Smokers needing to convert please come ere

[charlietherednosedpussy]

looks like i will just have to type to myself,why are humans so weak,why are we smoking too much,drinking too much,eating too much,cocaine too much,screaming at other drivers,criticising mothers that wear head to toe Boden,eating at Mcdonalds blah blah blah.

Why cant cigarettes NOT be sold.I cant buy dead dog at least i hope i havent so why are death sticks so freely available.

I dont need any answers,i am doing my blah blah blah

Sorry notasheep to miss your rant-to-self which I have become pathetically famous for on this thread!

I've got dp home with me this evening so am not a MN 'widow' for once or normally I'd be ranting away with you ... Can you hang on in until tomorrow?!

DVD with dp is pulling me away.

Avoid those fags.

Any other saviours around to aid notasheep?

I will survive,i am going to bed,cant smoke in my sleep!

I am smoking my last fag (hopefully) at the moment. Tomorrow I will be a non-smoker - Help!!!!

yOOHOO.HOWS ALLtoday? I am suffering from some ghastly illness and am burning up and coughing and passing in and out of coincenness....oh gawd however you spell it. Hopefully better for Xmas...xxxxxxx

Sorry you are poorly! Hope you feel better soon.

I had a shock this morning when i woke up and thought about going to find my fags so i could have one when i checked my emails and them remembered that id quit! But I want a fag!

I think my system is in shock going from 20 a day to nothing!

I keep trying to make excuses why today isnt a good day to quit, maybe cause it means i will be a really bad mood over christmas etc..

No no no no no....todays as good a day as any. Get reading whyquit.com and get yourself a quitmeter

Come back here and ramble rubbish whilst suffering

Hello hello. I'm taking the plunge. Again. Been to see GP and he's given me a script for some lozenges. Though I'd try something else as all the other ways haven't worked. And I seem to remember one fg doing pretty well on the old lozzies! I start on the first of Jan. Between now and then i count on reading a lot of whyquit! See you soon xx

Hullo em!

Hope you feel better soon, cc . I lost my voice for around a week, then had a lousy cold, and am only just feeling a bit more human.

notasheep, those things you listed I'm assuming were kind of 'ironic', i.e. you're not REALLY about to leave your dp ... ?

I rarely disagree with cc. ..... BUT tamba if I was going to quit I wouldn't do it immediately before Christmas unless you have a very stress-free day planned. I think doing it on a 'normal' moment is better, as is planning well in advance what day to do it on. But yes, as cc says, just go for it! And come and chat to us if you feel the urge to puff.

Welcome back EM...hey hey hey....but on day 12 when your feeling a bit weak and you realise you got through Xmas without fags it woulb be that good.
Look what I found under the tree Chuffed to bits

Dh bought me some! How am i supposed to quit when he does that? (Hes a non smoker) He said i was moaning that i wanted a fag so he thought he was doing right (and he wanted to shut me up!) Men!

LOL, sounds pefectly normal, your gonna have to tell him you will moan but you dont REALLY want him to buy some. Tell him you will smell beautiful soon

Good evening all,no-i am not leaving dp but often think about it as i am in a very lucky situation that i can support my family without him.Also the fact he was out overnight 2 nights in row partying and making me feel like a doormat didnt help.

Charlie-i really need another link to read.Today i saw a client and smoked 3 fags-same story as before!
All my clients smoke.NO i am not using this as an excuse OK.But now I am off work till 03/01/06 so can get really focused.In my view my clients are the worse temptation to smoke.

Kliest seems yonks since we spoke,just read another thread you are on-mums conceiving over 35,so thats something else in common,think i may be a little older than you just!

So how old are you notasheep? Listen, hey, quitting smoking is BLOODY HARD. I had so many slip-ups along the way and I didn't even have a smoking partner or anyone I came into contact with who smokes. Even now I could so easily have 'just one'. I went to works Christmas party and I so rarely get out in the evenings these days I was like a manic teenager and I was so so so close to blagging a smoke off someone. So what do you do as a job? I'm guessing it's something to do with mental health? Where about's are you based? Just making sure you're not me! In disguise.

cc, rats! EEEKKKKK !! I like the thought of them but I couldn't touch one because of the tails, they send a shiver up my spine. I don't think dp's got me anything. Too busy working to get to the shops, I've got all dd's stuff this year. As well as every thing for both our families ...

tamba ... what did you do with the fags he bought ... a truly committed quitter would've broken them up and dumped them in the bin y'know

Ok, I guess there's nobody around this evening now ... I'll poke my nose in again tomorrow ...

Computer played up tonight so sorry i missed you.

I am 42!! but feel 25 !
I am a Support Worker for (says in a whisper Social Services)
My clients are alcoholic,mentally ill,obsessive/compulsives,elective mutes,chronic fatigue syndrome,teenage pregnancies,anxious,single parents,you get the idea!
It was so difficult returning to work after a YEAR of maternity leave.

Roots are in Oxford area,lived in Guidford and Woking Surrey from 1984 till 2001 and i am now in middle of nowhere Wales so a big life change for me!

Clients appear more relaxed when i have a fag with them-UGH!

Gosh, that must be a stressful job. Ok, you definitely aren't me. But there are similiarities. I can imagine how hard it is to refuse a fag from one of your clients, especially if it makes them more at ease. A very tricky one. BUT they will have had support workers who don't smoke at some point or another won't they? You have to somehow adjust them to recognising you as one of them ...

CC! Hows the, eek, rats? And your vile virus?

EM still with us?

Anyone heard from whymummy or lucy?

anyone around then?

Good Evening everyone- 3 fags today-UGH
Need to get my brain on the right road again,i do know how to do it i hope after all my past giving up!

Hiya notasheep. Remind me how many you were smoking before quitting? You've probably written it earlier but I'm lazy ...

How are the cravings going, especially in between having 3?

Prob about 10 a day,but the most annoying thing is when I smoked those fags today i wasnt craving them
one bit!!! There is so much habit there.

I stand outside the back door with a fag and think to myself what the F**K am i doing this for!

How did you quit in the past? Did it take you a while or did you go total cold turkey?

I think that the first week with the mad cravings and the Big Fight are hard but kind of exciting. For me, the really tough battle is staying off them after that initial moment. I've had multiple failures since beginning this quit in May. But I've been totally fagless now for around 2 months I think. I still feel far from out of the woods.

All my successful quits have been total Cold Turkey-
I set myself a date a little in advance and just do it(Sounds easy!)

I dont cheat,and am so together in my head when i do it that it becomes easier by the day.

Now I am just getting so angry with myself because I know i am capable of doing it.My head doesnt seem in the place it should be at the moment-does this make sense!

OK I have made the decision to quit in the new year, I was just having a ciggie the other day and thought to myself I'm not really enjoying this and I'm going to stop, and I feel pretty calm about it to. I have told DH but he just shrugged his shoulders and said he wasn't going to say anything as it's up to me (in other words he thinks I can't do it).

I hope this thread goes on and on and on as I think I shall be needing some support along the way especially as it doesn't look like DH will be helping.