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This is the one where none of us fail! -Quitting fags thread.

439 replies

charliecatthenonsmoker · 15/10/2004 16:29

Waiting for some friends to join me!

OP posts:
minkmama · 02/11/2004 22:43

oh i know mammya! AND they expect you to be able to do it !!!

are you drunk already cc?!!!!

charliecat · 02/11/2004 22:55

I got dp to accost the drunkard next door for a bit of weed girls , it make me run to the loo as it had that laxative effect but instead of banging my head off of the nearest wall (FG that made me laugh so much) I have sat and watched an hour and a half of tv, wife swif and some other such like shit and i am as mellow as a bird.........
No comment on dp. Will only swear and get annoyed again...ill rant tommorow.
We are doing fab with our mulled wines and spliffs!

charliecat · 02/11/2004 22:55

Er that would be wife swap

charliecat · 02/11/2004 23:36

Going to bed now and Hello Carla if ive hooked you in from that other thread

fionagib · 02/11/2004 23:37

dh back from his walk and now maniacally cleaning out our porch which has about 5,000 pairs of kanckered and no longer fitting kids' shoes littering the floor. Yey, a tidy porch! He is also swearing madly about astronomical bills for car fixing. we have 2 cars, I only use mine about twice a week but cannot bear to be car-less in a wee village 25 miles from a city (this is my indulgence). Could use pub transport to save cash but with 3 kids??? Am I do like it here, the peace & lovely countryside etc, but hate hate hate feeling stranded & some friends live out in the wilds with no buses stopping nearby.

am sucking lozenge madly.

great flash of wisdom - buy wine box instead of bottle! nice and cheap, no twiddling with corks, am on forth glass Only way to tackle admin is while midly pissed.

Love it that dh is in mad cleaning sorting frenzy but fear that he will spontaneously combust. Gave him a back rub with your black pepper oil mm, it seems to last for ever & ever! Not too girly, a great blend for big macho shoe chucking out fellas.

Oh yeah and sorry if this is 'too much info'... but my sex drive has slumped since quitting BUT ALL ADMIN IS DONE! WHAT A THRILL!

another glass from the winebox to celebrate...

no more puffs prefernot, get your timer set up and it'll help massively, it's got me thro the past 9 days xx

fionagib · 02/11/2004 23:43

cc I don't know how to do links but how about you do another wee thread along the lines of STOP FAGS! WE ARE ALL DOING REALLY WELL! and bringing any new quitters or hoping to be quitters into this thread here? It seems to be the lucky thread!

don't mean to be bossy.... am a bit drunk. Night night xxx
ps have copies of new book here, cat me your home address (sorry, I never set up that gmail thing as am PC dunce, and lost your address) and I will send you a copy

charliecat · 03/11/2004 07:35

OMG NEW BOOK ALREADY??????????????????? Email on its way! Glad your dh is on a mission with his patch on, I always try and refrain doing what hes doing as i worry that when i run out of things to do (ha never) id sit down and have a fag!

fionagib · 03/11/2004 09:44

morning all, I think in his non smoking cleaning porch frenzy dh might have thrown out my coat with my purse in the pockets cos I can't bloody find them!

182 fags not smoked, whoo!! and pmt not TOO bad this month... have a bonfire do to go to on Fri night in glasgow which will be a bit smokey but feel I can handle those evenings ok now...

how's everyone, feeling strong & positive and craving free, I hope xxxx

ps prefernot hope those horrible symptoms are subsiding

prefernot · 03/11/2004 12:26

Hello smoke-free friends (apart from those cheeky spliffers among the group ...). I haven't puffed a thing. I also haven't got my counter set up. I've tried and tried and I always seem to be missing something or other on my computer. I'll keep trying though. But concentration is at an all-time low at the moment. The minute I sit down for a while I start getting edgy and weird so I get up again and do something else! Actually so far today I don't feel AS bad as yesterday but yesterday to be truthful I felt on death's door and wondered why I have never written a will ... Could be I've got nothing to leave ... Seriously, I felt awful, I've never had such awful pounding palpitations in my chest and breathlessness, weakness, horrible. Tell me again, can those things REALLY all be connected to giving up the evil white sticks?

