Fresh Thread for the Fag Free Few

[charliecat]

Thought another one was needed

notasheep, I really believe in the 3/3/3 rule for quitting smoking for me; which means that the first 3 days are a big milestone, first 3 weeks are a big milestone and first 3 months are a big milestone. I have usually failed at one of these points in the past. Now I have made it through the first 2 and must be vigilant for the 3 month one. BTW 3 years is also a big milestone for me as that is when i started again last time .

One month anniversary for me today - HURRAH!!

Hurrah :)

Hello everyone,

How is everyone doing? Hope it is all going well....:)

Am out for boozy lunch today with 2 ex-smokers, should be interesting as the 3 of us used to get through about 60 in one meal and this is the first time we have been out since we all quit.

Have a lovely weekend....

Hi everyone,

8 weeks today for me and I'm still so over the moon that I gave up.

Next Monday (13th) DH, DS and I are off on holiday for the week paid for from the money I have saved not smoking approx £300 over 9 weeks I am sooooo excited, hot tub here I come.

Also we have had an offer accepted on a new house and hopefully everything will complete in about 6-8 weeks as there is no chain

Now on other news CC and I have started a loose weight thread, I told her that as she had done so well encouraging and helping everyone quit smoking she should run a quit eating thread.

I am going to dive into the diet after the house completes and a few other people have joined as well so, if you want to budge a few pounds or in my case enough bloody stones to build a wall then join in.

Charlie can you do the link I alsways manage to cock them up.

Keep up the good work and buy yourselves something special with the savings (not a chocolate bar)

Hi
18mths for me, my incentive for giving up - I fell pregnant, and even more incentive was the money I saved from quitting I was able to buy most of dd nursery furniture and then spend lots on myself buying lovely pampering things well done all of you

Hellooo all popping in with a\link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=138&threadid=151958&stamp=060305151140\flabby thread link} :) :) :) Hope your all fag free :)

Day 1 has been put back a little and is now tomorrow-NOT trying to make EXCUSES here,i just feel far more confident and ready on a Monday,hope that makes sense.
Since joining this thread in December i have at least not bought any! just pinched the odd one off dp,but thats the odd one too many.

Well done everyone!!!!!!!!!!

I am having a screaming match with my brain at the minute-physical Cold Turkey isnt the problem

Off to bed shortly,looking forward to tomorrow

Hope your doing ok Notasheep :)

Crap
I am so angry with dp and we have MASSIVE issues at the minute,but why am i having a fag?

Cant seem to seperate the Nicotine from my anger with dp.

Its a long story but short and sweet;I dont trust him,he lies,he takes the piss,does MASSES of porn then doesnt admit to it.
Complains I am not giving him blow jobs-last thing i want to do!
So i have a fag and get angry,mad and RAHHHHHHHHHH

My friends recently left her busband who was just like that...shes very much happier, now she needs to work on her fag addiciton....anyway...

A fag WILL NOT make your DP into a great bloke.
A fag WILL NOT take away from the fact hes being a twat.
A fag WILL NOT make your life any better.
In fact it will just be an extra problem to deal with.

I have been where you are, desperate to stop yet still smoking. I know, I totally feel for you and its a total shit.

Back to whyquit for some reading I think!!
You must get it in your head that other peoples actions cannot interfere with your quit though.
If they are being an arse and YOU have a fag its NOT going to help YOU..is it now.
Walk away. Breathe Deep.

(It took me a good couple of years till I finally realised I could not smoke, not then, not now, not ever)

hello everyone ... creeping in to say ... not doing so well ... such a lot of stress in my life at the moment I've succumbed and been smoking about 2 a day. So, notasheep, you're not alone. I was nearly back on here last weekend as I stopped again for 3 days but then ended up smoking again for the rest of the week.

Before you yell at me cc I've been feeling very low and already know what a crap person I am to be failing after having quit so well for so many months.

Anyhow, in between working insanely long hours on the computer at home, I'll keep popping in and hope I have better quitting news.

It's also very hard to come on here and be such a stupid Failure when everyone else is doing so damned well!

(not that I wish you weren't doing well of course )

oh kliest :( Could copy and paste the same post from earlier for you i guess :( Hope your ok xxxxx

Good luck all of you. I've been fag free for nearly two years now (when i discovered i was pregnant – not expected). That's the longest give-up I've done so far.

Charlie-MASSIVE thanks again for your support,you have a way with words,you are soooooooooooooo right.

I have actually been feeling quite ill recently,and i honestly think its the fags.

I have even started talking to myself!!!! particularly when i am walking along the street pushing ds and being Miss Angry.

Hope tomorrow is a better day

Been on WhyQuit again-great stuff

Thanks cc. I know all the traps and stupidities involved in smoking. For me, right now, it's just one more thing to have to deal with too many if that makes sense? I don't feel like I'm a lost cause because I haven't bought a pack and am managing lots of days with none. I know I could very easily escalate but I'm keeping it all the time in my mind that if I do, quitting will be all the harder. If I could let you know just how tough life is for us right now though you'd probably get a picture of why, even if for absolutely ridiculous reasons, my 'crutch' of smoking is a small but currently necessary evil. This moment will end for us, for better or worse, at the end of March and then I'm really planning on being back on the no-smoking wagon. all I can hope to do for now is to be really honest with myself and not let things go too far. Some mornings at the moment I wake up in a state of total panic and sweat at what's ahead of us. Horrible, really horrible. Smoking doesn't change any of it, you're right, it's more that I don't have the strength to tackle anything else right now...

my email is [email protected] if you need to sound off to someone. Really hope your ok xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

i just wanted to pop onto this thread to say i'm thinking of those of you currently giving up the ciggies.
i stopped in july 2004 when we decided to try for a baby. i was 28 (nearly 29) and had been smoking since i was 13......on probably between 25-35 a day. it was one of the hardest things i ever had to do but i managed it and am still off the cigs.
i'd tried to give up about five times before i actually cracked it, so if you are finding it difficult just put the bad days behind you and treat tomorrow as a whole new day.
if i can do it you all can too............

Queenrollo -big thankyou for your support

I am still trying to sort my head out at the moment

Kleist-thinking of you mate

Kleist-so sorry life is hard at the mo-I too have started working from home as well as evenings and I feel at one of the most stressed times of my life too.
Am happy to say that, as of yesterday, I have been one year off the fags bar a handful of wishful horrible ones that just don't count.
Not bragging but am still so proud of myself for doing it-I have to pinch myself that I finally did it after years of trying.
It is also one year since I found Mumsnet and, although I hardly ever use it anymore, its good to know that there is a place to come and rant and rave, laugh and cry and just be HUMAN!
Charlie-have started selling successfuly on ebay now-Thank You for your tips!
The lovely Lucy from Spain recently sent me some of the most delicious goodies I have ever ate!
Thank you again if you are around-loved the Halva type Tullan as did my entire family!
Well, Good Luck to everyone who's doing their best to quit-don't beat yourself up if you fail-just keep going.It took me at least 5 serious attempts and for me the lozenges worked the best as fulfilled my "treat" loss.

Shall pop in and out when time permits!

Pucca, \link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=138&threadid=153391&stamp=060309204506\here the thread posey was on about } :)

There's an ex=smokers history thread going to encourage you all (not to discourage you). Someone may do a link, I'm hopeless.
Hope some of you may find it helpful.

Thanks CC, posts crossed!

OK its 9 weeks today for me and I am off on holiday tomorrow with all the money I have saved from not killing myself.

Hurrah Horray Holi Holiday