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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 · 05/11/2004 23:53

I must admit that whilst i was moved, i didn't cry but then i came off a week ago and my emotional state is somewhat the better for it

my eyes are aching like crazy, maybe i need ot change glasses but yesterday really killed me being on the pc!

minkmama · 06/11/2004 00:14

off to bed now, night night all xxx

nearlyfour · 06/11/2004 02:53

I've just downloaded my quitometer. Thanks Charliecat. Yes, I really AM writing this at 02.25am! Ooh, just realised its now 2.50am, its taken my 25 mins to write this. Can't sleep. Managed a couple of hours early on but woke around 12.00 and finally gave in and came downstairs 15 mins ago. I am usually, unless ill, the world's best sleeper, so wonder whether its the patch - the bumph does say could affect sleep, and I am very itchy, and we've got a busy weekend, away at friends for bonfire night party. Oh well, maybe I'll do the ironing! Or watch West Wing dvds. Or both. And of course, I'll want to sleep just as dawn breaks, sleep through the alarm, dd will decide this is the morning to sleep late, and I'll miss my incredibly early appointment at hairdressers!

The good news is .....17h 22 mins not smoked, 50 minutes life saved! Ooh, and £2.63.

Minkmama, just seen your post. No, definitley NOT nearly four children. I'm actually a bit of a wimp and only have one. A gorgeous (aren't they all) little girl, who was when I chose my name, nearly four. She's actually now nearly five, so maybe I need a name change.

Well done for going cold turkey prefernot. To answer your question, I've smoked for about 15years, and very stupidly actually didnt start until mid twenties - missed the whole rebel teen thing. Everyone where I worked at the time (PR agency) smoked and I got drawn in. Stopped when pregnant (five years ago) but started again. Reasons to stop - all the obvious ones really, but am (oops, WAS, beginning to smoke more, and I can't bear the guilt when looking at dh and dd. They NEED me, well don't they all need us fabby women! Anyway, have been rambling so had better go or will be talking to myself all night, or morning. Have a good weekend everyone, I probably won't be on again until Sunday night. Be strong! Although you are all doing so well anyway.

charliecat · 06/11/2004 10:26

Morning, dearest children, all 4 of them got up at 5.45 this morning and now a few hours later im ready to string them up by there toes!!!!!!!!!
Just a quick Hello!

prefernot · 06/11/2004 12:26

I've still not managed to download one of the counters as I'm missing something on my computer to open it. Maybe I should keep a manual one instead ...

Well done nearlyfour for your first day. So I'm guessing you're a bit of an 'oldie' like me. You didn't say how many you were 'on' a day?

Question for you patch-wearing / lozenge-sucking quitters ... does it really help with cravings etc.? Is there a danger of your getting addicted ot the nicotine replacement thing itself?

I've still got a headache. Bleaurghhh ...

charliecat · 06/11/2004 13:31

i AM ACTUALLY RATHER WORRIED ABOUT THE GETTING OFF THE LOZENGES PREFERNOT..oops caps off now..I am dropping to 1 mg today and i will let you kmnow how it goes. Hope to be free of the lozengers in the next couple of weeks.
is the headache still there when you had took pain killers?

fionagib · 06/11/2004 20:03

Hi folks and congrats nearlyfour! 1001 non smoked cc that's amazing!!!

Hope everyone's having a good weekend, we stayed over at friends last night and had tons to drink, found myself eyeing 2 fag packets at friends' flat, and did have a few puffs on a joint, but that doesn't count does it, doesn't mean I have to set my counter back to zero!!! actually the counter, and the thought of having to confess to you folks, were the only things that stopped me blagging a ciggie last night cos I was desperate. went to bed fully expecting dh to have one when I was out of sight, but he didn't - he's done nearly a week, me nearly 2 weeks...

dd (aged 4) saw an ashtray at our friends' house and asked what it as for. dh told her. She said, 'You used to smoke but you don't any more and that's good cos your lungs will get better.' He said there's no way he could bear to smoke after hearing that!

prefer not, hope you're feeling better, poor you -seems v unfair!!

cc, agnus castus comes as a tincture which a kind of essense I think, is that right mm - a v potent liquid anyway, you just take a few drops - or in capsules. Holland & Barrett sell it, or chemists that stock homeopathic remedies. I think there's a bioforce one.

