Post for everyone who QUIT evil fags

Vizzy · 04-06-2014 5:32pm

Hang tough stoneill, another day or 2 and you will be over the worst of it.

driftkingire · 05-06-2014 12:53am

like vizzy said stoneill, dont give up!! another few days and you will be chuffed with yourself!

stoneill · 05-06-2014 11:51am

The main driver for giving up was a TV program on the tobacco industry.
So all this stuff about health, what it does to your lungs, pictures of throat cancer on packets, that
stuff I am inured to, makes no impression on me.
What did make an impression was the blatant lies and deceit from tobacco companies
to young and impressionable people in less developed countries to ensure their product has
a new and ever younger consumer. I don't want to support that, so I stopped.

And at day 6 I'm drinking plenty of water and walking about the office cubes a lot, ants in me pants!

Vizzy · 05-06-2014 1:39pm

When I gave up over 2 years ago it had nothing to do with warnings about health,cancer etc.
I did it for purely selfish reasons -money was one factor but more importantly the smokes were preventing me from doing what I wanted to do(I developed a serious cough and wheeze and the saying "the fags are killing me" was becoming a reality.
Gave them up cold turkey and haven't looked back.
When I got cravings in the beginning I would simply get up and walk around the chair(5 secs) and that was enough to break my craving but if you require a bit longer, then do that. Most important thing you do for the next few weeks is to do what feels good for you..
Best of luck,its not easy but it is certainly doable

Dramatik · 17-06-2014 1:11pm

This's my 5th time giving them up, my longest abstinence from the smokes being over a year and my last attempt was over 8 months. Been off them this time for over 12 weeks now and I'm really enjoying not being tied down by them. Aiming this time to beat my record of over a year.

Just wanted to say to everyone, not to give up on trying to give up. Most smokers have tried at some stage and failed so it's easy to say I've tried and failed, what's the point in trying again? One of the little things my ma used to say to me when I was a kid was "If at first you don't succeed, try... and then try again" It might take me 10 or more attempts but as long as I'm trying, I'm making positive steps towards giving up for good. Think of it as you're gaining something, rather than giving something up.

Remember you're in control of your own future, it's up to you. Don't let some plant matter wrapped in paper make those decisions for you.

Agent Smith · 17-06-2014 10:02pm

Agent Smith wrote: »

Offically off the fags over 24 hours today.

A small achievement, but in the 13 years that I smoked, I'd say there was only a handful of days where i didn't smoke anything.

was a 20 a camel day man. I was a devil for having a fag with coffee. It was prob my fav thing to do. Sit outside Costa or Starbucks, With a large coffee and a Smoke, And watching the world go by.

Had Coffee today with a friend who's a smoker today. I stuck with the cheep e-stick that i Bought in Centra. It was tough, but i got threw it, and resisted the will to buy a packet on my way home.

This is my Deceleration as life as a Ex-Smoker

1 year today!

billyduk · 29-08-2014 7:46pm

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I have yet to see someone beat a nicotine addiction with nicotine. It's like trying to cure alcoholism with vodka.
Cigs/eCigs there all nicotine delivery devices, your not or never were addicted to smoking tobacco your addicted to nicotine, if you can accept that you'll see how pointless eCigs are.

I wish you the best in giving up but you'll still more than likely be using them in 12mts time like a lot of the people in the vaping forum.
There's other methods out there that will give you a final cure that are well worth trying, eCigs if all else fails.

Vaping is a good method for breaking mental triggers and cutting the nicotine intake over time with a glycol emulsifier. Worked for me.

TheMilkyPirate · 03-09-2014 1:53pm

Off them a week tomorrow, Smoked for ten years (I'm only 24!) I've tried before and lasted a while I never get bad cravings nothing that doesn't go away in a minute or so anyway so I never found it to hard to go cold turkey.. I just enjoyed smoking to much.

Drink was what put me back on them in the past but I rarely ever drink anymore so hopefully this is it now.

GeorgeSlate · 11-09-2014 7:39am

I am trying from one year to quit smoking and I was really successful in quitting smoke at one limit. I make my schedule very busy in work and all other things. It was a great experience from me since last one year. I adopt healthy life style like doing meditation, exercise and eating healthy things and always putting my self busy in work.

TheMilkyPirate · 12-09-2014 3:55pm

Two weeks today

fallen01angel · 17-09-2014 10:16pm

Just worked it out,am 6 weeks off the cigarettes today:)

JillyQ · 17-09-2014 10:24pm

fallen01angel wrote: »

Just worked it out,am 6 weeks off the cigarettes today:)

Keep it up over 2.5 years off them myself it gets easier.

fallen01angel · 17-09-2014 10:42pm

JillyQ wrote: »

Keep it up over 2.5 years off them myself it gets easier.

Wow,well done you.....that's what I aspire to,but when people ask me how I doing ( to be honest I'm flying,which I cannot figure out,I loved my cigarettes!!!) I tell them grand.....but quickly add on that I could be back on them tomorrow,it's like I'm preparing them that they could see me puffing away soon:(

JillyQ · 17-09-2014 10:50pm

fallen01angel wrote: »

Wow,well done you.....that's what I aspire to,but when people ask me how I doing ( to be honest I'm flying,which I cannot figure out,I loved my cigarettes!!!) I tell them grand.....but quickly add on that I could be back on them tomorrow,it's like I'm preparing them that they could see me puffing away soon:(

I had 3 break outs but start again. Just resist the urge to buy them when it happens.

