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zizou_ · 26-11-2013 09:07PM

According to my app i'm 17 days smoke free today. First time quitting in a while and this time going cold turkey. First week was a bit of a mare but going ok for me now. Only issue is unsettled sleep but I understand this doesn't last too long.

Notus · 26-11-2013 09:09PM

2 years of them in 4 days , keep trying is the only bit of advise

sing_dumb · 26-11-2013 09:39PM

6 days off the smokes today, feels like 6 months, but totally determined never to smoke again. Doing cold turkey. I have tried every sort of method available to quit, with NO success. Then......my friend's Dad, a 60 + a day man, for over 50 years stopped & stayed stopped, I asked him how he did it. He gave me a little envelope & told me ONLY to open it & follow de instructions when I was ready to stop smoking for good. So I did, and inside was a Novena to St Martin De Porres. So, despite my cynicism I was desperate eneough to go for it......& boy am I happy I did. Some may laugh, and who cares, but I prayed for a Miracle and for me, this IS a Miracle!! I would not swop this new life with no nasty tobacco smells, expense, illness and sense of dread for all the John Player Blue in the whole world now!!!

username123 · 27-11-2013 10:01AM

Hi all, thought I'd share a little encouragement.

Coming up to 2 years off them now, don't miss them at all. After I quit I started couch to 5k, well it took me 4 months to start because that's how long it took before I could run for a minute without coughing, head pounding, almost having a stroke.

Now I do an hours run twice a week, it's like I was never a smoker.

One of the nicest things is the ability to crack up laughing without it becoming a coughing fit.

But THE nicest thing of all, is no longer being enslaved by cigarettes. I am free. I hated having to smoke.

If I'd known when I was still a smoker how much joy I would have from quitting, I'd have quit years ago!!

So to anyone struggling, hang in there, it's so worth it.

gg2 · 01-12-2013 01:19PM

Stopped smoking last Sunday, haven't had so much as a drag in 7 days!! So proud of myself just hope I can keep it up, I got to the stage where I hated the things... My OH is also a smoker and didn't smoke around me all week, however yesterday I asked him to smoke around me as I need to get used to it, especially coming up to christmas, all of my friends smoke too. I was fine when he was doing it but my mood yesterday was generally very narky... Don't know if the smoking was a factor or not.

Going to start running tomorrow, something to take my mind off it and hopefully something that will push me as I see my fitness improve.... Also because I'm picking non stop come evening time - anyone any tips on this?

Also what I'm really dreading is having a drink :-(

L1m1tless · 01-12-2013 05:56PM

4 Months off them now. Its actually been hard the last week. I have forgotten all the reasons I wanted to give up and motivation is low. Still pulled through tho.

Carpenter · 01-12-2013 06:01PM

CowboyDreams wrote: »

4 Months off them now. Its actually been hard the last week. I have forgotten all the reasons I wanted to give up and motivation is low. Still pulled through tho.

Yea well try your doing great keep @it

mariebeth · 01-12-2013 08:05PM

9 Days off them today, I feel great. It's the first time that I've quit that I feel like a non-smoker, that I just know that I'm going to stay off them. I don't miss them, I don't want them, and I've been through stressful situations and social situations in the past 9 days and haven't even thought of heading to the shop for a packet. I really feel in my heart that this time is it, that I'm not going to slide backwards.

Salt001 · 01-12-2013 08:25PM

Myself and my husband have been off cigs since March of this year. Its so tough at the start, its still tough sometimes.
I quit two weeks before I started a new job, talk about bad timing.
Or maybe good timing!!.
Its so tough and there is no point saying its not and you have to totally be mentally ready to do it.
I still miss ....something, not really a cig, I so hate the smell of them and I can remember the taste in my mouth after 3 or 4. I loved smoking, I think I am a born smoker but I have somehow managed to escape.

General General · 03-12-2013 02:17AM

It's great when you escape.

5 years, 4 months. F`ck yeah.

Agent Coulson · 03-12-2013 07:47PM

100 weeks last night only 4 more to make it 2 years.. Never thought I would get 100 days let alone 100 weeks

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Well done to everyone who had quit and to those trying you can do it!

mariebeth · 03-12-2013 09:40PM

11 days today. Feeling pretty good, but had a couple of urges today, but they passed, and I got on with it. According to my app nearly €67 saved, so that's making me feel even better.

quaalude · 05-12-2013 03:58PM

Agent Coulson wrote: »

100 weeks last night only 4 more to make it 2 years.. Never thought I would get 100 days let alone 100 weeks .

Well done to everyone who had quit and to those trying you can do it!

