend. ( he doesnt smoke) I now have some motivation.

*whines*

God I wanna fag……
😐

Another bit of motivation that has helped me is stuff all your tobacco money in a jar and once a month go and spend it on fripperies.

A fiver a day soon adds up

deadlydarcy – Member
This thread has strengthened my resolve just a little bit more today.

How long have you been off them now? Almost 2 months isn’t it?

Emsz hang in there, it will get better, but it isn’t easy.

emsz – Stop whining and start celebrating how long since you last smoked… and enjoy the cake 8)

spend it on fripperies

Such as Tesco value baked beans?

BIG
😉

About 12 1/2 years ago, (not counting, but carry on reading, you’ll get why I know…) I was sitting in my lounge with my baby daughter on my lap, just really enjoying some time with her. I realised that I wanted to put her down, or pass her to my lovely wife … so I could go outside for a fag.

I gave up less than a month later, I took some time to psych myself up, then giving up really was easy, never even got close to the cravings being worse than my resolve.

You can do it, but don’t underestimate the beast.

Yep, it can be done so good luck to you all. 🙂

First couple of weeks were the hardest I found but never went back to them and have absolutely no desire to either.

I really appreciated the return of my (bloodhound) sense of smell and tastebuds.

Happy to offer support with soundbites!

C_G
(smoker for 20 years who swapped tobacco addiction for a different addiction)

My first AWESOME tag. Yay!

Wow, I’m tagged as awesome too. Motivation enough in itself. I’m going to have a few beers tonight (its the start of the weekend after all) and I’m going to smoke like a chimley. A final hurrah. Got 10 fags left.

Tomorrow is D-day. Tally ho!!!!

good luck everyone 🙂

30 a day 20+ years but quit for over a year for me now.

Tried and failed many times in the past but then one day worked out that I would never wake up one morning as a non-smoker unless I did something about it.

If you do end up having a ciggie while giving up don’t treat it as a total and utter failure. Try to accept that you are only human, sometimes making mistakes and then continue your giving up.

Best of luck to all

I gave up a couple of years ago. Still addicted to nicotine gum alas…

I gave up a couple of years ago. Still addicted to nicotine gum alas…

Maybe try the fags to get off them?

I quit when my girlfriends dad died at 48 of cancer. I never want to see her that upset again, nor be responsible for her being upset. When I got the urge to light up I thought of her crying & seeing that great man who left us too soon, on the say he died.

I have one cigar at Christmas & Birthdays but i gave decided to give up as I didn’t really enjoy my cigar this Xmas (£15 wasted)

Awesome 8)

8 months now, Allen Carr and other motivators. Paid for my summer holiday, don’t stink, don’t cough, don’t wake up feeling like I’ve licked a dog clean, don’t get ill in the winter, more energy.

Still get the odd ‘A fag would be nice’ every now and then but its not a cravig in the same way you get when you first quit, its just a fleeting thought but for me there’s no such thing as the occassional fag, its an addiction and its easier staying quit than it is to only smoke the odd one every now and then.

did someone suggest putting the money you don’t spend on smokes in a jar?
i was 20 a day, stopped in 1999. at £6 a day over 11 years that’s a rather large jar

Best of luck for tomorrow binners.

I have the day off so I’ll be checking to see how you and emsz are getting along 🙂

Ps, best of luck to all the quitters. It’s hard but worth it.

Good luck to the quitters also. I cannot help but imagine them chain smoking like crazy right now 😀

Jamie – Member
Good luck to the quitters also. I cannot help but imagine them chain smoking like crazy right now

Some really serious chain smoking may make them realise how disgusting smoking is.

Ever smoked two cigarettes/rollies/jazzy smokes in a row? Bleurrgh! Talk about minging.

Personally speaking I reckon if you are chaining it before your stop date then you don’t want to stop as you are just making the stopping worse as you have more poisons in your body to get rid of.

When I stopped this time around I did not tell anyone, even my wife. She then got quite niggled with me when I told her that I had stopped, but stopping for me was a very personal thing and I did not want to tell her what I was doing in case I let her down again…

Best of British anyway guys and girls 🙂

Good Morning fellow quitters. How does the air taste this morning?