Glad to hear nursery's going well mm - how quickly he's settled, that's brilliant & must be a massive weight off your mind...

bit bushed after late night, am gonna cosy up with Pretty In Pink, thanks to mm!! xxxxx night night

charliecat · 06/11/2004 20:56

Big Meltdown from DD1 after too junk food and not enough sleep after last nights sleep over...handled it rather well and wasnt until I sighed a big sigh that I realised I hadnt been thinking fag fag fag fag...which is good.
Dropped a MG...now on the 1mgs...who put the cardboard crap in the middle? Im on nicotinell ones...the other ones what were they nicosomething were tasty all the way through!!!
Going to go to health shop on Monday folks as my moods and pmt are getting a bit much and im questioning my own sanity in a strange out of body way...yes, definetly need something!!!!!!!!!!!

prefernot · 06/11/2004 21:16

Oh cc, I know exactly what you mean about always thinking fag fag fag during a meltdown. Dd doesn't have real tantrums yet but is much more demanding now and can whinge for England. It's those moments I'd always be hanging with my head and shoulders out of the kitchen window smoking (21st floor flat, no garden to sneak out to). Whenever dd asked me what I was doing I'd always say 'just seeing what the weather's like.' Dd's finding it strange that we're spending so much time at home now. Before because I really don't like smoking at home (even if I am hanging dangerously out the window) I had to take her out to the park for long sessions at least twice a day. Or out to the rubbish shoot down the corridor to drop in a minute bag of rubbish. Pathetic!

Yes, cc paracetamols do make the headache disappear. But I'm having to take them regularly. I think I've got a viral thing at the same time because I'm having weird temperature changes. I've also having a period as of today but don't usually get much pmt.

At the moment this feeling physically crap seems a bit endless. Nevertheless, truth is I was feeling crap before I gave up smoking (saying the past tense rather confidently don't you think???) which is why I chose now to do it ...

When I'm feeling morbid I have this thought that maybe it's too late and I've done irreparable damage to my heart / lungs already ...

prefernot · 06/11/2004 21:21

Oh cc, I know exactly what you mean about always thinking fag fag fag during a meltdown. Dd doesn't have real tantrums yet but is much more demanding now and can whinge for England. It's those moments I'd always be hanging with my head and shoulders out of the kitchen window smoking (21st floor flat, no garden to sneak out to). Whenever dd asked me what I was doing I'd always say 'just seeing what the weather's like.' Dd's finding it strange that we're spending so much time at home now. Before because I really don't like smoking at home (even if I am hanging dangerously out the window) I had to take her out to the park for long sessions at least twice a day. Or out to the rubbish shoot down the corridor to drop in a minute bag of rubbish. Pathetic!

Yes, cc paracetamols do make the headache disappear. But I'm having to take them regularly. I think I've got a viral thing at the same time because I'm having weird temperature changes. I've also having a period as of today but don't usually get much pmt.

At the moment this feeling physically crap seems a bit endless. Nevertheless, truth is I was feeling crap before I gave up smoking (saying the past tense rather confidently don't you think???) which is why I chose now to do it ...

When I'm feeling morbid I have this thought that maybe it's too late and I've done irreparable damage to my heart / lungs already ...

prefernot · 06/11/2004 21:22

Don't you just hate it when your posts repeat for no good reason?

charliecat · 06/11/2004 21:24

Oh No Dont think like that!!!!!! Think Cleanse Cleanse Cleanse.... There are a lot of things going round just now, I think the temp could also be part of giving up smoking though as I know me and certainly FG have had sweaty moments throughout our first few hundred quits
OMG 21st floor...you must have saw some nice fireworks this evening!
I hope you start to feel better soon, if you do have a virus when it goes you will feel FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!
Pop a vitamin pill in the morning when you get up as well as your paracetamol and see how it goes? Have any of your friends or family got any dodgy viruses? Hope you feel better soon anyway xx
Ah...kick me but is it because you now have time to contemplate feeling ill as your not filling in every 5 mins with a fag??...Just a thought..but if someone had of said that to me when I was feeling shit the other week I would have kicked them!!!!!!!!!!!

charliecat · 06/11/2004 21:24

I think you really typed it twice, word for word

prefernot · 06/11/2004 21:24

Oh cc, I know exactly what you mean about always thinking fag fag fag during a meltdown. Dd doesn't have real tantrums yet but is much more demanding now and can whinge for England. It's those moments I'd always be hanging with my head and shoulders out of the kitchen window smoking (21st floor flat, no garden to sneak out to). Whenever dd asked me what I was doing I'd always say 'just seeing what the weather's like.' Dd's finding it strange that we're spending so much time at home now. Before because I really don't like smoking at home (even if I am hanging dangerously out the window) I had to take her out to the park for long sessions at least twice a day. Or out to the rubbish shoot down the corridor to drop in a minute bag of rubbish. Pathetic!

