So who else is stopping smoking?
 

Following this thread

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=156534

I thought we needed some reason for determination

Like attending a rideout, stick your name in here if you are giving up, and announce it to the org!

In a couple of months time we'll resurrect the thread and see who was successful and who wasn't.

If you want to stop and need some peer pressure, here is your opportunity, stick it on facebook too if you use it.

1. Apollo
2. Sally
3. Hongman
4. ...

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1. Apollo
2. Sally
3. Hongman
4. Drew Carey

Really do want to kick the habit. Not for a short time, as thats what I keep doing.....but for good. Any group therapy is good in my view!!! :grouphug:

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1. Appollo1
2. Sally
3. Hongman
4. Drew Carey

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Good luck folks, the wife is a smoker and I wish that she could quit.
I have seen how hard it is for her and how difficult she can make our life because she is craving a fag.

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Nope

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1. Appollo1
2. Sally
3. Hongman
4. Drew Carey
5. Bellerophon - gave up 12 weeks ago but still a relative newby to the "not smoking" thing.

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+1
We gotta stick together brother :smt033

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12 weeks seems like an age, I literally have not stopped thinking about a smoke since 1pm while working.

I feel so ****ing agitated

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Well done you guys, I am actually thinking about starting :) honest LOL

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1. Appollo1
2. Sally
3. Hongman
4. Drew Carey
5. Bellerophon - gave up 12 weeks ago but still a relative newby to the "not smoking" thing.
6. TamSV

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Mate, get yourself some support from your GP surgery. Its there to be used. Don't go through it on your own

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Wow, an impressive list!!

My dad died of lung cancer (7 years ago this week) caused by 50 years of fags and it wasnt pretty. Do it for yourselves and for those who care about you.

Whether you succeed or fail in the long term every fag you DONT have is a true achievement.

Good on you all xx

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1. Appollo1
2. Sally
3. Hongman
4. Drew Carey
5. Bellerophon - gave up 12 weeks ago but still a relative newby to the "not smoking" thing.
6. TamSV
7. EssexDave

4 days so far, but out of the last 37 days I've only smoked over 6 of them. Just need to cut out those damn weekend fags!

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1. Appollo1
2. Sally
3. Hongman
4. Drew Carey
5. Bellerophon - gave up 12 weeks ago but still a relative newby to the "not smoking" thing.
6. TamSV
7. Benji106

Ill have another go at giving up, went about 6 weeks only having the odd smoke when down t'pub, but then Id get home and neck a beer so I had an excuse to have a ciggy :( as soon as I have finished this packet its all or nothing - no exceptions.

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YAY! :kiss:

Will text you a deal if you manage it! ;)

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Now my GF is smoking and I really want one :s

BUT I SHALL BE STRONG

I have no time to see the GP, too busy working :(

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Watching with interest,but my son has just walked through the door and given me 20X50g packets of baccy:smt120 from his hols in Greece.

New Year seems like a good time to think about it now

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well give him them back and say 'no i dont smoke any more' if you dont you have no will power and will never stop. there is never a right time or wrong time. do it now you old fart :D

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50 YEARS OF AN ADDICTION THAT IS ALLEDGEDLY WORSE THAN HEROIN may prove a bit of trouble for this old fart

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I keep giving it a go and during weekdays have cut back from 20-30 a day to 10. So that's a start

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50 years 10 years 5 years its all the same you either want to give up or you don't.

i done 28 years of smoking and i can honestly say that if it were not for the operation and the sights i seen in hospital i would still be smoking.

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been stopped for 2.5 years now, no gimmic, no gum, no inhaler, no micro tabs, just WANTED to stop.

Seriously, if you want to stop you really will, it gets less stressfull so it's not a hard slog all the way (i must admit the location Bear swore he would stick some croc clips did make me think twice too lol).

Best of luck and my full support to anyone who want's to stop!.

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How're folks getting on?

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Still working on it.:sad:

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Me too; 3 years out now. Just decided at one point to stop and did. I am a big believer that you can only give up if YOU really want to rather than pressure from friends, people telling you it's bad for you etc.

One of the biggest things you notice after giving up is how much people who smoke absolutely honk of stale smoke :o It's disgusting and I feel embarrassed that I ever subjected it to the people I sit with at work.

