Ive Not Smoked For Four Days But Im Fine

[Jeff Le Taxi]

Any of you lot want a F#%@ING FIGHT!!!!

[saint_stevo]

ill take you

[JonnyLove]

just wait till you hit 2 weeks then start celebrating

[thesaint sfc]

I want some.

[OldNick]

have you found it change your personality? its hard to tell from your post

[Jillyanne]

Well done, keep it up.

[saint_stevo]

Well done, keep it up.

 

Possibly more chance of that if he is off the smokes

[hamster]

Are you doing it the 'Easy Way' (Allan carr)? http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/__allen-carr-s-easy-way-to-stop-smoking_W0QQ_frsZ1QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em359

 

I don't wish to put you off of your current attempt, but you must accept that you are only 'attempting' to quit this time. You need to KNOW that you have quit, there is a world of difference.

 

Look into my eyes, not around my eyes, into my eyes.

Have a fag and order the book, DO NOT stop smoking until you have read the last word on the last page, you will know that you will never smoke again, but remember to wait until you have finished reading it although you may be tempted to stop before you get to that point. And take your time to read it properly, if you are like me and need to read a chapter a couple of times before it makes sense then read each chapter a couple of times. You will know I promise you.

 

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Worked for me and you will be surprised at how easy it is once you get to the bottom of why you actually smoke.

 

Promise me one thing too Jeff. Don't turn into one of those "I am better than you" reformed smokers please, they are so bloody annoying. Oh...

Edited 16 July, 2009 by hamster

[Junction 9]

Seems to me you are far from fine. Trying to instigate a fight on an internet forum is not normal behaviour.

[Thedelldays]

i have always wondered what it is like to be addicted to ciggies

[EastleighSoulBoy]

Seems to me you are far from fine. Trying to instigate a fight on an internet forum is not normal behaviour.

 

A truly strange comment considering some of the trolls we have that frequent this particular forum!

[hamster]

i have always wondered what it is like to be addicted to ciggies

 

Never had a fag?

[hamster]

Jeff, do you have any fags/baccy in the house? If so, I wager that you will have one before the morning as you are showing classic signs. Do not feel bad about this my freund nicotine is a nasty drug and is (pardon my french) maldito with your thought process.

And never try to give up for someone else, it has to be a 1:1 fight between you and Nicotine.

 

Order THAT book.

Order THAT book.

Order THAT book.

[Thedelldays]

if fags were imvented tomorrow, would they be made legal..?

[Johnny Bognor]

I gave up over 7 weeks ago after a bit of a health scare. Smoked 30 a day for the last 15-20 years.

 

I am on Champix, which has the highest success rate of all quitting aids. You continue to smoke for two weeks, whilst taking the drug. You then stop and I haven't wanted one at all. You have to keep taking the Champix for 3 months after you quit.

 

They are very expensive and your GP won't prescribe them without a very strong argument.

 

I have to say, I have never felt so good. So much so, I don't see what I gained from smoking. OK, when your young it's rebelious, cool, hip, trendy. As you get older, well it's just stupid.

[hamster]

if fags were imvented tomorrow, would they be made legal..?

 

Do you mean cigarrettes or are you alluding to something else dd? btw didn't Gilbert White invent the potatoe powered pushbike, or was that Sir Walter Stott (Barry's Sister)?

[Jillyanne]

I gave up over 7 weeks ago after a bit of a health scare. Smoked 30 a day for the last 15-20 years.

 

I am on Champix, which has the highest success rate of all quitting aids. You continue to smoke for two weeks, whilst taking the drug. You then stop and I haven't wanted one at all. You have to keep taking the Champix for 3 months after you quit.

 

They are very expensive and your GP won't prescribe them without a very strong argument.

 

I have to say, I have never felt so good. So much so, I don't see what I gained from smoking. OK, when your young it's rebelious, cool, hip, trendy. As you get older, well it's just stupid.

