Do you smoke too much, want to cut down, but now actually quit ???? (sorry this is not a "quitting" thread)..

[FAQ]

Come and join me please. I don't want to quit, I just want to cut down (dramatically) , so please don't come and tell me "well just quit" - thank you

I smoke roll-ups now, and as I roll them as I want one my smoking has got totally ott. Unlike a packet - where you can see how many you've got/had I only have the evidence in the ash tray at the end of the day - and it's not good (I think I must be smoking close to 40 some days if not more )

Last night I sat down before I went to bed and pre-rolled 20 and put them in my cigarette tin. I've figured that 1 per hour during the day (if the DS's will let me escape long enough) and then I@ve got a few extra for after they've gone to bed).

It's been tough going so far, the amount of times I've reached over to roll one........then realised I have them ready rolled and that actually it hadn't been long since my last one is quite shocking. However the one per hour is working so far (I'm currently trying to kill time to leave my one for this hour 11-12 as late as possible).

So - do any other smokers (who don't want to quit -but just cut down like to join me?

I've just had another one - I'm trying to get it down to 1 in each hour slot for now - but didn't have one at all between 12 and 1, so it was 1 1/2hrs between mine too

ahh you see I use a rolling machine (as I can't roll them by hand for the life of me) and have perfected it one handed now - so I can MN with one hand and roll my fag with the other ready to go out and have it.......

LOL FAQ Actually I'm rather surprised how few anti smokers have jumped on you for daring to talk openly about smoking quite refreshing tbh.

there's a thread that TMMJ started after asking her question on here - it was going rather well too (with people on all sides, smokers, ex-smokers and anti-smokers) until someone through a personal comment at another MNer.....

Shame really - as it was nice to have a thread just talking about it instead of slagging smokers off

you are all vile besmirchers of the world!!!!! how very dare you pollute the universe thus??

that bettter?

SheSells - how you doing - I'm just about to have my 6th of the day (I've just worked out I'd probably have smoked around 15 by this time usually!). Been 1 1/2hrs since my last - think that's my maximum time limit for now

Mama - how you getting on?

i managed to wait untill after 1:30 for my last one. i think lack of nicotine is frying my brain though

im waiting untill three for this one am okay so far. i have a huge pile of baby clothes that need sorting to distract me. it'll be the evening time that gets me, but then i have done loads of washing today so will have enough ironing to keep me occupied for a few days or weeks even

evenings are going to get me too - I'm just hoping if I can give myself a limit for each day, and get used to smoke as little as possible during the daytime I don't have to get so stressed in the evening once the DS's are in bed about not having many left to smoke of my day's "quota". So if I manage to keep stretching it to 1 1/2hr intervals until 9pm when DS1's goes up I should have >>>>>> 10 left for the nighttime......

whoo hoo! this cutting down lark has just become even more attractive to me!! i have found dd1's jazz leotard in with the pile of baby clothes that had been 'waiting to be sorted out' now if i can just find her ballet one. she had that one last week it cant have gone far.

so i am not only saving money buying less cigs but i have just £7 on the price of a new leotard.

ooooo fantastic SSSBYS

Going to keep myself busy this afternoon after i've picked DS1 up from school in 1/2hr doing some housework I think (although I usually break it up regularly with fag breaks - might have to drink more coffee instead ). Got some washing to get dried, and still got a huge pile of ironing having only tackled 1/2 of it on Sunday afternoon.

Good luck for the rest of the afternoon

i too smoke roll ups and can get it down to seven a day,then something happens and i go right back up again! if i could cut out the first of the day it would be far easier to go without ,but i have no willpower and even though I have just told myself i wont have one ,I do !!! But i have no problem with going out to a show or something where we cant smoke ,but guess who is first outside during the interval !!

i actually reward myself with one ,i think ill just do this and that then i will have a fag and a cuppa !!!

that's what I've been doing - but a little too frequently - think I need to give myself more a challenge and set more stuff to do before my "rewards"

well if i could make my first morning one an hour later for the first day and then get later and later and only roll 7 i would be ok.if i make myself a daily amount and smoke them all in two hours then i probably could go without.[ apart from one after dinner ]I find it easier not to smoke in the evening than the daytime.Really its riduculous,if the phone rings ,i light one ,if i even go and run water for my bath ,i light one,if dh pops in from work for a cuppa i light one !!! but like you i dont want to give up ,just cut down

should we set ourselves times we could have one ? [ without cheating ,cause we would only be cheating ourselves]

i have made it till three quite easily this time. gonna make a coffee now and have a well deserved fag break before tackling the mess that was hiding under the 'pile of clothes waiting to be sorted'.

well, i have just had one because dh came home ,i will try not to have any more till 7 when my students have gone out for the evening !!! [ i said try ] as i said i find it no problem in the evening ,its the daytimes are the worst for me.

well done Seashells - I'm just about to sit down for my next fag break (with coffee and a chocolate biscuit). Done a bit of pottering around since I picked DS1 up from school which has passed the time.

You know what - all the times I've thought about having one - and haven't because it's not been long since my last, if I added them all together, along with the times I would have had one - I think I must have been smoking well over 40 a day!!!!

well done FAQ!!
i seem to have smoked more today

hey don't worry about it - knowing my luck the DS's will kick off big time and my "supply" for the rest of the day will be gone in a flash lol.

i was getting tempted and fate took a hand ,my students just walked in 20 mins early ! so i havent had one since around 3pm !!

even if you cut down bt just two a day to start with ,its a start.Its not the cutting down I cant do ,its the sticking to it when i have reached a low number !

well done mummylin