cardinal_mark
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That\'s it...
11.30pm, 11th March 2005 I quit the fags.
Mark
11.30pm, 11th March 2005 I quit the fags.
Mark
That's it...
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rich
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Re: That\'s it...
I'll call you tomorrow at 10am /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
I'll call you tomorrow at 10am /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
lockwood
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Re: That\'s it...
well it is now pubished on the interweb - its written in stone.
well it is now pubished on the interweb - its written in stone.
T_S
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Re: That\'s it...
Just to help you further....They say that the 'Buzz' a smoker gets when they light up their first fag of the day is really the body rejecting the toxins etc. The 'Buzz' is caused by the restriction of blood flow by veins shrinking thus causing the heart to pump harder, the dizzy ness is because of restricted blood flow to the brain!
Worked for me and that was years ago!................best of luck /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Just to help you further....They say that the 'Buzz' a smoker gets when they light up their first fag of the day is really the body rejecting the toxins etc. The 'Buzz' is caused by the restriction of blood flow by veins shrinking thus causing the heart to pump harder, the dizzy ness is because of restricted blood flow to the brain!
Worked for me and that was years ago!................best of luck /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
FullCircle
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Re: That\'s it...
Mark,
from 40-50 a day...... (31 years overall)
I gave up on 17th April 2002 at 11.10pm.
Emptied the ashtray (18 fag butts in 4 hours), went to bed disgusted and haven't smoked since.
Best of luck, face the demons down early (go to the pub, still visit your mates in the smoking room etc) and completely redecorate the house. Took 3 coats of eggshell on the ceilings just to seal the nicotine in, let alone cover it.
Allow 2 stone gain ( I eat more gummy bears. I have no teeth, but I am going to live forever).
And you won't notice the financial gain, which came as a shock. It just went somewhere else.
VERY BEST OF LUCK . /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Jim
Mark,
from 40-50 a day...... (31 years overall)
I gave up on 17th April 2002 at 11.10pm.
Emptied the ashtray (18 fag butts in 4 hours), went to bed disgusted and haven't smoked since.
Best of luck, face the demons down early (go to the pub, still visit your mates in the smoking room etc) and completely redecorate the house. Took 3 coats of eggshell on the ceilings just to seal the nicotine in, let alone cover it.
Allow 2 stone gain ( I eat more gummy bears. I have no teeth, but I am going to live forever).
And you won't notice the financial gain, which came as a shock. It just went somewhere else.
VERY BEST OF LUCK . /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Jim
snowleopard
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Re: That\'s it...
just coming up to the 20th anniversary of quitting. in that time i've saved the equivalent at today's prices of £60,000: enough to buy a passable offshore yacht or 3 years comfortable cruising expenses.
there are downsides - i used to be thin, now i wear jeans branded "phat bastard" and of course i spent all the savings long since!
and the best bit of advice i can give you - in a few month's time you'll think you've got it cracked and 'i can have the odd one now and then' will set in. DON'T!
just coming up to the 20th anniversary of quitting. in that time i've saved the equivalent at today's prices of £60,000: enough to buy a passable offshore yacht or 3 years comfortable cruising expenses.
there are downsides - i used to be thin, now i wear jeans branded "phat bastard" and of course i spent all the savings long since!
and the best bit of advice i can give you - in a few month's time you'll think you've got it cracked and 'i can have the odd one now and then' will set in. DON'T!
silvertop
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I gave up 3 years ago when my wife was diagnosed with lung cancer, The enforcer was at her funeral 2years ago. I wouldnt wish any one to have to give up that way. But its a damn good reminder what they do to the body.
I gave up 3 years ago when my wife was diagnosed with lung cancer, The enforcer was at her funeral 2years ago. I wouldnt wish any one to have to give up that way. But its a damn good reminder what they do to the body.
eyehavit
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Re: That\'s it...
You have entered a really weird place that exists between your desire to give up and the realisation the desire to smoke has ceased.
I have nothing but admiration for anyone who tries to beat one of the most addictive substances legally sold.
You have entered a really weird place that exists between your desire to give up and the realisation the desire to smoke has ceased.
I have nothing but admiration for anyone who tries to beat one of the most addictive substances legally sold.
masterofnone
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Re: Cigarettes.N.B
My partner and I finally stopped 3+ years ago, I found it hard going and occasionally still do, the reasons for quittting were reiterated after both my mother and brothers partner were diagnosed with smoking related cancer last year.
Next time you want a fag remember that smoking kills.
My eldest who was anti smoking started uni last sept, and despite all my efforts now drags his way thru a packet or so a day. Liberalisation of alcohol and drug laws is in my opinion not the message our generation should be passing to the next. Early Education and a massive dont do it campaign or these are the probable result will hopefully bring results.
Best of luck to you, need to go, got to sell those imp tobacco and gallaghers shares before price crashes. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
My partner and I finally stopped 3+ years ago, I found it hard going and occasionally still do, the reasons for quittting were reiterated after both my mother and brothers partner were diagnosed with smoking related cancer last year.
