Say 'no!' to Nick O Teen

[imaginaryfriend]

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

ifriend,on the scale of giving up i feel as positive as my 18month quit-and that wasnt that long ago(February 2004 until July 2005)!
I dont think i will feel really successful until i have beaten my record

And you are doing bloody well too,soon this mularkey will be a distant memory.

Saw girlfriend for a couple of glasses of wine tonight,just got back and thought i havent thought of fags all day yippee!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok folks, I know i sound like broken record here, but give yourselves a pat on the back coz you are doing really really well. And revel in the fact that you are. And no matter shit your day is, you have still achieved being a non smoker and that makes it not such a bad day after all
And remind yourself often that the only way to stay in this great place is to not smoke. never gain. no more fags.
No matter WHAT happens.
Then you never have to do this again.
And you can get on with your life in harmony with your lungs

Hello

I am really struggling. Havent caved in yet though but I am thinking of smoking all the time - even dreamt of it last night!!

Have been to see the pharmasist this morning and have an appointment with her in the morning and then once a week for 8 weeks for some sort of stop smoking sessions, hopefully they will help!

Am eating far to much though. Every time I want a fag I eat. Maybe should join weight watchers whilst im at it!!

Tanba, have a big drink of water or juice instead of munching if you can....says little old plump me who ate her own weight 10 x over in the first year
Dont let the nurse give you patches or lozengers or any form of nicotine. Its the plastic/sweet version of a fag. you have done great to cold turkey it.
These fags are your greatest enemy, remeber that.
And they are only pleasurable when you cant have them. Smoke 10 in a row and they are vile.

I feel so yuk though! Still have a cough, am teary and feel much less haelthy than I did when I smoked!

I was thinking that the plastic fag thing was a good idea? My friend ius using them and he is doing much better than me!

Neither of you are smoking, he however still has a nicotime addiction going. You dont.
He will be constantly reminded by his body that he needs another dose of nicotine, your brain will slowly forget with the gaps inbetween getting longer.

Once you stop felling yuk, you will feel better. you will feel alive and less sluggish and the world seems a brighter place....honestly
Your bodys readjusting.

How long since you actually totally stopped, tamba? I had my worst moment between 5-9 days after quitting. From then on it's got easier and easier.

Hi cc and nota!

Still haven't got a halloween name yet ...

oops-halloween! Im up to my ears in lucky dip stuff,as of tomorrow i am chair person of school PTA and have to chair first meeting and although very nervous and unsure and OMG what am i going to say i dont want a fag

Tamba-how long is it? In my experience(and i have had years of this giving up game) Cold Turkey is the way to do it.its soooooooooo hard but you can come out of the other end.Nicotine causes the stress.

tamba, I'm with everyone else on sticking with cold turkey. I've quit successfully sometimes and failed massively at others and I've only ever succeeded when I've gone cold turkey. I've tried all the other methods you can think of. Your friend may be doing better now, but in the long run will have to, at some point, face life without any kind of crutch.

Unless you / they choose to continue of course. But then you've got to quit sometime, no? It's only a tiny percentage of people who manage to live to over 50 with no effects from smoking.

Back on the same story,dp tonight says again he is going to leave and i didnt have a fag

Watch this space,the funny thing was he was almost chainsmoking and i had another smug moment

Our relationships sound in the same state notasheep. im living with a 33 year old voctor meldrew who questions me every time I move/fart/laugh.

Message withdrawn

Message withdrawn

Its grim isnt it....grumpy old men But its sooo not funny actually.

lets see how many more there are

Message withdrawn

Vile...uh huh. Dp just seems to take it out on me rather than the kids.
The hilarious thing is now weeeeeeeeeeeee are moaning about them

Message withdrawn

It is indeed. Mine do too. BTW.

Message withdrawn

yep...

I had half a fag yesterday

I am currently chewing on a white plastic thingy that I was given at the no smoking clinic. They say you can use 12 cartridges a day but I have only put one in per day. I am mainly using it to keep my fingers busy. I think you were right though when you said to carry on cold turkey because my body has remembered what nicotine is iyswim. I am not using the plastic thing much at all though because I feel like a right fool with it stuck in my mouth!

Having half a fag is no way to give up you know...do the plastic thing for pretending.leave the cartridges out of it

The cartridges are nasty. They in themselves are putting me off, they hurt my mouth. Will use an empty one!