Shonen

Oh yes!!

SCOsazOBY

evening all, i have stopped for an hour now (i know its daft but this time onwards is when i smoke the most and having got in from work i should be sat with a cig now but im not!)

I have got a packet of chewy and im just going to clean out the ash trays (and no i wont be lighting up any of the tab ends!)

I will be back on later with my progress report

SiPie

Throw them out

It's the only way

Good luck

duSTI's PA

Well done you but CHUCK the ashtrays or just hide them in the back of a cuboard, So how are you getting on , I'm now on day 3 , and feeling rough < not for a ciggy just ill . BUT it will be worth it and it's just all the Cr#p clearing out of my system .

SCOsazOBY

need the ashtrays for the other half, ive got two weeks ciggy free before he comes home.

one day for me

Im feeling a little bit sleepy but thats about it. I have also started a cross stitch to keep them hands busy.

duSTI's PA

Hello everyone

I've noticed in the evenings that i am really tierd but that is due to me having more energy during the day , I feel good really good, the evenings are the worst though especially after my evening meal .

Spudgun R32

i gave up last new years eve. i used the nicorette freshmint gums, they worked well.

no relapses or anything, but ive put on weight (about a stone) and i really do miss **** at times, especially after meals and when drinking. but it has eased off a bit, and i remind myself why i quit (all the chemicals in the ciggies, the way they feckin stink really bad, getting out of breath coz of a cancer stick, money down the drain,the list goes on!)

feckin outrageous when you think about it! bl00dy madness.glad to be rid of them.

rb5 286

iTrader: (2)

Well done Dusti's PA Your doing well girl just keep thinking of that holiday lol...

If I can do it, you sure as hell can. 30 a day just finished my 10 weeks on patches and yes still not smoking have tried one and hated the taste...... Just thinkin of all that money i will be saving for Mark to spend on his car lol.....

Deb the better half

SCOOBYD00

Fell ill.... 3 days unable to smoke... then cold turkey... still stopped 3 years later... STILL get those *urges.... usually when I'm p1shed...

duSTI's PA

Hello Debs

MMMMMm holiday , you have done so well ! we're all Proud of you.
Quote.. Just thinkin of all that money i will be saving for Mark to spend on his car lol.....PMSL

Are we currying it on Friday ?

Micah
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duSTI's PA

Right then on week 2 and not a single ciggy have I touched , had a few moments though when I could have quite eaasily lit one up , but NO
go micah go micah

ok bigging myself up I know how sad am I !! but I don't care after 19 years of smoking , getting a bit fed up with carrot batons though LOL

tmo

coming up for three weeks on wednesday

RB170

Gave up 6 years ago for new years, I thought it was supposed to be difficult I was lucky and just stopped

duSTI's PA

still going strong , got rid off the cough, really notice the smell off smoke on other people.

hope everyone else is doing ok

tmo well done on 3 weeks for yesturday

Sbradley

Started when I was 19, got up to 60 a day or so before waking up one morning feeling like **** and suddenly realising that I was killing myself.

Couldn't just stop so went from Capstan Full Strength (OK so I'm old) to Silk Cut and got down to about 10 a day. I signed off my tobacco allowance so I had to buy them at full price rather than the silly rate we got them in the mob. That helped.

Then I bought and chain-smoked a pack of Galoises. Halfway through I was sick and that was it - I'd given up.

That was when I was 25. I'm 42 now. Probably get the urge half a dozen times a year and will light someone's cig for them (and get that crucial first hit) maybe once a year.

I've had ONE whole cigarette since...



SB

Sbradley

Oh, and it gets easier every day - you've done the hard bit so keep at it!

Well done

SB

duSTI's PA

Galoises that is serious stuff , smoked half of one many years ago.

thanks for the support , It is getting much easier now, big test at the weekend though , out for a meal on Saturday night and then full day at TRAX, car event without ciggies ...could be intresting

tmo

Had a couple of nights away with work, sat in hotel bored etc. Thought to have a cig doesn't even enter my head

Kevadair

Big well done to all of you who have given up the old smokes.

I started when I was 13 and managed to give up at 27 through a prescribed drug called 'zyban' (think thats the spelling), anyway gave up for two years and thought I had it nailed.......

Then a split with the now ex partner involving 2 kids and I was back on them.

Just need to get my head round quitting and am sure I will manage it again.

tmo

over a month now and on the smaller patches

Cool Chick

I've gave up two weeks ago now. Not that long I know, but for some reason I'm more dertermined to do it this time than anytime I've tried to quit before.

I gave up at the beginning of the year for about 4 months, but started up again once I'd been out on the town and had one too many to drink and then without thinking about it and was soon smoking 15-20 a day again!

When I've tried to quit before, I've always smoked to the end of the packet and then said, 'Right thats it, I'm not buying anymore'. The difference this time is that I woke up in the morning and suddenly thought, 'I dont really want a *** this morning'. I've still got a packet of 20 in my kitchen cupboard but have not once had the urge to smoke one. Suddenly its a completely different feeling for me now and I know that I dont want to smoke anymore.

Plus my fella's a non smoker and its not pleasant kissing someone who smokes when you dont, so I think that may be playing a part of it also! He's been very supportive which has also been a great help.

duSTI's PA

Hello All

Glad to see my thread is still rising from the Ashes.

Congrats to tmo for passing a month

It will be the start of my fouth 4th week on Monday (to myself )

about a week ago i went to stock up on patches and they did not have the ones I wanted so I did not get any and I have been without them for a week ( has been slightly harder )

I also had a packet in the kitchen draw ( 13 inside ) but it chucked them in the bin the other night and have not looked back since !! felt liberated, i wih I could say I feel great but I can't as I have a nasty cold at the moment and i'm suffering with it , but as for the non smokeing WOO HOO

good luck every one who has given up

tmo

Keep it up

Jaydee5

well done to everyone who has given up!!

sorry about the size and stuff..it's a muppet thing

and in an "i'm-feeling-really-pleased-with-myself" stylee...

I reached 6 months yesterday

CLSII

I gave up 12 years ago after smoking 20 a day and more at weekends whilst down the pub. I'd done this for about 10 years. You just have to decide that you want to give up. I mean really want to give up.

I bought some patches to help, five I think, and never used the last one saving it for when I couldn't do without a cigarette.

I had a couple of lapses when I was really drunk but I'd never touch one again.

I did read some research that suggested starting smoking cigars at 65 offset Alzheimers and that the positives outweighed the negatives as you were likely to die of old age before you could develop lung cancer but I think the jury's out on this one

tmo

still going strong

duSTI's PA

Week 6 of giving up and week 3 of flu you can imagine how i'm feeling

Flatcapdriver

Week nine and last night was the first booze free one for some time and amazingly I even slept well.

tmo

Eight weeks tomorrow, ditched the patches, going bare back