General Chat

22nd June 2008.

I usually smoke 30/40 a day.

Today 22nd June i smoked 2.

Tonight 23rd June i have smoked 4.

I think i need to give up the PC! this is when i smoke the most! (waiting for pages to open!)

Wish me luck...cough! n splutter!

I'll be Ok in the morning...cant stand the smell untill abt 11 am.....watch this space...

Gerri/Hyacynth x

The nicotine patches have been a great success with friends who are confirmed smokers from way back.

Got them also the gum.....

Been told the patches can/might give nightmares!


Again...watch this space....

I went on a 2 hour drive today WITHOUT the fags or gum!...i found it easy.....Fags were left at home (never been done before!) I felt very proud!

whilst your posting join paper clips together or fold paper in to wishes/shapes (japanese culture).

Well done Gerri, why not get one of those magnetic shape thingies, where you can make patterns (hope you know what I mean) You can fiddle with that then instead of lighting up.
Keep up the good work, and don't forget to put the money you save to one side, so you can get yourself something really nice as a reward.
Lizxxx

I RELY WANTED A CIGG
TODAY

16 MONTHS

That bad Gwen? Try not to start again.
Lizxx

Well done Gerri, wish I could give up the dreaded weed, found I have been smoking more since being here and they are only about 40p a packet.

My friend is having something from Boots. She was told if after two weeks she is still smoking to go back, and they do a counselling course. Don't know if that is free or not.
She coughs all the time when she smokes. Last year she gave up after hypnotherapy the cough went.
But she started to smoke again so the new thing from Boots.

Well done Gwen 16 months is a long time. I gave up 27 years ago and still sometimes fancy a puff. I hate them now so would never have that puff.

Hi all,
I stopped smoking for 18 months but last September we had a bereavement and a few other problems. I got so stressed & anxious and foolishly started smoking again. I can honestly say I really regret starting again but I'm afraid to try & stop again as it was so difficult. So please Dizzi, take my advice and do not do it. It only takes one and then you are back to square one. You will regret it!!!!!!!

Kath

I gave up in 1995 and we went to Hawaii on what I had saved after 18 months - looking back its frightening what cash went up in smoke

good luck hun

but i myself like smoking

it keeps my head out the fridge lol xx

i been stopped almost 7 years, but i kept 2 ciggies in the drawer for the first year...never touched them but k nowing i could if i wanted to was easier than thinking i couldnt have one... some how made it less stressful... reverse psychology i think but it worked for me, and i had been smoking for 40 years.

Good on you gerri.
My mum was always someone who adamently hung on to her smoking habit because she enjoyed it.
On April 25 I sat upright on a hospital bed and held her up all night because she couldnt breathe,
no matter what I did she couldnt settle or lie down without the feeling of drowning.
She had gone into sudden onset heart failure because her Atriums had blown up to 3 times there normal size trying to pump blood through smokers lungs.
It was the most dreadful thing I have ever done.
They managed to get her heart rate under control and she will be on meds for ever more to control her heart function.
She stopped smoking on the spot thank goodness and her lung function has improved,but she is a shadow of her former self.
So if you can see the back of it know go for it,day by day because I wouldnt wish what has happened to her on anybody

Gerri keep on quitting I know its not easy have tried loads of times myself but have not managed yet, but will keep on trying.

PaulXX

As Groucho Marx said - "Giving up smoking is easy - I've done it thousands of times".... lol

Yes John
Like groucho I stop every night!!
then start every morning

Well done Hyacinth.... keep up the good work.
I did it years and years ago.... ~I did it cold turkey. That was the only way I could succeed, and I knew it.
I used a pencil for the times when my hands needed a fag!! Worked for me anyway.

Lots of luck, and I know you will do it.
Deanna X

you can buy a plastic cigarette from the chemist ..think it is called " crafe away "or something like that . that also will occupy your hands and it tastes abit like tobacco

I've smoked for 47 years.

9 a.m. Monday 16th June 2008 was my last drag, one week 4 hours ago.

I could do with one but I must say my chest feels a lot better, I'm not wheezing when I lye down to sleep. I'm using the 21 mg patches, they do help but there's no cure that's guaranteed, didn't think I'd manage it but if I've gone a week there's hope.

Ron
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