Day one of no smoking, hit me with your success stories!

[Somuchroom]

I’m on day one of no smoking and feeling insanely positive. I imagine later on in the day I’m going to crumble. To all you who have given up please tell me how great you feel now so I can read back when I’m struggling. Thank you!!!

Quit 4 years ago, I put a pound in a jar for each day cigarette free and after a year I had enough for a holiday

Just checking in! I’m on day 4 of no patches. Yey!!! I forgot to put one on and by the time I realised (I was quite snappy) I figured might as well cold turkey it. I’ve saved £260 also, well I’ve spend £260 on treats for myself .
I feel great. I got a cold and it’s the first time I didn’t get sinusitis to go along with it. I retained my sense of taste and smell.
How are you all doing?

Again a massive thank you to all the posters. It’s really helped me having this thread to read through. By the time I read it the craving had passed. Now the cravings are few and far between.

Congrats! I've passed 3 months now, DH joined me last month and we're both going strong with it. I hardly think about it anymore and I no longer associate it with anything. I still miss it at times but I don't crave it and the money saved + health benefits are more than enough to say no if I was offered one.

I think cold turkey is actually easier. At least that way the physical addiction is dealt with nice and quickly. With nicotine replacement you need extra will power to keep you from giving in because you are still addicted. Plus there’s that feeling that ‘just having one’ won’t be a big deal whereas when you’re going cold turkey having ‘just one’ means you go right back to the beginning of withdrawal.

Read the Allan Carr book just in case it helps.

And remember when you get the urge for a cigarette it might feel like it lasts forever but actually if you distract yourself it passes pretty quickly. And those urges get further and further apart over time.

Good luck!

Well done OP! One of the very best things you can ever do for yourself.
I haven't had a puff for 5 years and was truly surprised it wasn't harder to go cold turkey (and I have an addictive personality). Sure I missed smoking every day for a few minutes, esp with coffee or after spicy food. Then just missing it at fleeting moments, now never.
My kids are older now and I would hate to smoke around them, or in secret. Skin is better, health is better, wallet is fatter and everything tastes better.

Trying not to drink alcohol because then I really wanted to smoke.

Reading those timelines of the benefits of stopping smoking. They tell you how your body is benefiting after 20 minutes, 24 hours, a week, a month, ten years etc. I read those so many times because I found them really encouraging!

I hope you don't mind, but if like to share a story about not smoking.

Ten years ago, I was diagnosed with lung cancer. I was a smoker. The hardest thing I've ever, ever had to do was to tell my daughter and my very frail mother that, because of my own stupidity and selfishness there was every chance i would die in the next year or so. I willnever, ever forget their faces and my feelings of the selfish act I carried on by continuing to smoke when the health implications were clear.

I'm one of the lucky ones (13 of those diagnosed survive for five plus years).

I stoped, cold turkey the day of the diagnosis (stable doors and horses spring to mind). So it was that easy. But it took my seeing the pain of those i loved most to get me to realise that.

If my sorry story of selfishness encourages you (or anyone) to stop smoking for even one more day, it will all have been worth it, constant back ache and reduced lung function included.

I gave up for 4 years when I got pregnant. Don't make the mistake that I did when I had a cigarette because I thought after so many years I could take it or leave it. I was soon hooked again. I gave up again 15 years ago and without the incentive of being pregnant it was extremely hard and I did go back to it briefly and sneakily a few times. I did kick it though and literally if I can then anyone can. Best thing for me personally is that I don't stink anymore. Smokers smell horrible and there is no way of getting round that.
I felt completely ashamed of putting that stench over my small children and felt my relatives recoiled involuntarily when I had had a cigarette. I love that I don't have that anymore.

@Somuchroom well done!! I'm now 4 weeks off them. Puffing away on a vaping thing and feeling proud of myself. I'm only wearing patches sporadically as sometimes I forget and the odd day I feel I need them. If I'm being very Honest I could count on my fingers the times I've felt wobbly. Your post just came along at the right time to spur me on, thank you!! 💕

2 months and 18 days, I'm feeling so much better and i'm a lot better off but my goodness I can smell the stink of it on other people now, think I'm going to be the worst anti smoker ever. It feels good when my sons tell me how proud of me they are x

I went cold turkey too x

Well done op, I went cold turkey 7 years ago and I haven’t had a puff since. Dh went cold turkey almost 3 years ago and hasn’t looked back. It’ll be the best thing you’ve ever done

How are all the recent quitters doing? Does anyone actually feel physically better? I'm still not smoking no patches but am vaping. Can't say I feel healthier mind...may have put on a half stone nibbling too 😭

Cold turkey and ALLAN CARR easy way. It's the best book ever

It's 8 months for me. Cold turkey. Had a minor blip on NYE but nothing since. I can now go days without any cravings or even thinking about smoking. Physically, I don't feel any better but I know giving up is for the best.
Now if I could just conquer my addiction to shit food!!

I gave up smoking 30 years ago (after I left uni) I've never had another puff and it's now as if I never smoked at all. I know I didn't smoke for many years before I gave up but it's so worth it.

The charts that show how your body starts to repair itself are very motivating. This link is quite a good one
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317956.php

Well done by the way!

I quit 3 years ago, went cold turkey. Tbh I never struggled to stop smoking. But if someone told me I had to stop eating bread cold turkey? There would be murder

I had to go cold turkey, had a chest infection. That was in 2009. I thought, 'I haven't had a fag for a week, lets see how long I can go.' Also, all the coughing from the infection spurred me on. I didn't want to end up coughing like that permanently and having no choice about it. Instead of saying, 'I'm giving up smoking,' I would tell myself, "I'm not giving up, I just don't want one right now.'
Definitely put aside the money you are saving. It will really surprise you! Also, when you no longer smoke, you don't have to decorate so often! I redecorated after stopping. All the nicotine on the wall, celling, and in the furniture was disgusting. I thought, 'If it looks like that on the wall, what does it look like inside my lungs?!' (I had a test done by the asthma nurse after quitting and despite smoking heavily for over 15 years I my lungs were only ten years older than me.)

Very good luck to you, you can do this! You'll breathe so much easier, taste things, won't smell horrible...Well done you on becoming a non-smoker!