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

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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?

oh I've had a lot less than I would usually had by this point in the day - I'd say 5 or 6 times less.

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well it really wasnt me ,it was the students who saved me but now they are home i wont have one till after my dinner when they have gone out for the evening at 7pm.So that will be 4 hrs if manage it.I know i wil def have one after dinnr,its one of my fav times

no it dosent put us off cod.

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nope - nice try Cod - but that's not going to work

i dont drink, but dont tell people that they smell of alcohol.Im not so rude !

ermm - can't blame my addiction on my kids - started 2yrs before my first was born (although it does keep my sanity now I have 3 of them )

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lol @ cod! i managed to wait untill 3:30. im going to have another now while dh is at the shop before i start tea.

i have no kids at home ,mine are now adults. !There is only me and dh , but he dosent smoke but he does like a drink.

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at me being rough - I don't think I could be rough if I tried

oh god i must be an awful person then because i also have a couple of small tattoo,s.But i dont wear shell suits

oh god I saw one of them at the school gates this morning, hair scraped back really tightly, big gold hoop earrings, bright pink pushchair for her little girl (studs in the ears, and boots with little heels on), shell suit, tattoos and pack of fags in her hand

She look well 'ard

i have tattoo's and the mere fact that i have a geordie(ish) accent used to invoke great fear into new starters at my old work place, well that and the fact my friend used to say "oh wait untill you meet seashells, whatever you do dont touch her stuff. she will kill you. every one is scared of her even x"

i dont think im rough. but if im honest i probably am a bit common

oh no hoop earrings though. but i do have a pink pushchair would it make it better if i said it was quinny? no hair scraped tightly back either its too short for that.

yeah that's ok - this was one of those really cheap umbrella fold ones that looks like it'll collapse if you hang more then 2 Iceland or 99p shops bags on the back

i have no pushchairs these days only a zimmer frame have just caved in and had a fag because dh is making such a mess in the kitchen [ he is making a curry]

lol mummylin. i had to have one because dh came in being an arse! he is convinced that dd1 is peeing at the bottom of the stairs he is the only person who enters my house who thinks that the bottom of the stairs smells funny. every one else agrees its fine.

thay are all eating his damn curry and he had the cheek to say that the students obviously prefer his cooking because they ate it all and yesterday they couldnt eat a full roast dinner.I could of punched him,he actually got ready sliced stir fry stuff, ready cut chicken ,a jar of sauce and microwave bloody rice !!! i cooked from scratch but they had previously bought themselves mcdonalds so couldnt eat all their dinner.I have told him in that case he can cook the dinner tomorrow as well ! but he cant because he dosent know how to do anything else !!!! No wonder i smoke !!! but am still doing ok . how about you ?

i know a v good hypnotherapist in the west london area who helps people give up, he travels too

well I haven't had any more since my 4.30 slip up - don't know how many you 2 have cut out today - but I think we're all doing well - I've cut down massively.

well i cant say for sure how many i have had because until i saw this thread i was just smoking,i will keep count tomorrow and try much harder.i will have one soon because i havent eaten yet and i do like one after a meal.[ dont like dh,s curry ]but after that i will try not to have any during the evening.you are doing very well if you havent had one for two hours !!!

i think i have probably had about 6 - 8 less than i usually would have had. i bought a pack of 20 last night and opened them last night. i started cutting down last night after the first few.

i still have 10 left. i usually get through 20 in a day. but most of those are on a night. i have set 7pm as mmy next time but am nlot craving too much so might try and stretch this to quater past/half past