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New thread for old friends and for new quitters ...

thanks if, you have been really helpful, i'll let you know

goodnight!

16 days and counting!!!
Though from my previous attempts, by 21 days I get a real urge and thats when I crack, but not this time. No way!! I've quit and thats it!!

Well done to those who are keeping up not smoking : )

Well done, MA!

Lou, did you see the GP? I've been thinking about you and wondering how you got on and if my amateur diagnosis was right

Lou! You ok? I wonder if you went to hospital and got kept in? I had to stay in for two nights ...

CC - are you about?

And where's everybody else?!

Good after noon fagless friends.
How are things now CC?

Ifriend-my next trip to London is in May with dd,so maybe a meet with dds?

well day one almost over. i have been smoking on and off since i was 3. 30 now. never a heavy smoker average about 3-5 a day. however addicted nonetheless.

this is my one thing i look forward to when i ut dd to bed, or when dh on night shift or for any other me time; especially when on the phone.

worried i will have to talk to dh now and realise how dull he is without a fag

real reason i gave up today, well last night, is because i keep gettting blood blisters in mouth (about one or two a month). also just noticed a slight lump in mouth and now being a hypochondriac i am conviced i have mouth cancer.

going to GP next week if lump persists. blood blister came up after scoffing pack of wine gums last night. noticed it went down today though.

anyway i am cared of dying and scared of not being able to enjoy life without fags. given up for 18months whilst pregnant etc, but started again when dd was 6 months and i had stopped breat feeding.

what should i do about my mouth lump? its right by my back teeth and its like i have bitten down on my skin and its swollen a little..i am so scared that i've left it too late to give up...sorry am i too emotional for this thread?

not 3 13...as if its much better!

Lou! Where are you? How are you?

And you, cc?

Hi,
Would love to join the fag free thread.
I gave up 4 years ago whils trying for ds3.Used a nicorrette inhalator and managed just using the starter pack for a couple of weeks-finally realised there was nothing left in the cartridge after a while so was well pleased with myself !
Started smoking roll ups again about a year ago .
Going into hosp next Tue for quite a big op.
Dont really fancy going cold turkey during my stay but far more important i feel so bl*y unhealthly and not at all fit for a general anaesthetic .Am off to buy my inhalator tomoz but will have to get through a mornings work first !
Any tips apart from keeping busy ???

I gave up over a year ago now and it's great to be free of them. Allen Carr's easway book did it for me. Another thing I did was to fill abottle with water and fagends - it smells disgusting. If I thought of having one I'd smell it.

Now and again I think I'd fancy one but I know that if I had just one now I'd be off for a packet of twenty within minutes.

Just wanted to say that if I can do it anyone can, so don't give up

hello havent read any of this but will bumpoing it back into my convos xx

Hi all
New to this thread but thought Id join in to let you know Im a newly none smoker! Yippee!!!

Me & dh packed up 2 yrs ago for 7 months! Then we started again, & both felt so dissapointed in ourselves.
But we have done it again. Its only been a week, but psycologically (sp) I have really got my head around it this time. I have had cravings but can honestly say that it only last seconds & is very bearable.
We both have the patches at the moment which I feel is a great help, it helps me being like a bear with a sore head. The cravings I can cope with without the patches but I must admit if I dont have one on I am very snappy & irritable.
Anyone else find that too?

Well done all of you BTW

mooshy have you tried patches? They really help me & dh. Chewing gum helps too, but the nicorette gum is awful!

Dh also has the inhalator, even without the cartridge! He said it burns the back of his throat with the cartridge in it!

