Rea Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 This is my third day without smoking. I gave up for 2 years but about 5 years ago I started again. Since then I've stopped for a month, 6 weeks and 3 months, but I always start again to prove to myself I wont get hooked. Yes, you're right, its very perverse. So I'm doing it again. If anyone else has given up for the new year: good luck, keep going and dont start again. Theres a message to myself in there too Quote
Lorna Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 Good Luck Rea.... Just think how much money you will save ( you could save for a holiday or a treat for yourself) and how better you will feel. Quote
HappyMaz Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 Keep going Rea! It will be SO worth it in the end! Maz Quote
shazzam Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 i,ve done the same, given up for 18 months then started again for a year. now given up again but fridays are my worst day would love an alcoholic drink and a smoke to finish the week!!! i must say though i dont advise anyone to give up for their new years revolution as this is th 2nd time i have and dont notice the money saving as jan/feb is always our most expensive months so broke anyways!! Quote
hali Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 just wqnted to say good luck - i am not a smoker but if i was told i couldnt have a galss of wine in the evening - would be in the same boat xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Quote
belle06 Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 Good luck from an ex smoker hope it goes well Quote
Susan Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 Good luck Rea. and Shazzam. Im afraid since I developed Asthma a few years ago I have a real problem with people smoking and can tell a smoker a mile off! Quote
Guest Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 Good Luck Rea! You can do it - my hubby gave up 3 months ago with the help of patches and we've both survived it so far!!!! Quote
Rea Posted January 25, 2008 Author Posted January 25, 2008 Not tried patches because I've got sensitive skin, but I have got some low strength gum. The packet says to have 8-12 pieces a day, but I'm doing it on about 2-3 pieces. I dont want to get hooked on the gum, which is what I did once before, the jaw ache from all the chewing was so bad I took up smoking again instead! Keep at it shazzam, one time I gave up I replaced the cigarettes with small bottles of beer, but I noticed a definite trend so had to give up the beer too. No good stopping smoking if I have to become a member of alcoholics anonymous is it. So no alcohol until i have this licked Quote
Guest Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 Keep going!!! I've just celebrated 3 years smoke free after 25 years of the bad habit.I was very hard so you have my sympathies. Quote
dublinbay Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 Best of luck to both of you from another ex-smoker. I found giving up alcohol at the same time (just for a while though!!!) a bonus. Booze and fags were inseparable..............but take heart, the habit can be broken! Good luck! Quote
Sue R Posted January 26, 2008 Posted January 26, 2008 Go Rea! I gave up 30 years ago (was it really that long !) because we were having trouble conceiving, so I had lots of incentive, but it still wasn't easy. Good vibes and encouragement coming your way Quote
Guest Posted January 26, 2008 Posted January 26, 2008 Good luck. I gave up for my new year's resolution and I haven't given in yet - 26 days now!! Sally Quote
Guest Posted January 26, 2008 Posted January 26, 2008 Good luck to you all.....never smoked myself but if it's like trying to give up choc, bisc, cakes sweets etc!!!!!! Quote
Rea Posted January 26, 2008 Author Posted January 26, 2008 Sally, instead of thinking of it as 'giving in', ask yourself why you need to smoke. A non smoker doesnt need to, its an addiction, and after 3 weeks the cravings apparently are all in your head. You are already a non-smoker Quote
Rea Posted January 26, 2008 Author Posted January 26, 2008 I knew I'd posted about this before, and how glad am I that I found it again? Not very as it turns out, if I'd stuck to it I'd have done a year of no smoking. No smoking posts Keep going shazzam, Sally, Mr nona and anyone else Quote
Guest Posted January 26, 2008 Posted January 26, 2008 Good luck to all of you and hardfelt admiration, I'm still addicted and not in the right frame of mind to stop yet, maybe one day. I did try once before, lasted a whole 4 months, the cravings went within a few days, but it was the 'habitual behaviour' that I found hard to break, the as I get in the car light up, as I get out the car, light up, after a meal, light up, I also use cigarettes when I'm hungry, so when I did give up, on went the weight. I went cold turkey, plus it was hubby's idea to give up and not mine ( he lasted 2 yrs, but then started again). My friends ( a couple) have lasted a year now, but are both addicted to the gum, which is beter than the nicotine. Soon you will all notice enhanced taste buds, sense of smell, nice fresh air around you, nice clothes non yellowed walls, having a cough that clears within a few days rather than lingers on & on :wacko: , no sinus problems a fuller purse :rolleyes: no having to go out in the freezing cold when socialising up the pub with your mates :unsure: so although I am a bit hypocritical, I'd like to say, keep at it, you've made the choice to stop so YES YOU CAN DO IT, welcome to the forum NON smokers Peggy Quote
Rea Posted January 26, 2008 Author Posted January 26, 2008 The main reason I'm doing it (and struggling damned hard today) is fear. I read/heard a while back that a link has been found between arthritis of the knees (whch I have) and lung cancer. Like all smokers I ignored it and lit up. Then hubby came home one day to say he'd seen a woman he'd known for years, she'd been for a blood test for her arthritis and somewhere along the line they found she had lung cancer. So, although I have for a long time wished I was a non smoker, now I have fear to help me. I couldnt bear the thought of telling my children I was going to die. And thats the bottom line. Have a cheerful weekend wont you????? Quote
Sue R Posted January 26, 2008 Posted January 26, 2008 We'll try, Rea! Guess that's a good enough incentive! Quote
Jester Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 Well done and stick with it I gave up cold turky a few years ago- I just decided that I was bored with it and stopped and havent had one since! I do believe you have to be in the right frame of mind for it- you have to really WANT to do it in order to succeed and outsoide pressures from others don't work. Quote
Deb Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 Thankfully, never smoked myself but am addicted to chocolate and the odd glass of red wine! Wish they did patches for that! Keep going. Haven't even started my much needed healthy living regime yet but will have to soon....is it really nearly the end of January?? Quote
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