Same as me, almost to the day! Not smoking is the best thing I ever did.
I started running a year ago - which I never would have done if I'd still been smoking, plus I cut down hugely on my drinking (I always drank and smoked together), and I've lost a lot of weight.
I'm healthier than I've ever been and it's all down to making the decision to stop smoking almost two years ago.
Reading this forum is what gave me the push to finally face into it, and stop for good.
So, if you're reading this and seriously thinking about stopping just do it!

Agent Coulson · 05-12-2013 09:20PM

quaalude wrote: »

Same as me, almost to the day! Not smoking is the best thing I ever did.
I started running a year ago - which I never would have done if I'd still been smoking, plus I cut down hugely on my drinking (I always drank and smoked together), and I've lost a lot of weight.
I'm healthier than I've ever been and it's all down to making the decision to stop smoking almost two years ago.
Reading this forum is what gave me the push to finally face into it, and stop for good.
So, if you're reading this and seriously thinking about stopping just do it!

We probably did give up at the same time.

Have to agree the best thing I ever did. Running wasn't for me sadly with bad knees. But I walked alot and back into swimming to help which in turn helped my fitness and helped keep the weight off. With money saved I got to spend a month in Spain this summer walking the Camino de Santiago.

I found an app called since iQuit a great help. I looked at it and still do whenever I have an urge for one and its shows me how many minutes hours days weeks & years since I last had a smoke and it is amazing just looking at that screen gives me pride. Then I look at the next page on the app to see how many fags I haven't smoked in that time and how much money I haven't spent on smokes.

remembering · 06-12-2013 09:43PM

Hi everyone! Haven't logged on here for a while but I will be 2 years smoke free in January but I'm after getting such a craving for one now. What's that about ?? :0( god, why are cigarettes so addictive after such a long time?! My sister and her husband are home for Xmas and they chain smoke so another hurdle ahead!

cofy · 07-12-2013 01:19AM

remembering wrote: »

Hi everyone! Haven't logged on here for a while but I will be 2 years smoke free in January but I'm after getting such a craving for one now. What's that about ?? :0( god, why are cigarettes so addictive after such a long time?! My sister and her husband are home for Xmas and they chain smoke so another hurdle ahead!

I hope the craving has left you by now. We recently invited a little boy over on a playdate with our son. His mother came to collect him, she knew that our house was non smoking and that even when we smoked we went outside. She stood in our kitchen with the door open smoking. To her that was the same as smoking outside.:mad::mad::mad:

Micky Dolenz · 07-12-2013 02:28AM

cofy wrote: »

I hope the craving has left you by now. We recently invited a little boy over on a playdate with our son. His mother came to collect him, she knew that our house was non smoking and that even when we smoked we went outside. She stood in our kitchen with the door open smoking. To her that was the same as smoking outside.:mad::mad::mad:

put her straight, nicely of course. not acceptable to do that.

eimerom · 12-12-2013 12:15PM

quaalude wrote: »

Same as me, almost to the day! Not smoking is the best thing I ever did.
I started running a year ago - which I never would have done if I'd still been smoking, plus I cut down hugely on my drinking (I always drank and smoked together), and I've lost a lot of weight.
I'm healthier than I've ever been and it's all down to making the decision to stop smoking almost two years ago.
Reading this forum is what gave me the push to finally face into it, and stop for good.
So, if you're reading this and seriously thinking about stopping just do it!

I'm a year in January off cigs but I have put on nearly a stone and a half

. Did it take you a while to get into fitness after quitting or did you overindulge for a while also. I was pregnant when I quit so between pregnancy and quitting and still breastfeeding my appetite is still massive. Would eat the hand off someone. Have completely substituted junk food for cigs. So back to work in January after almost a year off and wondering where to start with regards weightloss. Never been this heavy and so embarrassed going back to work like this. Any advice would be appreciated.:o

Agent Coulson · 12-12-2013 12:43PM

eimerom wrote: »

I'm a year in January off cigs but I have put on nearly a stone and a half . Did it take you a while to get into fitness after quitting or did you overindulge for a while also. I was pregnant when I quit so between pregnancy and quitting and still breastfeeding my appetite is still massive. Would eat the hand off someone. Have completely substituted junk food for cigs. So back to work in January after almost a year off and wondering where to start with regards weightloss. Never been this heavy and so embarrassed going back to work like this. Any advice would be appreciated.:o

For me I only worried about staying off the smokes for the first year. Didn't care about other issues. But once I got the first year out of the way I new I had willpower. So the next January 1st. Which was this year I started looking at losing the weight I put on when I gave up the smokes.

