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[JJ's GS]

Good luck Ditchwater

I intend to be not smoking by the start of next week so I'll keep posting.
It might help as a bit of therapy, you never know.


JJ

 

[(RIP) DitchWater]

Good luck Ditchwater

I intend to be not smoking by the start of next week so I'll keep posting.
It might help as a bit of therapy, you never know.


JJ

That's the idea Geezer.

I'll report some of the things that become apparent to me which might be of use to others: Firstly, I haven't allowed myself to become irratable by forcing myself to think of the more pleasant emotions we experience.

Bloody Good Luck Old Chap.

 

[LEGOscum]

After reading through this thread again I have subconsciously cut down from 20 cigrattes a day to 10 in just 5 days. Thanks for the encouragement.

 

[(RIP) DitchWater]

Subconsciously My Arse: That Takes Effort.

After reading through this thread again I have subconsciously cut down from 20 cigrattes a day to 10 in just 5 days. Thanks for the encouragement.

Come on mate, give it a go.

In your own time choose a day, a reason, and a crashmat (or gravel trap) of some sort and see if you can make the change.

This is the start of day four for me and I've been awake since well before dawn because something's happening with me physically and mentally. My body feels better already and that cough I gave out from time to time throughout the day has almost gone , and I really feel it's worth the effort now. I was shit scared when I decided I was going to have a crack at it but the patches and gum do help.

By the way, I'm still fucked in the head.

 

[Gringo-Loco]

Do us a favour. Quit yer wingin' and don't bother giving up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking#Health_effects_of_tobacco

Terminal cancer
Heart Disease
Or Bronchitis
Arterial hardening
Will do the job for you.
And once you're gone the others, who don't smoke, will breath a bit easier if your 2nd hand smoke hasn't done for them too by then....

Give it up. It is not big and it is not clever.
It is rather crumby, stupid and more un-fashionable as a British Leyland.

And... Smokers-ex, who are giving up, will not have the temperance to see this as wind up. As they will become grumpy b4starts without their tabs...

 

[andyclift]

I found the easy way to give up. From 30 - 40 a day for over 40 years I went to 0 and have never smoked since. No patches, hypnotherapy, etc. Just went down with severe pneumonia and spent a week in hospital on oxygen and a drip followed by three months off work recovering. Couldn't breath enough to smoke so didn't bother to start again.

Do I feel better and fitter? Not really but there is a lot more cash in the bank and I no longer stand huddled from the cold and rain outside my office trying to have a fag without it going soggy. Maybe if we could go back to the days when people could live and let live so I could have a fag in my office or in the designated smoking section of a restaurant or bar I would start again but the nanny state has beaten me and its just too much trouble.

I did enjoy the fag after meals or a good job well done but unfortunately there is no middle ground. If I start again I know it will be 30 a day before long but I refuse to be a boring reformed smoker. Come to my house an smoke as usual. The ashtrays are still on show as I don't want guests to have to go through the embarrassing "Do you mind if I smoke" routine while I go through the "I used to have an ashtray here somewhere".

 

[elefantman]

The best way to stop is not to start,i've always seen it as a crutch to help feeble minded people cope with life

 

[andyclift]

Lets think about this

The best way to stop is not to start

. Now in over 60 years I have never found a way of stopping something without first starting it. I bet your bike trips are fun.

i've always seen it as a crutch to help feeble minded people cope with life

. Strange how many millions of perfectly normal people see it as a pleasure.

 

[elefantman]

rides are great,only have to stop to fill up and pee,not so suck on a smokey teat ,think back to when you started was it pier pressure,to fit in or to look cool?,all things weak individuals feel the need to do,smoking shows a weakness of character

 

[andyclift]

rides are great,only have to stop to fill up and pee,not so suck on a smokey teat ,think back to when you started was it pier pressure,to fit in or to look cool?,all things weak individuals feel the need to do,smoking shows a weakness of character

Did bigotry come from Peer (not pier) pressure as well. Maybe you need to fit in or look cool but amazingly I and many others have never really felt the need.

When smoking becomes illegal what will you start on then. Maybe the whisky I like in the evening is a result only wanting to drink to look cool.

