three days on patches and i'm about to crack

[southeastastra]

i can't quit! argh i just want one cigarette, just one lovely cigarette

Well done for getting through the first week. I might have another quit attempt soon. I just always fail though and cannot stand failing again.

Keep it up. You will be a non smoker as long as you don't put one of the nasty things to your mouth and light it. Millions of people have done it you can too and so can I.

i cannot fail eve, i have to quit this time. though worried i'll forever be on patches or some sort of nrt. anyway feel so much fitter already! and someone said i looked healty today

That's a great incentive. Don't worry about how long you are on NRT as long as you stop smoking. A mate of mine was still needing the gum in trigger situations a year later but she quit nevertheless.

My next quit will be the final one too.

Good on ya SEA

Just wait until you start coughing all sorts of foul gunk up!

Strangely interesting though

i want to get the cough! haven't had one yet. though have lost my smokers cough horray and my voice is higher . so i can sing better now.

question for anyone who quit through patches, did you do four weeks on full strength and did you notice any difference once you went onto the next stage?

The full strenghth patches made me all jittery so i stayed on lower ones for a while.

Well done for getting through hard day 3. If I can do it anyone can....When I told some friends I'd quit they didn't believe me and laughed. Nice!

Feel so so so much better now years down the line. Look and feel younger. Am richer. Dont stink. I am not a slave anymore.

It is tough but it will pass and is so worth it!

three weeks wowooo!! good as today fags have probably gone up again

Even if you were on NRT for the rest of your life, that's got to be better than being an active smoker!

Not saying you will be, btw - but keep it in perspective. While Alan and others recommend against patches, that doesn't make you a failure for using them, nor does he say you are. He just says it makes it harder. But you are achieving your goals in spite of that - stick with it!

Being a non-smoker is brilliant. don't look back!

When I've given up in the past I never coughed gunk up. People say this but it's never happened.

Well done you for sticking it out. Keep going.

7 weeks today (keeping tally on here)

Use whatever you want to get through it. Long gone are the days of just having to survive on patches alone. If you need an inhaler, gum or lozenge to get through it then go buy some. They can also be useful if you are on the 16 hour patches and need something in the first 30 minutes after waking.

I'm back on the fags after nearly 6 years of being a non smoker. It's pretty horrible. I've been a non-smoker, a non-smoker who smokes a bit, a part-time smoker. Now I smoke, and I will have to stop again. At least this time, I REALLY hate it.

blimey can't believe i've got this far, also two days without patches now.

You are a walking miracle SEA!

Bet its not so bad going cold turkey on the patches as it was on the old smerks?

Well done you.

You are a walking miracle SEA!

Bet its not so bad going cold turkey on the patches as it was on the old smerks?

Well done you.

thanks

wouldn't have got very far without the patches i reckon!

Well done! When you started this thread, I was having a fag crisis, having not smoked for 5.5 years. I was smoking a bit and was told it would be harder to stop than if I was a regular smoker....so...I decided to smoke properly. I smoked for 3 weeks and didn't enjoy it at all. Now I am on/off/on/off, and don't know what to do.

Well done! I'm very very impressed and downright inspired. I'm going to stop (again, but for ever - sod the flipping DH who doesn't stop even though every day he goes on about stopping). I will think about you and you beating the 'day 3' thing and I will win!

Well done (again)!

the inhalator is really good if you just need that 'hit' when drinking etc or other peak times plonkey

i can't believe myself i have stopped. i'm a fidgety person. probably why i like mn too! keep fingers busy

May I bump this? Am having a bloody awful day wobbly moment here. I quit, cold turkey, 13 days 23 hours 30 minutes ago. Not that I'm counting.

I could do with any words of support (please?) at all. Swearing at me for being weak idiotic twunt would also work well.

God I could murder a fag. Not going to have one. Blood sugar levels are all over the place and am ravenous, despite eating lots.

I have smoked 20 a day for over 20 years. What an arse. DP is a non smoker and is sort of pleased I have stopped but hasn't really said much. I would be cheering and supporting every minute if positions were reversed. Still, am doing it for DCs and self.

want one. just one. i promise i'll only have one...etc.

sorry if it's a little rambly & disjointed

why didn't my strike-out work? Dammit. It's a conspiracy, i tell you.

Don't give up!

Read Why Quit

Just re-read my post. It was completely self-serving hijack, not a 'bump' at all.

Well? Did you succumb to the evil weed?

I did at the weekend. I've sort of decided that I will probably smoke on and off for as long as I am on the NRT. So... I have to stop popping lozenges. Buggerations.