Originally Posted by Billyloves2boogie
I'll take your word for that buddy!! Hope you're well now.
This thread is great, i am back in the land of a smoker and its really pissing me off. Work is manic, I am in the final throws of a divorce and I am just making excuse. Its time to decide and act and stop looking at reason I can not. I have the patches and e cigartte, I am going to go and have one hell of a blow out night this weekend and stop.
Ten months yesterday :mrgreen:
+ 1
:wink:
This would have been great to do a poll and see what the majority did and how they stopped. Somehow I think willpower might be top
After 35 years I am been clean for 5 weeks. :D
Method
Book holiday with family.
Leave lighter at home
Have last smoke at the airport door - chuck packet away.
Wait until you are just about to rip someone's head off and have a double squirt of nocorette spray.
Repeat, repeat, repeat
And ta da!! I have not smoked for 5 weeks.
Do I still miss it - yes - a lot :(
Am I better looking - no
Have I put on weight - no
Does my breath stink of smoke - no
Have I stopped coughing in the morning - yes
Sorted :D
Andy
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wtf is this ? Patches and E-cigarettes ? You metrosexual op ? If Freud was alive today he would categorise you under the heading of beta phaggot.
Man up and go cold turkey...
The first week is the hardest if you keep away from the boozer to start that will help
good luck
Excellent post, well done. :lol:
i have given up for 3 years
started swimming and realised breathing is very important whatever you do in life!
May have been posted before but this is a long thread
http://thepreppersite.com/uploads/Allen ... moking.pdf
I was smoking for 24 years and this cured me
7 years now...............but the idea of having a fag with my coffee, still from time to time pops into my head :roll:
I packed in 8 years ago. SWMBO got breast cancer and it hit me like a brick. Glad to say I'm still off the tabs and (crossing everything) the cancer has played fair :)
For all those that have recently quit. First off congratulations and well done, you've acknowledged that you had a habit and are taking positive steps to overcome it. I won't pretend it's easy, when I quit 15 or so years ago I had the occasional pangs for nicotine for a couple of years afterwards. However stay focussed and strong and you can do it.
Think about taking your kids to the park and not being out of breath.
Think of kissing your partner knowing you don't reek of fags.
Think of being around a little longer to see your grandchildren grow up.
Think of your cloths no longer stinking.
And last but no least, think of the money you can now spend on watches :lol:
I found that rediscovering cycling really helped. I could monitor my improvements which spurred me on no end and it helped to keep the weight off too. So if you played a sport or enjoyed a physical activity think about trying to get back into it.
Keep up your good work and relish every nicotine and chemical free breath.
Cheers,
Gary
:DWtf is this ? Patches and E-cigarettes ? You metrosexual op ? If Freud was alive today he would categorise you under the heading of beta phaggot.
Man up and go cold turkey...
A job in motivational speaking is waiting for you :lol:
+1 on Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking...
for people that have kicked the habit but still find themselves wanting or thinking of cigarettes, I can't recommend Allan Carr enough.. Quite a slim book, very easy to read - but he explains exactly why you still crave fags, and completely breaks the link in your mind that makes you still want them..
I smoked from age 15 to 39 ( funny, 24yrs just like matt above ), and I stopped through will power for three days - read 'The Easy Way' on the fourth day and have never craved a ciggy in the seven years since then - no matter what the situation ; after meals, ' difficult' phone calls, busy times at work etc...
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