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

[charliecatthenonsmoker]

Waiting for some friends to join me!

you're doing fine fg, you're finally here so WELCOME BACK.

don't worry about the silkquit thing, once you get it to work you can adjust the start date to whenever you like even if it was ages ago.

are you using the lozenges this time? i think i forgot to have one at all yesterday!!

mammya, i always crumble when i go into london, reminds me of a freedom and life i used to have pre-babies and i end up thinking 'oh sod it, i'll smoke whilst i'm here like it's a holiday'. the truth is, it's merely an association and a ciggie in london is no more enjoyable than a ciggie anywhere else and it's these associations we have to break away from. my weakest was morning coffee but got over that and is now going out on my own sans kids. what's yours?

I know what you mean about associations with 'free' times mm - but when you put it like that, a ciggie in london is no more enjoyable than one anywhere else, it does illustrate how our minds are warped by the monster!

silkquit is sorted - have saved 30 mins of my life!

Hope you're all doing fine, am feeling pretty good, have some of your black pepper 'depression' oil left mm, and have slathered it on, yum. xxx

Oh yeah, it's the lozenge method this time mm, haven't had urge for one yet tho (prob due to party fag overload! Can barely speak! About 40 people came btw)

xx

Well Done everyone, couldnt wait to see how you had done FG. Did jimmy join in?
LOL MM I will leave you feedback in a couple of days

yeah well done all!

am slightly drunk due to thinking that bottle had less wine in it than it did and ended up pouring far too much into my glass. am now turning into an alcoholic instead of a smoker

oh fg, i find that after smoking when i shouldn't be i.e. after a break, my body appears to have had it's fill of the drug and there is no need for anymore ciggie or lozenge for a couple of days. when your body tells you nasty things in a couple of days about how it wants you to replenish its supply DO NOT LISTEN!!!!

off to watch 'the oc'... xxxx

OC? watzat?

enjoy your wine mm! You're hardly drooling down your front & smacking your head on door frames. Or are you....?

nah, I love a drink too, at any time but maybe even more when am not smoking, as it eases the pain and emptiness (both illusions, I know, but still powerful!)

And you're right mm - my body is so jam packed with nicotine that a scary black logo - SMOKING KILLS - has appeared on my forehead just like on the fag packets, and didn't really wanna fag it today. Only 1 lozenge. But ta for reminding me that it tends to rev up - the longing, the crankiness etc - a couple of days into quitting...

I shall tell the monster to bugger off.

Hope you're all having a gooood, relatively stress free day... love the clock system btw cc, what a motivator! Yeah dh has quit too, has just demanded shoulder massage with mm's black pepper oils. Am v v v v pleased he's quitting so don't wanna moan about foul tempers etc.

speak tomorrow, gotta get stuck into work now xxxx night all

ps I know it is way way too early to be smug but it was really lovely giving the kids a good night cuddle tonight without fretting that my hair & face stank and having them turn away from me in disgust, as Dex did last week. He refused to kiss me. Like you say, mammya, it's horrible, the 'you stink mummy' syndrome! Cuddles tonight were esp. nice as they'd been away at gran's all weekend for the very first time (they'd only stayed 1 night before)

na-night

Cough Splutter I have had a joint as the weed was leaving the house and my voice asked without me even thinking it...seriously. So no comment from me. Wasnt a fag though...

i reckon that if you can separate the herbal from the regular cc, then it's not so much of a problem...depends whether or not it will lead you to more dastardly deeds?!! i'm sensing though from whenever you have one that you still regard it as a wee nico monster...is that right? if so, then this is one of your weaknesses and perhaps you should just get p*ssed like me and fg. mammya, you seem v. sensible and not at all drooly like me and fg after a drink(s)...surely this isn't true?!!

sorry if i sounded prematurely negative fg, just want you to remember that today you feel GOOD and so you will tomorrow and the day after and the day after that! Well done on your 1st day!!!

cc, the oc is a teen series on E4 and channel 4 for us youngsters. i watch a load of crap, relaxes me no end. am also addicted ot sunset beach

off to bed now, i think it's fair to say i've sobered up (damn)! will read my new book for about 5 mins i reckon...

night night xx

I do think of a joint as a part failure simply because when smoking fags I never think...ohhh ill have a joint. Only when not smoking.
And its ok having one when still on micotine, but nicotine free having 1 would knock me off my stool
I will hit the vodka in future. I dont get drooly because by the time I am im laying flat on my back in bed giggling instead
Be as smug as you like FG, Whenever I have negative thoughts I have to remind myself as long as i havent smoked a fag it doesnt matter WHAT my brain is saying im still there!!!
Where are you Mammya? still being strong I hope!
MM the only programme I try and watch is the antiques roadshow, I used to watch all number of things but now the kids are watching it, or the playstations plugged in or they simply interupt you so many times during one hafl hour episode its not worth trying!!!

didn't think you were being neg mm, not at all, it's something to watch out for and you're quite right! Am feeling fine this am. Ticker clock this is the business. DH is going cold turkey, he refuses to use substitutes, which worries me as he gets v v bad withdrawals - like he claims he can't see properly. One time we have up in around 1995 (!) and he was at the bus stop, going, 'I'm going blind'!!!

Oh god we have been trying to quit for 10 yrs. So tragic! This HAS to be it, once and for bl@@dy all...

Def think there's a difference cc, between chuffing fags and the occasional herbal - the only thing is it does make you feel bad and ekes a bit of the old niccy into your system, but maybe you can have the odd one and not fall off the ciggie wagon? btw I am not proud of how much I drink & wanna cut down, cos we have been hammering it - but can't rule out all vices all at once.