Next time you want a fag remember that smoking kills.
My eldest who was anti smoking started uni last sept, and despite all my efforts now drags his way thru a packet or so a day. Liberalisation of alcohol and drug laws is in my opinion not the message our generation should be passing to the next. Early Education and a massive dont do it campaign or these are the probable result will hopefully bring results.
Best of luck to you, need to go, got to sell those imp tobacco and gallaghers shares before price crashes. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
cardinal_mark
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Re: That\'s it...
12 hours and still going strong!
Mark
12 hours and still going strong!
Mark
Sgeir
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You\'re an inspiration!
I've tried before and failed (even after 13 months off it). The last packet of duty-free Old Virgin will run out early next week, so I might just try again.
Incidentally in Scotland, new legislation is about to ban smoking in all public places including pubs and clubs - with no exceptions. Many customers smoke in the pub but not at home, and I suspect it will probably muck up the bar trade big style. A lot of existing non-smokers are miserable sods anyway, and for all their claims that they'll be flocking to the pubs once the ban is in force, I remain to be convinced and await the evidence.
However, it will make it easier for me to go for a pint once that packet's finished!
Keep at it!
I've tried before and failed (even after 13 months off it). The last packet of duty-free Old Virgin will run out early next week, so I might just try again.
Incidentally in Scotland, new legislation is about to ban smoking in all public places including pubs and clubs - with no exceptions. Many customers smoke in the pub but not at home, and I suspect it will probably muck up the bar trade big style. A lot of existing non-smokers are miserable sods anyway, and for all their claims that they'll be flocking to the pubs once the ban is in force, I remain to be convinced and await the evidence.
However, it will make it easier for me to go for a pint once that packet's finished!
Keep at it!
snowleopard
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Re: You\'re an inspiration!
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Incidentally in Scotland, new legislation is about to ban smoking in all public places including pubs and clubs - with no exceptions. Many customers smoke in the pub but not at home, and I suspect it will probably muck up the bar trade big style. A lot of existing non-smokers are miserable sods anyway, and for all their claims that they'll be flocking to the pubs once the ban is in force, I remain to be convinced and await the evidence.
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i haven't been to ireland since the ban started but i hear the pubs are still busy. i'm told there are crowds outside having a drag just like offices over here.
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Incidentally in Scotland, new legislation is about to ban smoking in all public places including pubs and clubs - with no exceptions. Many customers smoke in the pub but not at home, and I suspect it will probably muck up the bar trade big style. A lot of existing non-smokers are miserable sods anyway, and for all their claims that they'll be flocking to the pubs once the ban is in force, I remain to be convinced and await the evidence.
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i haven't been to ireland since the ban started but i hear the pubs are still busy. i'm told there are crowds outside having a drag just like offices over here.
knotgood
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re: That\'s it
First four weeks the best as you start to benifet from not smoking... sense of tast improoves, sense of smell improoves, "Woody's" occour for no reason at all, like they used to... but once you start getting used to the benifets, it really gets difficult.
remember... 15 years to eliminate the precancerous cells from your lungs. That should help.
Hope to follow in your footsteps soon...
First four weeks the best as you start to benifet from not smoking... sense of tast improoves, sense of smell improoves, "Woody's" occour for no reason at all, like they used to... but once you start getting used to the benifets, it really gets difficult.
remember... 15 years to eliminate the precancerous cells from your lungs. That should help.
Hope to follow in your footsteps soon...
doris
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Re: You\'re an inspiration!
Irish pubs are now terrific...and if the sad bastards outside in the rain get their fags wet. Tough.
Irish pubs are now terrific...and if the sad bastards outside in the rain get their fags wet. Tough.
janie
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Re: No Smoking Day
The annual lecture to go with No Smoking Day caused one of the smokers in my Lower Sixth Tutor Group to stop when she heard that she was killing her cat. The other smoker in the group had stopped the week before. I hope it lasts for them and for you.
The annual lecture to go with No Smoking Day caused one of the smokers in my Lower Sixth Tutor Group to stop when she heard that she was killing her cat. The other smoker in the group had stopped the week before. I hope it lasts for them and for you.
webcraft
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Re: 12 hours and still going strong!
Just take it a day at a time, but never give in. I have been stopped for about 15 years now (precancerous lung cells gone???) but still occasionaly feel like a fag. It's only about once every three or four months now, a strange feeling that comes out of the blue and goes away again very quickly . . . but I suspect it will strike at random for the rest of my life.
The 'want a fag' feeling was continuous for a week or so after stopping. FIrst big milestone is when you realise you have gone for an hour or more without thinking about fags. Later (maybe a while later) you will realise you have gone a whole day without wanting a cigarette. Now you are making some progress. Once these feelings are once a week or less you have probably cracked it - but don't ever get complacent, and don't worry if five years later you still occasionally fancy a fag . . . just roll with it the same as you do with all those other idle fancies that cross your mind. If you fancy having sex with that beautiful young girl you have just met you don't even try to pursue it - you know it would be too much hassle and would cause too much disruption. The difference with having a fag is that you can give in so easily and just do it, even though the consequences may be much more severe.
