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

[charliebat]

Hello

Bed time here....a smokeless zone.....work tomorrow. See you tomorrow tea-time! night.

SEA if you waif ro a week where you will concentrate on it and it will never happen. And its possibly a good idea for it to be aperfectly normal week so you have it firmly in your head that you can do X Y and Z without needing to have a fag before after and inbetween.
SGIME, hope youve woken up with determination today

Good luck SGIME. Don't be disheartened. Keep trying! We're all here to help as much as we can. And we all know what quitting feels like.

I believe 3 months is another milestone on quitting Nicotine.
SGIME-its a mountain to climb but it can be done,remember thousands of people stop smoking every year.Hope you are having a better day today
Sea-every day i would say i am stopping tomorrow(a bit like people vowing to start a diet)and before i knew it another year had passed

oops-CharlieCat hadnt forgotten you the great motivator is there a 3 month month kind of moment? ifriend and I have been having some wibble wobble moments

Bloody hell yes, 3 month wobbles. I can't believe it after feeling so free from it for the last month in particular I'm finding I'm having bloody cravings and watching people smoke and feeling, gulp, envy [scream!!!]. Life is also very tough at the moment so I feel like my resolve is shuddering ...

How are you newbies doing?

Ok, sound bit of advice here.........
Whatever you DO DO DONT smoke.
Bite your fingers off or swallow a pint whole. Just dont smoke. Ok.

Hi all.

Forgot I was going out from work! To see "Breaking and Entering"

What do we honestly think of this? Nothing at all today (yay!), til on way home a 'friend' offered me a fag...lit it..two drags in started to feel heady, and polluted. Put it out in the car ashtray.

IS this a lapse or a relapse. I feel too good to stop the clock for it. Am doing too well to punish myself so much. Clock reads 1 day 7h 18 mins (from 5pm yesterday). Don't wish to "start it again" needlessly.

I DREAM of having a 3 month wobble!! You are so admirable. Wobble away, just don't light it up. It is awful.

Ok. It waqsnt until id stopped for a while that I realised this. But if I, after stopping for 2 years, say...oh well I just had a couple of puffs...I would see that as a HUGE feck up on my part.
But every feck up is a lesson learnt.
By having a couple of puffs you areno closer to stopping.
You DO NOT stop smoking by contining to smoke, even if it is in minute quantitys.
BUT you are learning from these blips. And it isnt easy. And eventually it will click in your head that the only way to STOP is to never have another fag, move on, leave it in the gutter and get on with life without fags.

I think I'm with cc on that one SGIME. I'd reset my quit meter and put it down to experience. You did do incredibly well to stub it out so quickly though. It's amazing how quickly they make you feel vile after you've quit only a few days.

That's one of the things stopping me from having 'just one' in my currently tempted state, it will taste utterly revolting. What I'm missing now is the way it used to feel to have a smoke, not the way it will feel now. Yuck.

I'm doing a bit better today, barely thought about it again, the last week has been tough.

ifriend-the taste will prob make you feel like vomiting remember that yuccccccccccccky,uckyyyyyyyy furryyyyyyy tongue feeling

SGIME-How has your day been?

Hi all.

CC and IF - re quit counter - harsh but true. Am still thinking like a smoker. Just tried to smoke again.

BUT, have had four puffs in 48 hours. BUT not the same as not doing it at all.

I don't know if I just not trying hard enough, still part of me thinking "oh it will happen", but under-estimating the size of the struggle.

This week has been the first concerted effort in months, stuttering but refusing to give up on it. Most used site on this pc is whyquit - feels like I am reading it like a religous text. Reading it repeatedly 'til it sinks in!!

Yes, Notasheep - that IS exactly how it feels - suddenly your tongue is covered in goo, and the back of your throat is caked in sh*t, and no amount of fluid or food will make it go away.

If I know this and have STILL tried to smoke/yes, smoked TWICE in 48 hours I must mean I have it really bad, like smacking one's self in the face , knowing how much it will hurt but thinking it will be worth it.

Wobble, but DON'T do this trick. It's no answer to anything and ALL of that work you have done will go up in horrid, poisonous smoke.

Spending tonight cleaning the house from top to bottom - have cleaned the car, put an airfreshener in it, bought in fruit and veg for dinner. Any other changes to environment that you've done that assisted? Am doing all the things I understand will help. Getting a bit cross with myself.

Other crazy thing? Had just spent £2.66, on two puffs of a cigarette.

This IS a learning curve isnt it everyone?
You learn from each mistake.
You feel like your banging your head against a wall...getting so far and then ...Oh Fart...Fecked that one up....well. the only way to overcome that one is to NOT SMOKE.
To do anything but smoke.
I think, to occupy us lot in the beginning we drank beer I know me and IF did anyway
And and I ate...and ate and ate....but in my mind anything was better than smoking. When my trousers no longer fitted me....hmmmmmmmmm oh well maybe that wasnt such a good idea....but it was good at the time.
And chewing gum....oh I munched my way through £15 quids worth in the first week

Another Mumsnetter put the money she would have spent fags in a jar. And went on holiday with it. Would that be a motivator for you? Do read whyquit....it comes back to you, it speaks to you when you need it to.
Come share your strengths, recognise your vunerability...etc etc...floats through.
cash can for motivation anyone?

theres a turn cash into ash fund one here

drinking beer is good, but i'm trying to stop that (well wine) as well. argh i just am addicted to everything. the cash thing sounds good though

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Can we push you into setting a date SEA?

Rickman No smoking woman.....do you know where just one puff often leads?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Where did it lead you last time?
Naughty.

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Yeah, you liked her though didnt you? Well done for not twinging since but its a slippery slope and all that.
You dont wanna be a smoker.

yes! i haven't tried setting a date - i just try and wing it when the mood take me