I want to give up smoking

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I just got that sinking feeling when i realised i didn't have any fags left and so i have to go down the shop.

I quit for a whole month at the end of last year and then stupidly started again.

I don't want to be a smoker anymore...anyone else around that wants to quit? Maybe we can support each other.

I think that when i get to 2 weeks without smoking i will go and buy a dress i have my eye on and a paddling pool for DD.

Oh god yes, what ever works.. Was jsut offering advise.

Alan Carr bored me I'm afraid but the patches worked a treat.
I gave up on the 1st March and haven't had a fag since.
I got the NHS quit pack which was good and put money every day into a pot. The first 2 months we had so many treats all on money I would have smoked. I definitely recommend doing that.
Good luck everyone

Dh has given up via Champix, and he was a hardened two packs a day man for over 30yrs. He himself says Champix is amazing stuff. Having said that, it's not for everyone due to possible side effects.

My DH has a very intense physical addiction to the fags. He's broken a lot of the psychological ones. I think men's brains might behave a bit differently when it comes to some things like this, and I know Champix was tested on men.

A neurosurgeon friend of mine did admit side effects from the drug are more common in women.

I wish DH would go for the Champix - it's been offered to him - before it's too late and he gets something like diabetes or worse.

I'm a bit addicted to lozenges, which to me is really only a small step away from smoking. I found the patches work a treat and before long you forget about them and it makes less and less difference if you have one on or not. I will use them when I don't want anything in my mouth. So... I am still a nicotine junkie.

I was v annoyed with the practice nurse who said that I was still a smoker even if I smoked a cigarette twice a year. I think it is very derogatory and like calling someone who drinks a couple of glasses of sherry occassionally an alcoholic.

It gets much easier to stop smoking with practice. I think it's a neurological change. Staying stopped is another thing!