I think my point is that you will never be a non-smoker, or even an ex-smoker . . . you will just be a smoker who has not had a cigarette for a very long while. If you ever give in and start smoking again it will (on average) be ten years before you muster the willpower to have another serious attempt at stopping.
SO DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. DON'T EVER HAVE THE NEXT CIGARETTE.
As a smoker you had all these comforting little routines, all these regular 'time outs' - it's much more than the nicotine addiction (that will go in three days, so don't prolong it with patches). It is the habit that is stronger by far than the addiction.
I'll tell you when I realised this - it was when I started having dreams (nightmares really) where I would have a couple of fags in the pub, then be talked into buying a packet. Woke up the next morning still half pissed with a ratty mouth etc and thought I would just finish the packet . . . then the day after that I would go out and buy another packet and realise I was back on the fags and it would be ages before I could get it together to stop again. I despised myself and became utterly depressed . . .
. . . then I would wake up, and the relief was the same as if it had been a traditional monster-chasing cliff-falling nightmare.
These dreams happened during the first five years of giving up - haven't had one for ages, but it certainly helped me see that I could never afford to have another single puff.
I found drinking more beer helped . . .
I hope this helps - it is intended to, by putting into perspective what twelve hours without fags is all about in the bigger scheme of things. If it helps to post that here then do it, but your mission is quite simply to never have your next cigarette. If you can't face that then maybe you aren't ready yet. It is not easy - only 2% of smokers give up each year, and many of them relapse after months or years.
Good luck!
- Nick
Just take it a day at a time, but never give in. I have been stopped for about 15 years now (precancerous lung cells gone???) but still occasionaly feel like a fag. It's only about once every three or four months now, a strange feeling that comes out of the blue and goes away again very quickly . . . but I suspect it will strike at random for the rest of my life.
The 'want a fag' feeling was continuous for a week or so after stopping. FIrst big milestone is when you realise you have gone for an hour or more without thinking about fags. Later (maybe a while later) you will realise you have gone a whole day without wanting a cigarette. Now you are making some progress. Once these feelings are once a week or less you have probably cracked it - but don't ever get complacent, and don't worry if five years later you still occasionally fancy a fag . . . just roll with it the same as you do with all those other idle fancies that cross your mind. If you fancy having sex with that beautiful young girl you have just met you don't even try to pursue it - you know it would be too much hassle and would cause too much disruption. The difference with having a fag is that you can give in so easily and just do it, even though the consequences may be much more severe.
I think my point is that you will never be a non-smoker, or even an ex-smoker . . . you will just be a smoker who has not had a cigarette for a very long while. If you ever give in and start smoking again it will (on average) be ten years before you muster the willpower to have another serious attempt at stopping.
SO DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. DON'T EVER HAVE THE NEXT CIGARETTE.
As a smoker you had all these comforting little routines, all these regular 'time outs' - it's much more than the nicotine addiction (that will go in three days, so don't prolong it with patches). It is the habit that is stronger by far than the addiction.
I'll tell you when I realised this - it was when I started having dreams (nightmares really) where I would have a couple of fags in the pub, then be talked into buying a packet. Woke up the next morning still half pissed with a ratty mouth etc and thought I would just finish the packet . . . then the day after that I would go out and buy another packet and realise I was back on the fags and it would be ages before I could get it together to stop again. I despised myself and became utterly depressed . . .
. . . then I would wake up, and the relief was the same as if it had been a traditional monster-chasing cliff-falling nightmare.
These dreams happened during the first five years of giving up - haven't had one for ages, but it certainly helped me see that I could never afford to have another single puff.
I found drinking more beer helped . . .
I hope this helps - it is intended to, by putting into perspective what twelve hours without fags is all about in the bigger scheme of things. If it helps to post that here then do it, but your mission is quite simply to never have your next cigarette. If you can't face that then maybe you aren't ready yet. It is not easy - only 2% of smokers give up each year, and many of them relapse after months or years.
Good luck!
- Nick
cardinal_mark
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Webcraft...
Your points are not lost on me - gave up a few years ago, lasted 2 years and then gently got sucked back in. The odd one with a mate in the pub, the quick cigar at weekends.... 20 a day. This time I know bit more about the rules of engagement and am determined not to be seduced again.
Still holding out and shouting at the kids!
Mark
Your points are not lost on me - gave up a few years ago, lasted 2 years and then gently got sucked back in. The odd one with a mate in the pub, the quick cigar at weekends.... 20 a day. This time I know bit more about the rules of engagement and am determined not to be seduced again.
Still holding out and shouting at the kids!
Mark
sailorman
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Re: That\'s it...
standing-up quick should help then
standing-up quick should help then