Hope you're all doing ok today.

Thanks again for your friendship and interest. It really DOES help. Everytime one of you says 'no more puffs' I know you're completely right ...

charliecat · 03/11/2004 12:30

Hi Everyone, im back on planet earth today, that spliff stopped me from decapitating dp if nothing else.
Allen Carr describes the withdrawal as mild flu Prefernot...and there are a few dodgy things going round so it could be a combination of no fags and a bug.
Going to get dd2 from nursery now, put her name down for a place at school today shes so diddy she couldnt see over the school reception desk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And she starts next September OMG OMG OMG

charliecat · 03/11/2004 12:31

Found your purse yet FG, now if youdd have been throwing out coats you would have looked in all the pockets first..hmmpphh MEN!

fionagib · 03/11/2004 14:09

well done prefernot!

found my stuff, it wasn't dh it was me, not looking properly.

1 week 2 days for me, day 3 for dh... last night ds said, 'does daddy have a lot going on at work cos he's not as jolly as he usually is.' didn't tell him it's the evil fag cravings which are making my dh ill-humoured...

yeah the lack of concentration is so annoying isn't it - am suffering from that a bit today, should be working but am fiddling about... MUST GET OFF MUMSNET.... SMACK SMACK...

charliecat · 03/11/2004 15:47

Bloody women always losing things...

minkmama · 03/11/2004 20:22

hi girls,

hope you all had a decent day! 2nd settling in day for ds1 and we sat in the staff room for the most part and he was okay but then at the end he saw a door open and started crying when he realised we weren't there! hopefully fri will be better, we're actually thinking of putting him in for 2 day instead of 1 to get him used to it more...

apart from that, not much to tell - dh is still on holiday so most of the time we're trying to get out of the house.

i saw that bonusprint deal in epsom today cc, 50prints for £5 which is quite good! unfortunately no shop in croydon so will check to see if they do on-line.

frantically trying to organise myself so that i can put my stuff on ebay and fg - haven't forgotten about you, will sit down and calculate soon i promise!!

don't you just hate it when you're the one who's misplaced something?!!! at least you found it though! LOL re: dh on speed-type activity

prefernot · 03/11/2004 20:24

Mild flu is putting it mildly. Actually I wonder if something else is up as I'm convinced I didn't feel anything like this when I gave up before. I remember headaches, irritability, anxiousness, and cravings. But these palpitations and the feeling of pressure in my chest are hard to bear.

Oh Lord, I'm struggling tonight. Thank goodness dd's in bed so there's no hope of me nipping out for a pack. I think if it was daytime and I was near a shop right now I'd seriously succumb. A bad moment.

prefernot · 03/11/2004 20:26

I'm sorry. That sounded so miserable. You're all being so positive and practical and optimistic and all I do is go on about my bloody palpitations.

Grrrrr ........

charliecat · 03/11/2004 20:56

Prefer not do not worry about moaning we swear and we rant and we moan like hell...keep moaning...going to finish watching trinny, but you are doing great and moan all you like...
i have experienced palpatations btw during giving up fags has any one else??

minkmama · 03/11/2004 21:11

i haven't although i didn't smoke that many, i don't know if that makes a difference? really feel for you prefernot, it sounds horrid! don't worry about sounding whatever as that is what this thread is for, support when you feel like cr*p...if it wasn't difficult, we would have cracked it for years by now! tell us when you feel good and when you feel bad, at least we can all share in each other's everyday joys and be sympathetic to each other's everyday stresses

just re-read, did that sound like i was on happy-pill?!!!!

you lot know what i mean....

minkmama · 03/11/2004 21:17

off to stuff my face again...i'm putting on pounds too because of a)mainly the season, eat loads when it's cold b)just came off and c) can't be bothered to eat breakfast except coffee nor lunch but end up chomping biscuits or cakes at teatime and after dinner

have just bought a taebo exercise dvd off ebay and will get one of those strange abdomen contraptions has a wheel and handles on either side so that you roll back and forth whilst kneeling. hope it does the trick, quite fed up with this after the birth jelly belly...

prefernot · 03/11/2004 21:27

Strange thing for me this time is that when I gave up 10 years ago (keep going on about that as I gave up for 2 years before relapse so it was my most successful attempt ever) I was smoking more at the time of stopping. Lately I've been on 5-10 a day so that's not loads is it? At my worse pre-dd it was 30 a day. So why do I feel so lousy now. Maybe it's because I'm such an old bag now.