Vizzy · 17-09-2014 11:15pm

JillyQ wrote: »

Keep it up over 2.5 years off them myself it gets easier.

Just saw your post and realised I am off the exactly 2.5 years today (17th March 2012)

JillyQ · 17-09-2014 11:47pm

Vizzy wrote: »

Just saw your post and realised I am off the exactly 2.5 years today (17th March 2012)

24th dec 11

Call Me Jimmy · 17-09-2014 11:50pm

any tips for quitting with another smoker in the house? Whenever I'm on my own I usually get a couple of days off them, then they come back and I cave. It's so much harder when I can just get one from them, but maybe I just need to be mentally tougher.

Last summer was off them nearly the whole summer cold turkey

J Mysterio · 17-09-2014 11:52pm

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

any tips for quitting with another smoker in the house? Whenever I'm on my own I usually get a couple of days off them, then they come back and I cave. It's so much harder when I can just get one from them, but maybe I just need to be mentally tougher.

Last summer was off them nearly the whole summer cold turkey

Vape eliquid with 0 nic

reprise · 18-09-2014 6:16pm

7 months off for me now.

Sooo much easier now than March, but some days - for a fleeting moment - its like I only quit yesterday!

It passes.

BrowmThomas · 21-09-2014 10:34am

I stopped on new years eve. Have no desire to ever have another.

After ten years smoking 10-20 a day and giving up every January (for maximum of one month), I knew this time it was for good.

You HAVE to have it in your head that you want to do it.

I gained some weight the first 6 months but have lost it slowly in last 3 months.

Well done to all who quit.

Agent Coulson · 26-09-2014 12:33pm

I'm 1000 days off them today

Perkinstock · 27-09-2014 6:43am

keep up the good work guys!

ima proud olopya!

BremoreDave · 30-09-2014 3:13pm

New to Boards and I just came across this thread . I have not had a cigarette since March this year after being a 20-30 a day smoker for about 27 years .
To anyone else trying to give up, stick with it as it is amazing just how much better you will feel after just a couple of months.
It gets easier, and the odd time that I think about having a cigarette I just remind myself of what it was like and soon put the idea out of my head because I know that having just the one would lead to just an other one ........

Dave

Little Lion Woman · 30-09-2014 3:59pm

BremoreDave wrote: »

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To anyone else trying to give up, stick with it as it is amazing just how much better you will feel after just a couple of months.

This is so true! I wish I'd given up years ago.

Call Me Jimmy · 30-09-2014 4:06pm

gearing up mentally for another go. Only big thing is the socialising. My only socialising is in drink scenarios and it's the only time I really feel myself so dont know whether I will have to avoid it completely for a while? Also should I just do it immediately and throw out a pack or can you build up to it and be better prepared with a day or two of thinking about it, preparing?

reading this thread recently has helped me get closer to doing it so thanks

Little Lion Woman · 30-09-2014 4:12pm

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

gearing up mentally for another go. Only big thing is the socialising. My only socialising is in drink scenarios and it's the only time I really feel myself so dont know whether I will have to avoid it completely for a while? Also should I just do it immediately and throw out a pack or can you build up to it and be better prepared with a day or two of thinking about it, preparing?

reading this thread recently has helped me get closer to doing it so thanks

I know everyone's different but I personally had a few quiet weekends at first as I didn't trust myself to not smoke!

It really depends on how ready you are. In the times I've quit in the past before I've waited until I finish the current box but this time round I just got fed up and resolved to quit straightaway. There's still some left in the box and I still have that box at home!

Call Me Jimmy · 30-09-2014 4:32pm

Yes I'm afraid if i leave it til i finish a box that that is just a cycle of continuing. I feel confident because I as I've said here I did a whole summer and was very stupid thinking I could have the one because I had done it relatively easily. I just kinda need to feel the click in my mind, but even talking and thinking about is good at the moment it makes a point of it.

KungPao · 01-10-2014 3:26pm

192 days for myself. Been on the vapouriser all along, recently dropped from 2.4mg to 1.6mg.

Not a bit of tobacco in that time and when I see people standing in the rain smoking themelves into a life of wrinkles, bad health, bad smell etc, I wonder whyyyy?

Then occasionally I get a craving for a smoke...Over 6 months off 'em and still getting cravings. So bloody addictive.

Can't imagine myself smoking again though...not while young anyway, maybe when I'm 70 I'll start on a pipe!

BremoreDave · 02-10-2014 1:10pm

KungPao wrote: »

Then occasionally I get a craving for a smoke...Over 6 months off 'em and still getting cravings. So bloody addictive.

I don't think that ever goes away , I occasionally still get a 'wouldn't mind a smoke now ' thought , but it quickly passes . I know someone off them five years and still gets those moments , or forgets that he doesn't smoke and starts searching in his pocket for them .

SMJSF · 02-10-2014 6:38pm

I'm on day 3, doing the "stoptober" campaign.... And I've turned into a demon! I'm fine during the day, but in the evening, I turn completely nuts and emotional!!! It's about my 7th time in 6 years turning to stop... But I don't know if I really want to quit, or if I'm ready.. I'm mostly doing it because of money, but I'm starting to actually miss it, even when an ad comes on the TV, I find myself rooting through my bag, for a blue pall mall box that doesn't exist!!

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