I have stopped smoking

[charlotte 2406 10]

Selling the rest of your fags cheap? :hihi:

 

i threw them all away

[fritzthecat 10]

i threw them all away

 

:gag: well least it shows you are comitted (or is it want comitting) :hihi:.

 

Keep it up, the hardest bit is well past now :D

[Nigel Womersle 10]

Its thirty six years since I quit smoking (when the warning labels appeared on the packets, I simply stopped putting them in my 'gob'). I have never regretted it.

[BasilRathbon 10]

Just don't fall into the trap in a few weeks time when someone offers you a fag and you think "Well, it was easy to quit the last time, so if I start again stopping will be easy". It won't!

[shihtzumad 10]

well done

[jeremyjh1 10]

I stopped smoking 4 weeks ago and i cant believe it because i didnt that i would be able to do it

 

Congrats if you really wanted to and did not feel 'pressurised' in to it.

 

I gave up a while ago - I honestly cannot remember when 6 months, 8 months, a year??

 

Anyway, 22 years on and off (mostly on) smoking. Never more than 15 to 20 a day. In the last few years I switched to roll ups and, although I probably smoked more than 20 roll ups a day, they were significantly smaller and contained far less tobacco than a conventional filtered cigarette. Anyway, that's beside the point.

 

Point is, I had stopped a couple of times in the previous 22 years, once for about 6 months, then I started again through boredom.

 

The biggest problem I found, apart from the habit of having a cig after a meal, when you first wake up, down the pub and so on, was knowing what to do with my hands.

 

Non-smokers will not understand, but when you stop smoking you suddenly become aware of your hands and that they have nothing to do.

 

I quit after I had been ill for two days - extremely high temperature (41+ C). It wasn't as bad as it sounds - I sweated alot and I felt drained of energy, but nothing else.

 

After two days, everything returned almost to normal. I rolled a ciggie, took a drag and nearly threw up. The taste of the smoke on my tongue !

 

Haven't smoked since. I consciously met all my habit-routines head on - my thinking was that if I could deal with not smoking after a meal, if I could deal with not reaching for the baccie when I woke up, if I could go to the pub without feeling the need for a cig, then I had cracked it.

 

The pub 'routine' really did test me. It took me months of visits before I felt fully cured .

 

Now all I need is the number for AA

[*_ash_* 88]

Just don't fall into the trap in a few weeks time when someone offers you a fag and you think "Well, it was easy to quit the last time, so if I start again stopping will be easy". It won't!

The voice of experience.

 

I've done that... several times:gag:. Silly boy.

 

 

Nice work Charlotte, make sure you put all the money you spend on ciggies in a box, so you can treat yourself.

 

 

p.s can't believe you chucked em out.

[SaxonLeigh 11]

well done to you charlotte, you must have stopped not long after me, i stopped 37 days ago.

 

i cant say its been easy as such but its been easier than last time i quit. i've quit then started again a couple of times, the longest time i have quit for is 3 months & that time i started smoking again because i was very drunk in the pub & someone offered me a fag & i drunkenly took it.

 

i say its been easier this time because while i'm drinking all the smokers are outside smoking & i dont get a craving plus when they come back inside i can tell how much they smell.

 

even if i have been round smokers & i have had a craving one site i have been using to help me quit explained this visulisation technique. you watch the smoker take a drag off a fag & visulise the smoke going down the windpipe into the lungs then 90% of the smoke sticking to the lungs making them black with tar & the rest (10%) of the smoke comming back up & been breathed out. that has helpled me alot aswell as asking the smoker in question wether they enjoyed that fag.

 

when i started smoking again after my last quit i thought i could be a social smoker, dont make the same mistake because you cant. i've learnt that now & know that its all or nothing.

 

have you got a quit counter to show you how much your saving & how many cigs you've not smoked? you can get them through http://www.whyquit.com

 

i have stopped nicotine for 1 month, 6 days and 36 min's (37 days). i have not smoked 555 death sticks, i've saved £144.62 & 1 day, 22 hours & 16 mins of life.

 

yeah make sure you treat yourself & you can do this its so doable.

[Alastair 12]

Good for you

 

The difficult bit is staying given up. I took it up again once after 3 years without. This time feels permanent though, six years.

 

Don't be tempted into thinking just one ciggie wont hurt. It will.

[pippadoll 10]

Well done, you must feel great. Alistair is right, one cigarette will hurt. I had given up many times and it always meant I was back smoking again.

 

I gave up a year ago, refused to have one and I am still smoke free.

 

You are over the worst, keep up feeling good about it and think of yourself as a non-smoker.

 

Even if you hit a problem, don't thinkd a cigarette will help.

 

Good luck at sticking to it.

[greenrat 10]

I stopped smoking 4 weeks ago and i cant believe it because i didnt that i would be able to do it

 

That's great!! Really brave thing to do & hope you manage to keep it up!!!

[purdyamos 10]

Well done! I couldn't believe I would be able to do it, having heard so much about it being near-impossible and leading to endless misery from then on. But they were wrong. It is possible and it makes your life so much better. I hit the five year point this summer - it's easy to remember for me, as it's Elvis' death anniversary though there's no connection between the two. That would be weird.