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[Sarah B]

Hi All,

 

Right - decided today NO MORE FAGS. I am still getting over my horrid chest flu virus thing and I went back to work yesterday and smoked. Couldn't go in today because I just can't stop coughing. It's disgusting. The coughing has given me a mega headache and makes me sick. I'm so angry with myself but I have been smoking for so long and I know it's horrible and just a stress buster but today it has to go!!!!

 

I am re reading 'Easy way to stop smoking' - I keep sniffing a full ashtray but all I REALLY want (apart from a disgusting fag), is for other people who have given up to tell me how great it really is now they are smoke free?

 

Please just convince me of how fab you ex smokers feel now without the crutch of that little cancerous expensive stinky stick????

 

S xxxx

[little chickadee]

Keep reading the book. Please Please keep reading the book.

 

I'm an ex smoker and stopped with this book as did my husband who had been smoking (heavily) from the age of 14 to 30

 

I can honestly say that neither of us EVER crave cigarettes (we've been off for over 4 years) My husband used to be put off stopping by hearing people who had been off for years still telling him how much they wanted a cigarette. If you follow the book (read it over and over if you need to) you won't have this problem. I stopped with will power before and know that with stressful events etc I would have started again if it wasn't for the book.

 

Think of doing things without always thinking about smoking. Don't think about the money you will save, as if this is the reason, you will always be able to find the money from somewhere if you really "need" one!!!

Do it for yourself and how fabulous you will feel without the addiction which rules your life if you really think about it. It doesn't relieve stress, it actually makes you stressed.

 

Keep going with the book. It will be the best thing you've ever done.

(Have I made my point?)

[BarbaraJ]

Yep its great ,been 20 years for me now to be honest the simpliest way to stop is to just stop, i found meals out hard when everyone used to have a cigarette after dinner, obviously thats a lot easier now!

I am a typical ex smoker, hate the smell with a vengence don't even like walking past someone in street smoking, but i did get asmatic last year due to allergys so that made it worse!

[druids57]

Hi I agree keep reading that book! I stopped 26 years ago when i fell pregnant cos I was so sick.I started again after 14 years. I tried everything to stop then I read THE book and all the time thought "this wont work" - but it did - nearly a year now and I know I will never ever smoke again. The money I saved has bought my chicks and eglu and I can justify staying at home and enjoying my grandchildren. Go on you can do it I imagined a monster inside me who I had to starve for 2 weeeks then he would be dead - crazy as it sounds it worked - good Luck!

[Tiggy]

go for it, I spend my life trying to help people stop smoking & looking after those with heart & lung disease. I am brittle asthmatic & cannot think why someone born with lungs that work would try to destroy them Best of luck you can do it

[chickencam]

Where do i get this magic book??

 

My hubby smokes somewhere between 20 and 30 cigarettes a day, has restless legs and insomnia both of which I think would be greatly improved if he stopped.

 

The problem is he is already overweight, mainly his tummy, but he has stopped bending down to pick things up, preferring to look helpless until someone else does it I think he is afraid that if he stops smoking he will get fatter because he snacks out of habit in the same way that he picks up his cigarettes if the phone rings.

 

I think he is nearly ready to give up after starting when he was at uni. He said he would stop when he was 21 then when our ED was born and when the other 2 were born but I am still waiting and my YD is now 9

 

The children really want him to stop especially our eldest who has had more education on the horrors of smoking than the other 2.

 

I could leave the book lying around for him to read, he is an avid reader so it might work

[Sarah B]

Where do i get this magic book??

 

My hubby smokes somewhere between 20 and 30 cigarettes a day, has restless legs and insomnia both of which I think would be greatly improved if he stopped.

 

The problem is he is already overweight, mainly his tummy, but he has stopped bending down to pick things up, preferring to look helpless until someone else does it I think he is afraid that if he stops smoking he will get fatter because he snacks out of habit in the same way that he picks up his cigarettes if the phone rings.

 

I think he is nearly ready to give up after starting when he was at uni. He said he would stop when he was 21 then when our ED was born and when the other 2 were born but I am still waiting and my YD is now 9

 

The children really want him to stop especially our eldest who has had more education on the horrors of smoking than the other 2.

 

I could leave the book lying around for him to read, he is an avid reader so it might work

 

Have a look here Liz an good luck with hubby xx

 

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=easy+way+to+stop+smoking

[druids57]

Hi always copies on e bay by Allen Carr or amazon or play.com would send you mine but my friend pinched it at the weekend - I dont know how or why it works but it does seem to - dont "push" it though just leave it about thats what my girls did for me. I read it really slowly thinking "oh dear I have to stop when Ive finished" but I stopped before the end - some things you just cant explain

Druidxx

[Clash City Rocker]

Sarah B

 

How many a day and for how long?