Sigh ...

Cc, I keep meaning to tell you that you're on the 'waiting to be confirmed' names list for the Christmas kids party at Corams so if you'd still like to go along maybe you could post a message on the thread to say so? If you do go we might meet face to face ...

mammya · 03/11/2004 21:54

Hello my non-smoking friends!
Well done all of you for still not smoking.
Prefernot, are you a single mum too? I've been in the same position of being saved by my sleeping dd!
Today's been OK, no major cravings, but then busy all day, although still eating too much, nuts and chocolate in particular!

fionagib · 03/11/2004 23:41

am scoffing too - cold roast spuds & chicken yanked off the carcass... also wine (again), just got in from evening out, local writing group, few people fagging but only roll ups which never do it for me.

prefernot you are doing so well, with those horrible symptoms & cravings... it WILL get better...

think am gonna soak in bath, am a bit crave-ish myself right now,

dh in mad wardrobe clearing out frenzy

am knackered, night night xxxx

fionagib · 04/11/2004 09:52

Hi girls, lovely sunny autumn day here... hope you're all doing fine... had a v minor adult tantrum this a.m. trying to get boys out to school on tiome - threw my bag across the hall, sending coins bouncing everywhere - but it did seem a bit of a pathetic gesture, and we were friends again by the time they went into school (I HATE it when they go into school and I've shouted at them, and we haven't made up. Always feel like banging on their classroom window & shouting sorry!)

mm am sure it's still quite weird the whole nursery settling in thing, and he is gonna cry a bit because he's been around you so much - but he sounds v lively & active and am sure he'll be fine. You know my dd has been in pt nursery since she was a baby, well there's a local playgroup too, and I thought we'd give it a go, and she howled and howled - I thought, what the hell am I doing, she already goes to nursery! It took 2 weeks and she was fine, absolutely loved it, made some lovely friends who are still her best friends now 2 years on. It'll be fine!!! btw at the boys' old nursery they had a massive box of kleenex on the table for upset mums!

dh v much enjoying your oils mm - we're just finishing off the last of the b. pepper oil cos he's demanding nightly back & shoulder rubs. I quite like doing it cos I get to breathe in the lovely oils.

dh filled 4 binliners of old clothes last night and has banned me from rifling through them for things 'to make cushions with' (I NEVER make cushions, just hang onto old bits of fabric INTENDING to make cushions) or for the dressing up box. am really pleased he's quit, manic cleaning activity v entertaining - he's doing v well, bit tense round the edges, and also having to cope with his ma going into a home soon (she has dementia). am trying to supportive and good-wife-ish so he does go f?@$ it and run to the garage for fags.

my counter says 202 fags not smoked!

how's everyone else today? xxxxx

fionagib · 04/11/2004 09:54

blah di blah shurrup fiona!!!

prefernot · 04/11/2004 13:32

Hello everyone. Still no smokes for me, though I did eye an untouched ciggie someone dropped on the floor when out this morning ...

And now I feel like there's a small rat gnawing away at the middle of my chest. I didn't sleep well last night, very restless and uncomfortable so am going to try to get a nap now while dd sleeps.

No mammya, I'm not a single mum but my dp works very long and odd hours, i.e. usually not home until going on 10pm and out all weekend. So when I'm home with dd it's more often than not just she and I.

I MUST try to get one of those counter thingies when my brain's a bit less fuzzled.

CC did you see my earlier post here about the Corams Christmas bash?

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