Giving up the smokes today!

Lavattack

So I have been a non smoker now for a whopping maybe 4 hours or that way. Tis going grand so far. I have never actually tried to give them up before but they are just gone too expensive! Gonna try and stay clear of the pub for a couple weeks as it would be too tempting. Not gonna use patches/books/gum/hypnotherapy or any other method this time, will have a go cold turkey.

I will let ye know either-way how it goes and if anyone else is fed up of the price and wants to give em up feel free to post away here how you are getting on.

mikemac

What vice are you going to take up instead?

u140acro3xs7dm

TBH if you really wanna give them up its not all that hard.

Duggy747

Going cold turkey off the fags is nasty.

When you see that baby cawling towards you upside down on the roof, twist it's head and fall on you, it's horrible.

Need to give them up myself.

chin_grin

"For 8 years now I've been addicted to cold turkey. When I tell people I'm quitting cold turkey, they say,"What are you quitting?", I'm f*cking quitting cold turkey." - Zach Galifianakis.

Lavattack

Devon Jolly Washtub wrote: »

TBH if you really wanna give them up its not all that hard.

Thats what im kinda thinking/hoping!

Duggy747 wrote: »

Going cold turkey off the fags is nasty.

When you see that baby cawling towards you upside down on the roof, twist it's head and fall on you, it's horrible.

Need to give them up myself.

Thanks for the heads up

FunkZ

I'll smoke enough for us both OP

Anytime you feel like having one just use a Nicorette Inhaler, they're just as good... NAWT.

Best of luck

AnonoBoy

Codeine is now your friend.

u140acro3xs7dm

Lavattack wrote: »

Thats what im kinda thinking/hoping!

I gave them up a few times and lasted anywhere from 20 minutes to a day. But one day i decided i really wanted to give them up and i did it. Had patches for the first week but as im a scabby bastard i stopped them. 99% of it is in your head.

Lavattack

Devon Jolly Washtub wrote: »

I gave them up a few times and lasted anywhere from 20 minutes to a day. But one day i decided i really wanted to give them up and i did it. Had patches for the first week but as im a scabby bastard i stopped them. 99% of it is in your head.

Ya I am the same, I am quitting for financial reasons and I am just too stubborn to spend the money I will be saving(hopefully) on "not-smoking". I would just rather smoke than pay to give em up like lol

chin_grin

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/online-tools-top-10-years-resolutions/

Check out the links for Goal 1. I don't smoke so wouldn't have a clue if they work, but it's best to do this with like-minded people.

F*ck Goal 2! :pac:

mcmoustache

Don't do it OP. How will you flirt? What will you do while waiting for a bus?

By smoking you contribute taxes to the economy and you cost less at the end of your life. It's your civic duty to smoke.

You should smoke more than you used to, in fact.

chin_grin

mcmoustache wrote: »

Don't do it OP. How will you flirt?

I'm sorry...............what? :pac:

orourkeda

What are you going to smoke after ridin' your bird

Lavattack

chin_grin wrote: »

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/online-tools-top-10-years-resolutions/

Check out the links for Goal 1. I don't smoke so wouldn't have a clue if they work, but it's best to do this with like-minded people.

F*ck Goal 2! :pac:

Cheers bud. I am reading all the free things on the net about it atm. Keeping me occupied for now

chin_grin

orourkeda wrote: »

What are you going to smoke after ridin' your bird

That's what cigars are for! Wha wha?

Lavattack

mcmoustache wrote: »

Don't do it OP. How will you flirt? What will you do while waiting for a bus?

By smoking you contribute taxes to the economy and you cost less at the end of your life. It's your civic duty to smoke.

You should smoke more than you used to, in fact.

Ya why didn't I think of that, I would call you something normally at this point but don't wana get a 7day ban lol

orourkeda wrote: »

What are you going to smoke after ridin' your bird

Firstly I am single so not as much "ridin'" as I'd like but hows about just have a sleep?

Lavattack

feelingstressed wrote: »

What vice are you going to take up instead?

That has yet to be decided. Maybe paying off my loans a bit quicker, that would be good if I had the extra cash

TheZohanS

Lavattack wrote: »

Cheers bud. I am reading all the free things on the net about it atm. Keeping me occupied for now

Know what else would keep you occupied? A nice smoke...can't beat a smoke after a meal...sex....coffee...anything really...

But you're right to give them up, I gave them up loads of times...you get a better buzz off the smokes after giving them up for a day...

chin_grin

TheZohan wrote: »

Know what else would keep you occupied? A nice smoke...can't beat a smoke after a meal...sex....coffee...anything really...

But you're right to give them up, I gave them up loads of times...you get a better buzz off the smokes after giving them up for a day...

Thanks. Now I'm getting weird(er) looks from my colleagues for laughing like an eejit. :pac:

mcmoustache

Oh, and don't forget, cigarettes are great as a slimming aid. Instead of working hard to be fit, you can smoke to look fit.

I really think that you should reconsider, OP. Being an ex smoker is crap. Being a smoker is like being Humphrey Bogart without being dead.