I just seem to be more motivated to do things that I dont normally do, like cleaning my window frames of all the nicotine stains. That was just dreadful, if that wasnt enough to put me off smoking again I dont know what is!

oh well unbelieveably i lost my internet connection the day i went to the gp, and only just managed to fix it

he said i had a chest like a pair of old bagpipes and increased my inhaler usage, gave me some strong antibiotics and sent me home

i finished them yesterday and feel loads better, tho still coughing a tiny bit, but nothing to write home about

i wouldnt have been able to go into hospital, there would have been noone to have them at such short notice, so i am glad it didnt come to that

he was pretty concerned tho, said i had 36 hours to stat feeling a difference or i had to go back

anyway, 7 weeks and 3 days today

Hello all great mighty quitters. Help, I'm on my 9th year smoking and I have tried to give up so many times. I only smoke 5 a day but lots when out. I've done patches and gum and gave up for 2 years but been back on them for 2 years again since then. Hubby smokes as well so if I have a craving then there are always fags in the house. I just don't feel I can do this on my own. Its so much a part of my life and routine but it stinks and it costs too much and I am panicking about my health and wrinkles! I'm also scared I will put on weight. I'm not overweight, just over where I want to be. Anybody got a plan of action for me? Does anyone recommend Zyban? I really need an extra push.

saffymum not tried zyban myself, but the thing that puts me off about them is the side effects of them.
I think giving up has to be done together-I could imagine finding it really hard myself if dh hadnt have give up too. Having fags in the house would be too much temptation for anyone.

I smoke roll ups anyway, so I cant say as it was really the money that made me want to give up. Its the smell! Not just on myself, but in the house & of coarse the kids too. Their clothes used to smell of it.
I think when you have given up once, you are more aware of the smell too. You can smell it on people in shops if they have just had one outside etc. Its so not nice.

My DH is finding it a little more difficult than me, but then he was a heavier smoker that me. He actually had a cigar the other night & admitted he didnt enjoy it at all!

When I gave up 2 yrs ago for 7 months, I have to admit that my complection was so much clearer, & noticed straight away when I started smoking again how awful it looked.
My teeth also look cleaner already & its only been a week.

you won't believe it, my hubby called Monday afternoon to say he was on patches and was quitting. I smoked my last two in the box and havne't touched one since then. I've given up! But really struggling through the day today, I am on step 2 of the patches which is right for me and just hoovering my way through a box of chocolates and my blood sugar is all over the place. Wish me luck, I am going out tomorrow and when the wine starts flowing I don't know if I will have enough self control. Will see how it goes.

I'm still going strong and wonder of wonders, dh announced this morning he is giving up.. All his stinky clothes are in the washer, all his fags have been chucked - he is as grumpy as a box of hungover scorpions, though I keep telling him it's all in his mind, and I am taking advantage of the fact that he is manic to find loads of long-put-off jobs for him to do heh heh heh

Just stopped today, stopped when I was 21 (now 38) started again almost 4 years ago, social smoking, then recently had lots of stress so getting through 20-40 a week. I started getting congested again so decided to chuck them. See how I go?

Keep it up everyone

still no fags not really wanting one either. Test is when drinking with smoking pals.

I managed a night on the wine witha chain-smoking friend. Twas Ok, but I could feel myself wavering by the end...

I am having no cravings in day t day normality at all and I have had an extremely stressful week - I feel very 'strong'

dh is horribly tetchy today

Are any of you on the drug that's just come out? My sis is having to stop smoking and I just told her I heard it's good?

Well done filthy Your filthy mind is just the fag craving eh?

no drugs, or NRP. Think it just prolongs the agony.

Two weeks now for DH & me. We are doing really well, getting the odd crave but doesn't last long. Even managed the odd glass of wine & not bothered so much either.
Got to say though, although I can manage without a patch & not have a craving, I appear to be very snappy & irritable. So the patches will stay for me for another couple of weeks or so.
Made the mistake of forgetting to take it off before I went to bed the other night....OMG I had the worsed nights sleep ever.........Dreaming Lots! Very disturbed sleeping-dreamt I was having crafty fags behind DH's back. Woke up feeling dreadful & guilty !

Hi, newbie here just spotted y'all, me and DH haven't smoked yet this year. I'm aiming for one smokefree year (seems too depressing to think about forever.)
We went out last night to his works do and managed not to smoke, so chuffed with ourselves (I only knew 2 other people vaguely.) Got very drunk and felt rubbish this morning but my God, would have felt twice as bad if I'd had my usual night out smoking binge.
Well done everyone else too .