Have you tried Patches?.

We've recently been working with a few companies in Worcestershire offering advice/support for their employees while the companies are paying for the Patches, first 3 months paid for by the company, next 3 months 50/50 employer & employee. The schemes have been reasonably sucessful about 2/3 "winning the battle".

Most GP practices nurses are also offering help/advice/monitoring have you tried yours?

Get a "Lung Function" test which ages your lungs that shocks most people!!!

and calculate the cost per day/week/month/year

[chickencam]

Thanks for that , will do as you have advised, i have learned from experience that nagging him doesn't work.

[buffie]

Ex smoker here of 3 years Most important things are planning, preparation and remembering you have 'stopped' and not given up. 'Giving up' feels like deprivation

 

You can and will do it if you want to

 

Buff xxx

[Louise]

I stopped nearly 20 years ago now

 

I just decided one day I was going to stop I needed the money for other things so just went cold turkey

 

If you are craving just tell yourself that while you may want a cig you don't actually NEED one

[Sarah B]

Sarah B

 

How many a day and for how long?

Have you tried Patches?.

We've recently been working with a few companies in Worcestershire offering advice/support for their employees while the companies are paying for the Patches, first 3 months paid for by the company, next 3 months 50/50 employer & employee. The schemes have been reasonably sucessful about 2/3 "winning the battle".

Most GP practices nurses are also offering help/advice/monitoring have you tried yours?

Get a "Lung Function" test which ages your lungs that shocks most people!!!

and calculate the cost per day/week/month/year

 

Hi CCR,

Oh so embaressing to admit but I have smoked about 20 a day on average for years and years. I started at 15 but that was the odd puff at a disco or behind the sports hall and I guess the 20 a day habit started from about 20 ish, I'm nearly 42 As I have never properly stopped I'm going to do cold turkey as my lungs and my cough are so bad at present I don't need patches. I also have very good support from my ex smoker friends and from people like yourself on here! The awful thing is my Mum died of lung cancer through smoking 3 years ago and I smoked more to cope with it??? That is the pull that this disgusting little stick has on a person with not much willpower.

 

I'm gonna do it - I have to. My Drs has a stop smoking clinic but Im thinking if I go and listen to people talk about smoking it will make me want one so Im best reading my book and doing it that way.

 

Well I hope that works

[Guest]

With so many people giving up smoking the government will need to find more ways of raising revenue from taxes by increasing the tax on alcohol and petrol...

 

Seriously though, I have never smoked and I don't see what anyone sees in it. Who wants to pay extortionate costs for the privilege of dirty fingers, stained teeth, bad breath, smelly clothes and increased chances of cancer related illnesses?

 

The thing that annoys me the most, is the amount of taxes that goes into promoting going smoke free, nicotine patches/gum, support services etc. I'm sorry but it is a lifestyle choice and not an addiction. Anyone can stop by taking some personal responsibility and using just will power and determination alone.

 

My partner used to smoke a long time ago when she was sadly under the impression that having a fag between your fingers made you look cool. She consequently grew up and decided that she didn’t want to smoke anymore and didn’t.

 

It’s quite like saying: I like alcohol, so can I get alcohol patches for free on the NHS so that I can infect my bloodstream directly at everyone else's expense please? I'll stop drinking, honest... Whoops! Oh well, it’s because I didn’t receive enough support…

 

Congratulations on attempting to go smoke free by the way, I wish you the best of luck and hope that you succeed!

[Clash City Rocker]

Sarah B

 

How many a day and for how long?

Have you tried Patches?.

We've recently been working with a few companies in Worcestershire offering advice/support for their employees while the companies are paying for the Patches, first 3 months paid for by the company, next 3 months 50/50 employer & employee. The schemes have been reasonably sucessful about 2/3 "winning the battle".

Most GP practices nurses are also offering help/advice/monitoring have you tried yours?

Get a "Lung Function" test which ages your lungs that shocks most people!!!

and calculate the cost per day/week/month/year

 

Hi CCR,

Oh so embaressing to admit but I have smoked about 20 a day on average for years and years. I started at 15 but that was the odd puff at a disco or behind the sports hall and I guess the 20 a day habit started from about 20 ish, I'm nearly 42 As I have never properly stopped I'm going to do cold turkey as my lungs and my cough are so bad at present I don't need patches. I also have very good support from my ex smoker friends and from people like yourself on here! The awful thing is my Mum died of lung cancer through smoking 3 years ago and I smoked more to cope with it??? That is the pull that this disgusting little stick has on a person with not much willpower.

 

I'm gonna do it - I have to. My Drs has a stop smoking clinic but Im thinking if I go and listen to people talk about smoking it will make me want one so Im best reading my book and doing it that way.

 

Well I hope that works

 

So more than 20 cigarettes a day for over half your life?