TSY (4 days)

Good luck to the quitters.

I have quit a few times, the first when I was 22 and my dad died of lung cancer. I would say I am 95% non smoker now, although all this chat about smoking really did make me feel like smoking last night! At times of stress it’s an easy fix.

I read somewhere that in 72 hours the physical addiction has passed, after that it is all in your head and I have found that to work for me. Cutting down worked better for me than cold turkey, every day cutting one of the habit fags (the waiting for a bus fag was the hardest) but the big thing was really wanting to, when I got into biking seriously and wanted to race. And making more and more friends who are sporty and despise smoking.

So good luck and stick with it and if you lapse don’t kill yourself over it, get back on the quitting.

P.S and drink loads of water, eat fruit and veg you will find out why soon.

Same question from me 🙂

EDIT: …as Yeti

Morning all. Progress report, day 1:

Went to the pub last night to meet one of my mates. She walks in with a face like a smacked arse. What was up? She packed in smoking yesterday. What a coincidence.

Obviously I laughed in her face and nipped for a fag. Any-road-up – we made a pact. We both smoked like chimneys last night and had our last ever fag together. No more! And I have a quitting partner – as well as Emsz

So this morning my mouth tasted like a group of particularly pungent students have been occupying it for a week.

Never again 😀

Good work binners, you.. we.. can do this! 😀

Ain’t no one cooler than emsz on here, so quitting is officially cool!

We can indeed do it Yeti. I’m pretty damn determined. Which is odd since this only came about yesterday afternoon.I’m doing it for my daughters after reading concepts and Mastiles posts yesterday though. If I’m feeling weak then I’ll simply refer to this thread.

Here’s an idea: why don’t we arrange a ride for the STW non-smokers in the summer. Then we can get together, a bit further down the line, and compare the new frames/forks/general bling/goodies we’ll have bought with the money we’ve not smoked. I’ve already made a shopping list 😀

i can recomend some good bongs if that helps anyone 8)
best of luck to you all it is hard at first but I knew after the first day i would never smoke again as you just feel so much better..it gets easier eventually and you can feel the craving arrive then leave.
Sends supportive vibes via interweb

binners on a serious note- if you need support etc with quiting I’m all ears and phone etc etc.

I’ve forgotten with the fog of time but last night I remembered the amount of times I actually ‘quit’ for brief periods. Gawd it was hard.

The awesomeness of the quitters is shining through. Any word from emsz?

Hey quitters

Well, slighty wasted last night from herby cake, check out my… Um… Blurry post on the fat kids thread LOL. Positively leptt out of bed this morning which is absolutely not me!! Went for run, was ok. Not feeling too bad to be honest.

18 hours non smoking

Need to think about something else though to keep my mind off it

surely there’s something everyone in this thread can enjoy thinking about to keep your minds off the cigarettes…. supremely attractive women?

Binners – I’d be well up for an ex-smokers ride, think it’s a great idea, added bit of motivation and all that.

Yep, Hora.. I know all about that. In the last 2 years I’ve restarted on numerous occasions… always on the basis that…

‘I’ll be okay to smoke for this one night/ this weekend/ festival/ holiday’

Each time it has meant smokig for at least a month. Except this xmas, where I only ended up smoking for 2 weeks.

I’d say if your x days in and really must have one- have one.

Congratulate yourself for doing x days. DONT beat yourself up. You’ll make the process of quiting feel really stressful and a real uphill fight (lifes too stressful so sod quiting again for a while etc).

Then set yourself up to quit for a little longer next time- say even a day longer is a bonus. Keep doing that day by day and before you know it you’ll suddenly think ‘heck its been 6months since I quit- wow and I didnt realise’

emsz, according to Jamie’s post:

8 HOURS

You are already at:

Carbon monoxide level in blood drops to normal.
Oxygen level in blood increases to normal.

Shortly you will be at:
24 HOURS
Chance of heart attack decreases.

48 HOURS
Nerve endings start regrowing.
Ability to smell and taste is enhanced.

How awesome is your body for starting to repair itself?!