 

How do you get hold of this then?

[Johnny Bognor]

How do you get hold of this then?

 

 

I had a scare with the big c and so it was a no brainer for them.

 

If you want Champix, you really have to put a good argument across. Say that you have tried 3 or 4 times before. You are worried about your health and you need all the help you can get. They may insist you go to smoking clinics, but I didn't have to.

 

Honestly, I can't believe how good it is. I smoked 30 a day for nearly 20 years and just stopped.

 

The first thing I did when I woke up, was have a cig and the last thing I did at night, was have a cig. They completely ruled me. Coming back from holiday, the first thing I would do is drag my wife and kids half way across an airport just so I could have a ciggie. It was a completely selfish habbit that ruled my life.

 

Apparently you have to go the three months before you are clear, but the last 7 weeks has been a breeze. I feel completely liberated.

[Jeff Le Taxi]

Seems to me you are far from fine. Trying to instigate a fight on an internet forum is not normal behaviour.

 

Woooooosh ............................LOL (-:

[Jeff Le Taxi]

I had a scare with the big c and so it was a no brainer for them.

 

If you want Champix, you really have to put a good argument across. Say that you have tried 3 or 4 times before. You are worried about your health and you need all the help you can get. They may insist you go to smoking clinics, but I didn't have to.

 

Honestly, I can't believe how good it is. I smoked 30 a day for nearly 20 years and just stopped.

 

The first thing I did when I woke up, was have a cig and the last thing I did at night, was have a cig. They completely ruled me. Coming back from holiday, the first thing I would do is drag my wife and kids half way across an airport just so I could have a ciggie. It was a completely selfish habbit that ruled my life.

 

Apparently you have to go the three months before you are clear, but the last 7 weeks has been a breeze. I feel completely liberated.

 

Sounds like Zyban ? good luck with it! 7 days for me now.. Yay

[Kadeem Hardison]

Woooooosh ............................LOL (-:

 

Wooooooosh.

[Johnny Bognor]

Sounds like Zyban ? good luck with it! 7 days for me now.. Yay

 

 

Yep, Champix is the new Zyban.

[Draino76]

Tried Champix; they just make you sick. The best way to quit is to give your credit/debit cards to your wife/gf for 2 weeks.

[SNSUN]

I've not smoked for ten days now, and quit cold turkey. That said, I only smoked about 5 a day, so had an easier job on my hands that someone that smoked a packet a day.

[Baj]

I know its all a bit 'lets hold hands and sing' but well done to everyone who're quitting, you're doing yourself and everyone around you a great favour. Nearest Ive had to this is quitting caffine having had 1 or 2 litres of cola a day for about 15 years, and that was tough so god knows what hell smokers go through when quitting.

[hamster]

Any of you lot want a F#%@ING FIGHT!!!!

 

I gave up over 7 weeks ago after a bit of a health scare. Smoked 30 a day for the last 15-20 years.

 

I've not smoked for ten days now.

 

Well? How are you 3 getting on?

 

I will be surprised if even 1 of you is still clean tbh.

[St Landrew]

Well? How are you 3 getting on?

 

I will be surprised if even 1 of you is still clean tbh.

 

It hardly matters how clean they are. There is no right way to give up smoking. You can cold-turkey the whole thing, or you can cheat your way through it. It matters very little. If the result is that they eventually stop smoking because they truely want to [or have to for their health's sake] then that's great.

[Block 18]

For me it was those nicorette losengers, the patches and gum were a waste of time for me.

Only trouble was it took me a year to quit the losengers and that was by substituting them with polo's, ive now got good lungs but crap teeth:D

[1576]

Just over 2 years for me now. Must say the only way to do it is you have to want to stop. I wanted to so did and haven't looked back since. The thought of having a smoke doesn't even cross my mind any more.

 

I'll need shooting if I ever start again.

