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Well done Turks! , Your first post confused me I thought you were saying you were going to start again?,
Anyhow now I know what you are on about I congratulate you .
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Nice one mate!!!!
Im still on the cut down!!!
Oh yeah Turks……. that รฦรโรยขรขโยฌร ยกรฦรขโฌลกรโรยฃ50 bet still on for me giving up?
Im a bit strapped for cash!!!Good on ya thou mate, your a stronger man than I. ๐ [/b]
Nice one Turks. I managed to quit about 8 years ago – best thing I ever did. No more reeking of smoke; no more waking up in the morning with a cough; loads more free money to spend; long distance flying much easier, etc.
If you need an incentive to give up, add up what you really spend on smokes. Be really honest with it. Added up over even a month, let alone a year, just think if you used that money to buy a car, house, or invest.
Aside from the money, the real trigger for me making a genuine attempt at giving up (as opposed to one imposed by nagging from the ball & chain), was the realisation that I unconciously planned my day around when I could have a smoke. Meetings, phone calls, even social visits to places all ended up being planned around fag-breaks. If you ever have the thought that you need to have a fag now because due to something happening you may not get another chance for 5 hours, then that is the time to realise that smoking controls your life.
So the biggest benefit I actually got from giving up was freedom.
Giving up was a bitch, but just go from hour to hour, then day to day, and week to week. You do eventually either stop thinking about it, or get into the frame of mind that if I have a smoke now, that’s a waste of the last 5 hours of effort. If I have one today, then that’s a waste of the last few days since I had my last one. Etc. You get the idea.
I think I may change career paths and become a “Life Coach” – aka a “PLOMFTB”*
*”Paid Lots Of Money For Talking Bollocks”
If you need an incentive to give up, add up what you really spend on smokes. Be really honest with it. Added up over even a month, let alone a year
I did exaxtly that mate.. worked a treat.. after a few fags :/
seriously it did work, and I’ve been clean of ciggies since.. errrm I forget now.. mst be a year now.. tbh I forgot they existed until this post lol
still dont want one ๐
@CowboyUK wrote:
Good work Turks keep going.
7 years here and I don’t miss them at all.
Cowboy
This threads’ topic is cigarettes, not women ๐
Sorry for the initial confusion… that was my “I have given up smoking for 6 months” thread, copied from the other forum.
You’re right Mr Lensman – the ciggies were taking over which was when I knew I had to stop…Read Alan Carrs “Easy way…” and thought he was a knob, so gave up by ignoring everything he said! My best motivator was when i told my doc I had given up… when she heard it had been 3 weeks she laughed at me and said it didnt count until I was 3 months in – in a “just you wait sonny” type way! Well sceeerrrrew you hoe bag!
I have also been off the ciggarettes now since December the 14th , I still get the occaisional craving for one but it soon passes , I still enjoy the recreational use of some weed , but I now smoke that in a water cooled device , Joints were my downfall but now I have removed tobbaco inhalation it is not too hard .
rock on Allen Carr , a very good way to get yourself stopping .
If you need an incentive to give up, add up what you really spend on smokes. Be really honest with it. Added up over even a month, let alone a year, just think if you used that money to buy a car, house, or invest
or better still.spend the surplus cash snorting cocaine off hookers tits!! ๐
joking aside, well done turks….i know its been a while now and its great you’ve managed to stick with it.
Nice one Turks… ๐
I’ve been about 19 months now and as up here in Scotland no one can smoke indoors and are treated like Aids victims I’m not even tempted to start again.
PS, you lot down there, your time will come soon enough, no smoking in pubs, clubs, shopping centres, train stations, football grounds, taxis … basically anywhere except the street with the other druggies, whinos and homeless people…!
bit ott, but it makes headlines ๐
I like it, I dont smoke during the day, I have a smoke while I wait for a map to load in the evening, and I usually smoke a pinch of weed through a chipper that lets me chill ‘way-dude’ style.
I would miss cigs if they became illegal – but what an englishman smokes in his own home is his own business… for some reason I feel like gary glitter when I say that .. anyway, I was up in the loft the other day an I found an old TV times, it had about three benson and hedges ads in it, they still dont make any dam sense.
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