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

[charliebat]

Hello

Come on then. Name a date....

whoops - take should have been takes.

i'll have to think what would be a good time (soon though). blinkin things

Can't really drink beer..the strength of the association with smoking is way too strong.....will try comfort eating, but Mr Allen tells me to not do anything extraordinary...just the same habits without smoking.....(will probably comfort eat, just cos it's nice!)

May I ask SEA....why not tomorrow??

i think i need some planning, when i've tried to just stop it's never worked for that long, although i know some people really succeed in doing it that way. i'm even tempted by patches although the whyquit and a carr don't recommend them

SGIME, the first few days are awful especially I found days 2-3. Then it got less intense, then I had probably my worst moment between days 7-10. From then on it's got steadily easier, after two weeks I was having long long periods of time not thinking about it. What's two weeks when it's your life in the balance? Your only shot at life? Why chuck it away for some fags? There's no point in it especially when they really are yucky anyway. I did mostly what you're doing, lots of cleaning, and yes (cc ) I drank a ton of ice cold beer and boiling hot coffee with loads of sugar. And every time one of those horrible cravings washed over me I'd scream inside myself, pinch my leg, dance madly round the room to crazy music, anything basically.

I've done what you're doing quite a few times - having the odd drag now and then and to be honest you're just prolonging the agony and making those little drags so utterly pleasurable that it'll be even harder to quit. Really the only way is just to stop. No more puffs I'm afraid or you'll never get there. Just tell yourself once and for all you're stopping. That's it. It's strangely hard to convince yourself of that fact but once you've got that the fight becomes easier.

Remember you're not depriving yourself of a fag, you're giving yourself the gift of life.

Jeez, I sound Evangelical

And i talked to myself alot and got soooooooo angry with Mr Nicotine.
He will do all he can to keep you smoking,then he is winning and laughing at you for being such a mug and setting light to £5 pound notes.

SEA it really doesn't matter when you do it, there's no perfect moment, they'll all be awful, you've just got to pick one before it's too late.

My partner works with a guy whose partner, only 36, has just been diagnosed with lung cancer. She's always smoked, no kids, she's incredibly glamorous and well-dressed I can't believe she's going through this. She's had surgery this week and starts chemo soon. She's got a year off work. It's horrible. It happens!! I don't know her well enough to call her or anything but I'm guessing she wishes she'd stopped smoking long long ago.

sheepy I could hear your voice when you wrote that!

and you know the size of my bosoms,you are sounding very positive and Allen Carr like!

blimey that's sad, i'm 37 far too old to be doing this. you don't think it'll happen to you -do you

argh not sad about your bosoms notasheep i mean if's post!

NO, SEA, not until it's too late. It was that feeling of it being too late that was my biggest motivation.

sheepy, you were wearing quite a big jumper, though I did try to peek ...

i feel like i need a weeks deprogramming from them, to really just get away and concentrate on it. it's sounds like a cop out but finding time to really think about it is hard.

We have had this conversation before on these threads, but my take on it...is Just Say we have left it too late. Just Say we have lung cancer. Just imagine, being told you have lung cancer...and then STILL wanting to smoke.
Going out the doctors surgery and wanting to, needed to, light up a fag, the god awful Bastard that got you there in the first place.
FUCK THAT.
At least, if, the worst came to the worse you wouldnt still have the awful addiction and want and desire for nicotine that caused the cancer.

And imagine, in a few years time your DD or DS coming home stinking of fags. And you can hardly say Oh well its bad for you, because youve got one in your hand too. And he/she asks you to pass the lighter...and the ashtray.
FUCK THAT TOO.

Hear hear, cc!

Hows it going then girls?

Yes, how is everyone? Especially the newbies?

I'm feeling more confident again, cc. But last week and the week before were a bit tougher than they had been for a while.

Hey, I'm off to the Christmas meet-up tonight. Fag-free!! I'll keep my eye on Custy ... And SEA if she's still going.

You jammy bugger. Take a camera and send me some pics will ya

don't think i'll be able to make it, dp is suffering with bell's palsy and don't think he'll want to be left with the kids. may change my mind at the last min though

Hi Charlie! Is MMLL still around??
(Don't ask me about fags-its too depressing!)

Drop Hello. [email protected] Email me and ill let you know how MMLLs is.
Are you chuffing like a chimney then?

Just popping in as this was in active conversations and just wanted to say well done to all the stayed stopped people and the trying to stop people.

I was a horribly addicted 30-40 (60 a day sometimes if you include nights out) a day Silk Cut Ultra Low woman from the ages of 17 - 37 when I gave up while pregnant with dd, so it's been 3 years 6 months now and I'm so relieved that I don't smoke any more.

The nicest thing is the lack of black shadows at the back of your mind, although I'm aware I haven't necessarily got away with it but since I was a non smoker for another 2 years in there when pregnant with ds I reckon I stopped at 35 I'm hoping I have.

Interestingly, watching This Life repeats has reminded me how it used to feel to be a smoker but I don't want to go back, not remotely. And I went outside with someone who smokes yesterday, just to chat to her while she had her fag and felt nothing but revulsion, not the slightest temptation.

Hello WWW. lovely to leave those dark shadows behind isnt it?