Smokers needing to convert please come ere

[charlietherednosedpussy]

At least you can type...why has your voice gone I was meant to type LOL

You in scratch mode this morning, cc?

I don't know. It started to grate on Friday afternoon, was worse yesterday and today ... gone!

I keep imagining throat cancer ... Punishment for years of smoking ... But that wouldn't be so sudden would it?

Ah well...at least your other half wont be able to hear you harping on LOL...nah...its shite, you dont realise how much you need your voice till it goes!
Hope it comes back soon

No I dont think so... Goodness me your morbid.

Cc, I always dread that all those years of smoking will creep up on me. I'm not generally morbid. Only when I think about the damage of smoking

I have my fingers crossed that we have stopped in time. I also have my fingers crossed that one day in my lifetime they will ban fags altogether.

I think it's the only way really cc. Hopefully our kids will look back on our generation of smokers and think 'why?'

Know what you mean Kleist.I quite often wake up in the morning with a tight chest and a sore throat as if I had smoked a pack of 20 before going to bed.It's been nearly 10 months since I've stopped!

Very worrying!

Hows everyone doing?

Lucy-where are you and what you up to for Christmas?

Hmmm ... that sounds as though your throat's getting dry in the night, drop. Do you think you're dehydrated when you go to bed? How's your red wine consumption?

Yes, what happened to Lucy? And em. And wm. Funny how they've just come and gone ... Especially em. I really thought she'd kick it in the end ...

And where oh where is that dang cat?!

I will be joining you soon - think I'll smoke my last on Christmas day (don't like "new year" resolutions are they always fail)

hope my last ones will be xmas day too.... especially if dad gets me Allen Carr like i asked! My dad is serious anti-smoking so i reckon im on to a winner there.

Is Christmas Day a good idea? I always needed loads more that day. Plus if you've got New Year's Eve plans to go out you might slide. Personally I'd recommend quitting at a totally ordinary day that you decide on and prepare for for a few weeks. Each fag you smoke before then, have a good think about it, is it worth it, etc. then just go for it at a time when you've got nothing to give you an excuse to slide!

ok, boxing day - give me a chance to read the book!

Hoping that if it works for me, DH will read it and it will work for him too.

I think, if I remember correctly, you're meant to read the book over a week or 10 days, so that would take you nicely into the New Year. I'd go for, say, 3 January or so if I was you! Get all the Christmas / New Year pressures over, then you can focus on it. Depends how addicted you are of course!

Just jumping in with dp is still off the fags. Being an utter c**t but still off the fags. Get motivating these new quitters kleist

I'm trying to be motivating, cc, is it working?

Is this the longest your dp's lasted then?

"Is Christmas Day a good idea? " - Yes it is

"I always needed loads more that day." - I tend to smoke less on days like that - too busy to go outside for one

" Plus if you've got New Year's Eve plans to go out you might slide." - no plans - at home as usual

"Personally I'd recommend quitting at a totally ordinary day that you decide on and prepare for for a few weeks." - yes been preparing for weeks

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Each fag you smoke before then, have a good think about it, is it worth it, etc. then just go for it at a time when you've got nothing to give you an excuse to slide! "

Already do - I've got plenty of excuses to let it slide - and can't see them disappearing any time soon - so Christmas Day it is (well Boxing Day as I'll smoke on Christmas Day).

Ok, HRH, whatever you think will work best for you ... I'm only making (un)helpful suggestions!

How many are you on? Can you cut back over the week before Christmas? It really helped me to cut from 10 to 5 or less in the week or so before I quit, made the initial cravings easier.

He lasted 3 months once...no probs but has spent the last 3 years chuffing away like a chimney working up to this quit. Has had other half days etc...one fag a day for a wek etc but this has been pure cold turkey yeeehaaa...

Too embarrassed to say how many i smoke, but can say im truly addicted.

Will see how i get on, just hope you lot will still be here when im crying/shaking/going insane when it does happen!

JandRmum...I was on 25-35 roll ups a day now im free ...dont be be honest

I totally agree with Kleist on picking a non-important day to quit! I chose National No Smoking Day!!!!

No, really-can you believe, I have always been adamant that I couldn't have stopped on a Monday but did it easily on a Wednesday!

Mental!

I stopped a week after my kids birthday. The realisation id been trying since the year before and was still chuffing was

I will be joining you all soon, just need to build up to it and get in my supply of patches and then there will be no stopping me. [glad]