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Does anyone want to buddy up or just hold my hand.

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sugarplumfairy28 · 10/01/2017 08:26

I have been smoking for just over 9 years. I hate the morning coughing, I hate how it makes me smell, I hate the having to battle the horrible weather to go and get cigarettes and I absolutely detest that I have given my children something so damaging to copy in their games.

I don't do things when I'm told to, so the nagging from anyone in the family really doesn't help in the slightest. My DH doesn't nag, he doesn't smoke and obviously doesn't like it but he doesn't nag me. This month is, like for many other families, going to be a tight month money wise. It finally struck me that if it weren't for my smoking it wouldn't be this bad. That all the things I want in life, would be so much easier to obtain if I just didn't stand at the window and smoke.

I haven't told DH, I'm starting today, his already gone to work, but from previous conversations we have had, he has said that any money saved first and foremost should be spent on me so that I reap the rewards and can feel the difference. I don't entirely agree with that, but it would mean I can get my nails done or something like that.

I'm not doing patches, Ecigs or vape - I just want this whole habit, this dependence, all of it gone. I want to move on with my life. So I'm just stopping.

So here it goes.

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sugarplumfairy28 · 06/03/2017 12:51

Yep! Apparently it is a normal side effect. I have been very lucky and when I have felt particularly lousy at the weekend DH has done everything while I sleep. I have my new Vape Pen and am effectively having to start all over again, it is easier as it goes on. You just need to ride it out.

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SorrelSoup · 06/03/2017 12:53

I've found the cessation nation free app really helps.

angelsnapper · 28/03/2017 11:15

I'm on day three of not smoking. I've been to a smoking cessation nurse who was lovely and full of info. I'm using patches 14mg and have the lozenges. I've been grumpy and feeling a bit down! I know it will get tougher. I have given up for years at a time in the past......have always gone back :( . Really want to kick it this time.

angelsnapper · 28/03/2017 12:33

Has anyone thought about mindfulness to help stop? Anyone tried it and it's worked?! I got very disheartened reading a forum where people were commenting on still not feeling themselves and still having the rage months after quitting :(

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