 

[elefantman]

Doing anything habitually or to help you cope with life is in its self a sign of weakness,be it caffeine,alcohol,tabacco or religion,its all just a crutch for the weak of mind

 

[Cogs]

I'm glad someone else replied in a civil manner before I hit the keys

This thread is ( I thought) meant as a support 'group' for those like myself who have succumbed to the demon weed and have decided to make a break for freedom from nicotine addiction.

But what should I expect from what gets posted elsewhere on this site, thankfully, most of it is restricted to the BC&B section...

Thanks for the support so far.

From Quit keeper (thanks again, Mark):

I have been quit for 6 Days, 19 hours and 2 minutes (6 days). I have saved £10.18 by not smoking 67 cigarettes. I have saved 5 hours and 35 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 20/04/2010 00:30

I'm using daily 18 Hr 15mg patches and sometimes it's hard. I will win

 

[Malcolm Leick]

Well done all for sticking with it. I used to be a very infrequent smoker and then one day I was walking across St Pancras station thinking "I will not buy any cigarettes...I will not ...." and the next thing I knew I was standing in the shop buying 10 fags. Time to give up all together. I thought.

I just stopped and got busy with other stuff. About a year later I was a little 'relaxed' at a works do and thought one won't do any harm. It tasted so foul that after one drag I thought I would puke. That was my last ever fag and now I can't imagine how an earth I did it in the first place. When you think about it it's just another form of self-harm and a great way of big companies screwing money out of you and not giving a sh*t about it possibly killing you.

Just hang in there, spend the money you save on something that you really enjoy, and live to ride your bike into a ripe old age. Try and do more exercise as for some weird reason it makes you want to eat less, relieves boredom, releases endorphines and of course helps your heart and lungs get stronger. Any exercise will do, gym, running, dancing, hill walking, off road riding. For an action packed day..try and fit them all in! And maybe finish with that glass of whisky...if you have any energy left.

 

[elefantman]

Give up those puffy fags and become a true free man,no gods-no masters,and wonder at what you could have done if you was not bound to the smokey teat for all those years,like putting a little cock in your mouth

 

[G.C.]

like putting a little cock in your mouth

You and your holier than thou attitude can go and take a flying fuck to yourself.
Guys here are attempting something that is at best very difficult, and you wade in with your patronising bullshit.
Go crawl back under the rock the you crept out from and take your “useful” advice with you.

How do you know what its like putting a cock in your mouth ?

On second thoughts I don’t want to know.

 

[LEGOscum]

rides are great,only have to stop to fill up and pee,not so suck on a smokey teat ,think back to when you started was it pier pressure,to fit in or to look cool?,all things weak individuals feel the need to do,smoking shows a weakness of character

Maybe so, but berating the people in this thread who are trying to give up shows you up far more than their "weakness of character". If you really think that only weak-willed people smoke then why not support them to give up a habit you so obviously deplore and thereby display your own strength of character?

Or is it just cooler to rag on smokers, so that you fit in and deflect any peer pressure you may be under?

 

[JJ's GS]

Hi guys

Well I've started (or should that be stopped ).
I'm on day 2 with patches and it's pretty difficult. I'm trying to keep busy and going through packets of gum like you wouldn't believe.
But hey at least I'm heading in the right direction.

Just reading the posts of the last couple of days and elephantman doesn't seem a happy camper does he ?
It must be good to not have any weaknesses.

I'll keep posting and hope I don't fall off the wagon. Keep telling myself one day at a time and see how it goes, no pressure just try and stick it out.

Keep it up all you out there giving up.


JJ

 

[LEGOscum]

The first 21 days at a time are the hardest and then the nicotine that has built up in your lungs starts to fade away. After that it's all about getting out of the habitual cigarette that you have with your first cuppa, pinta, etc.

Even after a week you'll be amazed at how good foods starts to taste.

 

[Bryn]

SWMBO has been off the fags for at least 5 years now.... she just went 'cold turkey' and that was it....

She reckons she doesn't know what possessed her to poison herself on a regular basis with nicotine etc...

Having never smoked I wouldn't know what the attraction is initially.... but good on the lot of you for packing up

 

[Cogs]

Day 10....

...and I still have some friends I haven't offended yet