I quit smoking...

RE: I quit smoking...

Congratulations and well done! 😀 I think that's a fantastic achievement!!

Wishing you good luck-you can do this!!!!!!!!! :):D:):D:):D

RE: I quit smoking...

Congratulations! You're doing brilliantly. If you live near or know a good aromatherapist, sniffing oil of black pepper is really good for taking away cravings for the demon weed. Keep up your positive thinking, and you'll be fine!

Welcome to HP, by the way!

Nellx

RE: I quit smoking...

Thats brilliant!!

I gave up (with patches) 13 years ago and all round everything is better, and they are £5 for a pack of 20 now!!!!

Keep going and reward yourself too, you deserve it

RE: I quit smoking...

saidev.

Good to hear that you are already feeling much better for giving up, and of course, you are now much richer!! Ha, ha. Mind you I didn't realise it was so expensive now.Crikey! I was glad I also gave up (many years ago now)but I really detest the smell now - like me, you will soon be dodging those smokers who 'lurk' outside shops.:D

Keep up the good work.

Best wishes
Moonfairy
x

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Well done from me too!

This will be the best thing you can ever do for yourself! I have stopped over a year now and I never even thought about having a cigarette after the first couple of weeks. I think people only think it easy to stop when it is the right time for them.

I had tried many times previously and found it excruciating, but the last time I just knew I wouldn't smoke again and it really was easy (after smoking for 11 years aswell).

So Congratulations, and keep positive!

Donna.xx.

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Congrats from me as well.

Iam nearly 2 years quit after smoking for nearly 24 years.
Best thing iever did.

annie

RE: I quit smoking...

Whooo Hooo! Great job, keep it up. Nearly 2 years for me too -- actually it was Annie (post above) and the crew at ivequit that got me through it.

• Keep busy, replace that habit with something else
• Educate yourself, read things like Allan Carr's book, go to whyquit.com and read...
• Get support
• Remember craves only last a matter of moments -- you can outlast them and win
• Drink tons of water, take b vitamins and vitamin c too

You are past the physical addiction -- your body is saying THANK YOU!

It is great that people became think about dangerous of smoking.

If you look at the picture I swear thqt you neve take a cigarette.

Well done! I wish you success - keep it up!:)

congrats!!! keep up the good work!! xoxo

congrats!!! keep up the good work!! xoxo

Ummmmm.....Ladygrace - the original post on this thread is three years old!:rolleyes:
xxx

The poster of #9 was the one that resurrected the thread, sunanda 😉

It sometimes happens that new members do a search for a topic and then post a reply without noticing the date of the previous post 🙂

Holistic

Yep, you are, as always, right, Hol 😉
My apologies, Ladygrace.:)
xxx

Well it would be nice to know if she is still off them,three years along,hopfully.

Yep, you are, as always, right, Hol 😉
My apologies, Ladygrace.:)
xxx

:hidesbehindsofa: 😮

Well it would be nice to know if she is still off them,three years along,hopfully.

It would indeed ... it's always good to know that people have REALLY quit. However, as saidev hasn't visited HP since posting in 2006, it seems unlikely we'll get to find out.

I've moved this over to Addictions, BTW, which is where the smoking threads usually are, and may perhaps close the thread later.

Holistic

Yes you are correct Holistic.

Trying to quit

Smoking
Hey all,

I am 30 years old and have smoked since i was about 11. When i was 17, i was diagnosed with asthma, following shortness of breath on walking a very short distance.
However, i am still smoking, not heavily, but still smoking and have tried several times to quit, but find it SO hard and just cant do it.
I went to the doctors yesterday with what i thought was just a smokers cough, but it was an asthmatic cough with severe wheezing and ended up on a nebuliser. I still have a wheeze, and the nurse increased my steroid inhaler.

I have decided that i am not going to smoke from today. I so far havent smoked and am ok, but the evenings when my daughter is in bed, thats when i am most likely to smoke.
I really dont want to, as yesterday really scared me. I am going to get some nicorette gum later and hope that will help.
I have signed up to the NHS smokefree programme, but am disabled and cannot get out unless i have access to a vehicle, which i do occasionally, but not enough to be able to commit to the programme.
I will have my own car at the end of the month then i can really go for it at the clinic....and be smokefreeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
So....I am going to try to get a head start from today, hopefully i can tough it out.

Reply to all:

This recent press release from the British Medical Journal may be of interest:

[DLMURL] http://www.bmj.com/content/vol338/issue7698/press_release.dtl [/DLMURL]

Please scroll down a little over half way to:

(3) Using nicotine replacement therapy could help some smokers quit gradually
(Research: Effectiveness and safety of nicotine replacement therapy assisted reduction to stop smoking: systematic review and meta-analysis)

Smokers who do not want to quit right now, but are prepared to try to reduce their smoking are twice as likely to stop smoking in the long-term if they use nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) to help them cut down gradually, according to research published on bmj.com today.

[the rest of the article follows]

Holistic

so far so good

I still havent had a cig, got some lozenges....its going good for my first day 🙂

When I gave up smoking I set up a reminder on my computer to say well done at the end of each week. Then it changed to each month, and now it's every year.

So set yourself milestones, and reward yourself with what you've saved. I first reward was broardband.

But remember it only takes one ciggy or cigar to make you a smoker again.

Namaste,
Myarka.

Hey Myarka, thats a really good idea. How do you set up reminders on your computer?

Hey Myarka, thats a really good idea. How do you set up reminders on your computer?

I use outlook for mine, but if you don't have it, there are other reminder programs out there, or even your mobile phone?

Myarka.

Cool...thanks!! 🙂

I did it!! 24 hours without a smoke!!
I did have a couple of cravings, but with the help of lozenges and gum and of course willpower and prayer, i got through it!!!
A good start!! 😀

Well done! Congratulations!!! Keep up the good work and just think how much better you will feel when you've kicked them into touch ... and you will be able to taste and smell things so much better too!

Thank you!!!

I am on day 2 and its going well still, i have got an online quit smoking plan which helps, there is a little box to ask if i have slipped up or not and i clicked no, and a big box popped up saying congrats....that helped!
I have tried numerous times to quit and failed and so lots of encouragement is helping 🙂

Congratulations and well done from me too, and thanks for your good wishes re solpadeine addiction. It helps when we all care for each other and get these responses.
billfred.

Well done, Ali. Just take it one hour at a time. And when the cravings come just concentrate on not smoking in that one minute, and then the next. I gave up six years ago, but only after being diagnosed with a lung disease! (It was easy then, funnily enough.) At the beginning, one day seems like a lifetime, but each day will go by and then you will look back and realise that you have not had a ciggy for a week, then a month etc. But just start with one hour at a time. Huge congratulations, it really is a big thing and believe me, it is WONDERFUL not to smoke.
xxx

I gave up a year past January 14th due to health scare - I swear someone sent me some long distance Reiki healing did it for me.