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Let smoking go..

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Lottelou · 02/08/2006 18:56

News of Allen Carr has jolted a few people!! Anyone out there wish to form a "Let smoking Go" club?

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Lottelou · 04/08/2006 21:36

Ok That's it! Has anyone got any food spare??!! Have eaten the content of the fridge, and nibbled the handles thereof....a prawn stir fry, bowl of Sugar Puffs X 2, more cheese on toast, a kit-kat, and I'm still hungry..WHEN DOES IT END???????
If someone offered me a fag right now, I'd only eat it!! yuch!!
Off to get some chips..(notice I am avoiding vitamin-based foodstuffs?)
But no fags......

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theladyvanishes · 04/08/2006 21:39

Tip: when my dad quit smoking (one of many times!) he got some worry beads?? to keep his hands occupied

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Lottelou · 04/08/2006 21:42

Imaginaryfriend - I said this morning, either here or on the booze thread, that "I am so proud of myself right now I could cry". Still feel the same way.

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imaginaryfriend · 04/08/2006 21:42

LL before I nip off to watch the Nude Vampire, just wanted to let you know that when you quit smoking your blood sugar drops quite drastically and that's why you crave loads of food. The trick is meant to be to keep some juice to hand and every time you feel a hunger pang, have a big cool swig. There are vitamins in juice too.

bye for now

By the way I think that stuff re. blood sugar levels is on whyquit.com, somewhere it lists withdrawal symptoms.

imaginaryfriend · 04/08/2006 21:43

I'm proud of you too.

Vampire calls. Nudely.

Enjoy your chips.

Bbbbyyyyeeeee!!!!!!!

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Lottelou · 05/08/2006 00:05

Just Watching Trainspotting on 4. You know, just for inspiration...and to relect my sick humour.....now officially two days....no more nicotine in body......

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charliecat · 05/08/2006 00:08

Arent you doing great. I am pissed and cant spell marvellously ....LOL well done you

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Lottelou · 05/08/2006 00:16

CC! None of my clothes fit me any more!! Need to get some for a well-dressed water buffalo....

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charliecat · 05/08/2006 00:17

Already

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Lottelou · 05/08/2006 00:21

Well, A very svelte water buffalo.......

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Lottelou · 05/08/2006 00:31

No sign from Rickman - may be fallen over again......??

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charliecat · 05/08/2006 00:37

She will be in bed sleeping

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Lottelou · 05/08/2006 00:39

Good. Can't fall over from the horizontal position.!!..what has been tippled this evening???

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charliecat · 05/08/2006 00:43

I have been drinking Buckfast and Lambrini...going to fallup to be right now . Night Night Bloody Hell, tommorow you will wake up drug free, then its just a state of mind. Do you have a mum/dad/someone to be proud of you and gush over your accomplishment?

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Lottelou · 05/08/2006 00:47

Not really - my buddy will be all excited as he knows how much I hated it all, my sisters have never known my depths, my buddy who I see regularly kind of conived with me - but I do explain it all to someone else and she was shocked as it didn't fit into her image of me....

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milkbar · 05/08/2006 08:50

hi lottelou and others, have not read whole thread but wanted to check in and see how y'all are doing letting smoking go..
Remember you are not depriving yourself of something nice, you are gifting yourself freedom from filthy fags!
well done on getting this far

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Lottelou · 05/08/2006 09:08

Hi all!!
Strange getting blood/sugar levels advice from a vampire-watcher!!! hi IF.! What is it about the world of vampirism that is so damned sexy? Nude or not?
Yes CC, I have woken to a body totally devoid of highly addictive chemicals....no alcohol for 4 days and nights, after constant binge and dependency drinking for much longer than I dare contemplate..and no nicotine at all, but with cells that will have a memory of what it was like.....no excuses now - purely my own will and determination..(how cold is this turkey?
IF, thanks for the advice, and I will be stocking up on juices today!! AND, it is time to get some exercise done with more freely-expanding lungs!! Will be playing all day with DD, but also need to work a healthy sweat up!! Am aching a bit this morning though - wondering if it's a consequence of the absence of the drugs?? Anyone know?? BUT, watching Ewan McGregor's vivid come-down off heroin last night put all of this into proportion....
Rickman? Where are you, scooby?
Recalling so many times Iwould scrunch up a pack of cigarettes, still with some in, and say "that's it for you.." and then find myself peicing bits of them back together to get another blast....or throwing them in a bin outside, and then regretting it an hour later. Did discover the only way was to run the opened packet under some water..and then go down to the shop/drive to garage (yes, even when over the limitto get some more 30 mins later. I was soo hooked

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Lottelou · 05/08/2006 09:11

mikbar! Hello - you are so right...sat here just now thinking of how bad it all was. And so needless....we can all do this! we just waiver and go back to it.....COME ON!! Make the decision!!

