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

officially nicotine free, and can't sleep.

to be epectedi know - i think this happened lst time

Have you any nice smelling skin rubs or moisturisers of something, I think i spend a lot of the first few months laying in bed at night rubbing oil on my arms and neck coz they had gone into rigamortus, in the HAVE A FAG way they do...and I was trying to detention them, see if that helps with the sleep, or a bottle of beer

Well done custy - keep going!!!!

It's been 50 days for me now since I first quite. In that time I've caved twice - bought a pack, smoked one and threw the rest of the pack away. I just kept thinking - even if I'm enjoying this, I JUST DON'T WANT TO BE A SMOKER ANYMORE. Period.

Looking back on some of my earlier posts, 3 1/2 weeks in and I was still "thinking about it every single day". Now I can honestly say that although I still have moments where I have the odd craving, the thoughts are no longer part of my daily routine. I used to smoke at very specific times of day (ie when walking the dog, just before dinner etc) and for the first few weeks the thought was with me at those times of day as concretely as if I actually had a cigarette in my hand. It was still part of my daily routine IYSWIM. Now it's not. Keep it up - you can get to that stage too!!! Keep us posted.

Not for me this..im about 700 days in and now its not even an issue, occasionaly I will smell someones fag and think MMMMMMMMMM, but not want to assault them to get my hands on it.
Or mostly....OMG ewww that STINKS, how did I ever do that???!!!

i was increasingly aware of the smell issue - cnstantly had body spray in my bad and in the car.

as a smoker i could smell somone who smelled of OLD fags, smoked and smokes and not showered YUK.

i'm still in the breaking the routine stage. havent gone in my car for any journey of length since saturday - that will be very very very very hard.

but yippee - day 4.

you give me hope custy well done

haven't you been saying your going to quit astra?

yes soon. my 13 year old is nagging me, he wasn't bothered before.

Please watch that vid SEA, this week. Please. Make an hour for yourself, you can smoke all the way through it you know

yes this week i finally have some time. my son's friend's dad asked if i smoked because he could smell it on him.

Yep, he will reek and his clothes and his packed lunch box and anything he takes from your house to anywhere else
Watch vid, please.

Hows it going folks?
OMG...............can I just announce, my mum is 58..(i think) lol
And shes smoked, forever, and she did stop, once, for 100 days, till someone threw a lit roll up down in fron of her and she stooped down and picked it up and smoked it
And 3 weeks ago, she was ill, sick and she couldnt smoke or drink or anything.
And so 12 hours in I said, this is your chance, your 12 hours in without an effort...take the chance, do it......and she bloody well well has.
Hasnt had a fag in 3 weeks and 2 days
Appears not to be rattling, and even went to the dentist the other day where the dentist spent 45 mins trying to remove a tooth that was fused to her jawbone ...and still no fags.
bLOODY mARVELLOUS::::::::::)))))))))))))))))))))

yay well done your mum!!! thats amazing.

my nan gave up about a month or so ago. shes 87

day 5

counting in days now - have you noticed?!

wow custy.............granny power

day 7

its not so long and i can count in WEEKS!

That went quick for me Hows it going? sleeping better?

fine actually going to bed earlier to sleep through the cravings.
however my dh is wakng up almost hourly.

is this normal?

Its probably the fear of the loss, his brain telling him he shouold be doing something. Normal enough I guess.
My mums waking earlier.
You have more get up and go in the morn yet>

Hi Charlie! Am in need of your help! As you know I gave up over two years ago on Nat.No Smoking day-lasted well for one and a half years but started again last July much to my disgust. I now really want to stop again as have been having chest pains and wheeziness and MASSIVE guilt pains! I feel incredibly selfish for doing it to the point of depression, don't enjoy 95% of the cigs I am smoking and am worried out of my mind that it is too late and I have done the damage. Not that I think, "what the hell I'll carry on anyway"-I'm just so scared that I have contracted soME form of smoking-related illness.
Last year, a half-sister I knew nothing of until the year before, died of lung cancer. I never got to meet her. Even this wasn't enough to make me want to stop-why has it got such a hold of me?
As you know C, I gave up last time with lozenges and a HUGE amount of support from threads like this one. I lit a fag this morning and my chest felt so bad I put it out vowing it would be my last and I SO want it to be.
HELP ME PLEASE SWEETHEART!!!

Just read Custys comment about long car journeys-have got to take someone to Heathrow this afternoon who smokes!!
By the way Custy-I don't know if you remember me from the meetup before last but I remember you-I knicked a naughty fag off you! Well done for stopping! Am proud of you!

Oh hello drop, sad that your here, do you think you can over it without the lozengers? it does just lengthen the process.
But be prepared for tears of sorrow and frustration (or is that just me?)
Its not worth it, and I know what you mean about to the point of depression, all you want to do is stop and all you keep doing is smoking? Its fecking AWFUL.
Well you know it CAN be done, and you know that whatever your head says you know its just an excuse, and there is never a good reason for having a fag, and you know that once you escape this poxy trap, even if only for a few hours that your never going to return to it, and the only way to do that is to never pick up another fag as long as you live.

No turning back.

I think I want to try it without them as it took me approx 6 months to get off them as well! Its fate that you are online now-you were last time I gave up. I just want to cry with the task ahead.

I have just copied and pasted your Smokers vow to keep in my handbag.It is not helping that my Thyroid is playing up and I'm due on too-am a hormonal mess!

Do cry then, sob your heart out, I did, I have tears in my eyes for you. But it is so so so so doable. And you will be determined not to go back once you have cracked it, no flapping, no doubt, just do it and dont look back.