Yes, cc paracetamols do make the headache disappear. But I'm having to take them regularly. I think I've got a viral thing at the same time because I'm having weird temperature changes. I've also having a period as of today but don't usually get much pmt.

At the moment this feeling physically crap seems a bit endless. Nevertheless, truth is I was feeling crap before I gave up smoking (saying the past tense rather confidently don't you think???) which is why I chose now to do it ...

When I'm feeling morbid I have this thought that maybe it's too late and I've done irreparable damage to my heart / lungs already ...

charliecat · 06/11/2004 21:26

Ok we heard you the first couple of times!

prefernot · 06/11/2004 21:28

Erm ... typed it 3 times it seems ...

No, I won't kick you cc, you're such a supportive and honest presence. I think you're right. I think my lungs have felt awful (I mentioned I'm asthmatic?) and I used to drown out their feeling awful by having a smoke, now I just feel their awfulness in full.

Wonder how many times this post will recur ...

charliecat · 06/11/2004 21:31

Well I didnt think id hit it on the head...but have I???!!!
Heres something from earlier on in the thread..............Oh and also bumped into one of those...my uncle fred smoked till he was 91 and he was fine, he gave up at 91 and spent the last 5 years of his life feeling really ill was in better health when he did smoke...really makes me that does.
My mum, still smoking, well it gave her a glimmer of hope and reassured her she should still keep smoking. So i said Uncle Fred would have probably been dead at 91 if he hadnt stopped, and he must have stopped for some reason....
And thats what made me think that you now have time to think ewww...whereas before stopping smoking I know I managed to cram every spare minute with a fag.

charliecat · 06/11/2004 21:33

Coz I thought the same about the Uncle fred dude...when he stopped smoking he suddendly had time to contemplate and analize his health..

prefernot · 06/11/2004 21:59

Cc, I think I've been aneasthetising my crappy lungs with nicotine for ages. When I cut down drastically when pregnant I had asthma attacks for about a month. Apparently in a strange way smoking does help asthma as it paralyses the small hairs that line the lungs which get inflamed when you're asthmatic.

But I am feeling a bit morbid at the moment and my mind keeps wandering onto more dire things being wrong ...

prefernot · 06/11/2004 22:07

Thinking of pregnancy. How many people here kept on smoking through their pregnancies? I know it's a very taboo subject and filled with guilt. I went from smoking 30 a day to 1-2 a day but I never completely stopped. Actually I think I had odd days when I had such dire nausea I didn't smoke at all.

don't feel obliged to answer this question by the way!

On the same theme, is this the first time everyone here has given up? As I've said, it's my 2nd time,I gave up 10 years ago for 2 years. I still feel annoyed that I started again as I really was pretty much 'cured.'

charliecat · 06/11/2004 22:07

Well at least its not just me then When I stop stropping about the fact im depriving myself of a fag, I do stop and think how excellent it is not to be congesting myself and a big black cloud has lifted since stopping...have you had one of those moments yet or are you feeling too under the weather for that?

charliecat · 06/11/2004 22:09

I have been continually on and off the fags...permanently wanting to be off them for 2 years. I smoked throughout my pregnacys...lots...much guilt.

mammya · 06/11/2004 22:10

Hi everyone, well done for not smoking! I went to a bonfire night party yesterday at my smoking-friends house, and didn't give in to the craving! Wasn't too bad actually, just drank lots of mulled wine instead.
Prefernot, how long has it been now? I gave up cold-turkey and the physically feeling very bad bit lasted only a few days, 3 or 4 or so. And yes I did get the sweating, the not sleeping, the jittery feeling and the headaches. And also the feeling that I could easily murder someone!

charliecat · 07/11/2004 09:02

Its nice gettignt hrough something you thought might trip you up isnt it mammya?
My house is a bomb againb and am going to spend the day sorting it out...what fun.

mammya · 07/11/2004 09:49

Good morning cc!
Yes it's fantastic not to give in! It's made me feel so good about myself!
My flat is a mess too... I can't seem to keep on top of it, I much prefer to spend the time on mumsnet...