Anyone fancy giving me some support?

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No more smoking for me anymore. I don't want to vape, I just want to stop. I have a 1 year old dd who I want to be healthy for. I want to not be so skint, and I'm sure not spending £4.10 a day on fags will help towards that!

I had my last cigarette at around 6pm last night and have been fine until now. This is when I have finished my jobs and sit down with a coffee to relax for 10 minutes. I always make coffee, go have cigarette, come back and coffee is cool enough to drink.
I need to quit this time. New year, new me.

Great decision, you're doing really well. You might want to get in touch with your local Stop Smoking Services, it greatly increases your chances of success. Also come on here and whinge as much as you want.

Good luck!

There is a tablet you can take to help increase your chances. It blocks the receptors in the top of your nose & it helps block the craving (or something like that).... I'm an ex smoker, I still often one on but I can get passed it now.

Good luck hope you crack it!!

I went to the shop and brought some I haven't smoked any though. Just having some in my bag made me feel a bit calmer.

Have you got some nicotine replacement?

I would recommend lozenges. They are little mints about the size of a tic tac. They take about 10 minutes to dissolve in your mouth (about the same time to smoke a cigarette) and give you nicotine as they dissolve - just like a cigarette would.

Better to have a nicotine shot from a lozenge than a cigarette. These would be better to have in your bag.

The recommended amount is no more than 15 a day but for my first three days I used between 20 and 25 a day. It soon reduced though, so don't think about how many you have for the first few days - just as many as you need.

I gave up 2 years ago. I will never, ever not ever smoke another cigarette for the rest of my life. Never, ever again.

ooh, those look like a good idea.

well done on quitting!
annoyingly I quit for nearly a year when I was pregnant but then the sleep deprivation, anxiety and stress of being a new mother made me go back to my old friend nicotine

Well done to you for making the decision :)
I too am planning on stopping (for the 100th time) this year- for good!
I am currently reading 'the smokefree way' book which explains about the addiction to nicotine and also takes the mick out of the preceptions of smokers and their ridiculous reasons/ excuses for smoking which is really helping.
Here's hoping you crack it- best of luck :)

Be brave it just takes a very short time to decide, then it is of course difficult to keep so. When you feel you want to smoke think what you ve promissed yourself. You will feel well because you managed and can do it. Do occupy yourself with many things that make you interested and happy and dont give you time to think about the cigarette. I was smoker but stopped years ago. I had seen adverts of the effects and I was concerned. I did miss it after and when we had financial difficulties I restarted with fewer cigars for very short time and then decided no more - it is now 20 years.

It Is a good decision! I support you! But to quit means a lot of effects you will make.

How's it going cigarettescankill ?

I'm quitting today too! I have smoked only 7 cigs since 11pm Friday night which is a huge step down from my 20 a day, I have 2 left and I am not buying anymore!

Any tips anyone, going cold turkey. I am a single Mum to 3, 1 with ASD and 1 with speech and developmental delays so I just hope it won't be too stressful!

I am focusing on the fact that the money saved will pay for our holiday to Haven in May!

I have had 2 out of the packet I brought because I was so stressed out by dd not sleeping and just screaming at me but I think I'm doing okay. Really craving one at the moment though and doing my best to fight it. Good luck nickname

2 since Friday is really good! Let's hope that soon we will be craving none! Good luck.

Oh sorry to hear you've had a slip up. The important thing is to keep counting the ones you don't smoke, not the ones you do - that way a small slip up isn't a major disaster, you can just carry on not-smoking some more. You're doing really well!

Lozenges is a good suggestion - or another form of NRT. Some people have success combining two sorts in the early days, e.g. using patches and then topping up with gum, lozenges or an inhalator when they have a tricky moment. You can use an ecig as NRT too - as a short term thing, cutting down the nicotine level over a few weeks.

Onwards and upwards! Good luck to you, bcmum, EnterNickname and anyone else making a quit attempt

Well done EnterNicknameHere

The bottom line of money was what got me to give up in the end. I'm a SAHM and we reached the point where it was either carry on smoking and need to return to work to cover the costs, or give up smoking and stay at home with my youngest. No brainer really.

I understand ecigs work for some and anything to stop smoking cigarettes is good. But for me I wanted to stop completely and so that meant stopping the time dependency of smoking at certain times and also wanted to stop the hand to mouth movement - so vaping was never for me.

Have some NRT lozenges or chewing gum in the house. Then when the craving is really bad you can still have nicotine without smoking.

I am a failure. uber stressful few days with dd and dp being a twat meant I started again. Who am I kidding, I can't quit.

Do not give up giving up.

Just try again tomorrow. Get some form of nicotine replacement in for when you give up next time.

I just need the two minutes outside break I get from dd. she's such a handful at the moment and I'm exhausted I'm gonna buy some patches today and try again

Stick with it, you can do it, and I promise you in a weeks time you won't even be thinking about smoking, as soon as the patch goes on think of yourself as a non-smoker, it really got me through it, been stopped for 16 months now, and I am never smoking again, I really wish you the best of luck.

are there different types? what is the best to get if there are?

I was on nicorette 16hr patches for 3 days, then I stopped using them, you still need willpower, but they really helped me, get some really strong minty sweets to suck on too.
Your g.p surgery may have a stop smoking nurse, where you can get patches and gum on prescription, so it might be worth giving them a call.

You're not a failure! Count up all the fags you've 'not-smoked' during this attempt and feel proud of yourself. You can do this!

You can self-refer to your local Stop Smoking Service through this page: www.nhs.uk/smokefree/help-and-advice/local-support-services-helplines They can advise on all the sorts of NRT and can prescribe it for you (I don't think it's a free prescription so it might be cheaper to just buy it after advice) Many people find the regular support really makes a difference.

I used Champix, the pill, and having never managed to completely quit in 15 years (even through 2 pregnancies ), I have been smoke free for 3 months. I always found it hard as dh dmokes but on the pills it never bothered me at all.

Keep trying and good luck!