JCSUPERMOTO

If you wanna stop,you will well done in becomign a non smoker as from now,you should feel proud of yourself

I smoked for 17yrs now im 36yrs old and smoked 20 a day and loved it!!
But last few years i have always wanted to stop but have zero will power
I tried patches loads of times/cold turkey,and also the alan carr book which you have to be in the right frame of mind to read etc etc
In the end i wanted to stop that much and didnt want to tell my family that im dying through something that i was slowly killing myself with i just stoped!!
It was since sept 07 and i feel awesome,ok i have put ona stone in timber but i still look good

I also put £70 a week away into a bank account which inturn pays for my new vdub van i love!!!
Make sure you put your money away and buy yourself a treat every week or every month and just remember that you would of spent the money on killing yourself and making you look/smell like ash tray!!

Bear in mind you will have the odd mad craving in years to come,but they will last a few moments and you just get on with life!!

I used to find it hard with a cup of tea and after eating and even going on holiday,its all about associating a smoke with a task or event
Jase

viviennef

interesting viewpoint - I had issues very young then! Probably before I could spell it.

Every one of my friends smoked, in fact I think probably 80% plus of people I know smoked, maybe even higher.

I am so glad I am over it though, the commitment of standing outside buildings, running outside airports, remembering to go to the shops to buy cigarettes is just so boring.

My 16 year old nephew has just walked by me smelling like an ashtray - his parents don't know he smokes - I just don't know how you couldnt - it absolutely stinks!

JackTheLad

Champix is the biz. I gave up 4 months ago. I actually used Champix AND patches. The Champix instructions will go on about how you don't need to use anything else, but I did.

With Champix and patches I was able to walk around for 2 weeks with a pack of cigs in my pocket and never smoked one. No interest. Then I gradually reduced both the Champix and patches, so by xmas I was completely free.

And I have the will power of a lemming, so definitely try Champix + patches.

JTL

squeezzii

For those interested and who posted on here,an update
When I did the original post I said that I was reading the Alan Carr book and that I had nearly finished it.
Well I finshed it and I am fag free! Havent had a single puff and havent wanted one either-not in a nasty way, I just dont want them anymore, so yes, I have to say I'm pleased with myself. Several of my friends now want to borrow the book cos they have seen how easy it was for me to stop so with a bit of luck they will do it too...

DrWho

12 years now... was on 40/50 Marlboro a day... just went cold turkey... but I really really wanted to do it... my partner at the time carried on with her 30 a day Silk Cut and it didn't bother me in the slightest...

DadAgain

I used to smoke around 20 a day back in the UK...

I left Heathrow in '98 with a full pack...
and had the last one in Osaka airport in transit..

When I touched down in Brisbane I was a non-smoker. Never been tempted, never noticed any unpleasant side effects and never struggled at all...

Over ten years later and I cant see what all the fuss is about! - If you want to stop smoking simply abandon EVERYTHING in your life, move to the other side of the world and carve out a new 'you'... works a treat

easy

spartacus

. . . is great isn't it!

emelems

Have given up "properly" since Sept 2006... I am a 20 a day girl when I smoke...

I played about with giving up smoking for years and years.. (trying to convince myself that I must give up when I didnt want to really)

Then one day I was hiding behind the bin (my kids used to nag me when they saw me smoking) and not enjoying it anymore yet relentlessly puffing on.. then something inside of me snapped and I just thought "what the hell am I doing?" I don't even like it when I smoke and I don't like me when I give in to it...

So that was that... I missed it (craved it for a while) but just used to get up each day thinking "I am not smoking today".. and days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months, etc etc...

When I talk to my kids about smoking, I just tell them straight.. "don't bother, you saw how much I struggled with giving it up so do yourself a favour and try not to give in to peer pressure"...

Em x

squeezzii

So how are we all doing? I am still not smoking- updates please!

Jaycee1

I always said if i was giving up it would be for good.
We were short of money on returning from our reccie in 2005 and i thought the time was right too.
I just stopped. It nearly killed me and i wanted to kill everyone but that lasted a week.
Then everywhere i looked people were smoking!!
After the first week cold turkey I bought some chewing gum and munched on that and food... but that is another story!!
At first it was so hard you just notice everything about smoking. Then you realise how bloody horrible it looks
The biggest thing you have to have is willpower. If you are not willing to give it your absolute best shot then wait until you are.
All the best,
J x

ozbaz

yes, its how I gave up for years without trying and never gave smoking another thought...unfortunately I am back on 5 a day. ( blaming a shit job )Funnily enough I still don't consider myself a 'proper ' smoker, it's a stupid habit.

SamSi

Has been a month smoke free for me. Hypnosis isn't the be all and end all but has definitely done something cos I've never made it this far before. The weight is creeping on though and to be honest it's bloody hard going. Thinking about it all the time.

God has anyone seen that new TV stop smoking ad that started a couple of nights ago with the pictures of the mouth cancer etc? Horrendous. Those ads never usually got to me (I must confess that with the pictures/warnings on the packets I just used to put my lighter on top of them so I couldn't see them) but this one is pretty bad.

johnnyx0

Good going Squeezzii. The Allen Carr book is the best isn't it. I sometimes think about a cigarette, and then remember "isn't it great, I'm a happy non-smoker" and I really do feel good.

Burbage

You don't need patches, books, gum or hypnotism. None of these things are any use if you don't want to give up but just think you should.

The key is to want to give up. Do this before you give up. Then you just become a non smoker, realise you are ill for a couple of weeks while the nicotine works its way out of your system and then you'll be fine.

Daydreamer123

You have the same philosophy as my OH, when we gave up, he treated it like a bad cold, felt terrible for a week and then got through the worst of it.

Everyone is different though, I didn't feel sick, just suffered with terrible cravings, I am remember on about day 5, just being so angry. I am normally quite easy going, so to be filled rage was strange. Luckily it only lasted a day, then I apologised to everyone at work the next day!

I didn't tell anyone I was quitting, I didn't want all the expectation that comes when you tell people. I just didn't say anything until a few weeks had gone by and we were through the worst of it. I think that helped.

You do really have to want to quit, we tried several times before we were succesfull. Then use whatever method you need, but it really does come down to you. If you really want to quit, you don't need anything else. We were heavy smokers and had been since we were teenagers, so smoking was part of who we were.