Fag Free Few................New Fresh Thread

[charliebat]

Hello

...you still have another one,feel dire and know deep down that you should give up and.....we have Yippeeeeeeeeeeee

And you spend the whole day thinking, right tommrow ill stop, ill just smoke today and tommorow ill stop...then you get up, have a fag, feel defeated and think right tommrorow I will really stop....really...and so it goes on!

Yup.

So what makes that magic moment where you can't go on any more? What was it for you guys that finally tipped the balance?

With me, I'd been so pissed off with myself for smoking and failing to quit, for about 2 years really, that I was beginning to smoke kind of 'aggressively', I mean stamping out the fags as though I was stamping on George Bush's face. I hated them. And myself. And one morning, even though I hadn't exactly planned it like some people do, I just stopped. Just like that.

And for anybody lurking who thinks they can't quit, I think I was about the most hardened I'm-gong-to-smoke-til-I-drop kind of person. But still, 2 months after quitting I truly barely think about fags. I can't honestly think of the last 'craving' I had. I think it was a day when dd and I had a tummy upset and I couldn't eat or drink anything and I thought 'if I smoked at least I could have had a fag'. But it was so fleeting.

much the same here,i was soooooooooo angry that my whole life was being controlled by the Nicotine Monster.I would often smoke a fag and be talking out loud swearing and cursing about the whole thing!!
I gave up because i didnt want to be a drug addict anymore.

likewise here,if i can give up then anyone else can too-in the past i was always the one who would make an excuse to smoke,and we all know what a load of rubbish we spout when we are smokers.
My advice to lurkers is -GET YOUR BRAIN IN THE RIGHT PLACE
oh and i love Allen Carr

I sat on the roll having a piss, rolling a fag thinking errrggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh I am so so so so sosick of fags I want to end it all...I dont wanna do this anymore.
They had me by the bollocks, and I knew it. It was awful.

Sat on the roll? Sausage? Toilet? Ham? No wonder you felt suicidal ...

Roll??????????????????? frigging toilet.

I nearly started celebrating 2 years off the fags a month early BTW, I was being a smug twat gloating saying ooooeerr 4days till ive been off the fags 2 years when it hit me that it was november i quit not october....never mind!!!

How come you call the toilet a roll ? First time I heard that one.

And boy, cc, you were up late last night.

Blimey, to years (nearly), that's incredible. That also means I've 'known' you that long...

I didnt really mean a roll, I think I was thinking too fast forward into the rolling part of my sentence.
I woke up in the middle of the night stressing about bills and had to come on to check what my bank said..lol

better than getting up in the middle of the night for a sneaky fag outside the back door-i USE to do that.

Life could be about to change, have interview tomorrow!!!! working with clients with severe mental illness in the letter i have been told i must NOT dress formal so wont have to worry so much about dss snot on my clothes
Not really feeling like i have given up smoking now IYSWIM as so few thoughts and cravings

Is that a good job or a bad one for you nota?

Talking of middle of the night smokes ... Pre-dd I always had an ashtray next to the bed and used to smoke sporadically through the night when I woke up. Dp used to joke that he'd hear the sound of my lighter clicking in his dreams ... It seems so incredibly gross to me now. Even to sleep in the same room in which I chain-smoked seems just plain wrong.

Crazy isnt it? I would often put the ashtray on the bed in the morning, if dp wasnt in bed, fall asleep...fag well put out obviously, and then roll in the ashtray wipe it off the bed and get back into later...perfectly normal behaviour. NOT!

You just reminded me of something actually cc. When I was 16, studying for my art foundation course, there were two gay lads, both 18, doing fashion who shared a flat together. They were real characters and much loved. They died when their flat burned down because they left a cigarette burning on their sofa when they went to bed. Horrible isn't it? I've fallen asleep with a fag in my hand on occasion, only just woken up when it's burnt down so low it's burnt my finger.

IF - how awful

Thanks for kind support btw - I tend to log on late at night and then get tired and go to bed, so I don't always reply straight but I'm not being rude honest!

Just over a week for me now - I'd forgotten how liberating it is. In work yesterday I went to a meeting, and turned up a bit early. The person I was meeting was just heading out for a cigarette, so I told them to go ahead. They were so embarrassed at having to go out to smoke, I could tell - I explained that I had only just given up, to make them feel more comfortable, but I also felt dead chuffed that it wasn't me doing that any more.

Yes, then when you get in again from the fag you feel so self conscious that everyone can smell it on you don't you? Well done for passing the one week mark by the way.

Pinkyred be dead chuffed and proud and brag and smug.Well done

Ifriend-i really want the job but dont know if hours will be any good with dd and ds,what will be will be

How did it go, notasheep?

They asked me 8 questions and i waffled my way.....however when it was my turn to ask the panel questions they seemed taken aback by my experience and the fact that i knew what i was talking about at last!
dont think i got the job though but not the end of the world.
We MUST sort out next weekend meet up

Sounds like it went well, why do you think you havent got it?

you know that feeling when you look in a persons eyes and think mmmm we are not clicking are we(and he would be the boss)
often with this line of work they phone you with the result on the day of interview-no phone call so far so they obviously cant make their minds up
Oh and fagless here for another day

Hmm yep ok..well done on the fags no going back now!!!!!!!!!1

Hope you get some good news over the weekend notasheep.

Yes, next weekend, I don't have any plans but I will be on dd duty. What do you think you're likely to be up to? Depending what time you get in on Friday I could have a coffee with you around Euston area dd-less as I work in that area on a Friday.

No news still so they must be very undecided!!!

Train is SUPPOSE to arrive at Euston at 2pm,i am then mooching till girlfriend is back from work so will have plenty of time-well thats as long as the train isnt too late.

My e mail is [email protected] lets then sort out time and place and mobile phone numbers

So now do i blame my croaky,rough voice on stopping the fags?
Went to family do yesterday-dp was the ONLY smoker there,another smug moment for me

I'm going to email you now sheepy.

2 months, 10 days for me. I got chatting to a woman outside the supermarket today in the cashpoint queue. She was smoking like a chimney and it smelt VILE!! Really truly if she'd offered me one I'd have had absolutely no inclination to take one at all. It turned my stomach. Yuck. Dp's been smoking a bit too lately as he's stressed and I haven't once fancied a drag or felt like stealing one from his pack. Which I always used to. Even when quitting. Lightweight that I am. Was, I mean!