[Johnny Bognor]

Just over 2 years for me now. Must say the only way to do it is you have to want to stop. I wanted to so did and haven't looked back since. The thought of having a smoke doesn't even cross my mind any more.

 

I'll need shooting if I ever start again.

 

Well done Jake, you're hmoe and dry.

 

Well? How are you 3 getting on?

 

I will be surprised if even 1 of you is still clean tbh.

 

I stopped the Champix 2 weeks ago. I was fine with them at first, but then felt like throwing up every time I took one more recently (as someone else pointed out).

 

So although I have been off of the drugs for the last two weeks, I did have a couple of ciggies this weekend. Therefore I am not totally clean per say and am really ****ed off at the fact that I did so, especially as they were not even enjoyable. Perhaps this is a good thing as it will spur me on (i.e. it's like going back with an ex and realising that she weren't all that afterall). I still think I am on the home straight as I don't rely on them like I used to - ie the habbit is broken and I don't crave the Nicotine.

 

They say you have got to get to at least 3 months to completely break free. So, I've reset the counter and will go again, without Champix or patches (because I know I can do it).

 

I've setup a monthly Direct Debit of £227.50 (the equivalent to what I used to spend of cigs) and it is surprising how it adds up - nearly £500 so far - thats a season ticket and some.

 

Will report back in a few weeks to let you know how I am getting on.

Edited 10 August, 2009 by Johnny Bognor

[notnowcato]

Well done Jake, you're hmoe and dry.

 

 

 

I stopped the Champix 2 weeks ago. I was fine with them at first, but then felt like throwing up every time I took one more recently (as someone else pointed out).

 

So although I have been off of the drugs for the last two weeks, I did have a couple of ciggies this weekend. Therefore I am not totally clean per say and am really ****ed off at the fact that I did so, especially as they were not even enjoyable. Perhaps this is a good thing as it will spur me on (i.e. it's like going back with an ex and realising that she weren't all that afterall). I still think I am on the home straight as I don't rely on them like I used to - ie the habbit is broken and I don't crave the Nicotine.

 

They say you have got to get to at least 3 months to completely break free. So, I've reset the counter and will go again, without Champix or patches (because I know I can do it).

 

I've setup a monthly Direct Debit of £227.50 (the equivalent to what I used to spend of cigs) and it is surprising how it adds up - nearly £500 so far - thats a season ticket and some.

 

Will report back in a few weeks to let you know how I am getting on.

 

Keep at it Johnny Bog. It is not a path easily taken, with perseverence you will get what you want.

 

I'm 10 months clean, it can be done.

[Saint in Paradise]

26 years and 7 months since I gave up. However I know that if I had another one or two I would

end up back at square one. This seems to me to be similar to an alcoholics situation i.e. one drink

is to many and 10 is not enough.

[scott_saints]

I'm starting to debate giving up. Thing is, there's almost not much point of me smoking and also not much point in me giving up. I'm a proper social smoker and can go a whole week without a cigarette crossing my mind. However, I can then go and smoke 30 or so when drinking at the weekend only to go back to not giving two s**ts about smoking.

 

Not really gaining much by smoking and I wouldn't say I'm addicted to smoking- but addicted to smoking when drinking (and there's no way I'm giving that up...).

 

Hmmmmmm.....

[SNSUN]

Well? How are you 3 getting on?

 

I will be surprised if even 1 of you is still clean tbh.

 

Ummmmmmmmmmmmm..................

 

Ok, I'll admit, I went two weeks without, got drunk, left the club I was in as their fag machine wasn't working, walked about half a mile to newsagent, walked back to club and paid to go back in!

 

That's bad, I'm ashamed.

 

On the up side, I have cut my intake right down to 4 a day, and I didn't have to make conversation with the missus for 2 days afterwards because she wasn't talking to me! :-D

[Guan 2.0]

I'm starting to debate giving up. Thing is, there's almost not much point of me smoking and also not much point in me giving up. I'm a proper social smoker and can go a whole week without a cigarette crossing my mind. However, I can then go and smoke 30 or so when drinking at the weekend only to go back to not giving two s**ts about smoking.

