Smokers/ex-smokers

[woopsidaisy]

Help,please! I did the Alan Carr smoking cessation clinic recently. Been off the cigs for 11 days...but I feel myself slipping.
I would love a fag!
I know I'm being unreasonable....someone talk me out of it....or into it!
Gah! Curse you cigarettes,I am your slave...

No you are not their slave!!!! Repeat 100 times pls while i compose the rest of my lecture post

Thank God,thank god,thank god....Bibi HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!

Your children.

My MIL died from lung cancer, my OH was quite young when it happened he has no mother our children are missing a nan.

My dad nearly died from a heart attack from smoking, it was a very worrying, stressful, upsetting time for me and my siblings as well as the rest of the family.

Don't give in, love your kids more than the fags.

Plus it stinks.

Thanks VivienScott.
I do know all this....but it is so hard.
The demptation is so strong at the minute...but I don't want to be a smoker anymore.
Except I still want to smoke.
I need help.

You have done 11 days the worst is behind you, if you start again now all your hard work will have gone to waste.

It is great to not be a slave to nicotene anymore, you won't have to worry about when you are going to have your next ciggy when you are at work, on a flight, out for the day with the kids..... and it costs a bloody fortune. Theres no pleasure in it anymore seeing as you can't even have a fag inside, so you have to stand outside in the rain.

When you smoke you always want a cigarette..... giving up you will want a cigarette for a while, then the feeling passes.

I would recommend the plastic inhalators, they are really good, but seeing as you have already done 11 days..... I think you should just keep going and good luck!

You don't want to smoke, you know how stupid it is. But the nicotine demons in your head, they want you to smoke, to feed them. Starve them! You're the one in control!

Its just a pang.

It will be gone in a couple of minutes.

Look up something funny on You Tube/do a crossword/lock yourself in the bathroom/eat and apple/drink a glass of water/order something on Amazon/clean out the cupboard under your sink.

Do any one of those and the craving will pass. It will.

Damn, ipod ran out of battery just as I finished a lenghty post. Mrs Scoob has put what I wanted to nearly word for word!!!

I was where you are nearly exactly a year ago (stealth brag) :) and I can honestly honestly say I don't miss it at all.

The freedom is wonderful also the extra oxygen comes in very handy during all sorts of activities nowadays :)

Well done for sticking with it so far - there really is no point going back.

Oh, and don't give up the vino if you indulge - unortodox tip but all the normal booklets etc tell you to avoid it in case it makes you want to smoke.

Trick is to drink enough to help you forget your craving......(joking of course)

Mmmh, think I might run some talks in my local village hall

Seriously though, what really helped me at this stage was to keep repeating to myself that I was trying to cure the cigarette craving with the cause of it i.e smoking cigarettes and creating a never ending circle.

Stay strong!!!!

My mums partner just died of emphesema (sp?) and it was not nice, he cloud barley breathe and it was catching a mear cold that triggered the attack that killed him. He had 2 children in there early 20's.

Dont dooooooo iiiitttttttt!

Also im an ex smoker,been off them for 4 yrs now and i feel sooooooo much better for it!

Keep up the good work and dont give in!

also you will smell really really bad

that should be he could barely breathe

Don't do it
I've just started reading Allen Carr and I'm really hoping it works. I'm tired of being a smoker and being addicted. I just wish my will power was stronger.
You are doing so well, you have done so well
Keep it up!

Hi Daisy, I am on my 10th day of no smoking and it has been no bother.... BUT tonight, I am the same, I would just love to go outside and light one up....STAY STRONG...it passes...big glass of water (or in my case glass of wine), running a bath, going to look out some photos for my sister, then going to lie in bed read a book, all diversionary tactics...

Remember, It stinks, have you noticed it yet, when someone comes in from smoking at work that it absolutely reeks, I just think surely I never smelt like that after a fag......em...yes I must have.....bleuh...

i am a reformed smoker six years and i still want one however i never want to give up again and that keeps me off them, that whole thing about your sense of taste and smell improving makes it worth while. that and the untold health benefits to your whole family, i still feel smug when i tick the non smoker option, don't cave, you can honestly do itxxx

Smokers SMELL.

You smell. You just don't know it. But everone thinks you smell. They talk about how bad you smell behind our back, too polite to say it to your face.

Once you've given up for a while you while realise how bad smokers smell.

(This is what helped me quit + my children.)

Don't give up giving up.

My Dad is dying of lung cancer right now. What he has had to go through in the past 5 months just to live for an extra 6 months or so is truly truly grim.

11 days is brilliant - and you're 11 days away from the nicotine monster so it's 11 days weaker...

I did the Alan Carr clinic (with the man himself!) 22 years ago and it works. Stay strong and remember that when you have a craving it only lasts a minute or so as someone said further up the thread. In the time it would take you to find a cigarette, the craving will be gone.

Did they do the thing at the end with you where you imagine yourself smoking a cigarette and it feels/tastes VILE? I found that really helpful.

Hang in there - and all the luck in the world. You can do it!

"when someone comes in from smoking at work that it absolutely reeks, I just think surely I never smelt like that after a fag......em...yes I must have.....bleuh..."

- unbelievable isn't it, I can smell a smoker a mile off now and I used to smell like that too

A book I read around the time I stopped also had some gems in it and one of the ones that stuck with me is that it's a luxury to be able to give up while there's still time i.e not seriously ill like emphesema as in thinbrides post.

Stick with it while you have the strength and health and determination to do so.

Crossposted with you there bibbitybobbityhat so sorry your dad is so ill :(

That's exactly what I meant with the whole 'do it while you can' message.

smokers cars sell for less
smokers houses sell for less
smokers clothes cannot be sold on ebay for good prices
smokers furniture is not wanted even by freecyclers
smokers stink

my neighbours took a parcel in for me.
It STANK after only a couple of hours. I had to wash my newly bought clothes
yuck, yuck, yuck.

Thanks so much ladies....I am all teary now....the craving just won't go away. It has been building for a day or so. I have been running and swimming today,and that bugger is still after me!
But I have listened to you all and will try to keep going.
I will keep going.
And hugs to all those who have shared sad stories.
Thank you.

all that money...... wasted

Please keep going - I have been 'clean' from cigs for 4 years and I'll be honest, I do fancy one every now and then but I never do it and I feel
A million times better for giving them up and I don't feel scared and guilty because I am not still doing something that can kill me. It is one of the best things you can do. Just take it a day at a time. I tell myself I'll have one when I'm 90 if I still have a fancy for one then! Lol

Keep going x
Look at smokers and see how awful it is to be addicted to the nasty smelly stuff!

I used to keep going by telling myself that a bit of paper and a few leaves couldn't beat me and I was stronger than it. I've given up for 21 years now.