The first pack you get explains it, but you titrate the dose up over a period of a week, and carry on smoking. You should have picked a quit day for anytime between day 8-14 and stop smoking on that day.

rosie OH is doing better than me, he quit the day before so i feel like im following him, but do crave one in morning still, think its the little devils in my head.

good on you rosie for making him go outside, better for when you put the house up for sale....
Kate pack them in, tell him you will stop smoking when he gets a job in canada
but you will have to stick to it if he does

gill

It was his choice to go outside, its up to him if he wants to give up I think it has to be your own decision. I've stopped smoking so many times before due to people putting pressure on me and it never lasts, this time I WANT to give up for myself.

Rosie

hay Im doing better than I thought done the cleaning cooking fag then ironing so lot less puffing now Im sitting down for the night thats going to be a hard one

I don't know whether you will sit long enough during hypnotherapy.
A friend of mine finally quit smoking by using hypnosis.
He had some sessions with a hypnotherapist and he found
it effective in taking away the cravings.
Yoong

I did that young a few years ago, came out smoking more :curse::curse:
I think everyone has to find there cut off and really want to do it for them and not anyone else like rosie said.

We found when we was in canada not a lot of people smoked and cut down to about 3 aday, back in uk back to 20 plus after a few weeks, we said that when we go back we wanted to be non smokers, just sorting our next recci trip out and quess what - NON SMOKERS although the stress of the last 24hrs have been high tring to sort everything out....fingers crossed we are neally there

17 fags and Im loosing it but held on well untill now

Smokin!!!

Two of my close friends both went for Hypnosis - one was really successful and stopped without a problem. The other one had a really bad reaction to it. The Hypnotherapist must have planted the idea of how much smoking smells and after she had had the hypnosis she went to join her OH in the pub.

She lasted about 5 minutes before all of the comments started to come out about stinking etc and went on for about half hour where by she had to leave the pub after screaming something like "howfn dare you fn bring me to an fn stinky place" and then punching her fiancee and walking out of the door.

Just the amazed look on her OH face would have been hillarious

I have only tried the gums - they tend to give me a sore throat though. Wasnt very successful but there again tried to give up smoking as Phil went to Canada - not a good time

Good point ,never know what kind of aversion the hynnotherapist
would plant in the smoker's mind.Don't want kate to be in trouble
with the neighbours
Yoong

Well having read bits and pieces of this thread since it started i can now reveal that i quit 2 weeks before coming to Canada and haven't had one since.

It was and still is hard when i smell cigarettes close by and there are times when i could easily light one up but i promised the kids i would quit when we moved out here and it's more than my lifes worth to go back to it.
I have put on weight but find that the eating anything and everything phase has slowed down now and a bag of lemon sours helps when i'm feeling like a ciggy.
I didn't use patches or gum but did have one of those inhalator thingies for the first 2 weeks which was ok but not the same as the real thing.

I was ok while I was doing something to keep my mind off fags but last night was hard.I timed every ciggie and found myself going in and out mood swings went to bed on a downer and since being up this morning at 6-45 Ive had 2 ciggies and its now 7.15.not good told ya Im a hopeless case

Don't be hard on yourself kate, very difficult to break the smoking habit,
and horrible feeling when going through the withdrawal.You need to attend
a program to help you quit.(that is when you are ready to quit.)
Yoong

I'm doing fine thanks Rosie, don't want to smoke and even went out last night for a few bevvies and wasn't tempted to go out with the other smokers in the slightest. 2 weeks today!

Welcome Jenna, yes it's quite difficult for smokers at work now, really ostracized now. Patches do have a 3 month expiry date don't they, so don't hang on to them for too long. Zyban really is great for me, might be worth having a look at it in your case. Congrats on getting your passport request, one step closer and nearly there! When are you going?

kate if it helps i was the same, tried to cut down the fags and found i actually smoked more.
started the tablets and the women i have to goto every 2 weeks said i had to do a quit date :curse:
she said about day 8 , mine was more day 14, but hey if i can give up i think anyone can and like i said in my earlier thread, my mum has smoked for yearssssssss (40+ years) and she has given up on the champix..id see if you can get them kate

gill