I took my last puff at 23.59 and I am not going to smoke for the rest of the day, or the day after that, or the day after that ...
Bit of a blow at 00.00 when I gathered up my ashtray, lighter and 4 remaining cigarettes to find I had an unopened pack of 20 hidden on my desk. DP now has the somewhat crappy job of distributing said pack somewhere in the neighbourhood. I was going to post them through a (smoking) neighbours letter box but I don't know her very well and thought it might creep her out.
Does anyone want to buddy up?
I'm going to make myself accountable to this thread. Support is very welcome.
DP has just come back and assured me he has left fags where I won't find them. I just hope that the person who comes across them hasn't just started their own quit.
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Quitting Smoking One Day at a Time
AgentFelix · 20/05/2013 00:16
Hi all. I have been following this thread for two weeks now and it has been good support (I am on day 14 today woo hoo!!) Well done to everyone who has the strength to quit.
I have smoked for 26 years (hanging my head in shame here) but have been trying to stop for 23 of them! As far as I am concerned, I can never have another cigarette again. Full stop.
I can no longer cope with the continual anxiety about every pain/twinge/lump; is it cancer or some other smoking related disease? The constant fear that I won't see 60 and my girls will be without a mum.
In a positive note, I am also a runner, have been doing it for a year now (since my last failed quit). Went back to the smoking in time of stress but kept up the running. It really helps to feel my lungs filling properly with pure healing air. Am already noticing an improvement after 2 weeks; my lungs feel like they expand an extra inch or so.
Wish I could sleep properly though. Wake at stupid o'clock every morning! Still dark when I get up these past two weeks! So far it's my only noticeable side effect though. Oh apart from craving a fag most days
THROW IT AWAY!!! or run it under the tap, or give to someone.
Queen, well done for soaking it! Take it outside quick! And eat some chocolate to take your mind off it!! 
JRock- know what you mean about Friday evening. Was always wine night in my house too. I say WAS. I'm not gonna be drinking for a long while (until I am confident I won't cave). Sitting in, sober, smokeless, watching The Voice, bored BUT healthy and breathing still
Massive well done for wetting it - the amount of half full cigarette packets I've run under the tap!! Another good day for me . met eldest dd at the park with two of her charges (she's a nanny) and lolled in the garden for the aternoon - after having scrubbed the kitchen and cleaned the fridge (one of those jobs I never think about!) amazing how much gets done not smoking. Also still not drinking although was tempted tonight :( It's been 8 days without both - apart from my blip- and I love the energy. I always forget how good it feels. the running is a massive help too. Looking forward so much to the next one tomorow. I can't quite believe I'm doing this! Well done everyone else. We rock. queenfaeriecakes you've done brilliantly already!!
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Eminem [hugs]. We do rock!
Waterlego 
. Thinking of you as I'm typing this. Let us know how it goes.
Marlene4B Welcome, of course you can join. When are you planning to quit?
Wannago Thanks for joining us here. My sleeping pattern has gone mad since I quit. I either can't sleep for more than 2 hours or I sleep in until lunchtime.
Oopla - Fuck You Nicotine . I'm completely onboard with that.
badger please join in on the thread. I love hearing about how other people quit. It makes me remember that it's possible.
I have had such a hard day today and the only thing that kept me nicotine free was this:
"Felix, thanks for the great list. I'm soooo impressed that you are going Cold Turkey after a 40-a-day habit."
DP and I are in terrible debt. We're barely keeping our heads above water. DP was diagnosed with a serious illness a couple of years ago and was retired from his employer. He's under 40! We are living on a tiny pension and we are stressed out, both of us. We couldn't have planned for this, nobody could have.
The past few years have been so worrying and I have smoked and drank and smoked and smoked. I got to the stage where I couldn't afford it anymore. We were actually getting further in debt to pay for my cigarettes every month.
So, I stopped on 20/05/13. Today I found out that I have to pay an extra £300 to BT for excess broadband charges due to DP getting bored and downloading loads of programmes from Netflix. It has wiped out everything I've saved from not smoking and I am fucking gutted. I really wanted to be better off but we are actually worse off.
Queen well you can't go back now ... You'll be fine. You've sent a really strong message to your sub-conscious that you're serious about quitting. [swot]
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