Stopping smoking

[Martin.p]

I gave up just under a yr ago.
I had a lung collapse and a foolishly started smoking again. (yeah yeah I know) my other half kicked me out! And would not take me back because she said she would not stand by and have her and our 3 girls watch me kill myself! In a split moment I realised that I WANTED to give up! And from that point on it was easy! She told me to see the doc about giving up, who gave me patches and said 'do a month on them' I did a week! And the rest was will power!

Point is when you actually want to give up for any reason! Your health, partners benifit, kids sake you'll do it easy!
She did finally take me back and I'm with my Kids again.
The patches did help the craving for nicotine (witch does make you a hard person to live with.)
But the habit is hard to kill, the one I missed most was a fag after a big meal. Or hard work!
The other thing is to tell people around you that your giving up! And let them surport you!

[raf24]

Yeah good advice mate,thanks.theres lots of reasons i want to give up for,so hopefully it works.

[steviegsi]

I lasted 3 days the one and only time I wanted to give up. It wasn't as bad as I thought tbh. I was my own worst enemy though and the wee voice in my head persuaded me it would be a good idea to go buy a packet. So I will try again some time, but the key is WANTING to stop imo. At the moment I don't really want to stop.

Only bit of advice I can offer from my feeble attempt is, when your sitting in a few days time and your brain is trying to convince you a cig would be a good idea, is that the thought of a cigarette is a lot better than the anticlimax of going and lighting one. Best of luck

[womble sri]

I am currently giving up smoking, I've started a new job where I can pretty much smoke where an when I want to and one of the lads I employ smokes like a chimney, I was smoking loads as a result. Last wednesday whilst driving to work smoking my morning fag drinking my morning coffee it didn't taste as good as it used to. So I decided to give up there and then, I have had one failure in the last 7 days and that was yesterday due to the stress of running a new business and it was horrible, within the 7 days I have had a night out on the booze so think im doing quite well. Hopefully I will have the strength and will power not to have another. I have packed up for 6 months or so in the past but eventually started smoking again. My mum used to carry a jar of stunned out cigarettes and everytime she fancied one she use to open the lid and have a whiff.

[raf24]

Couple of good bits of advice there lads,cheers

[Tanya.]

I went cold turkey nearly 2 and a half years ago. Getting pregnant helped kick me into stopping. I will admit I've been very tempted to have one a few time since but urge is no longer as strong and the smell makes me feel sick now.

It definetly takes a lot of willpower but it's worth it, actually wanting to stop always helps. I feel so much healthier since stopping, I haven't had to use my inhaler since stopping either

[raf24]

I went cold turkey nearly 2 and a half years ago. Getting pregnant helped kick me into stopping. I will admit I've been very tempted to have one a few time since but urge is no longer as strong and the smell makes me feel sick now.

It definetly takes a lot of willpower but it's worth it, actually wanting to stop always helps. I feel so much healthier since stopping, I haven't had to use my inhaler since stopping either

Its very encouraging to hear all this,when i stopped before i always thought the first week was the worst,seems to get better after a while going by what most folk are saying on here

[Andy]

how can water vapour be dangrous?? did you hear this from a propper source? as if you did i will send the info to my old man so he can do something diffrent


cheers

Well,i used to do bongs and shotties etc years ago,and was always told that they cause water on the lungs/pluracy.
So i would imagine the same would apply.

[Edd]

Buckets FTW

[Hobbit]

I just gave up, as said you just need to want to give up. I still have the odd one when on the beers but I know about it in the morning which reminds me why I give up.