Quitting cigarettes

I wish you all the best with your efforts to kick the weed, if at first you don't succeed try try again, literally.

It will be four years come February since i last had a cigarette, i had stopped before on a couple of occasions but secumed to temptation, this time however i guess the time must have been just right for me to stop & to be honest i have found it quite easy.
The only advice i will give is to only worry about one thing at a time, concentrate on stopping smoking first, then once you are sure you have beaten it start to look at loosing the weight you will most likely have put on, i left it three years.

Now that i have a bit more wind in my sails so to speak i have started a bit of running (which makes me feel good) + i have started to learn to swim (which i had promised myself i would do for ages) & have got my weight back down to 11st 11lbs, my old weight when i smoked was 11st 7lbs so i am almost there, also the money that would have just gone up in smoke paid for my last bike & is currently paying for my Tiger.

[Bibio]

want to stop smoking?

go to your local hospital and ask to see a patient who has had a by-pass opp gone wrong (sternum had to be 'plated and bolted' up because wire broke) trust me you will give up there and then, i did. one of the scariest sights i have ever seen its like something straight out a good horror movie (btw it wasn't me, mine is fine).

the temptation is getting to me but as yet i haven't 'caved in'. i enjoyed my 20-30 a day habit but to tell the truth i feel better for not smoking or is it because of the by-pass god knows, the money i'm saving is nice though. my kids are also very greatfull....

[Bri w]

I too have managed to quit the running (age helps) but unfortunately haven't managed to take up smoking yet - 1 divorce almost managed to drive me there...

[mister c]

Bear with me on this, it's turning into War & Peace, sorry
Take this from someone that smoked for a very long time.
I started at the age of 12, thinking I was a big hard nut & tried unsuccessfully to quit a few times. People that haven't smoked cant understand how difficult it really is, but, with willpower you CAN do it.
I was thinking a couple of years ago to pack in for the sake of a girl I was seeing at the time who didn't smoke, but kept putting it off (the little gremlins in my head telling me that cigarettes were the thing I really wanted).
As you know Ed, I had a bad crash on the road & ended up in Hospital for 2 weeks. I wasn't with it for the 1st week, but in week 2 I was on a normal ward, but didn't want a cigarette because I knew I couldn't have one.
When I came out of Hospital, I thought to myself that I hadn't had a fag for 2 weeks, so why did I need one now? & didn't bother.
It has been the hardest thing I have EVER done & still wanted a cigarette a year later, but Kept saying "why? you haven't needed one for so long", so haven't bothered.
It is all down, in my eyes, to NOT WANTING to smoke. Dont kid yourself & say that you want to give up if you dont, it wont work.
It will be 2 years in January since I gave up & I'm really pleased I did & I dont want a fag anymore, so the pangs will go away eventually.
Good luck to you mate if you succeed

this is where i think im lucky, i have smoked befor for a few months and just stoped one day, no cravings nothing was strange but there again i never realy had craving for fags and was more of a fit in at school thing, but was afecting my astma so maybe because i knew it would kill me at some point i was in the perfect mindset to stop hence no cravings :/

Time for a quit smoking thread?

Ed, if you really want to give up i would suggest the following, enrol Ann on a how to tell if your merc has a flat tyre course, always keep it full of Diesel, put solid rubber tyres on it, always carry wet weather gear and a set of jump leads.

Daryl

Originally Posted by timwilky

Preaching with all the venom of an ex smoker. Giving up is easy. You simply stop. But you need to want to. near on 17 years since my last, I can remember being proud at 1 day, 2 days, 1 week, month year etc.

however, even now I still get the occasional craving.

Stay strong, focused etc. Beer is the equivalent of a bacon butty for wavering vegetarians.

Not a common theme mr wilky but I couldnt agree with you more

I tried a couple of times (for the other half) always reverted back to the cigs.

Then last new years, credit crunsh looming funds tightening up and generally feeling quite unfit. Decided f**k it! no more leave them in 2008, never looked back. The craving is there the occasional desire to ask one of the lads down the local if they have a spare cig. But 5mins later and the feeling passes.

If you want to quit you'll quit, if your weak and your head isnt in it its not worth putting yourself through the sleepless nights and diorrea.

Ed, i really do hope you can stay away from smokes, they are terribly bad.
I preach to everyone i know that smokes.

My Dad died aged 52 with lung cancer in 1978, i was 7, had a lung removed 3 years previously.
My mother died 2002, aged 65, same thing, lung removed 18 months previously.
Both moderate smokers in early days, backed off in later life but not stopped.

Didnt see much of my dads illness but seen my mothers a lot more, i challenge anybody to go through what my family or any other family with similar things went through to smoke again after that.

Best of luck, im sure you'll do it as you sound like you got it mentally and that, im told is half the battle.


Phil

[Bri w]

Originally Posted by specialone

Ed, i really do hope you can stay away from smokes, they are terribly bad.
I preach to everyone i know that smokes.

My Dad died aged 52 with lung cancer in 1978, i was 7, had a lung removed 3 years previously.
My mother died 2002, aged 65, same thing, lung removed 18 months previously.
Both moderate smokers in early days, backed off in later life but not stopped.

Phil

Ed, I dare say there are any number of orgers who could pen something like this.

My Dad died in 2004, horribly.

The mother in law had a severe resp attack 14 mths ago, has brain damage and is now a '5 yr old' handful.

Mum died 1st June, very very horribly - and I got a front row seat for the final few minutes.

All from smoking.

Seriously matey, if you can manage it don't put your kids thro' it.

Sorry for the melodrama but it is what it is.