My posts here are not serious. This is AH.

Minstrel27

Devon Jolly Washtub wrote: »

TBH if you really wanna give them up its not all that hard.

This is correct.

fakearms123

Most commonly used sentence heard from a smoker


"I'm giving up the smokes today"

admiralofthefleet

are you alright there dougal bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla

Lavattack

fakearms123 wrote: »

Most commonly used sentence heard from a smoker


"I'm giving up the smokes today"

Well just so happens to be my first time actually saying that, if it wasn't my first attempt I would have said something like "I'm giving up the smokes again today"

Lavattack

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

are you alright there dougal bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla

???

M O N T O

There's an audiobook entitled Alan Carr's (not the fairy comedian) easyway to stop smoking. You can download it with uTorrent pretty quickly. I've downloaded it but haven't used it yet, as i'm not entirely sure i want to give up yet, but from the people that have used it they have said if you really want to give up smoking this book will make you never want to smoke again.

jimthemental

fakearms123 wrote: »

Most commonly used sentence heard from a smoker


"I'm giving up the smokes today"

I thought it would've been, "Do you have a light?".

Ah but what do I know I only smoke at weekends now with my weekly alcohol intake.

fakearms123

jimthemental wrote: »

I thought it would've been, "Do you have a light?".

Ah but what do I know I only smoke at weekends now with my weekly alcohol intake.

I thought it would of been, "I can't wait to inhale this smoke so I can shorten my life by a few years and oh if I'm lucky I could get cancer in the meantime."

... too much? :rolleyes:

jimthemental

fakearms123 wrote: »

I thought it would of been, "I can't wait to inhale this smoke so I can shorten my life by a few years and oh if I'm lucky I could get cancer in the meantime."

... too much? :rolleyes:

Not really, you didn't cover how I want to shorten the lives of my parents, my seventeen kids and my puppy with chronic passive smoking of Swastika branded cigarettes.

Lavattack

fakearms123 wrote: »

I thought it would of been, "I can't wait to inhale this smoke so I can shorten my life by a few years and oh if I'm lucky I could get cancer in the meantime."

... too much? :rolleyes:

not too much at all I think. Just facts like tbh

Lavattack

Still no ciggie

Have a craving for some Chinese food tho which I reckon I will deserve if I get by until say 8.

wolf moon

good stuff op, i've been smoking for 17 years and woke up a non-smoker once. it's been almost 4 years ago and couldn't be happier.

TheZohanS

Lavattack wrote: »

Still no ciggie

Have a craving for some Chinese food tho which I reckon I will deserve if I get by until say 8.

Good stuff, this thread is waaaay better than 24...everything's in real-time. I hope we can keep this going 'til later so we find out how much of a buzz you get from your smoke.

In the meantime I'm off for a coffee and a cigarette, I'll post on here and let you know how I get on.

Wish me luck!

Corkfeen

I think everyone in this thread should light up as a mark of solidarity for the OP.

thebaz

good luck -
I'm off the smokes 3 days - and still craving - im so bad humoured and irritable (more than ever) I'm trying to avoid people - I'm beginning to think if life is so difficult off them , would i be better off going back on the wicked weed - but i'll keep plodding - also, having terrible difficulties concentrating

stupidusername

Just wanted to say good luck op.hope it's not too harsh on you.

kkdela6

'giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. i know because i've done it thousands of times' mark twain

Posy

There's a 'giving up smoking' forum here on boards that should help you, OP.

Standman

op you should switch to rollies instead, they're half the price and last longer. Also the added arts and crafts element to rolling a cigarette, what a great hobby!

Blobby George

M O N T O wrote: »

There's an audiobook entitled Alan Carr's (not the fairy comedian) easyway to stop smoking. You can download it with uTorrent pretty quickly. I've downloaded it but haven't used it yet, as i'm not entirely sure i want to give up yet, but from the people that have used it they have said if you really want to give up smoking this book will make you never want to smoke again.

Alan Carr, the fairy, also has a book out on smoking. It's called 'The Most Effective Way To Smoke A Cock'.

Chuck Stone

I found it really hard to give up but cracked it in the end (bout 9yrs smoke free now).

Your quality of life will improve enormously if you kick it.

Best of luck to you

Hank Scorpio

Im trying to give up drink at the moment, and a friend of mine is trying to quit rollerblading after it became some sort of weird addiction to him.

Maybe the 3 of us should join forces and tell AH about any wacky experiences we encounter.

jive

People who can't give up smoking sicken me (serious). If you don't have the will power to quit smoking then you are a sad person. It's not like a simple habit that might just occur such as biting your nails or something along those lines. You actually have to go to the shop, buy fags and light them. If you can't stop yourself from doing that all the while knowing that they are extremely detrimental to your health then you're actually a loser.

I hope this inspires you to not be a loser. Queue all the angry smokers who are mad at me. If you have a perfectly healthy body and you smoke then you deserve everything you get illness wise.

jive

x

Rothmans

Lavattack wrote: »

So I have been a non smoker now for a whopping maybe 4 hours or that way. Tis going grand so far. I have never actually tried to give them up before but they are just gone too expensive! Gonna try and stay clear of the pub for a couple weeks as it would be too tempting. Not gonna use patches/books/gum/hypnotherapy or any other method this time, will have a go cold turkey.