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Lottelou · 05/08/2006 09:29

I DON'T KNOW ANYONE WHO SMOKES AND DESPERATELY WISHES THEY DIDN'T DO IT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO IT, YOU CAN CHOOSE TO LET IT ALL GO! TEN MILLION PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE DONE IT. WE CAN TOO.

Offski to play with DD, or atleast try to compete with Spongebob Squarepants for her attentions.....not looking good!! See you later..

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bubblez · 05/08/2006 09:52

Hiya all those who are trying to quit smoking.

Well done for even trying. I don't know if this has already been mentioned as I haven't read the whole thread but, I found the nicorett inhalor very good. I tried the patches and was on the 24hr patch, but just smoked with them. Where as the inhalor gave me that repetative hand to mouth action that I felt I needed. Just a sujestion if patches aren't working for you.

Trust me though it is worth it, I feel so much better for quitting.

Good luck to all, with some wheelpower you'll do it. Thoughts and best wishes are with you.

imaginaryfriend · 05/08/2006 13:25

Hi LL, you're such an inspiration! I can't make that final leap just yet but I have been cutting down on fags massively over the last few weeks in preparation. I found in the past it was easier if I'd cut down a bit first and quelled some of the withdrawal symptoms.

I'm amazed you're not feeling more of them. I cut down my drinking about 10 days ago and have felt like I've got a constant hangover, like my body's detoxing. It's partly because of feeling so lousy with quitting booze that I haven't leapt in with the fags at the same time. Such a crashing headache every morning when I wake up.

I've quit smoking more times than I care to remember - once I stopped for nearly 3 years!!! And I stopped when pregnant and started again when dd was 6 months old. So stupid. And so easy to slip up even when no longer addicted ...

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Lottelou · 05/08/2006 14:22

oh Sweetie! 3 years??!! Can you remember what triggered you back again??
IT is very tough doing both fags and booze at the same time..the booze feels ok, as it is now since last Monday evening, so the sweats from Tuesday/Wed have gone, and the headachy feeling has subsided and Ihave been where drink is and have happily avoided it....Am beginning to suspect Ihave a very strong constitution - but I had to have to drink all I drank, esp. in past four months....
it is so good you are preparing yourself for another run at it...needs planning and final preps. AND diversions at your finger tips for when the cravings call..but you know all this, better than I do....
How was last night? did you acheive immortality at the point of a pair of fangs?

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Lottelou · 05/08/2006 18:41

Are we all ok? dd has no idea of what's bee nhappening, and so she shouldn't!!

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imaginaryfriend · 05/08/2006 19:02

Yes I know, 3 years, think how much I would have saved my health if I'd stuck with it, that was 10 years or so ago!

The vampire film was ok really, but I was falling asleep for most of it. Have you felt intensely tired since quitting booze? I've been energyless. And I've had a headache EVERY blood day. I've downed so many neurofen plus it's mad.

How old is your dd by the way? How much did you drink / smoke at the point of quitting? And for how long?

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Lottelou · 05/08/2006 19:32

Hi there!!
dd is 6 and-a-half (as she insists!) and has never said anything about it..but I had hidden it all well, but kids know things!!
I have her here pretty often (every weekend and atleast once in the week) - all is very fine with her mum - but I knew she was not getting the best of me!
I had been drinking way too much, I think for most of one year now, and my (ex)partner didn't help at all in this as she was a vodka queen!
We had a REALLY shitty break up earlier this year - confusion,nothing was authentic - and I delved even deeper, not the classic alcoholic, just coming to rely on atleast 5 tins per evening, and then some more when my buddy and I would get 'last orders' and have a couple more...plus the regular botttle of red wine...I could manage work as I am in a position to delegate, and realised I was doing far too much of that for the wrong reasons...fags ofcourse went up with it, so by this time last weekend (Fri) evenings I managed 3 bottles of wine, minus one glass in the cooking...Sat. was a little less, ditto Sunday, and then Monday was the pits - had dd in the evening, and took her home, and then did 5 tins of grolsh, and another 3 pints of Guiness with my buddy in the pub, ending at around 12.30am...and fags were at atleast 30 plus, but who was counting???
Looking back I was binge drinking for most of the last calendar year, and then post-break up (April) went into overdrive......had always drank 'healthily' but now knew my relationship with alcohol had become desperately unhealthy..
shocked at how well Iwas 'managing it'...
Energy? Opposite to you! Tuesday was awful, but Wednesday I woke with a lighter head, and even began t omulti-task at work!! Not known that for a very long time, and all had noticed it!!
Now feeling chemically re-constituted, abd pretty achey, but that is GREAT compared to my recent history.....

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