So I started walking again I joined the local Gym/Pool although I don't use the gym I use the pool. So after the year I had put the weight on, this year I lost that weight and a bit more. (2 stone)

But I understood it would take the whole year if not more to lose the weight and keep it off. Sadly the weight loss takes time and is frustrating at times.

But remember you gave up smoking well done and congratulations.

eimerom · 12-12-2013 01:08PM

Agent Coulson wrote: »

For me I only worried about staying off the smokes for the first year. Didn't care about other issues. But once I got the first year out of the way I new I had willpower. So the next January 1st. Which was this year I started looking at losing the weight I put on when I gave up the smokes.

So I started walking again I joined the local Gym/Pool although I don't use the gym I use the pool. So after the year I had put the weight on, this year I lost that weight and a bit more. (2 stone)

But I understood it would take the whole year if not more to lose the weight and keep it off. Sadly the weight loss takes time and is frustrating at times.

But remember you gave up smoking well done and congratulations.

Thank you for the encouragement and yes that's why I plan to start something in January. Left 2013 all about quitting cigs. Nice to know you lost more than u put on as I aready had a bit of excess weight before quitting too. I am hoping to walk during lunch break and control eating as evening out of the picture. Hopefully this will shift things along.

Agent Coulson · 12-12-2013 01:16PM

eimerom wrote: »

Thank you for the encouragement and yes that's why I plan to start something in January. Left 2013 all about quitting cigs. Nice to know you lost more than u put on as I aready had a bit of excess weight before quitting too. I am hoping to walk during lunch break and control eating as evening out of the picture. Hopefully this will shift things along.

I gave up fizzy drinks. I was amazed how much that helped I didn't worry much about calories I watched my sugar intake. I also tried not to eat after 7pm at night didn't always stick to it but did my best. I also only checked my weight every 3/4 months so not to strees out about my weight every day/week because I didn't loss any that week.

You gave up smoking rememeber that

That is what I tell myself everytime I worry about my weight and am I doing enough to get fit stay fit lose wieght or keep the weight off.

Micky Dolenz · 12-12-2013 03:26PM

Real urge for a smoke all day. Haven't a notion of having one but I wish it would pass.

username123 · 12-12-2013 05:43PM

eimerom wrote: »

I'm a year in January off cigs but I have put on nearly a stone and a half . Did it take you a while to get into fitness after quitting or did you overindulge for a while also. I was pregnant when I quit so between pregnancy and quitting and still breastfeeding my appetite is still massive. Would eat the hand off someone. Have completely substituted junk food for cigs. So back to work in January after almost a year off and wondering where to start with regards weightloss. Never been this heavy and so embarrassed going back to work like this. Any advice would be appreciated.:o

My weight goes up and down anyway. When I quit smoking (almost 2 years now), I immediately put on some weight. Then I started couch to 5k and it made no difference. Then I lost some (not really on purpose), but lately Ive gained some again. Overall Id say that smoking hasnt made a difference either way!

BUT - if you have substituted eating for smoking, dont worry, just substitute something else for eating - like drinking water?

Youd have to gain 8 stone to match the health risks of being a smoker so giving up smoking is by far the most important thing here. A stone or two can be sorted out, new lungs cant be!

Well done and I have no doubt you will successfully lose the weight when you get back into the swing of things in work etc...

mariebeth · 15-12-2013 08:52PM

23 days off them today, and doing really, really well. I've finished Allen Carr's book, and it's really changed my attitude, and made me confident about quitting. I don't think I'd be here, 23 days off them, if I hadn't read it.

V.W.L 11 · 15-12-2013 08:53PM

quit smoking on august 3rd 2009 and never looked back!!!

prince20 · 19-12-2013 11:41AM

Quit on November 3rd 2013 after 25 years smoking so almost 7 weeks off them. Had our work doo last Friday and didnt smoke so well impressed with that. Have a nice few quid saved too!

DenMan · 19-12-2013 11:45AM

prince20 wrote: »

Quit on November 3rd 2013 after 25 years smoking so almost 7 weeks off them. Had our work doo last Friday and didnt smoke so well impressed with that. Have a nice few quid saved too!

Good on ya prince20. Keep up the great work!

V.W.L 11 · 19-12-2013 12:41PM

prince20 wrote: »

Quit on November 3rd 2013 after 25 years smoking so almost 7 weeks off them. Had our work doo last Friday and didnt smoke so well impressed with that. Have a nice few quid saved too!

fair play!no better feeling,here's to a prosperous smoke free future

JillyQ · 19-12-2013 03:18PM

Will be two years off them on Christmas eve cant believe I made it this far.

JillyQ · 19-12-2013 03:19PM

Will be two years off them on Christmas eve cant believe I made it this far.

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