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

[charliebat]

Hello

Thank you.

It's as if I am making smoking a special dispensation. I hide it from dd, but I am sure she knows. If I am hiding it, then it is surely wrong.

I have 'sorted out' a stress-free day tomorrow, and WILL do one day at a time. Tomorrow I don't have a puff.

Good good good. Now when that evil little voice whispers in your ear. ignore it. Come and shout here. read whyquit.com till your blue in the face, and if neccessary start a fresh thread on chat on MN saying youve quit and need immediate support...just in case none of us are around

Thanks charliecat.

It is so stupid. I feel stupid. It IS to do just for one day. Trouble is I project into the future and imagine doing things (eating, drinking, working) without a fag, and it seems unlikely. But on Monday, I am only eating!!

Ok, let me tell you that smoking is NOT part of your personality and you are more than capable of doing things without a fag in your hand, you really really are.
If anything is making your head bust, leave it for a bit and then go back to it. Deep breathes, sips of water....it is all worth it.
You will only delay the process by having aJust One...what you really want to do is stop. And thats not going to happen if you have Just One...
We will be thinking of you

Have seen the quit counter on whyquit..will download it and set it going.

Strange. I have never given up before, am fearful of it, but know I can. Here's to Monday.

Good Luck. Im of to bed now, nite x

nite

Hi SGIME, have you started?

SEA - are you going to the Christmas meet-up?

Hiya IF, have you still got a meter running? My silk quit remebered me even though id deleted it ages ago!

HI cc, I got the flowers this morning, thanks, they're lovely. You didn't include that address for me to forward them to somebody else though, do you still want me to do that?

Yes, my meter says 2 months, 3 weeks and 6 days- - I'll be 3 months clear later this week!!

will forward it now id posted them when I came back to whizzes email

Sorted, cc.

And where's SGIME??? Heeeellllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Cheers
I said to Dp last night do you remeber waking up and the first thought being where you had left the fags and the lighter?
OMG...Does it feel longer than its been IF?
I feel this is the one for you and NAS.
Its gotta be.

Well cc, like sheepy I've been a serial quitter. I once went 3 years, another time nearly 2 years and have had the odd 2 and 3 month successes along the way, so I daren't take it for granted. Also I've been VERY stressed lately, way too many difficult things going on and I've found myself leaning towards the 'just one would help' route (don't worry I've resisted and I know what's happening) so I'm never going to feel totally free. But yes, whenever I realise I've gone a whole day and not thought for one second about a fag I feel really really pleased with myself. And this has to be the one, really it does.

You were wandering elegance
This has got to be THE quit for me too,the thought of doing it all over again......
BUT there is the odd time when i think ooooooh i will just have a fag now,dont want to go down that road.
Think our brains still have a little bit of the mega stress=lets chain smoke!

SGIME-how are you today? we know how you are feeling -one day at a time remember.
I use to be forever putting my quit date off,like oooooh i have a fantastic wedding to go to and want to get drunk and smoke!!! now realise what a complete idiot i have been thinking like that

Hello all.

Well, my meter reads 13hours and 52 mins and I haven't smoked 17 cigarettes so far!

Do feel extrememly thick in my throat, and a bit unreal. Was reading on whyquit about the 'smoke-aholic' notion. Works for me under each of the 3 criteria. And very useful to me to think of myself in those terms i.e. 'just one' and I've had it.
But not feeling particularly cravy though at mo. Just doing my business. Will be off out for a shortish run later. I do know that exercise brings on a sudden deep 'need' for fags (nicotine being sweated out? MAybe?). But at 13 hours all seems remarkably ok!
Had rubbish nights sleep last night, so hopeful of something better tonight.

Well done SGIME. How many were you smoking a day then? For how long? What's your ds / dd situation?

(I like to have a few facts about those I'm going to attempt to haul back from the evil clutches of nicotine! ) (plus I'm nosy)

Just realised I had set meter to 30/day, rather than 20/day - was a bit bemused how I could have "not smoked" 17 so quickly!!

18hrs 31 mins and 15 cigarettes not smoked.....run was pretty easy (only 22 mins)..and not screaming for one at all. But taking no chances! As soon as dd (7 y.o.) is in bed, I am going to hide under the duvet with the laptop!!

Does anyone wish to know the colour of the stuff I was coughing up after running???

hello,

can I come in?

I really need to quit but haven't even got so far as setting a date yet, tho I wat to stop before Xmas. I feel stupid really, I quit over two years ago, so I know I can do it, but I just can't face it. Last time I used zyban, which I only took for about 10 days (due to insommnia) but it gave me the kick I needed. COld turkey just seems impossible. I started again a couple of months ago, due to heavy stress which isn't really over yet. Another excuse for not stopping yet!
But I quit for two years and I know it stinks and I can remember how good food tasted without havign a mouth reeking of tobacco. But I can't face stopping!! I'm not sleeping well as it is, and know that will get worse. Plus I'm spending a lot of time alone with the kids and stressed, and worried about being more stressed. But I hate classifying myself as a smoker again and I do want to stop.

Heeeeeeeeelp!

sorry for the rambling I was writing things as I thought them!

Ramabling?? I'm sure I haven't started yet!! Ramble away??

IM - had been on about 20/day for about 15 years consistently - had some success over the summer months, but not that endured...this will be (when it happens) my first day without cigarettes since about August.

Kelly while you dithering read whyquit.com till it sinks in.
Sgime...OMG arent you doing wel!!!!!!!!

Kelly, it's amazingly, horribly easy to s tart again once you've quit isn't it? Even when you've quit for a long time. I'm going through a 'tempted to start again' moment right now. 3 months isn't as long as I've quit in the past (and failed) but I know I'll feel really depressed if I fail this time. It's like the one time too many to fail at quitting if you see what I mean?

SGIME, are you posting here under a different MN name? Just wondered as I haven't seen that name around. I guess you might want to keep your main MN name smoke-free . You've done amazingly well today by the way. I was a 20-a-day smoker for years and years, in fact more like 30-a-day just before I got pregnant, then I quit through the pregnancy and lit up literally the day after dd was born it's like I spent the whole pregnancy craving that first pre-birth fag. Horrible addict that I was.

G'day.
New non smoker here.
Been trying since January! DH has managed. Anyway tried again, it will be seven days tomorrow, seeing smoking cessation advisor to provide patches and incentive.
Very Hard.
mostly emotional. In February I kept crying, which upset dd3. At the moment (touch wood) not too emotional. But, big but, already in the back of my mind planning a smoking day. aargh,