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Alas poor cigarette, I knew you well

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mummylonglegs · 29/05/2005 22:49

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charliecat · 02/06/2005 16:38

Glad it went ok you sound soooo relieved

When shes all better, before? after? shes gone we will hassle you into giving up the filthy weed

whymummy · 02/06/2005 18:25

thanks cc i will,i will,i promise

mummylonglegs · 02/06/2005 18:33

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evansmummy · 02/06/2005 22:07

I want a cigarette

Feel so guilty about being obsessed with smoking when people are going through much more hoible times

Started drinking loads to stop thinking about smoking and hate that too

When will it get easier

evansmummy · 02/06/2005 22:07

*horrible

mummylonglegs · 02/06/2005 22:36

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evansmummy · 02/06/2005 22:44

Hey mll, glad I'm not alone.

Afraid i can't tell you if the not thinking periods are longer. I'm in one of those moods where the cigarette has become the ole interest in my stupid brain.

Must stop drinking so much wine too

Only thing that's really keeping me going is those sad stories on whyquit. Poor people and poor families...

mummylonglegs · 02/06/2005 22:55

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evansmummy · 02/06/2005 23:19

Gosh, I think you're a lot stronger than I feel...

And sounds like you've been in this position long enough to want to get out.

It's been nearly 10 days. But I'm sure I'll smoke again. I don't feel like you describe. I feel weaker and weaker, instead of stronger and stronger.

Maybe I'm just having a bad day...

Off to dreamfeed my baby and look at him and remind myself why I've stopped smoking. Thanks for being here, mll. Take care

charliecat · 03/06/2005 09:19

Hope your ok evansmummy. That sounded hell and you sounded really low. But I promise you, moments like that do go away, strange that we dont spend as long pondering whether we will smoke 10 or 30 today when we are smoking and we dont analise how much damage they are doing and whether some ghastly disease will hit up next week or next year...just trying to put it in perspective.
Your wee baba would have been inhaling fag smoke last night had you still been smoking, you would have been all cuddled up to him and he would have been bogged under by reek.....
...instead you smelt beautiful and natural and like a mummy should
If whyquit keeps you going keep reading.
After 200/300 failed smoking attempts I can tell you that half way throught the first fag that you have after wuitting even for 6 hours or so...well you are planning the next quit already, and you desperatly wish you hadnt.
We are all 1 fag away from failure. Dont have it. Never Take Another Puff as they say and youll be fine

mummylonglegs · 03/06/2005 10:18

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charliecat · 03/06/2005 10:56

It stops when you sleep...

charliecat · 03/06/2005 10:57
Grin
mummylonglegs · 03/06/2005 12:28

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charliecat · 03/06/2005 16:39

Oh no.... LOL Hows everyone today?

mummylonglegs · 03/06/2005 17:02

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evansmummy · 03/06/2005 17:23

Evening! Today's been better, but then during the day is normally not too bad cos I'm busy. It's the evenings after ds is in bed that are hard...

Thanks, ladies, for all your support, and you're right both of you, cc and mll. I would stink around my baby if I'd smoked, in fact, it was in my 'personal statement' for stopping smoking. And I do try just to look at the short term, but it's hard when you get those cravings!!

I had, for some reason, a whole bunch of really bad cravings yesterday, and was properly fed up, so went and spent £15 on munchies. Felt much better afterwards! But still annoyed my dh with 'we could've bought three packets of fags with that'! It doesn't seem to be getting any easier yet

Well, it's another day down. Well on the way to two weeks now, and I am very aware of the fact that if I smoke, it'll be disgusting, I'll hate myself, and I'll have to go through all this again. No point really!!

See, today, I'm in a good mood, so it's easier to tell myself, and anyone who'll listen(!!!) why it's such a good thing I've stopped smoking. lol Don't know how long it'll last though... Minutes, hours, days months, who knows? We'll take it one day at a time, eh?

evansmummy · 03/06/2005 17:25

cc, how're you doing?

The other day when you had a low point, did it get better? How's it going now? It's shocking to hear though that even after 6 months it can still get to you. It really is the evil weed. And it's so true that you spend you're whole life being a reformed addict. How can the stuff still be on sale??????

evansmummy · 03/06/2005 18:58

Beers.

Surely this is just replacing one addiction with another?

charliecat · 03/06/2005 20:25

Even Better Baileys No the beer/baileys addiction is not permanent. I/You? dont wake up in the morning with a beer/baileys haunting my every thought and hoping that ive got a deadly disease so I have an excuse to drink... different.
Oh yeah it went, I meant to say that, it was literally, just that fags didnt seems evil or offensive that day...usually I cant even bear to look at them as they represent so much anger in me lol
Spending 15 quid on munchies is not abnormal.....yum what did you by? Dps comment definetly not helping!
Who was it that said they couldnt believe how encouraging other smokers are to givers uppers? That pisses me off too.

evansmummy · 03/06/2005 20:39

Hello?

One step away from buying a pack.

Feeling very angry.

Anyone?

charliecat · 03/06/2005 20:41

Right here
whats up?

evansmummy · 03/06/2005 20:43

Argument with dh. Nothing to do with fags though.

Old reflex was to reach for the smokes after a bust up.

Feeling the void.

charliecat · 03/06/2005 20:43

anywhere to go and scream?

charliecat · 03/06/2005 20:44

Perfectly normal response BTW......big deep breathes...lots of times type
lots
rah
whats the arguementabout?