Say 'no!' to Nick O Teen

[imaginaryfriend]

Hi gang, join me here. And anybody else keen to join us in kicking the evil weed.

i thought you had given up

I want to give up. I gave up when pg and then started again a couple of months later. Have you already given up?

cor i really fancy a fag...help me

Cc, how many are you smoking a day then? Have you got a quit date in mind? You should take a look at whyquit.com and then decide to NEVER HAVE ANOTHER PUFF.

southeastastra, I HAVE. But only for 3 weeks. So I still need therapy. How about you?

countto10 - I'm in the process of quitting still really. and other people who post on here are in various states of quitting. Want to join us?

I do - the only stumbling block I have is I'm going on a hen weekend in portugal with a load of friends some of which smoke. Do you think I should give up before hand or am i setting myself up for failure? Or am I just making up excuses for why I should give up when I get back instead of now???

If you think you will fail then leave it till after. However, there are fags on every corner everywhere you go. And if your going to stop you need to realise that none of those fags are for you....none of them.

How long until the Portugal weekend? If it's 6 months off then I'd go for it now. But if it's very close it would make more sense to wait until afterwards. Make that your last big blow out with fags? how many are you smoking? Have you quit before?

cc, you only have the right to speak on this when you've quit yourself you know?

When you stop saying "no, I've quit" and start saying "I don't smoke", that is when you will succeed.

Yes and no, colditz. I already say to people 'I don't smoke' if they offer a cigarette and at the GP the other day. But in my heart I still feel like I'm quitting rather than through the barrier into no-smokersville.

I've tried stopping before and it never worked because I didn't want to stop enough. The only time I've fully stopped is when I was pg but I think it was a psycological thing i.e I'm pg so I can't and then when I wasn't it was there's nothing stopping me now so I can. We want to have another baby next year and I want to have stopped before I fall pg again because I don't want to use pregnancy as a way of stopping. The weekend is only 2 weeks away and i just know that i'll end up smoking so I think if I use that as my big milestone...? I smoke approx 5 a day and most of those are at work - I think its about breaking the habit more than anything else or is that stating the obvious!!!

ct10, I think it's very very hard and very complex as to the reasons why people smoke and what gets in the way of the motivation to stop. I've done so many quits over the years - my most successful one was for nearly 3 years about 10 years ago and I was so certain that the quit wasn't hard. I've never found it easy like that since. But the reasons for not smoking outweigh the reasons for smoking by about a million so that keeps me going.

I am odd because I had my last cigarette in the middle of the day - then put a patch on. I didn't want to go through the worst bit when I had just woken up.

my tips, put a patch on, drink lots of iced water, and eat whatever youn like for 2 weeks, by which time you should feel better. Think of the first two weeks as being ill, don't expect to feel normal.

And never ever have 'just one puff' because you will have to start withdrawing all over again, and instead of feeling crap for 2 weeks, you will always feel crap.

See thats one of the other things that concerns me, the whole weight issue.

I've got to go now but do come back and chat again on here? It is possible to stop. I was about the least motivated, lethargic person I know when I began this quit (a year ago!!! ) and I've started and stopped but now managed 3+ weeks and the truth is that until I started thinking about it tonight on here I haven't thought about smoking today once. Not once. And it hasn't been an easy day.

Better to be 8 lb heavier than die of lung cancer in 15 years. Sorry to be so blunt.

No you're absolutely right. That's why I want to quit and hate myself for not having done so already cause ultimately I'm killing myself and I'm a mother and have no right. If I was sat here drinking 2 bottles of wine a night I'd know it wasn't right so why is smoking so different?

The weight issue is avoidable if you read up on what makes you crave food - it's to do with blood sugar levels. Smoking gives you a sugar rush and without it you feel constantly low on sugar so eat more. If for the first 3-5 days instead of eating when you get that drop in sugar, you have a big glass of chilled fruit juice, your body will adjust to the lack of nicotine induced sugar rush.

colditz, I went cold turkey. I thought I'd get addicted to patches and just wanted to get it over with. I've heard very dodgy stories about those patch-making companies too.

No you're absolutely right. That's why I want to quit and hate myself for not having done so already cause ultimately I'm killing myself and I'm a mother and have no right. If I was sat here drinking 2 bottles of wine a night I'd know it wasn't right so why is smoking so different?

No you're absolutely right. That's why I want to quit and hate myself for not having done so already cause ultimately I'm killing myself and I'm a mother and have no right. If I was sat here drinking 2 bottles of wine a night I'd know it wasn't right so why is smoking so different?

scuse the double post but my laptop had a bit of a meltdown!!!

i want to get zyban

Hmmm what's that?

Gotta go. Check in again tomorrow potential quitters!

3 weeks tomorrow.

3 weeks is a major milestone for me. i always fail at three weeks. so will be relived when next week is over

and things have got verys tressfull here at the moment and i havent.

but i thought seriously about it yesterday. glad i didnt though