Giving up!!

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

If you are fully committed then bin the silly patches and the fake fag, and go cold turkey. Determination is what will make you give up.

+1

I gave up 5 years ago in a moment of rage. You either give up or you don't. Isolate yourself from smokers for the first week or two to make it easier on you.

[Bri w]

Good on yer matey.

Stick at it.

Originally Posted by appollo1

I completely agree that it is the habit but I feel better having something that is less poisonous to my body that will help me stop.

Also my prescritions are free so i may as well take advantage of what is on offer.

Originally Posted by Bibio

supose patches are ok but then you just get hooked on the patches, its the nicotine you are trying to give up, the smoking bit is just a habit which is the easy bit

That's why I've never understood patches, it's like trying to give up smoking heroin, by injecting it instead

The nicotine habit is hellish to break, but if you go cold turkey, it only takes about a week to 10 days of ripping your hair out, before your body adjusts.

After that it's the habit, such as after meals, in the car, breaks at work, etc. That takes a lot longer to break and I'd go as far as saying it never leaves you. 10 years after I stopped and I still crave a cigarette when sitting in the sunshine with a beer. Every so often when I come to a halt in a traffic jam, I find myself subconsciously looking at the storage pockets in the dash, and on the passenger seat, sometimes even in the glovebox, then I think "what the hell am I looking for?", then it dawns on me that I was looking for a cigarette packet and a lighter.

BTW, throw out any fags you have left in the house, and as someone said already avoid other smokers, then you only need willpower when you go to the shops.

[Bibio]

That's why I've never understood patches, it's like trying to give up smoking heroin, by injecting it instead yup totally agree, i'm sure its the fag company's who make the patches.

The nicotine habit is hellish to break, but if you go cold turkey, it only takes about a week to 10 days of ripping your hair out, before your body adjusts. funny i never had that part, mind you i was in hospital.

After that it's the habit, such as after meals, in the car, breaks at work, etc. That takes a lot longer to break and I'd go as far as saying it never leaves you. 10 years after I stopped and I still crave a cigarette when sitting in the sunshine with a beer. Every so often when I come to a halt in a traffic jam, I find myself subconsciously looking at the storage pockets in the dash, and on the passenger seat, sometimes even in the glovebox, then I think "what the hell am I looking for?", then it dawns on me that I was looking for a cigarette packet and a lighter. this is where the boiled sweets/chewing gum comes in. 'ooohhh look there's a nice sweet instead'.

BTW, throw out any fags you have left in the house, and as someone said already avoid other smokers, then you only need willpower when you go to the shops. being next to people smoking never bothered me and still doesn't.

i may have given up the fags for the moment but that's not to say i might start again in the future. so far i have been on long drives and in the pub and have craved a fag something awful but the craving goes away a lot quicker than when i first stopped. as Ralph says the craving never goes away its just a matter of controlling it.

Well done Apollo! Never been a smoker, but hear hypnotherapy is a great thing to stop the craving [not touched bread for almost two years thanks to it] Dx

Good call!!

Stick in at it, if the patches and stuff work for you then good, anything that helps.

I vividly remember telling my dad to stop smoking when I was about 8. It's what we girls do, preparing for a life time of keeping men under the thumb!


Just mean we need to rely on Grant to keep the midges at bay at GM4!

never smoked in my life, but as I play bowls (yes, granda sport, hardy har...) i inhale smoke from a lot of the people who play, and I HATE it...

congrats on the decision and I wish you all the very best with it , keep us update on how its going week to week

Iv wanted to give up for a while but my gf smokes and has nonreal intention of giving up.

Just don't think I can handle it with her puffing away round me!

Congrats on the descision - hope it goes well!

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

I still crave a cigarette when sitting in the sunshine with a beer.

Heh, I feel this, and I don't even smoke!

As I understand it the nicotine is what makes us addicted to the product but on it's own that wont kill us, it's all the other **** in fags that does that! The patches and inhaler didn't work for me but the nicorette gum worked a treat! Good luck try some chewing gum if all else fails.