Hope you're all having a good day, am mink-oiled, have eaten 4 tomatoes (!) and a pile of work so had better get on.. catch up later xxxx

ps instead of working last night eneded up having hour long soak with magazine, shaved legs, slapped on creams & oils etc. Naughty, but I do think it's important to relax (or re-learn how to relax, without smoking)during the early days of quitting. Was v nice actually. Then lay in bed in a pool of my own nictotine scented sweat. SEXY!!!!

Another day, day 18 am due on ish and feeling rather like a red blooded dragon but am going out shopping and so it should calm my rage over absoultly nothing...

oi, did you skive off work cc?!!!

LOL fg about the 'i'm going blind...' i think you should slip those lozenges into his pocket for work because at least if he starts shaking (or indeed going blind) he has them at hand whether he wanted them or not! much better than grabbing a fag off someone!!

i get ds1 into sunset beach which is relatively easy given that it is a load of over-exaggerated acting but i understand that that is a lot harder with the antiques roadshow

1995 is not tragic at all fg, at least you guys have TRIED. think of all those (like my mum) who smoke for 30yrs without even wanting to try. THAT is tragic.

cc, herbals make me giggle, alcohol just makes my face go beetroot and body collapse to jelly as if someone has removed my bones! not bad as a form of relaxation. i disagree fg, everyone should have a vice (just not smoking!) otherwise what's the point? we can't go around smacking towels everywhere....

sun is shining yey what a lovely day!!!

WHERE ARE YOU MAMMYA?!!

cc, i'm on already and have had a temper like a typhoon! poor dh!!

Hi guys, still not smoking! 1 week 1 day 5 hours 34 minutes and 45 seconds without smoking, 164 ciggies not smoked! woohoo! I love this counter thingy...

CC, the "herbal" was one of the reasons I started smoking again, too many spliffs with tobacco in them... I was fine as long as I used my pipe and smoked it pure, also smoking a lot less. I recommend the silver palm leaf pipe (the credit card one), it's not cheap but the best one I've found. although I haven't had any herbal for a while now. Hmmm... there's a thought!

MM, am sensible if I've only had a couple of glasses of red wine. When really drunk not sensible at all! Which is why I try not to get too hammered! I try to stop when I'm "a bit jolly" IYSWIM

I think if Dp would stop buying big chunks of it, seeing that he had one joint every 6 months if that I would be fine without herbal.
I have the ideal job, the nursery opens at 9.30 giving me time to get there after dropping dd1 off and it closes at 1.30 leaving me a couple of hours peace and then it has all the same holidays as dd1s school. Couldnt wish for more! Its half term here btw!
My mums just arrived so must go but...Go girls...go girls!!!!!!

Also, at risk of chatting to myself...at the bus stop today with no lozenges I turned round to see an old man and an old woman both smoking, my first thought was" You two should be dead by now the amount of fags youve smoked in your years" the second was...do and Allen Carr and watch them, see how much pleasure they are getting...and I nearly vomitted as the old ladie didnt have any teeth so when she took a drag her cheeks went right in and she looked SCARY!!!!!! It was revolting.
Same bus stop 2 mins later. Posh looking old bloke sits down, lights a fag, I usher the kids out of the way, then observe, thought " Well you look healthy with that fag" then noticed he didnt really have yellowy nicotine hands/fingers...watched some more and it dawned on me he was sitting at the bus stop as he was approaching a hill, and Mr Nicotine had said That hills gonna take some effort...sit down have a fag first...and he was having trouble just sitting there, let alone getting up the hill, and he was really struggling with each breath/drag.
Thought you poor bastard, I hope I never get like that.

yeah I know what you mean cc, am not gonna be moral as have fallen off wagon 8 million times and this is only day 2! But I mentioned our local lollypop lady before, who's in her sixties & chain smokes and looks awful, no harm to her poor dear but god I'd hate to end up like that, still chuffing at that age.

so day two and feel okay, need a lozenge, and did have a hissy fit at kids due to general mess/devastation of house. yeah like both of you mm and cc, I have a foul foul temper sometimes.

dh cold turkeying also on day 2, utterly miserable (and probably blind!). Oh well, at least that means I can get as fat as I like!!!

am in awe of how many day's you've all accumulated! Might 'fix' my clock

catch you tomorrow xxx

Dont you DARE fix your clock we have earnt our hours. All that time you were smuggly sitting puffing while we suffered the pain of getting clean
Could put my bickering kids in a roll up and smoke them right now but I wont.

LOL cc about the kiddie ciggie

i just don't want to be like my mum who god bless her, is lovely but often puts her fags before ANYTHING and is in a bad mood when she can't have one!! also at the stage where 'we're all going to die of something' and 'what's the point at my age?' (only 55 btw)

got more photos for you lot...sorry!!

Cor Mink envious at your gorgeous self!!
And the first piccy of the boys needs to be blew up into poster size...Excellent!
My mum today was saying "...and thats when I chainsmoke" and I said yeah but having those fags doesnt help does it, it doesnt make the problem go away.
I am now just on a mission. Am I f* gonna set that clock back to 0.00 and nothings would make me smoke a fag.
Fg well done you and Jimmy, has he had any episodes yet?
I find Cold Turkey like mental agony, too painful to bear and would happily bow to anyone who achieves it!!!!! That includes you Mammya!
The clock I think its a great device!

well done all on a good day!

cc, must point out that i had had my hair done that day and had visited a make up counter too, so in actual fact not the real me at all!!

oh oh, baby stirring! night night all xxx

Morning! The past few mornings with the arse of the fluey thing still in my system and the heating coming on at about 7...I have been getting up feeling as if ive smoked 40 fags the night before with the bunged up back of nose feeling. Its sort of knocking me for the first 5 mins, I wonder did I have a fag last night, did I dream I did, since I feel like ive had 40 would 1 be ok....lol...any suggestions to stop the central heating bungedupness please.