A whole month now ...

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... without a single ciggy! I think I've finally cracked it :cool:

Sorry, just had to share :)

PS. Ditto for the DLW - who is looking SO much better than she was back end of last year (and whose health scare prompted the current up giving effort)
 
ChattingLil said:
well done! keep it up. Don't slip, it's not worth it. You will be richer, healthier and better looking!
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Richer and healthier yes, but better looking????? I doubt it! :)

Arigatou said:
Excellent! Please tell me how you did it?
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Zyban tablets in my case, nicotine patches for Jane ... plus making up our minds that this time we're going to stick with it

Magnette said:
I've just had to sit down and have a drink after hearing that news......
Will the economy survive
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The loss of tax revenue may indeed push the economy into a double dip recession :D
 
ChattingLil said:
:D
depends on your view, but when HWMO quits for a while (he goes in fits and starts) his skin and eyes become much brighter, his teeth are whiter and not having to lurk in dingey corners or doorsteps sucking away on fags has gotta look better!
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Hmm, well certainly seen an improvement in the state of my teeth and gums already (although I'm gonna need some serious dental work to repair the permanent damage done and I HATE the dentists!) and there have been comments about my having a better colour etc. but when you get right down to it I don't think the raw materials were much to write home about in the first place :D

PS. I'm REALLY enjoying not having to sneak outdoors in the freezin' cold wet 'orrible night every hour or so for a crafty one! Downside is I'm getting far too much work done :eek:
 
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I gave up 10 years ago plus and i was a 'full international cap' in the English smoking team, i barely even think about it now, it took about 6 months to get over it, but def worth it. You can always tell a smoker by there wrinkly faces!
 
dabsolute470 said:
well done i am following this with interest as i hope to be next but not sure when to do it, might be best for me to wait for next winter...
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The best time to give up is the day you decide "right, this is it". I could be flippant and say "why wait?" but if you're not ready to quit NOW, there's no point in trying now.

Sure, in my case the tablets have helped ease the cravings (I was - love the past tense! - a SERIOUSLY addicted 40+ a day man, I claim my international smoking cap too :)) but the key factor is determination and that's what I've always lacked in the past. It's easy to stop smoking, it's anything but to stay off 'em when the temptation arises as it does from time to time.

I've wobbled a couple of times but managed to resist (there was a moment last week when if I could have scrounged a fag I'd have smoked it - I was damned however if I was going to buy a whole packet)

P*ss*s me off when people go "it's easy to give up smoking" - yep, it is for some people (my missus for one!) who are habit rather than addictive smokers (not everybody gets addicted to nicotine, roughly half of all smokers suffer few if any actual withdrawal symptoms when they stop smoking) but for the addicted heavy smoker it's as tough as coming off any other drug addiction

It's a cliche I know but honestly it really is mostly a matter of "willpower" and, when you get down to it, REALLY wanting to give up - in the past, I've said I wanted to give up, I've tried to convince myself I wanted to give up, I knew I ought to give up but deep down I didn't really WANT to give up. This time around, with both of us facing very real and imminent health issues if we carried on puffing we, for the first time to be honest, genuinely want to quit
 
The thing that you really have to do is put the money that you would have spent on fags into an account and save it. One of my friends (yes I do have one or two) does that and has been dong that for years, it pays for his boat upkeep and more.

J
 
Brigantia said:
The best time to give up is the day you decide "right, this is it". I could be flippant and say "why wait?" but if you're not ready to quit NOW, there's no point in trying now.

Sure, in my case the tablets have helped ease the cravings (I was - love the past tense! - a SERIOUSLY addicted 40+ a day man, I claim my international smoking cap too :)) but the key factor is determination and that's what I've always lacked in the past. It's easy to stop smoking, it's anything but to stay off 'em when the temptation arises as it does from time to time.

I've wobbled a couple of times but managed to resist (there was a moment last week when if I could have scrounged a fag I'd have smoked it - I was damned however if I was going to buy a whole packet)

P*ss*s me off when people go "it's easy to give up smoking" - yep, it is for some people (my missus for one!) who are habit rather than addictive smokers (not everybody gets addicted to nicotine, roughly half of all smokers suffer few if any actual withdrawal symptoms when they stop smoking) but for the addicted heavy smoker it's as tough as coming off any other drug addiction

It's a cliche I know but honestly it really is mostly a matter of "willpower" and, when you get down to it, REALLY wanting to give up - in the past, I've said I wanted to give up, I've tried to convince myself I wanted to give up, I knew I ought to give up but deep down I didn't really WANT to give up. This time around, with both of us facing very real and imminent health issues if we carried on puffing we, for the first time to be honest, genuinely want to quit
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Well done keep it going !

Having a morning coffee in a nice cafe on holiday seemed unthinkable without a cigarette. But feelings like this will pass. You probably don't think that now though.
 
Congratulations

I suspect there is no one single good method for giving up. But I am a competitive person and I set myself targets. First of all I set a really easy one. I would get through the night without a cigarette which would mean I was nicotine free for eight hours and then manage until lunch time. By which time I had a half day under my belt. If I could manage half a day then I could manage another. So the first day was a doddle. If I had a cigarette then, I would have wasted a whole 24 hours of personal best. But the next night meant I had another eight hours free of tobacco. And so on, and so on.

Others have said don't be tempted into having an occasional cigarette after that. They are so right. My first attempt at giving up lasted eight months, at which point I thought I was safe just to have the odd one. The first odd one resulted in my being back on twenty a day within 24 hours. Don't even think about having one. Don't risk your personal world record!

It's not a bad idea to tell everyone you are giving up. It's a real disincentive to starting again if you have boasted about your willpower! And unlike going teetotal you will find most people will be supportive and not encourage you to have "just one little one".

Good luck.
 
dabsolute470 said:
brigantia, are you down the boat, its a bit windy...
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Am I 'eck as like! It's blowing half a gale up here in not so sunny Northants too :(

Last time I went down to the boat it blew like buggery and made life all but untenable on board. didn't fancy another similar excercise this weekend :eek:

Just hope the boat doesn't suffer any harm in all this 'orrible weather we've been having - don't think I'll leave her in over the winter again, it's too nerve racking!

(And hasn't worked out very well in terms of getting some additional use out of her as we'd hoped anyway)
 
dabsolute470 said:
thanks all for taking the time to give your ideas, they all make sence.
this is going to be hard but its a must in the near future.
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It is hard, there's no getting away from it ... but not, perhaps, as hard as you (and I a month or two back) might think once you've truly made up your mind to give 'em up. That, I think, is the fundamental step, everything else (patches, tablets, etc.) are props to help you along - worth it if they work for a particular person but not the most critical part of the equation

That said, it's early days yet for me and Jane and I won't consider myself to really be an ex-smoker for a good while yet. At the moment, I'm a smoker who isn't smoking ... and that's the way I plan to keep it until I don't want to smoke any more (at the moment, it would be all too easy to have "just one" but for the fact that I know that "just one" would rapidly lead to "just another one" and in no time at all it'd be back to 40 a bloody day)
 
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