Just to add my bit ...... I gave 10 years ago just got up one morning lit up coughed and thought this is stupid.........
from 40 a day to none was not easy but the benifits are great.
No morning cough . clothes smell better .and an extra holiday a year on the savings
So stick with it and with all the support on here you can't fail.
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Quitting and Giving Up
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Can I just add my little encouragement to all of you attempting to give up - I really hope you all manage to achieve it.
As a tool to stop any of you falling off the wagon and for each of you to support each other, perhaps you could start a 'given up smoking' thread that you each post in, to say how you have managed that week. Small steps, rather than huge strides will get you just as far. We can then all see the progression and it may help you keep on track. Bad days, good days, tips that worked for you that may work for others.
Just a nice, warm, sharing experience
:therethere:
Mal
As a tool to stop any of you falling off the wagon and for each of you to support each other, perhaps you could start a 'given up smoking' thread that you each post in, to say how you have managed that week. Small steps, rather than huge strides will get you just as far. We can then all see the progression and it may help you keep on track. Bad days, good days, tips that worked for you that may work for others.
Just a nice, warm, sharing experience
:therethere: Mal
Sex God
Quote by SapphoGulp!
We might need an axe murderer emoticon by the end of the first week though!
Quote by Sappho
We might need an axe murderer emoticon by the end of the first week though!
Nothing like a bit of preparation:
This strikes such a chord with me. Now having nearly reached the venerable age of 49 and I still can't completely quit smoking. My 14 yr old son moans at me all the time and even bought me patches as a Christmas present... and still I don't have the willpower to quit.
My mother died of cancer - a sight so appalling that I would have ended her life to stop the suffering ... and still I have not quit
I 'packed up' a couple of years ago and made it through two weeks - eating sweets (and i don't like sweets - well apart from wine gums) and then thought maybe I'll have a cigar (and i hate cigars) and there i was back on the smoking treadmill.
My son suggested that maybe i should start with a smoking free weekend. Of course I said - I can do that. He caught me smoking in the bathroom. How pathetic is that to cheat on a promise to your son.. and still I smoke.
In fact I am smoking as I type this.
I smoke more when under pressure - so my job was killing me so I took a severance payoff. Well, no pressure now, so I should be able to give up. Well, that does not work. I now have so much free time I can smoke myself to effing death.
I have 40 cigs left. I've told myself in no uncertain terms that they will be my last. But of course I've already devised a plan to have say one or two cigars a day.
Good luck to all who are trying to give up (and I include myself in that)
Paul
My mother died of cancer - a sight so appalling that I would have ended her life to stop the suffering ... and still I have not quit
I 'packed up' a couple of years ago and made it through two weeks - eating sweets (and i don't like sweets - well apart from wine gums) and then thought maybe I'll have a cigar (and i hate cigars) and there i was back on the smoking treadmill.
My son suggested that maybe i should start with a smoking free weekend. Of course I said - I can do that. He caught me smoking in the bathroom. How pathetic is that to cheat on a promise to your son.. and still I smoke.
In fact I am smoking as I type this.
I smoke more when under pressure - so my job was killing me so I took a severance payoff. Well, no pressure now, so I should be able to give up. Well, that does not work. I now have so much free time I can smoke myself to effing death.
I have 40 cigs left. I've told myself in no uncertain terms that they will be my last. But of course I've already devised a plan to have say one or two cigars a day.
Good luck to all who are trying to give up (and I include myself in that)
Paul
Good luck Sapho, I'm going to be giving a shot next month also. A friend recommended a book - Alan Carrs easy way to quit smoking all you do is read apparently. Worked for him, his parents and a couple of other people he knows... I've got my copy c/o amazon for a whole ie less than two packs and looking forward to getting the time to give it a go...
Be nice to get my taste buds back to full power again...
Be nice to get my taste buds back to full power again...
Sex God
A friend of mine wrote a book once about quitting smoking based on his own experience of giving up... it got rejected by every publisher he pestered with it... you can probably see why....
His idea was that you give up slowly. You start by not smoking only one day a week for a set amount of time - so, if you want to be really slow you can do a month smoking 6 days a week. Then when you're ready you move to not smoking two days a week and so on... Personally, i could see a slight bit of logic to what he was trying to do and was quite impressed when he was able to sit in the pub for three days every week seemingly totally comfortable not having a fag in his hand. I though, hey, he's cracked it here almost. I commented about how well he was doing with his not smoking when another of his friends piped up that he'd been cheating all along. Yes, he'd given up the factory made fags for three days a week, but was actually still smoking his wacky baccy at home, even on the days he'd given up :doh: Apparently that didn't count however :shock:
Therefore, not a method of giving up to be reccommended to the forum quitters
His idea was that you give up slowly. You start by not smoking only one day a week for a set amount of time - so, if you want to be really slow you can do a month smoking 6 days a week. Then when you're ready you move to not smoking two days a week and so on... Personally, i could see a slight bit of logic to what he was trying to do and was quite impressed when he was able to sit in the pub for three days every week seemingly totally comfortable not having a fag in his hand. I though, hey, he's cracked it here almost. I commented about how well he was doing with his not smoking when another of his friends piped up that he'd been cheating all along. Yes, he'd given up the factory made fags for three days a week, but was actually still smoking his wacky baccy at home, even on the days he'd given up :doh: Apparently that didn't count however :shock:
Therefore, not a method of giving up to be reccommended to the forum quitters
Good luck Sappho, just think of all those books you can now buy with all that saved money........you can even expand your collection of 32 dictionaries! (Did that start from wanting to check the spelling of one word in a dictionary in another and suddenly you find yourself in some Orwellian hell? - lol)
Sexlightened
Hi there,
Just been having a scrounge round some of the old postings........ok maybe I've missed an update.............but dare I ask.......
Hows the non-smoking going??
M xx
Just been having a scrounge round some of the old postings........ok maybe I've missed an update.............but dare I ask.......
Hows the non-smoking going??
M xx
Sex God
Did you manage it? Give me advice!! 
(all of it, any of it)
(all of it, any of it) 