I need your help to stop smoking. Tell me the horror stories!

[Rhony]

I've stopped smoking. As of right now. I know it will be hard, but I have to do this for my son, and for myself.

I am hoping to have a bank of aversions to help me when I have a craving. Can you help me? What are your horror stories?

I have been reading this with interest as i have been using smoking as a crutch for too long and quite frankly i am so fucked off with it
You always find ways to rationalize it to yourself as with any addiction i guess.

Believeitornot

Thats done it for me, finished, thank you

OP, do you shower each day? Why? Because you don't wish other people to smell your body odour.
So, why would you contemplate them backing away from you because you stink of smoke? Your house smells of smoke. Your car does.
And when your ds goes to school, his teachers will smell stale smoke on his clothes and when they open his book bag.

Do you want people thinking ill of your personal hygiene?

I have just been in hospital to have an emergency operation. The risk factor for smokers was HUGE - it SHOULD be enough to keep you off the cigarettes.

All smokers smell. No matter what they think.

You may have done some irreparable damage, but a lot of the damage can be reversed and you can avoid further damage. It’s FAR from pointless giving up now.

You can do it and stay off them this time 💐

My lovely dad smoked from the age of 13 until he was killed by a heart attack from the strain on his system caused by advanced COPD in his early 70s. He had been in the medical profession all his life - he knew what was coming. Him and Mum had been planning to do so much when they retired.

I will never forget Mum crying, "Oh, no, DP - not like this. Please, not like this." as the paramedics worked on him.

My dad smoked 40+ cigarettes per day. He lost his vocal chords to cancer, which as it spread to other organs meant that he was doubly incontinent. He was in his 60s when he died.

I am truly thankful to all those that have contributed to this thread. I feel very humbled at how honest and open you have all been. Thank you. I have screen shot a few posts that have particularly struck a chord with me. I will revisit them when I have a craving.

You have all helped me, and will continue to help me, to be the best mum I can be to my son. Thank you. He is the light in my life and I can't play Russian roulette with my time with him anymore.

Day two and no cigarettes

Great news OP! WELL DONE!

Put your fag money in a jar and treat yourself at the end of the week or month. We're all here to help you kick this habit

I sat by my mothers bedside, tears flowing and not stopping, whilst she was on a ventilator wishing if only she never smoked.
Seeing her struggle to breath and live is dreadful

You can do this op. Well done on taking the first steps. You're a

This guy came into my work once and instead of a hand he had a horrible yellow claw.

A old colleague of mine has terminal lung cancer, he has months to live, he has three kids under 7 - he is 40

Well done OP! Tomorrow, most of the nicotine will be out of your system.

Well done op keep it up, keep us updated.

Awesome Rhony

I totally think you're entitled to spend what you would have spent on smoking this week on a treat for yourself at the weekend.

Thank you so much for this thread!!!
I'm done!! I've been using smoking as a crutch since my brother died and I'm done, as of right now!

Well done!

I too recommend Allen Carr’s book, I finished reading it, put out my last rollie and that was over 10 years ago.

I had no real withdrawal, was out at the pub the day I stopped, and never looked back.

The bliss of not being tied to that next fag stop is amazing.

This list also helped - what happens to your body when you stop smoking...

whyquit.com/whyquit/A_Benefits_Time_Table.html

If you are on day 2 / 24 hours

• Anxieties have peaked in intensity and within two weeks should return to near pre-cessation levels.

Stick with it OP, bottom line is it will kill you, and it won’t be pleasant

Well done, and well done to all the new ex-smokers! Honestly this is an amazing thing - there is literally no downside to not being addicted to cigarettes!

This video.

Rhony

My dad didn't give up smoking, but he did try to see how long he could go without a cigarette.

He is now at 40+ years.

It's a good way to go because you never 'fail'. If you have one cigarette after a day, you have not failed to give up, you have just found out you can go a day without, so you then see if you can go 2 days.

Obviously if you have stopped and are coping don't light up just because.

If you have given up before then you know what I am going to say, but you might not remember it.

You will feel worse before you feel better. One effect of smoking is that the hair cells that are lining the air tubes are paralysed, stopping smoking 'wakes' them and they suddenly start to get rid of all the gunge which makes you cough and what you cough up will be nasty.

It's usually at its worst in week two, but by 4 weeks you will stop coughing.

Just popping back to the thread to keep it going and to say I gave up Monday. So far so good...

Good for you Sleep. You’re not giving up anything, you’re getting back so much.

My grandad died in his early 60s, when I was about 12, from lung cancer. I loved him to bits and all my family missed him for years afterwards.

I never met my mother-in-law because she died aged 48 from tumours secondary to the ones in her lungs. I met my now husband three years later. She was nursed by my husband and his dad day and night. I have seen pictures of her, our daughter is the actual spitting image of her.

I never took up smoking because of my grandad. My father in law still smokes and none of us like it.

Such a powerful thread.
Day one for me starting from now.