Anyone fancy giving me some support?

[CigarettesCanKill]

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.

still going strong. new patch on this morning.
interesting about the dreams as I left my patch on last night and I had the weirdest dreams ever. might try without tonight see if it bothers me. Think ill be okay as I never want one in the night anyway.
keep strong four we've survived one whole day!

I know! I feel like a patch would really benefit me. Are they worth £10 a pack though?

FourAndDone - If you contact your local NHS stop smoking service (ask your doctor) you qualify for four weeks worth of nicotine replacement therapy, in two fortnightly vouchers, for the cost of a prescription charge. A prescription charge is £8.

So how is everyone going?

What have you been doing today to distract yourself? Baking, cooking, cleaning, crosswords, knitting, cross-stitch, Sudoku, or just running after the kids?

i got mine on amazon for £4.99 four

I've been clothes shopping with dp to buy some new shirts for his tv debut

then went to the cinema so am doing well on distraction front

Ohh TV debut? What's he going to be on?

tv show called two tribes. weekday afternoon quiz show hosted by richard osman. recording on Thursday. I'm insanely jealous because richard osman is my favourite person ever and he gets to meet him

Oh yeah, I know the one. That's fantastic for him. Hope he wins!

Had a slip up yesterday and smoked 4 cigarettes but threw the rest of the packet away. that progress as I would never throw a mostly full packet away before. I'm not letting it beat me though. today is a new day and I shall start again.

Cigarette, iv slipped up too.
I am buying some patches today and starting fresh on Monday.
Well done for throwing that pack away!!

Well done! You both sound really positive in spite of your slip-ups. You'll get there, just keep counting the ones you haven't smoked.

Make sure you're using enough NRT. Current advice is to use as much as you need for as long as necessary and to use two types together if you are still craving badly. In addition to your patches you might want to try a fast-acting NRT like the inhalator or spray (or an ecig ) just for when you're struggling.

to be honest I wasn't massively struggling when I brought them. I was having some me time in town and sort of brought them and smoked the first one out of habit before I had realised. same again with the other 3. threw the pack away because I didn't need them. They made me feel sick.

Tomorrow is another day, and all that.

Hope everything goes well for Monday!

Ok, iv started this morning with a coffee and a patch and I have noticed the difference immediately!
Feel a lot better with the patch on.
Today is a good day.

They're marvellous little things aren't they four
i am yet to make coffee. dd was up 8 times and got up for the day at 5.30am. I'm working up the energy to make a drink.

Iv had a great day so far with the patches! Thanks everyone for all the support on cigs thread.
How you doing cig?

Another smoke free day here so thats 4 days (if you ignore the slip up) 3 days if you count it.

Great news four glad you're doing well. it really helps that we have had horrible freezing cold wind and rain here. I couldn't be any less inclined to go stand outside

Oh and the patches give me crazy dreams so took it off last night and slept fine so worth considering four I just put my patch on when I went downstairs with dd in the morning.

Whoop! Whoop!

I had real trouble sleeping in the first few days I gave up (not using patches though, I used lozenges). I think it was basically down to nicotine withdrawal for me. For a time I used to take a lozenge or two through the night.

You get stuck between a rock and a hard place though - the withdrawal keeps you awake or the nicotine replacement keeps you awake. Either way I didn't sleep well for the first week or two of giving up smoking.

well i never get to sleep much anyway fate dd makes sure of that

Waves at Cigs!

hello catmint

here we go with day 5. I have a weird feeling of dread today. No idea why though

You are doing so, so well.

Weird feeling of dread might be stress, especially if you are worried about falling off the wagon.

If you do, just get back on.