anyone stopped smoking lately?

[charliecat]

Hi, i stopped smoking nearly 2 weeks ago after a good few months of trying but failing...i think im gonna beat it this time and was just wondering if anyone else is in the same boat?

It's not so bad, the first couple of days were horrible, just thinking about fags all the time, now it's only in the morning and after meals (with coffee) that I miss them. But as I said I am patched up. Also it feels weird when I step out the door and don't reach for the fags: it had become something of a reflex!

Hopefully one day you will free as you walk out the door without your fags, my bag is empty without my baccy lighters and fag papers! Is this your first attempt at giving up? You are doing really well!

well done you - its ded hard and you deserve lots of praise!

Well done, it's a b*stard to beat nicotine but you WILL make it, you'll be so busy concentrating on the potty stuff you'll suddenly think 'oh, another day without wet pants and ANOTHER DAY WITHOUT A FAG !' 7 days becomes 8 etc etc.

Yes, that's the good thing about going through the potty trianing at the same time, I'm so busy asking dd if she needs to go, running to the toilet, etc that I don't have much tim e to worry about cigarettes! And today I forgot to put my patch on and feel fine. I am also reading the Allen Carr book which I think is very helpful. Like Charliecat said, it's good for stopping the voices (even though his writing style is very irritating. Maybe that's the key?)

Wow, mammya. I am so impressed by the double potty training and no-smoking whammy. You are brilliant. I think my fag intake was at an all time high when I was potty training my boys.

I'm finding the day to day not smoking a doddle now- it's nearly 3 whole months!- but am more tempted than ever to have "just one" on the quite rare occasions when I meet up with smoker friends round a pub table. The more virtuous I am as a general rule the more tempting it is! But luckily I hear the voice of Twink- my own personal Alan Carr but with a nice voice- saying "no no no, it's the nicotine talking, you'll be back to smoking properly in no time, get into training for Run for Life instead." Not quite ready for that last but I'm listening on the rest!

Good luck everyone. So far we seem to be doing quite well as a cohort, I'd say.

Ooh, I've gone all pink ! I know I nag but it's really, really to try to stop you making my mistakes

You so don't nag. You are a voice of golden reason.

Well Done everyone!! I am personally finding myself hanging onto the fridge door thinking, what can i munch next...but its better than smoking, food doesnt smell as bad and tastes much nicer!

Oh keep it up all you stoppers and go for it the maybe giver uppers, it is worth it. Twink, I thought about you and your Race for Life when I was trying to give up and your wise words helped.

Hows everyone getting on? Still off the evil weed? Not looking forward to seeing all the folk smoking on BB myself!

I gave up on Sunday - my dp gave up 3 weeks ago (we were both 30-a-dayers). I read Allen Carr, smoked my last fag on Sunday afternoon and within about 5 hours was ready to claw my own skin off! Then whacked on a patch and felt much better (although have had lots of crazy dreams over the last 2 nights - i'm sure it's the nicotine i'm getting from the patch in my sleep!). Don't crave nicotine now, but do miss cigarettes every time i would've had one (and dreamed of smoking last night). Also feel really excited at the thought of starting to feel better in a few weeks - losing the cough, the lethargy, getting my sense of taste back etc etc. Am also hoping to lose my grey complexion and look all glowing and translucent!

How is everyone else getting on?

Well done, spacemonkey. Good luck to you. Hope you will find it easier than you anticipated.

spacemonkey, well done you, it does get easier, I promise and then the day comes (eventually) when you realise you haven't thought about smoking all day. And you will start to notice the smell of smoke on other people and dislike it. Keep it up, it's completely worth it.

Well done spacemonkey! I know what you mean about the crazy dream, same thing happened to me, agree it must be the patches...
I am now in my 3rd week, patchless, doing OK I suppose, still have cravings though.

thanks for the encouragement everyone

i found myself following a woman along the high street this afternoon sniffing on the smoke trails she was leaving behind her!

mammya, i'm glad i'm not the only one to have the weird dreams thing - i quite like it!

i keep forgetting that i've given up and then have to face the sinking heart every time i remember, but i won't give in to this - it only confirms what an awful addiction smoking is

really helps to burble on about it on here so thanks to anyone who can be bothered to read it xxx

I seem to be talking to myself on this thread now, but what the hell!

Am now on day 4 of not smoking and seem to have hit a really bad patch since yesterday evening - despite the patch I felt absolutely desperate for a cig all evening and this morning as well, until i put a new patch on which made me feel all light headed and weird ... argh

The dreams continue to be a surprise benefit of the patches though!

Spacemonkey just keep thinking of Sean Pertwee as a dog, you'll be fine!

can i keep thinking of sean pertwee but not as a dog please? that might help

(i think it's me that's the dog hehe)

spacemonkey, I've just given up smoking too.

Not getting on very well with it ( may have a had a sneaky one). Feel very odd - I have a great reason to give up (pregnant) but somehow don't actually want to.

Been off them for over a week anyway and I think its getting better. I am going to stick it out!

ps who is sean pertwee?

well done lucy123 - it's so bloody hard isn't it, and although i do want to give up, i kind of don't at the same time - feeling v torn about the whole thing. It does make it easier that my dp gave up a few weeks ago, we are egging each other on - does your dh/dp smoke? are you using any nicotine replacement, or is that not allowed when you're pregnant?

PS - sean pertwee is a velvet voiced actor (son of dr who jon pertwee) who featured in one of my nicotine-induced dreams last night in a most uncompromising position! snigger

Yes, hard it is. (hmm, turning into Yoda today I am)

DP does smoke so we still have fags and smoking in the house. I have been subtly trying to persuade him to give up too but with no success.

I don't know about patches in pregnancy, but I have given up before (twice! how good at giving up am I? ) and I find that the physical withdrawal symptoms are not actually that bad. So I didn't bother (also attemptiong Alan Carr method, last time had hypnosis).

It's the general feeling of not being able to relax without a fag, and somehow needing something to do with my hands that's the problem.

Maybe I'll take up macrame or something.

Anyway well done to you - keep it up! are there any smokers left on mumsnet I wonder?

I shouldn't think there are many left - I don't have any friends or colleagues who smoke, so have been feeling like a leper for some time!

You're right in saying the physical symptoms aren't that bad - for me anyway it's the psychological symptoms that are doing my head in.

Anyway, keep up the good work!

Spacemonkey I think you should add that there were no dogs involved in this situation you mention! Could be read wrongly hehe.