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Well Ive talked about it and now Im doing it………
Tommorow Is the day I stop smoking!! After 20 years on the dreaded weed Ive come to the conclusion its time to give it up. Ive been to the Doctors, got my perscription of patches and am all ready to go!!!!Wish me luck!!
(I’ll bloody need it) ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐
Best of Luck mate – We are all behind you (smoking the weed ourselves and tempting you back) – Just kidding. ๐
Hope you can quit the habit, best thing for your health.Cold turkey is the way to go. Try and give up the patches asap, as they prolong the process… and if you feel desperate, having a patch/gum will have more of an effect that if you were to be using them anyway.
After one week of giving up, I went on the Newcastle meet. Vic gave me his fag to hold (errr… ciggy!) whilst he went off to do something (Have sex with a man or something!) – and I had no intention of smoking it, and ended up throwing it in a bush!
Be strong!
Good luck
only thing i’m going to say is …you have to want to do it. and if that’s the case then its not as hard as you think ๐Good luck mate,
I’ll add my little bit of advice: Allen Carr’s “The Only Way To Give Up Smoking Permanently”. It’s a book that allows you to smoke while you’re reading it. It deconstructs all the reasons that you continue to smoke; the tricks your addiction plays on you; and it slowly persuades you not to. There’s no battle of willpower or strung out addiction (as with patches as mentioned above), you just get to a point where you have your last cig and then quit. I can’t recommend it highly enough and everyone I know who read it managed to quit. They (like me) might have been stupid enough to start again at a later date and have to quit again [Captain Chronic ;)] but seriously, everyone I know who read it quit and did so for months.
If the patches work, brilliant. but if they don’t, don’t lose heart, and remember this book.The author recently died of lung-cancer but he was nearly always in smoking rooms running seminars on his method.
Once again, good luck.I didn’t like the book very much – it was basically saying something along the lines of “My way or the high-way”… Which I thought was bollocks – so gave up to prove it wrong… So I suppose you could say the book helped me too!
Good luck mate!
Its all about Will power.. feck your books, dvd’s, patches…
I woke up once morning, said “right thats it, I’m giving up”
and thats it.. granted I felt like I wanted to kill people for a few weeks but you’ll get past it!
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I gave up about 10 years ago now – best thing I did. I used gum for perhaps the first week to just take the edge off.
In the early days its all about setting small targets. “I won’t smoke for another 2 hours”. And at the end of that, thinking “I won’t waste the last 2 hours by having a smoke now. Lets go another couple of hours”. Soon you are at the end of day 1, no fag. Day 2 starts with “I won’t waste yesterday – no smoke for 3 hours”. At the end of 3 hours “I won’t waste 1 day and 3 hours”.
Pretty soon you get to the stage of not wanting to waste several days of being smoke free, and so your targets get longer, and the cravings get less.
Where I used the gum was at the end of one of the target points when I really really wanted a smoke. It doesn’t remove the need completely, but takes the edge off bigtime.
So don’t think about smoking never again – just think of small steps and be strong enough to not waste previous hours and days by giving in and just having a quick one. The “never again” takes care of itself.
Tip to keep you focussed – When you get 5 minutes, add up what you spend in a day, a week, a month. Think of that same amount per month off your car/mortgage/whatever. Maybe add up what you think you have spent in the last year on fags – it’ll be scary, and would probably get you a large chunk of that big flat screen telly you’ve been hankering after.
I won’t wish you good luck, as there is no luck involved at all in giving up the fags.
(Think I should become a “Life Coach” ? 8) )
I agree… buy yourself treats with the money saved… that way you can actually see the improvements.
And when the smoking in public ban is implemented, you can feel good in the knowledge that it was you who decided to give up amoking, not from the implementation of anti smoking policy…. oh how you will laugh and the poor souls smoking outside of pubs in the cold!
Well its going well. Had my last ciggie at 8.45 this morning, and so far so good.
You may think thats not long but for those of you who have smoked long enough, 7 hours without a single ciggie is a achievment!! This day has been 20 years in the making and I aint gonna waste it!!!Plus Sharon has said if I last six months I can buy myself a PS3!!!
๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐I love my wife……………………….. 5mth 30days left to go!!!!!! ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐
Nice…. 6 months with no smokes and your allowed to spend รฦรโรยขรขโยฌร ยกรฦรขโฌลกรโรยฃ450 on a ps3…. Bargin
@=XDC=Morgan wrote:
Well its going well. Had my last ciggie at 8.45 this morning, and so far so good.
You may think thats not long but for those of you who have smoked long enough, 7 hours without a single ciggie is a achievment!! This day has been 20 years in the making and I aint gonna waste it!!!Plus Sharon has said if I last six months I can buy myself a PS3!!!
๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐I love my wife……………………….. 5mth 30days left to go!!!!!! ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐
Mine wiff would have to offer me frequent sucky suck and regular visiting of the “alternative” entrance for me to give up. I LOVE smoking, but sice I have smoked a pipe or cigars for most of my life, I suppose its a bit different.
On the other hand, I smoked ciggies for a while in the army and was a 3 pack a day man (packs of 30, never seen em in Europe)
only thing i’m going to say is …you have to want to do it. and if that’s the case then its not as hard as you think
I’ll just second what Jonny said there, it’s absolutely spot on.
DAY 2 : Well over 24hrs now without a ciggie. Havnt even put a patch on today. havnt got the need for one. Yesterday there was 3 times throughout the day where I could have killed for one. But they were at times when I always have one, after dinner, just before bed etc etc…….
Im keeping myself busy, and its going a lot easier than I thought. ๐ ๐
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