Nicotine Addicts Unite - Trying to get Fag Free!

[charliecat]

Have you stopped smoking recently?
Do you feel you need to stop but havent quite got there yet?
Need a little push, or a great big SHOVE or just somewhere to write down how you are feeling?
Heres the place...

SEA waffle away....that actaully sounds quite good...except you will enjoy each one MORE. If you can cram them in they arent so nice. Its when you cant have one suddenly they take on a godly being..
Glad we have a load starting to STOP, super stuff. Come rant here!

Good luck everyone. Hang in there.

Carrot sticks are great to munch/suck on in the early days when you don't know what to do with your hands/mouth.

I also quit coffee & alcohol for a month. 4 months after quitting cigarettes, I can now enjoy coffee & wine without a cigarette - something I didn't think would be possible.

"Smoking is responsible for 25 per cent of all male deaths in the developed world"
-- World Health Organization

hi charliecat. i currently have no ciggies, but smoked .... ugh.... get this... a half fag from an ashtray this morning. omg - cant believe i 'fessed up to that.

littlewonder - i too used to smoke when i woke up in the night. makes me smile that anyone would think that was strange.

i am going to check out whyquit. my main prob now is that i never thought i'd be able to stop or that life could be bearable without ciggies. now i know i can quit, i feel like i can smoke, because, well, i can just quit again. sorry, ramble ramble.

Oh Tyaca - that is exactly normal addictive thinking - you will find exactly those thoughts on the site - plus people who take fag butts out of bins etc. NORMAL for an addict, and this is all people who quit. Good luck!

ABOUTEVE - how are you doing?

Oh thanks for asking. I had some left over from last night so smoked them today!! Finished them a couple of hours ago and not buying anymore. Thats it I'm quit from now on.

Obviously it hasnt hit yet but I will get through it.

Keep going to everyone who is trying.

Well done!

Go eve!
Those Oh i Can quit So Im ok to smoke, yes very normal.
I used to smoke through the night and im bed first thing in the morn and remember once going outside in my nighty looking IN THE GARDEN for a fag butt to smoke...at 3am...with a torch

I am another serial quitter. I've quit so many times, including for both pregnancies but stupidly relapsed between. I then relapsed again last August and quit again at new year. I'm now 3 weeks into another relapse.

I'm not knocking whyquit or Alan Carr but I find the gum is the easiest way to get through the first week and I just find that I chew it less and less every day until I suddenly think great I haven't even had one piece today.

My big problem is staying quit. I need to accept that I can't smoke socially, I am an addict and this time (2 days in) my mantra is "not even one ever"

I have got to quit. Please let MN support be the one this time . . . Allan Carr didn't work. I had hypnotherapy and crashed my car on the way home (too relaxed methinks!!), Done NHS group (v good for a few weeks, best yet - not including pg). I didn't like the whyquit site. Sorry. My big problem is that Its too easy for me to just say ah stuff it and go and buy fags. I cannot afford it anymore, colds last a lifetime and DH hates it. I want to see my girls grow up. But that smoker mentality of I'll be fine is just so addictive isn't it. I've done the hunt for smokeable butts too . You'd be horrified to do that with food, yet with a fag . . . . madness.
Got to do it. got to do it.

Lol chrissnow Alan Carr worked for me once but not a second time, even though I went to a clinic. Hypnotherapy was a waste of time for me, I had my first ciggy in the car after leaving the appointment. Zyban made me feel ill (although it worked for a colleague) I don' like the whyquit site either. For me it's either willpower or NRT.

The most important thing though is having the motivation to give up and everybody's is different. My brother gave me the spur I needed the other day. He asked me why I was smoking when I had given up in pregnancy, I said it was easy to give up in pregnancy as I didn't want to harm my child. He then pointed out that I would be harming my children beyond measure if I died young from smoking related illness (our father died at 52 from cancer of the mouth) This really hit home and was just the talking too I needed.

those last posts are interesting. i'm still at the i want to quit so i'll smoke loads phase

I do the really want to give up when I've finished this pack. Smoke like a demon, feel sick, and all I accomplish is making my nicotine levels higher and therefore harder to break!!!
grrrr.

Argh!

I relapsed on Tuesday and Wednesday after AGES without even the urge.

DD was being uncharacteristically screamy and when I finally got her down I thought godDAMN it I need a fag. There's a courier service here that delivers meals from restaurants, flowers, wine, ice and (fuckity fuck) fags, so I ordered a pack and sat there drumming my fingers until they arrived.

Yesterday afternoon I ran the remainder of the pack under the tap. I know myself well enough to realise it's not completely beyond possibility that I would fish them out of the bin in the middle of the night if they were dry .

I've turned down an invitation to go out tonight because I know I'll just end up smoking. Won't go out again until I'm well and truly over the urge.

I do that ninedragons, buy some tobacco, smoke one or two and then scatter it in the bin in guilt so I can't smoke anymore of it. It's expensive I inevitably go out and get more. Repeat until fade "not even one ever", no more relapses.

Urgh. The irony of it is that the reason I was awake in the middle of the night was that all the years of smoking were preying very heavily on my mind.

I read somewhere on MN (it may even be earlier on this thread) that somebody's colleague died of lung cancer at 39 and left three small children motherless.

Tobacco really is my Nemesis. But I haven't had a ciggie in over 24 hours so with any luck I am back on track.

Mine too (nemesis I mean) That advert with the 30 something woman dying of lung cancer and telling her kids plays over and over in my mind when I relapse but still I do it My husband is a can take it or leave it type of smoker and smokes on and off. I would find it easier if he didn't bring them home during those times but ultimately it is my responsibility to give up.

I haven't seen the advert but from the sounds of it I'm quite glad.

Can you ask your husband not to bring them home? I have the good fortune to have a husband who doesn't, so I don't get obsessed about fags. I quit (unsuccessfully, obviously) a few years ago and the smell of cigarettes was like when you walk past a Mrs Fields and they're wafting the scent of freshly-baked cookies into the metro station.

A good friend of mine has tried to quit many times but her partner smokes and she says she feels like a pariah because he's always going outside for a ciggie.

Just checking in. Its been 24 hours for me too. Got to do it this time. NOPE is my motto. Cravings seem to be coming thick and fast and I've burst into tears twice. Still it will get better and I wont feel addicted in a few days.

well bloody done, it is emotionally hard isnt it? but providing you never have another fag this is it....its all uphill after this

lol at ahe chucking baccy. the other day i bought ten ciggies when i was at shop, lit one up for the way home and gave the other nine to a shocked looking couple somking outside a pub.

am basically smoking again. need to remember why i want to quit. soooo stupid.

excellent support work charlie ty!

Its not easy this caper, dont give up giving up. Learn something new everytime you stumble....forget thinking its going to be a walk in the park...it is HARD. But slowly, each thought of fags gets longer and longer and you will think OMG i havent thought abut a fag for 10 minutes!
Then 15, then 20 and one day it will be an hour...its like mourning a lost love..realy, time heals your mind of the thoughts...

Thanks for all the support on here. I'm going to keep posting. Now into day three.
Going for a meal and drink tonight so will be on my guard.

I've read whyquit.com again

food tastes BETTER without a fag, much better- Enjoy