To start smoking again

[Jen00X]

I know it is politically correct to say I hate smoking but I liked it! I miss my coffee and cigarette in front of the TV, I miss the taste of it.

I gave up three years ago to give a good example to my daughters but I have piled on weight, I do not feel any fitter, I think I am more stressed (well I am at the moment) and I am no better off as snacks and new clothes are costing more.

It all started last week, someone dropped a new unopened packet and I picked it up. Suddenly I had this great desire to keep it, but I caught up with the woman and gave it back to her.

Now I am having to work late and having a massive craving, far greater then I ever had when I first quit

And AND I look younger than most of the non-smoker purist wank bags I know.

My mouth is much less pissed off.

You've "piled on weight" and "don't feel any fitter" largely because you've not done much (if any) exercise. And another reason you "don't feel fitter" is because you probably haven't yet noticeably damaged your health through smoking.

And smoking doesn't taste good, the relief of the addiction tricks you into thinking it does. You should be well over cravings and snacking after a few weeks, let alone 3 years!

My advice would be to exercise more, it'll put your body right off the idea.

I guarantee if you start again (I had 2 failed attempts at quitting), you'll regret it within 10 cigarettes, too late then!

There's no way I'm ever smoking again, the thought of paying several hundreds of pounds a year to the Government and faceless corporations to kill me is reason enough!

Yer probably going to die anyway moonferret.

Aren't you?

WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE.

REALLY.

IF STEVE JOBS DOES. SO DO WE.

Well done though if you think you're not.

DIES.

I know i am going to die

but i don't want to spend the last few years of my life asthmatic, and with emphysema, unable to play with my grandchildren, then getting lung cancer, suffering with chemo and ending up skeletal and bedridden, as has happened to my mil

the way she has suffered is awful

i can't insulate myself from future suffering or death - terrible diseases happen to people who do all the 'right' things

but i'll be damned if i deliberately choose to do things that make terrible diseases a more likely possibility

I am not a smoker but watching FIL wheezing and spluttering through his last years with his cylinder of oxygen next to his chair was a salutory lesson. He died when DS was only 1yrs old and dd was 3yrs. He adored them but missed the chance to see what fantastic children they have grown into.

Not to mention the fact that you will smell foul and set a horrible example to your children - picture one of them with a fag in their mouths. Like it?

Right now, lecture over! You have done SOOOoooooo well, don't undo all the great work now. You may not feel better now but I promise you won't feel better once you re-start (after the initial rush so eloquently and helpfully described by garlic). You obviously have amazing strength and resolve to have given up in the first place, don't put yourself at the bottom of a mountain to climb again when you are already at the top, you can do it!

EXERCISE.

You need a new high.

Gym? Running? Even bouncing on the bed would be a start.

You'll soon start to feel fitter and slimmer and the thought of being a smoky reeky old thing will seem far less alluring!

Go for it!!

Don't be bloody ridiculous

Read Allen Carr's book if you really are considering this

It's a horrible trap and if you jump back in it with your eyes open you are a fool

Do you want your DD's looking after you when you have to have a lung cut out at 60? Or smoking themselves?

ok let me start by saying that i'm not a smoker and none of my family or friends smoke so i can't claim to understand the addiction side of things. however, i had to watch my mum battle with cancer when i was 10 and my father died of cancer recently whilst i'm in my early twenties. yes i know this proves that you can get cancer or get ill anyway, but by smoking you are dramatically risking the odds of your kids having to experience such heartbreak whilst they were young. i remember finding out my mum had cancer and having to go and visit her in hospital at such a young age and seeing how unwell she looked, it was such a gut-wrenching feeling and no child should have to experience that. and even now i'm in my early twenties it's horrible seeing other people your age out with their parents at restaurants and knowing everyone else still has their dad but you. again, there is always the cance of this happening anyway, but dramatically risking the chances of your children going through this is just selfish imo. my parents felt really guilty for what me and my sister went through, and they didn't do anything wrong, how would you feel? also, how would you feel knowing that your kids are likely to be angry with you for putting them through this for the sake of cigarettes (i'm sorry but i have known a lot of people who this has been the case for). also, i'm not sure if you still have your parents, but how do you think it would feel for them if you died before them! i really hope you think about your children first, even if it does mean ptting on a few pounds.

YANBU to miss it, YANBU to have cravings (you'll probably have them every so often forever) BUT YWBVU if you started again... you know that though huh?

Ditch the snacks, snacks aren't cigs. Get exercising. Over time you'll feel better, you'll have to, I NEED you to, because I smoke and am trying to quit (and failing) and terrified of gaining weight and not feeling more healthy!!

Please be that success story that will inspire me to give up my much loved smokes!

Oh you bastards, the lot of you.

