to feel tempted to start smoking again after nine years without?

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If I stick to just two a day?

I feel tempted because I am stressed (dh was made redundant today) and because I want to lose weight.

Think of yourself as a non smoker and not an ex smoker.

I've always believed the way to get a woman to quit is to appeal to her vanity. So, smoking gives you:

1)stinky old man breath. Even if people don't say it they all think it.

2)Premature ageing - you can spot the face of a smoker a mile off. They all like wrinkled old crones with no colour or moisture in their face. 40 year old smokers look 50

3. yellow tomb stone teeth

4)chronic cellulite

5)yellow stained fingers

6. smelly hair and clothes. And stale smoke starts to smell of urine so smokers all end up smelling like they've pissed themselves.

......any help?

oh, sorry - i meant to mention Bachs rescue remedy. I suffer from anxiety and alot of that is financial pressures, so you have my sympathy there - bachs rescue remedy is far more calming than smoking.

YABVU
I have just watched my gran die from lung cancer. No mother would want to their children to watch them die like that.
On the last day she was alive she couldn't speak and was blind. She was so frightened.
Whenever I feel like smoking , I think of my Gran.

Don't do it. The number of people who are in denial about how much damage smoking does to their health is amazing. Read this story about a woman who had a heart attack at 39 and won't believe the consultant who tells her to quit because she 'only smokes 10 a day'. Any weight loss will be massively offset by the other health problems you're inviting. Plus, as others have said, you won't stop at 2 a day and it costs a fortune now! Worst thing possible if your DH is now redundant (sorry about that, hope something comes up)

HumphreyCobblers is right - unless you've been having the odd one regularly (which is not quite the same as giving up!), you will have to train your body how to smoke all over again and it will be gross.

Why invest all that time, pain and money in something that will enslave you and ruin your health & budget?

Nooooooooooo!

Don't do it. Deep down you probably know that you won't just have 2 a day and will end up on a 20 a day habit. Smoking a cigarette won't make things any easier to deal with.

Children of smokers are more likely to become smokers. What better reason do you need?