sTOPPED SMOKING - WANNA COME TALK TO ME BEFORE I kill THE DOG?

[Tortington]

hiyA,

i think i am boring everyone i know on facebook - so i decided to join here instead. and bore you all silly.

i had to leave work early today as i couldnt concentrate. i had a nose bleedd this am, i can't sleep and i get headaches, my sinuses are filling up and im beginning with the coughing.

i've done this before - quit, i know i need to get past the three week mark and then hopefully it will al be ok. i started a new job two months ago and i haven't got smoking friends or triggers embedded so much - coming home in the car is difficult.

i wokred through dinner today - then left at 3pm as i couldn't stick it any longer. dinner will also be hard. - li'm planning to go to supermarket and buy myself things :D

but i really don't do well with being ill. you know that man flu everyone jokes about? well i'm a woman and i get that multiplied by 10

biggup to MR c who also gave up smoking - it is Mr c's second day.

i was really hanging on the 48 hour nicotine free thing - like it was a huge marker and if i could get past that then i could get past anything. i suppose my next countdown should be a full week.

so 4 days to go - midnight friday = one full week.

i am currently sweating so much that i am wiping away sweat tears

im going to walk the dog becuase i feel a bitshitty

please answer me

ty muchly custardo

lack of nicotine also means I can no longer type accurately

accurate typing is much overrated!
congratulations from us on quitting again, even if you cant tell anyone in real life. i told my team at work - worked there for a few months and they all said they didn't knew i smoked so that was a bit of a let down!

im liking your strategies skirmish - i reckon day 3 is the hardest it gets 100% better each day from now.

re the LCing, i lost 4 stone = once down to where i wanted to be i lc during the week and then do what i want 2 days a week, this keeps me within my acceptable LBs!

Hi tiger - come join us, though maybe steer clear of me, I'm just a tad grumpy today!!!

Is anyone else unbelievably tired?? Haven't had exceptionally late nights but my eyes will hardly open and feel like I've had 2hrs sleep! Did nicotine really keep me going that much??

Still want a fag- think half the problem is that I love smoking and didn't really want to give up, but knew I had to and there is never a good time, iykwim??

Anyway, off to do some shopping- avoiding the fag desk of course!

Think I'll give the low carb thing a go for a few days a week...only want to lose 1/2 stone so think cutting out the crap (seriously, if I gave up biscuits, the weight would prob just drop off!)...starting tomorrow of course!!!

Hello my fellow non smokers. Day 12 for me. On Champix but not sure whether they are actually doing anything or not? Still getting cravings and being a miserable bitch - anyone else had any experience of giving up with them? Not even having dreams which I am quite disappointed about?!! Wondering whether to stop them and just see what happens...?

I know what you mean about loving smoking. I did enjoy it (not all of them). Can't believe it will have been 2 whole weeks tomorrow.

Hi everyone. Really well done to you all!

Can I get some encouragement please? I'm 9 wks pg and HAVE to stop. I am currently on about 20 a day, and just can't seem to make the leap to not smoking, despite having patches at home. I am seeing the midwife who does smoking cessation tomorrow, followed by a family barbecue where my mum will literally kill me if she sees me with a fag, and I just know it's going to be so hard. The longest I ever went in the past was 4 days, and I'm so angry with myself that I started again. DP will be going for it too, as we will see the midwife together.

Help please!!

Hi Bam Bam. I reckon the hardest thing is deciding to stop. Pick a date and stick to it. Write a list of pros and cons and you will find there aren't many pros if any. Stick this on the wall to remind you. You have the best reason in the whole world to give up - a baby. I didn't manage to quit when I was pregnant with my two DCs and there is not a day goes by when i dont feel guilty and completely selfish about it. That was 14 years ago. The amount of time i have spent over those years either thinking about smoking or actually smoking is frightening. As a smoker you are always thinking about smoking or when you can get a chance to smoke.

Take the help the midwife offers - I was too embarrassed to admit to my midwife how many I actually smoked -so be honest.

I smoked 20 a day for 24 years and if I can manage 12 days without then anyone can.

The most important thing is you have to really want to do it. And you should really want to do it because you are growing a new life who has no choice.

Good luck

Thanks Dotty. It really is getting over that initial hurdle that frightens the hell out of me. I just know that I have to do it, and that's that.

Really well done on 12 days! So impressive!

Well it's day 20 in the big brother house and I managed a whole day without thinking about a fag until I read this thread

Well done to all you non smokers out there. I am really proud of us

Bam Bam, you can do it. You know you can do it. Do it for your baby

I loved smoking and even though I had heart attacks, asthma attacks, stinky clothes and house, nothing stopped me until my 25 year old son asked me to stop killing myself.

I never managed to do it for him when he was a baby, but this time I bloody well will.

and I killed the thread

You didn't kill it... I'm lying low...I fell off the wagon and smoked tonight... Please don't shout out me!!

Tomorrow it all starts again...

Skirmish did you inhale?

No shouting although I will admit to having nicotine envy

Start again in the morning but give me 20 press ups as punishment

Officially Day 22 in the Big Brother house

Good luck all you giving up.

I have to look at my Gran and my great aunt when I feel like smoking...Gran never smoked has amazing skin. My aunt who is 5 years younger and smokes has more lines than a....I dont know what has lots of lines?!

thaN a 1940's telephone exchange?

howdy peeps..............it's been three weeks people THREE WEEKS

how utterly awesome am i? i am utterly awesome.

drunk voddie last night and wanted one so bad - i wonder if that drunk = fag feeling ever goes away?

oh crikey .............. the smoking thread makes me want one......... note to self..... must resist..... must resist