....giving up the ***s (thats cigarettes before you ask my US friends!) as of midnight.
TEk
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....giving up the ***s (thats cigarettes before you ask my US friends!) as of midnight.
TEk
Oops, just realised that VDr saw that as an offensive term (its not in the UK).
Sheesh!
Good luck
It's gonna be real nice to go to a bar or a cafe and not come smelling like an ash tray.
G00d luck my friend!!!!
GOOD 4 YOU!!
Good luck! Takes some willpower and support from friends and loved ones but you won't regret it. I found the 4 day mark as the hump I needed to get past before I stopped feeling I could kill for a smoke.
Quit cold turkey 6 years ago. Good luck to you and yet you will need far more than just luck. If your health is good now, giving up the smokes will most certainly NOT hurt it and, in fact, will allow you to live a more quality life loooonger.
I gave up years ago. The method that worked for me was to save one cigarette for the morning then slap on the patch. The patches gave me some crazy dreams though.
Cheers all. Been at work 2 hours and not feeling the strain yet!
If you can just get past the first 3 or 4 days, then it's all downhill from there. What I found anyway.
Good luck Tek :)
great, just in time for my visit, and I have nonrefundable plane tickets
Good Luck with that Tek.:)
I quit cold turkey 2½ years ago. How amazing to realize I could actually taste & smell again...:D
The chewing gum with nicotine in it helped me quit many years ago. You had to have a prescription to get it back then.
If you want to quit you can quit but you have to want it. It won't work if you are doing it for your wife or girl friend.
Good Luck
Gary
I wish the gum weren't quite so expensive.
Good on you and good luck!
Thks to all for the messages.
So looks like Thursday is going to be the real test then. Bring it on!
TEk
TEk, your tests will continue each and every day. With any success, hopefully you will find that each day will be a little easier. Some days will be more critical than others to overcome the temptation---been there/done that.
Not with me! Once I got past that third day, I never had the slightest desire to smoke at all after that.
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And furthermore, what about your buddies?:
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Seriously, lotsa luck guy.
I think I have quit:
100+ times.
:o
Steve_83
No luck to it if you want to quit you can, I did. :D
When I was at the 2 week point I nearly had a relapse. I was at work talking to some guy I'd never met before and was lamenting my suddenly intense desire to have a smoke. Out of nowhere a gorgeous woman walked over to us and offered a free cigarette from her tray (she was a cigarette girl and was part of a promo sponsored by a major cigarette company). I took one and was nearly about to light it up when this stranger I'd been talking to grabbed it out of my hand, threw it on the floor and stepped on it saying I didn't need it. It took a lot of cheek to do that (I don't know if I'd have done it in other circumstances) but to this day I owe him a debt of gratitude. I didn't try to smoke any more freebies after that nor have I smoked a single cigarette since.
No problem for me. I quit cold turkey (1.5 pack a day).....while in the hospital, that is. Having a heart attack and subsequent emergency quadruple-bypass surgery, lying in a hospital bed for 6 days with 6,342 tubes inserted your body, tends to discourage the smoke habit. :)
Thanks again everyone. Day 3 in the non-smoking house and feeling quite grouchy. The thought of a heart attack and subsequent bypass should be enough to get me through today (thanks bistro!).
TEk
It also helped me to stay busy and physically active and avoid doing things during which I'd usually smoke.
Good luck Tek, i can dig out some pics of a diseased lung and dodgy arteries if it'll help any? :D
Liam
Maybe tomorrow Liam!
You can do it. You've passed the critical stage and now it's your own choice whether to smoke or not. Remember that you only have to quit smoking ONE cigarette. The next one.:p
Make a jug of extra strong and spicy chai tea and keep it in the frig. When the smoking urge gets really strong go take a big drink right outta the jug. The taste will distract you for that critical one minute when the smoking urge will diminish. (If you get some up the nose the hacking will help to remind you of what smoking was like. ;) )