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I read the allen carr book, made total sense but i was still a bit chicken to quit on my own, so i had a session of hypnosis.

i have never, ever had a craving desire or curiosity to smoke since, really

i smoked since the age of 13, pack a day from 16 until i was 31. whenever i'd had to go more than 3 hours without a fag i'd get twitchy, shaky, snappy, etc, like many smokers

the best day of my life (aside from childbirth marriage) was realising that i didn't need to do that shit anymore, what a relief :)

Picture telling your DDs that you have got lung cancer and you are going to die.

THAT stops me from starting again.

I have just started running after 10 years of doing no exercise (other than having and running round after 4DCs), and feel amazing after only one week. Achey, but amazing.

3 years is brilliant. I haven't smoked (every day) for years but I STILL can't resist the odd few every 6 months or so on a big night out, so I KNOW how bloody hard it is. But you will regret it.

I've quit this weeking, 5 days and counting. I REALLY wanted one last night because I got upset about something, but I didn't have one. It helped me to try and think it through rationally - I only want one to help me "deal" with the upset, instead I had to man up and face how I felt and get over it instead of having a fag and pretending I was ok like I usually would.

To avoid the "fat trap" I am exercising - it helps me to go straight to the gym from work as that was my prime cig time - get in, have a brew and a cig. The usual times I'd smoke I keep myself busy doing other things which helps me avoid the snack trap.

My DF's dad developed an addiction to sweet things to replace the habit and has had to give them up it got so bad he nearly had diabetes :0

i can see where the op is coming from, i gave up about three years too and have put on weight and 'feel' more stressed etc. BUT i will never go back to being a slave to those cigarettes and they cost tons more now! it's also so nice not to have that awful bob flemming cough (isn't that worth it alone op?)

as an aside i have started the 30 day shred (again) and am feeling fitter alrealy only just after a week.

putting on weight also could be caused by other things rather than giving up the fags. Also food tastes so much nicer don't you think? (that's probably another reason why you're putting on weight!)

my skin looks 100% better since i quit too, now way am i going back. Well done loveglove keep at it! i also developed a sweet addiction which has caused me teeth troubles but even that is worth it.

End stage emphysema combined with double above the knee amputation due to circulatory failure? Killed my grandfather two weeks before his dearly longed for (no girls in the family for generations) granddaughter arrived. Damn well nearly broke my dads heart, and his brothers.
Is that what you want for your kids? Or should you keep setting a good example for them?

loveglove, I'm on Day 7 and like you, I very nearly caved last night, was crawling out of my skin for a fag. I was only a 1-2 a day smoker, always in the evening after dinner and I find that I'm craving a fab while eating my dinner . I'm using NiQuitin Minis - little minty tablets that you dissolve on your tongue when you crave a fag. I really like them, they sort my cravings within a couple of minutes. I'm trying to keep busy in the evenings too - my nails have never looked so polished! I think my skin is looking better and teeth slighly whiter already. Do you find the thought of never ever having a fag again really scary? I do

Allen Carr for me too, nearly 10 years now. I am STILL so thankful I don't smoke. I know everyone's different but most smokers look a bit 'grey' IMO.

I still occasionally fancy a smoke and quite like the smell of fresh smoke as someone lights up near me but it's more of a nostalgic memory than a craving.

I have a regular recurring dream where I'm smoking again. I always wake up massively relieved that I'm not and I reckon it keeps me on the straight and narrow.

Lastly, there is absolutely no way your current stress levels, weight or lack of fitness are to do with you giving up smoking 3 years ago. You know that though don't you?

I am on day 22 of no smoking. I tried Allan Carr and didn't really do anything for me. I am taking Champix and apart from the odd dreams, I've had no side effects.
I don't miss the smoking per se, but I do feel there's something missing. I started when I was 12 and am now 47, that is 35 years of dedicated smoking.
In that three weeks, I had one ciggy. I was out with DD and she was whinging and whining and generally being a pain in the arse. I paid a man £3 for one. It was better than punching her in the face.
I didn't enjoy it.
OP, keep at it.

I must add, I wouldn't really punch her in the face.

I should probably add that I am an ex smoker too. Gave up for IVF and it seems to have stuck. All my friends smoke socially so i do feel a bit left out sometimes but I think it's pretty worth it.

You paid a man £3 for one??????

What a twat - he made you pay three pounds?

I'd punch him in the face for blatant piss-taking.

I read two pages of Allan Carr & felt like going round & punching him in the face too.

Then I had a fag & felt much calmer.

Anyway - NONE OF YOU LISTEN TO ME.

Keep it up, you're all doing great, really, I gave up fpr half an hour once. It nearly killed me.

I had a heart attack - fortunately not very serious - and stopped smoking. I was like you OP - I MISSED it, I resented having to stop, it was hell, so I started again a year later. Then I had a big heart attack and died twice on the living room floor, in front of my DH and four of our five children. The ambulance people lined the DCS up and said "Say goodbye to mummy" while I lay there wired to the heart zapper machine. I was REALLY lucky that they saved me. PLEASE don't start again after you've been stopped for three years.