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Lozenges worked for me but don't get Charlie on the subject of NRT!!!

whyquit.com.........for all you new quitters

Hi its me again Day ONE today of no fags and I Seriously feel so good and excited!!! All the stress I have in a normal day is still here-Cigarettes are such an allusion,I adore Allen Carr,not sure how i will be feeling tomorrow after 2 such long quits in the past(remember 3 years stopped then 18 months stopped so 3rd time lucky maybe)ONLY PROBLEM i can really see is my dp smokes!!!!!!!!!!

I quit last new year and haven't smoked since. I used patches - are any of you going to use NRT?

I have tried the patches,they made me feel very ill,maybe I was overdosing on Nicotine.Right now I am Cold Turkey

Well done notasheep..your dps fags are the same as the fags in the corner shop...not for you now
My dp has been smoking up to a few days ago, as has my mum and my best mate and ive still got here..

Stay turkeying...its the best way. Once the nicotine has went out of your system your free. Its then up to you to keep nicotine free.
If you patch/lozenge or whatever it keeps you hooked to nicotine, which is what your trying to get away from

CTHRNP,Thanks for your fantastic support,I am on a bit of a wild kind of high this evening,and I havent had anything else!!Cold Turkey Rules OK,I think the nicotine is gone in days? its controlling your brain that needs to continue!! I AM SO ANGRY THAT i HAVE BEEN SUCH A MUG!

I found the patches took the edge off and helped me quit. I'm so glad we both don't smoke now though.
We had a phone call 2 weeks ago with news that DH's stepmum had been diagnosed with lung cancer and only had 9-12 months left to live - She died Friday morning and we didn't have chance to say goodbye

BR I dread that sort of phonecall about me dp my mum ...arrgggghhhhhh
Notasheep...get reading here to equip your brain with lots of non smoking thoughts
Some folk even say they can relish in the nicotine withdrawel process.. you can but try

You are a nicotine addict. Plain and simple you are a drug addict and your drug of choice is nicotine. You don't smoke cigarettes because you like the way they taste, you like the way cigarettes taste because you are addicted to nicotine.

You don't inhale hot, acrid, particulate carcinogens because you have a death wish, you smoke despite the warnings because it is a very efficient nicotine delivery method - You are very impatient when it comes to getting your fix.

You don't wake up each morning unable to function until you have had a few cigarettes and coffee because you need nicotine and caffeine to survive, you are slowly diminishing your ability to survive with the tortuous cycle of nicotine and caffeine highs and lows that you put your body through - The more you smoke, the more you need to smoke (That is known as developing a tolerance, one of the tests for whether a substance is addictive.)

If you are a visitor here or are in the first few days of withdrawl from nicotine waiting to apply for membership, know this: It gets much better and it gets much easier.

Life without nicotine is not a sacrifice, it is freedom from the death sentence you are serving voluntarily. Life without cigarettes is not difficult, it is an infinitely easier and healthier existence. While in the first few days of withdrawl, the relief you are seeking from the cravings lies not in smoking a cigarette to reinforce your addiction, but in denying yourself that short term relief in favor of a life free of the bondage of hourly feeding cycles through a delivery device that has a 50 / 50 chance of ending your life early and if it does not, will over time, significantly diminish the quality of the life you live.

You smoke by choice. Decide that you can live without nicotine and you can. Decide that you are hopelessly addicted and you are. Never believe for a second that you are smoking due to circumstance, stress or habit. You smoke because you are a nicotine addict. Choose to never take another puff and you choose freedom. Choose freedom and you choose life.

from whyquit.com

Just stumbled across this thread. I'm an ex-smoker- I gave up about 8 years ago much to the amazement of friends who said "I thought you'd be the last person on the planet to give up"! I used to have emergency cigarettes everywhere as I was terified of running out etc

I just wanted to say good luck, stick with the giving up -it feels so good to be free of cigarettes. Its worth it, I promise you.

Its not easy, which to me was a bloody good reason not to start again IYSWIM.

Good luck

Ive got lots of reading to do!!-just read the link page Caring our quit,i went back to smoking at my dear friends funeral,I will kill this Nicotine Monster!

Thanks hornbag...another 7 years and ill be where you are now
Notasheep keep reading its good good stuff there. Really really helps.

Well done notasheep! We'll all be here to help through your wobbly moments. I went cold turkey, just didn't see the point of relying on another form of nicotine. It made the first few days fairly tough but was worth it in the long run. Day 3 was the worst if I remember.

the MIL has just been round moaning as usual so had big stress/craving! I know how to kill the nicotine monster,still cold turkey and wishing the days away a bit

Yep go to bed early to make the next day come quicker and all that. I can ASSURE you this hell that is stopping smoking is definetly worth it.
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notasheep, the first few days are no joy at all. They do have something good though in that you really feel you're battling. In a way the week or so later when the cravings aren't so great and you get that 'mourning' feeling are harder. Or rather, easier to backslide from. Even now for me a good few months since I had a puff I get the odd craving but it doesn't last if I distract myself I've forgotten about it. How many did you smoke?

My smoking habits really varied each day depending on who i was with and what i was doing,but approx 10 roll ups a day-i would smoke half think how disgusting it was and chuck it! i hated the taste but was so addicted.Having done this giving up malarkey before i think the hardest part for me will be ages away,its happened before and i have started smoking again!

The art of giving up smoking is not having another fag. The easiest..and yet the hardest thing in the world. Getting your head round the fact that there will no more fags is the hard bit. Doing it minute by easy is easy enough...dont pick one up...dont linger nearby...lol

just one puff

Here is the story gave up 17/01/96 started 6/02/99,
gave up 1/02/04 started again 14/07/05 in between all this i have had weeks off the fags back on blah blah blah.This time i really want it for good not until the next time i start again.

Read just one puff ( i tell mums at school i am an addict and they look petrified!) off to bed

notasheep. I quit smoking in 1990, started again in 1993. Then I quit in 1995, started again in 1997. My final quit was November 2004, started again in February 2005, so not a great success that time! What really really bugs me is that if I'd stayed quit on one of the early dates I wouldn't even think about fags any more. Like cc says you just can't afford a single puff because no matter how long you've been quitted for you're always at risk of starting again.

kliest,looks like our giving up smoking habits have been very alike,thankyou for your continuing support,nearly through the third day,bad headache(not sure if its connected with me going cold turkey) without realising it i havent drank any alcohol since i stopped smoking!! Each evening once children had gone to bed,i would have a bottle of Stella and a fag,now its no fag so i dont have a beer either,wont have any vices left soon!!!!!!

ctrnp,i am trying not to come on this thread EVERY day,but it looks like i need to at the moment,all links you have given have been great reads THANKYOU!