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Still not smoking. Don't really miss it either.

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Back on the fecking things.

10deck poverty packs, but as you know its the slippery slope.

Anybody tried/doing vaping? Still give you a good dunt?

Found a shop down the road from me doing starter kits.

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I stopped over a year ago after smoking 20+ a day for 20 years and wouldnt go back. I still have a puff about once a fortnight, but not tobacco of any sort ;)

Its nice to be able to smell and taste things properly again and i dont get coughs and colds in the winter like i used to. I dont miss coughing up gunk every morning either. I am much fitter and healthier all round. I eat more too, but not sure if this is a good thing :rolleyes:

Those that make excuses dont want to give up plain and simples. Those that do get it done. Good luck to those that are trying and dont give up giving up, it DOES get easier.

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no one likes a quiter
that is all

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I been stopped a good few years now and dont miss it.They do say you put on a bit of weight then lose it again.
Im still waiting on the losing it again bit.

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i'm bad i gave in to temptation. i was fed up of being fed up. i went from a 30'' waist to a 46'' waist in a year and when you are 5' feck all, it looks like you are a beached whale.

my temper was frayed i was agitated, miserable, argumentative and started drinking more. the pills i was on never helped the situation either. but i feel better now so i will stay smoking until such time i think i can give up.

yes i'm a failure but i'm a happier failure.

I'm waiting too, stopped September last year...

Don't miss it one bit...but I did want to stop and used patches for the first few weeks to take the edge off...

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I have been using the electronic cig for a while now.
www.totallywicked-eliquid.co.uk is the site i use and they are very good

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Strangely, I think I'm stopping. I'm a 40 a day man and I have no idea why but I think its time to stop. And I *bloody love* smoking, so have no idea where its coming from.

C

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I went on a night out 4.5 weeks ago, smoked like a chimney and haven't touched one since, cycling more and feeling better for it.

For some reason having no cravings and isn't bothering me this time.....touch wood!!! :D

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do it berlin i felt the benefit within a month or so. i wish i had never started again but hey ho such is life.

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I stopped smoking a couple of years ago, had a relapse and then discovered I had no cigars in the house on New Years Day, so rather than a resolution I decided to just not buy any more. The one smoke I can't get rid of is with a pint, so I've been on the wagon since Jan 1st too :(

I used to smoke 10-20 cafe creme a day, I am still craving badly, but it's under control - as somebody else said, I just don't want to smoke any more, nothing to do with what other people want.

Another thing I have found as an incentive, if you can do it, is to try and put away some of the money you would have spent on smokes and save it towards something you really want - whether that's a curry night with family or friends, or adding into the New Bike Fund, it is something that works for me.

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Like many others I bet, I quit loads of times. Sometimes just between fags, longest was 5 years. Each time cold turkey.

I used to still fancy a smoke every now and then as I associated smoking with happy times/de-stressing/relaxation/stopping boredom and generally enjoying smoking. I found even after 5 years I believed I was not 'cured' but just a smoker not smoking at that point in time.

I've not had a fag for 18 months now after reading Allen Carr's EasyWay book (not the chatty man Alan Carr!) which my GP suggested. Many people have heard of it as the author died of lung cancer but you can't undo the past, not to say changes can't improve the quality of life going forward.

The books is an interesting read. It's pretty simplistic in many ways (and if you insist on arguing with it you can, not that anyone benefits from that) but I found it does mostly make sense most of the time in the end.

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I am quiting 1 March.
Mostly I smoke at work but can go a week or more without them no problem away from work. So's just a habit.

Still may have a celebratory cigar on occasion.

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I woke up one day and decided I didn't want a cig. I had tried a few times, but always because somebody wanted me to stop.This time it was me.

That was 20 years ago. I have not touched one since.

I still get the odd stupid craving. something triggers that part of my brain and suddenly I get the urge, looking for that nanosecond rush you get of your very first drag of the day never to be repeated. But I know I wouldn't enjoy it and I don't need it so why bother.

My twin brother gave up after hypnotherapy. He reckoned patches etc didn't work for him. I think it cost about 50 quid at the time.

Oh and over the 20 years my trousers have had 4 inch on the waste. not saying it is due to stopping smoking, but theses days I am a foodaholic