 

Not really gaining much by smoking and I wouldn't say I'm addicted to smoking- but addicted to smoking when drinking (and there's no way I'm giving that up...).

 

Hmmmmmm.....

 

Same here, but more like 4-5 than 30. And spread a few months apart. I've never understood what causes an everday person to become a 'habitual' smoker. Perhaps they have a certain type of set-up in their brain chemistry. Or maybe they're just whiny ****s with no sense of responsibility who want to blame everyone apart from themselves for their pathetic addiction, and bleat on like the tobacco was the same as heroin.

 

Oh, and for all those who are 'addicted': avoiding all smoke filled areas, the sight/smell of cigarettes, and swearing off ownership of Tobacco is not giving up. I regularly have a pack of 20 B+H in my jacket pocket, And two ciggies have gone over 3 months. When you have them on you constantly, and aren't tempted, then you are over it.

[mack rill]

Stopped the smoke over two years ago.I started at the age of nine nicking Woodbines out of the old mans packet when he came in off nights, I went cold Turkey. The only thing that gets me is that you still think cigarette many times a day. Asked the farther in-law who gave up 20 years a go if he still had this. The reply was Oh yes!:smt103

Best of luck all you boys and Girls trying to give up.

[Jillyanne]

Stopped the smoke over two years ago.I started at the age of nine nicking Woodbines out of the old mans packet when he came in off nights, I went cold Turkey. The only thing that gets me is that you still think cigarette many times a day. Asked the farther in-law who gave up 20 years a go if he still had this. The reply was Oh yes!:smt103

Best of luck all you boys and Girls trying to give up.

 

Christ, are you 50 +?

[Guan 2.0]

Same here, but more like 4-5 than 30. And spread a few months apart. I've never understood what causes an everday person to become a 'habitual' smoker. Perhaps they have a certain type of set-up in their brain chemistry. Or maybe they're just whiny ****s with no sense of responsibility who want to blame everyone apart from themselves for their pathetic addiction, and bleat on like the tobacco was the same as heroin.

Oh, and for all those who are 'addicted': avoiding all smoke filled areas, the sight/smell of cigarettes, and swearing off ownership of Tobacco is not giving up. I regularly have a pack of 20 B+H in my jacket pocket, And two ciggies have gone over 3 months. When you have them on you constantly, and aren't tempted, then you are over it.

 

Just read this back and it appears a tad antagonistic. It was meant to highlight the fact that at present, there is no definitive answer!

[Johnny Bognor]

Just read this back and it appears a tad antagonistic. It was meant to highlight the fact that at present, there is no definitive answer!

 

I have to say, when I read your original post I thought "he needs to reach for one of those B&H PDQ".

 

When you are a heavy smoker for a prolonged period, giving up is life changing and even liberating, whilst at the same time a major challenge.

 

In my case I blame no-one else. For me, I started on a rebellious streak and over my late teens it became habitual, almost part of my routine. I think it is more psychological than chemical. I grew up on strict routine, I live my life by routine and am a creature of habit. I guess for others it could be dependency, insecurity or an escape.

 

Who knows?

[Thedelldays]

wiltshire smoked the pink oboe today apparently

[hamster]

I wouldn't consider myself to be oneof those horrible preaching reformed smokers, but when I started reading the Allan Carr 'Easy Way' book, the penny dropped. Maybe it is not for everyone, but if anyone wants to try it, you can have my copy FOC, I'll even pay the postage.

 

Seriously, PM me an address and I'll send you it. If it works for you, then pass it on, if not then errrr pass it on any way.

 

hamster.

 

btw, I tried chewy, inhalers, will power and counting the savings methods previousy (24 yrs smoking) amongst other methods and had almost given up on myself as a 'lifer'.