I will let ye know either-way how it goes and if anyone else is fed up of the price and wants to give em up feel free to post away here how you are getting on.

It may have been said already, but why don't you try rollies. They work out at half the price of cigarettes.

blaze1

Fair play OP,

I'll be giving it another go Sunday
I've been off them the last 2 months according to some

Gordon

Good luck OP, stick at it

The below paragraph is something similar to what clinched me stopping a while ago. You think you smoke to get a relief, but really you smoke to feel what non-smokers feel like all the time. From Wikipedia.

Carr teaches that, contrary to their perception, smokers do not receive a boost from smoking a cigarette: smoking only relieves the withdrawal symptoms from the previous cigarette, which in turn creates more withdrawal symptoms once it is finished. In this way the drug addiction perpetuates itself. He asserted that the "relief" smokers feel on lighting a cigarette, the feeling of being "back to normal", is the feeling experienced by non-smokers all the time. So that smokers, when they light a cigarette are really trying to achieve a state that non-smokers enjoy their whole lives. He further asserted that withdrawal symptoms are actually created by doubt and fear in the mind of the ex-smoker, and therefore that stopping smoking is not as traumatic as is commonly assumed, if that doubt and fear can be removed.

frannymurph

OP, do not bamboozle yourself with "which way" or "what if"you will just fall into the Nicomonster's trap of which you want to escape.
It is true Allen Carr's Easy way to stop smoking, is without doubt the best way to understand the smoking trap and how to beat it.
He smoked 100 per day for 25+years, he researched smoking and the trap put into a book and sold over 21 million copies !!!.
He just nail's it perfectly get the book,audio or video if you really want to stop smoking, then this WILL convince you It took me to a place where I just could not believe how stupid and ridiculous smoking really is and how easy it is to stop.
I hope this help's and good luck, just remember it's all association...

EverEvolving

I gave up a year ago, just a shame I didn't stay off them!

What I did find in my brief time off them was to keep busy, especially doing something physical, that way you wear yourself out and are ready to sleep soundly at night and it keeps your mind active and not thinking about the smokes.

Best of luck with it, enjoy that chinese!

Lavattack

Corkfeen wrote: »

I think everyone in this thread should light up as a mark of solidarity for the OP.

Thanks for the back up

thebaz wrote: »

good luck -
I'm off the smokes 3 days - and still craving - im so bad humoured and irritable (more than ever) I'm trying to avoid people - I'm beginning to think if life is so difficult off them , would i be better off going back on the wicked weed - but i'll keep plodding - also, having terrible difficulties concentrating

Hope it works out for both us and thanks

stupidusername wrote: »

Just wanted to say good luck op.hope it's not too harsh on you.

Cheers

Standman wrote: »

op you should switch to rollies instead, they're half the price and last longer. Also the added arts and crafts element to rolling a cigarette, what a great hobby!

That I have tried but I always get sick of em and go back to smokes. I will go out some night and say "ahh shur I have to buy a box, can't be rolling up in the smoking room of the nightclub" and the next day its another and so on. But I agree, while just smoking rollies I did save money.

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I found it really hard to give up but cracked it in the end (bout 9yrs smoke free now).

Your quality of life will improve enormously if you kick it.

Best of luck to you

Thanks mate

nuxxx wrote: »

Im trying to give up drink at the moment, and a friend of mine is trying to quit rollerblading after it became some sort of weird addiction to him.

Maybe the 3 of us should join forces and tell AH about any wacky experiences we encounter.

Im up for it but tbh I intend on keeping very quiet the next week or two as I know I will be in bad form
Good luck to you and your mate also btw

jive wrote: »

People who can't give up smoking sicken me (serious). If you don't have the will power to quit smoking then you are a sad person. It's not like a simple habit that might just occur such as biting your nails or something along those lines. You actually have to go to the shop, buy fags and light them. If you can't stop yourself from doing that all the while knowing that they are extremely detrimental to your health then you're actually a loser.

I hope this inspires you to not be a loser. Queue all the angry smokers who are mad at me. If you have a perfectly healthy body and you smoke then you deserve everything you get illness wise.

Well we will see how it goes but like I know a few people who have tried and failed, it isn't exactly easy like you think. Some people seemingly find it easy granted but the majority find it difficult and if you can't understand why I am not going to argue with ya

Rothmans wrote: »

It may have been said already, but why don't you try rollies. They work out at half the price of cigarettes.

Tryed and always lead back to normal smokes

blaze1 wrote: »

Fair play OP,

I'll be giving it another go Sunday
I've been off them the last 2 months according to some

Thanks man

Gordon wrote: »

Good luck OP, stick at it

The below paragraph is something similar to what clinched me stopping a while ago. You think you smoke to get a relief, but really you smoke to feel what non-smokers feel like all the time. From Wikipedia.

Cheers and sound for that