i stopped smoking on sunday.....anyone else stopped or stopping any time soon?????

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i just wanted to see how other people are dealing with not smoking or who are in the process of quitting. i stopped on sunday, and today i am feeling very run down and have a hoooge headache.any support would be welcome

Hi,
Its been 23 days for me now !~really pleased with myself.
Dont think about it much now and realise that if i did have one i`d prob be sick anyway !
Fresh breath and my skin is clearer than its been for years !!!!!!!

i'm breaking out in spots. almost day 3 and i am a non smoker - i am so chuffed with myself i cant tell you yippppeeee

well done fakeblonde xxx

custardo are you coughing?

i m really bad and my chest is quite sore

in 5 mins i will not have smoked for 48hours

no not coughing my ring up yet - but my lungs hurt a bit and my breathing has been a little worse. its your lungs expelling all the shit. consider it a good thing next time you cough so much you wet yourself

xxxx well done you - i have another one hour 15 mins before its officially day three for me....not that i am counting

oh thats ok, i thought i was dying from stopping

well done

heres ready for tomorrow

I stopped 9 years ago. Took me about 2 years of stopping for a while then thinking I could 'just have one'
So never 'just have one'.
Also what worked for me the final time was to have 2 fags and some matches in a secret place, so I knew I could have one if I was really really really desperate and that seemed to work better than just not having any at all in the house as it made me much more obsessed with the fact that I couldn't have one iyswim.
Over the 9 years I've come across so many people that this worked for.
Mind you they were there in that drawer for about 4 years!!
Keep at it, its so worth it in the end, I met dp a month after I stopped and he said later that if I had still been a smoker there would have been no 2nd date.

Oh custy just read your post.
Shoot your dp if he won't give up as well. your defence could be that you were suffering from acute nicotine withdrawal. What a selfish dp, and what fantastic will power you have.

Hope you are making him go outside for fags as its chucking it down tonight and due to get really cold

yeah i do!

day three - it feel harder!

i gave up 10 YEARS AGO (yes, i'm showing off)

one bit of great advice i had was to try and remember that the craving for a fag only lasts for 4 minutes, so, go and do something else with your hands for that 4 minutes (use your imagination )

keep going, you no longer stink!!!

i know people keep saying that - and i even say it to dh - eww piss off smelly i say- but secrety i love the smell

This Friday will be week 4 of no smoking. I'm going to the chemist later for my smoking cessation session (don't even try saying that when you're pissed) to get my patches. I've been getting dizzy the last few days so I'm going to try going down to a 10mg patch. Patches + liquorice nicotine gum = not too bad withdrawal for me.

Having done this before though, I know it's not the giving up that's the hardest bit, it's the staying off. This time when I've finished with the patches, I'm planning to keep 2mg gum with me at all times just in case. Chemist tells me there's no problem with chewing the gum whenever a craving happens, however long this may be.

Day 3 for me and still going. I sometimes feel like crying. It will pass. I keep thinking it wont be so tempting to lapse this time since the smoking ban.

i have a big problem now
its the northern ireland match tonight
that involves beer and fags

have decided to stay at home, and probably will avoid the beer
but i know im going to be gagging for a smoke

yeah dont go out - you know you will partake! well done you xx

well done ladies just think of all the moolah you're gonna save.i still havent been able to get pissed as im scared of lapsing

but i dont know how i can watch it and not smoke. i get a bit over the top excited.
luckily dh doesnt smoke.
i dont know how you are managing with yours still puffing but well done!

Well I will certainly be having a glass or two of wine this weekend. Dont think I could handle giving up smoking and drinking

well i have managed to get through 2 football matches without a smoke or a drink!
go me

(i have no nails left and a big hole in my lip though)

well done harley. xxx.....hers to DAY 4!!!!

how are you finding it
i dont think i have been as gggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr as i thought i would x

i haven't been grrrrrrrrrr becuase i have has the patches in the past when i have given up i have been uber bitch from hell - so tis is great improvement.

i dont want to congratulate myself too much too soon though

bring on day 4

speak tomorow!