[Guest]

So more than 20 cigarettes a day for over half your life?

 

[Sarah B]

Yes - disgusting isn't it?

[Egluntyne]

Best of luck Sarah B.

[lisa33]

Good Luck Sarah.

 

Both Andyman and I gave up at the beginning of last year.

 

It is definately worth it.

[fairy&cake]

Yes - disgusting isn't it?

 

Yes it is, but you should be SO SO SO SO proud of yourself for deciding to stop. Addictions are hard to stop, and your doing well.

 

Well done.

[jackiepoppies]

HI. Just go for it!

I started when I was 13 and stopped 46 years later [just over a year ago].

It was a question of smoke or eat [we had a major problem when the bank ate our card and said they thought it was being used by a fraudster!] SO ...only about 22 euros for a week as it would take time to get it back to us! So cold turkey it was! Last fag 17:20 on 20th March 07......was going to be 17:30 but thought ...sod it...it's the last one in the packet! Was on approx. 40 a day, probably more on a day when I wasn't overly busy and had the other excuse that theyr'e cheaper here in France.

Absolute hell for a while, but when I went back to UK 10 days later and my DD asked if I wanted one before getting in the car and I told her I hadn't smoked for 10 days I felt so proud of myself!!! I have never said 'I have given up' I say 'I am choosing not to smoke at the moment'

Just a little postscript: having chosen not to smoke~ I ended up in hospital twice last year with asthma related bronchitis, on oxygen and steroids~ have never felt so bad~couldn't even walk across the room! It does get better with time!

My very best wishes and good luck....if I can do it ,anyone can!

[BeckyBoo]

Good Luck Sarah B, it will be the best and possibly hardest thing you do. It's like being on a diet, all you think about then is food, you may well find all you think about is cigarettes, but just take a day at a time and use whatever support you find you need. Just kick that habit, I gave up when I was pregnant with each of my three children and started again after both girls were born. After DS 2 1/2 years ago I decided having stopped when I was 5 weeks pregnant that I would never start again. And I haven't. It's been hard sometimes but I don't want to die and I will try anything I can that I think may prolong my life.

 

Mrs B

[Sarah B]

HI. Just go for it!

I started when I was 13 and stopped 46 years later [just over a year ago].

It was a question of smoke or eat [we had a major problem when the bank ate our card and said they thought it was being used by a fraudster!] SO ...only about 22 euros for a week as it would take time to get it back to us! So cold turkey it was! Last fag 17:20 on 20th March 07......was going to be 17:30 but thought ...sod it...it's the last one in the packet! Was on approx. 40 a day, probably more on a day when I wasn't overly busy and had the other excuse that theyr'e cheaper here in France.

Absolute hell for a while, but when I went back to UK 10 days later and my DD asked if I wanted one before getting in the car and I told her I hadn't smoked for 10 days I felt so proud of myself!!! I have never said 'I have given up' I say 'I am choosing not to smoke at the moment'

Just a little postscript: having chosen not to smoke~ I ended up in hospital twice last year with asthma related bronchitis, on oxygen and steroids~ have never felt so bad~couldn't even walk across the room! It does get better with time!

My very best wishes and good luck....if I can do it ,anyone can!

 

Hi Jackiepoppies what a lovely and frank answer. I too am deciding that I havent given up smoking but I now choose not to smoke.

 

I sent a text out to my friends today who have also left fags behind and one of my dearest friends now also has asthma after a life long habit though she says she would rather have that than the cigs!

 

I guess our lungs need re-educating after a life of soot. Eeewwwwwwwwwww

[Seagazer]

I gave up smoking 17 1/2 years ago when I was pregnant with my second child. I had smoked throughout the first pregnancy and by the age of 1 1/2 my daughter had been diagnosed asthmatic. I felt very guilty about that. I managed to stop smoking very easily because of morning sickness!

 

About a month later my husband needed some money for something, can't remember what, but he worked out that if he stopped smoking it would save about £150 a month which is what he needed, he smoked about 90 cigarettes a day! He gave up over night and we both haven't smoked since.

 

It was hard to begin with but it is so worth it, when I think that I used to put a cigarette in my mouth and inhale smoke in to my body it just seems so stupid .

 

My doctors have so many disgusting pictures of lungs, gangrene toes etc in the waiting room that my youngest always says to me "how could you ever have smoked".

 

I feel better, I smell better (I hope) and hopefully I will live longer. You can do it.

[MedusA]

I smoked from the age of 13 until I was 20. After my second bout of bronchitus in a few months, I was getting fed up of it all. I watched a documentary which had a big bucket full of diseased lungs from dead smokers. That was all it needed. I have never smoked since!

 

You are making the right decision. Hold firm and resist if you can. Willpower is an amazing thing.