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Support for those quitting smoking

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    #422
    thebouldwhacker
    Registered Users Posts: 3,565 ✭✭✭thebouldwhacker


    I had already posted a reply to this but its not up.... so if I'm double posting so sorry:rolleyes:

    Hi T! You quit 1 month, 3 days, 9 hours, 22 minutes & 42 seconds ago. You have *not* smoked 753 cigs, saved EUR 320 and added 2.61 days to your life.

    sfhoping234, welcome and congrats on your decision to stop. Not a fan of the patches myself, no drug addiction treatment should involve simply changing the method of ingestion to help the addict quit, but I'm sure I have ranted about that somewhere else so I'll save you the pain of going over it again...

    Here are some great resources

    http://www.stopsmoking.ie/index.php

    http://whyquit.com/

    and of course

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=871

    Read the Alan Carr book, its a bit of a pain but what he sayes makes a lot of sence, if you look at the poll on page one of this thread cold turkey etc is king!!!

    Most of all enjoy saving your health and life, I smoked for over 20 years, been off and on 'em but I'm off them now over a month and never felt so confident & quite sucessfuly ran a 10 mile race last weekend:eek: so get off em and stay off em.

    Oh yea, if you fall off the wagon keep reading the posts on the different threads and you'll so be back on trak!!! why not start your own thread???

    Anyway best of luck & welcome to the club!!!


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    #423
    Chazza100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Chazza100


    Personally I spent 35 years smoking and could not work out how to get out of the cycle because whenever I gave up I still fancied a ciggy!!!

    Actually I worked out my own method which is pleasurable, cheap and effective. Also I no longer have a fear of smoking again. I wrote it down and posted it in the following web article.

    http://www.helium.com/items/1229204-how-to-quit-smoking

    I would be interested to hear from anyone who tries it.

    :)


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    #424
    glenq
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭glenq


    glenq wrote: »
    6 months now. Don't have any pangs. Actually the thought of one does not appeal at all.

    Jaysus, after saying no pangs, I did have a craving the other night. Was tempted, but put it off. The craving soon went and all is good again.


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    #425
    Chazza100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Chazza100


    I get what you mean. Getting pangs is the point I was making that I could not deal with for the rest of my life and lead me back onto the weed. I no longer get pangs and if I want to I can smoke a cigar without inhaling (although I prefer not to have one now).

    :)


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    #426
    glenq
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭glenq


    Chazza100 wrote: »
    I get what you mean. Getting pangs is the point I was making that I could not deal with for the rest of my life and lead me back onto the weed. I no longer get pangs and if I want to I can smoke a cigar without inhaling (although I prefer not to have one now).

    :)

    Gotta be honest, having a cigar would probably be the worst thing I could do.
    I gave up smoking, and having a cigar would be smoking again. No thanks.


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    #427
    Nyum Nyum
    Registered Users Posts: 1,737 ✭✭✭Nyum Nyum


    A bit of self regarding nonsense here but I completed one year off the ciggies last Thursday :)

    (Still off them by the way :D)


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    #428
    thebouldwhacker
    Registered Users Posts: 3,565 ✭✭✭thebouldwhacker


    Hi T! You quit 1 month, 6 days, 10 hours, 54 minutes & 8 seconds ago. You have *not* smoked 1,033 cigs, saved EUR 439 and added 3.59 days to your life.


    Hey Nyum, well done, thats massif

    new_year_celebration_rocket_fireworks_display.jpg

    Its funny you called it 'A bit of self regarding nonsense ' when everyone else here would put it down as one of the big achivements of a life time!!!

    Come on Nyum feel the success and celebrate!!!

    only guesstimating (set at 20 a day and €8.50 per pack) but perhaps this is relivant to your success!

    Hi Nyum! You quit 1 year, 11 hours & 49 seconds ago. You have *not* smoked 10,963 cigs, saved EUR 4,660 and added 1.25 months to your life.


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    #429
    thebouldwhacker
    Registered Users Posts: 3,565 ✭✭✭thebouldwhacker


    And whats with that cigar thing??? not sure its a runner TBH, anyway cancer of the mouth isn't really something to encourage:eek:


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    #430
    reyesburns12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭reyesburns12


    Hi to all, What are the health benefits that you receive when stop smoking?


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    #431
    James.Willams
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭James.Willams


    Hi reyesburns12,
    There are many health benefits acquired when one stops smoking. If people stop smoking, the toxic gases in the blood will drop to normal, within two or three weeks, lung function increases and in a few months coughing and shortness of breathe decrease. In a year’s time major diseases can be avoided. Log on to: http://smokingharms.com/ to get lots of information.


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    #432
    thebouldwhacker
    Registered Users Posts: 3,565 ✭✭✭thebouldwhacker


    Hey reyesburns12,

    check this out too.

    Also for what its worth I'm off them 2 months and I did a 10mile race a few weeks ago. the health benifits are immedate


    http://whyquit.com/


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    #433
    endtosmoking
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭endtosmoking


    I believe the best method of quiting to is really think about
    all the damage and the pain that cigarettes will have on your life
    find the thing for you thats the most painful -is it bad breath or no money? impotence ? cancer? really get into it and think about it

    then think about all the positive effects quitting will have

    these two things should strengthen your resolve

    you must make the decision to quit though!!

    i found www.endtosmoking.cjb.net helpful


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    #434
    Chunky Monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Chunky Monkey


    Tried sublingual tablets, didn't last long on those they were rotten. Went cold turkey for about a month and then started 'social' smoking again which led on to smoking 'one or two' during the day and then increased to 10 or more when I had a project due.

    My boyfriend freaked out at me about 3 weeks ago so I went cold turkey again. Even though I'm still getting some pretty strong cravings (esp. when stressed) I've managed to resist cos I really don't want to disappoint him again.

    I know they're bad for you but it didn't feel like they were harming me so that wasn't a good enough reason in my head to quit. It helps to have a solid reason (even if it does seem shallow etc) if that makes sense.


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    #435
    thebouldwhacker
    Registered Users Posts: 3,565 ✭✭✭thebouldwhacker


    Hey Chunky; If you want to find a health reason to stop why not go visit a local hospital with cancer or lung ward. (you prob dont even have to go into any of those wards even stand around so you can see the smoking section) and take in the destruction that smoking causes.

    You will see people with a cig in one hand inhaler in the other, people with limbs amputated, after open heart surgery... then breath deep knowing for 2 or 3 weeks of uncomfortable cravings you will get to avoid that death.

    And TRUST ME the way the HSE/ NHS is being cut back now is not the time to develop avoidable illnesses

    Wanna die on a trolley in a hospital corridor by drowning in fluid from your lungs??

    Theres your health reason........anyone fancy lighting up now???


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    #436
    Chunky Monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Chunky Monkey


    Shock tactics often don't work. I'm a care assistant and med student. I've seen the lungs of a smoker having heart surgery. And the COPD patients smoking out the entrance. SO have the nurses and doctors who smoke. I don't know why but we have beome desensitised.

    I'll tell you the good things about quitting: everything tastes and smells better, I don't have the smell of smoke clinging to my clothes (smelling it off other ppl I've realised how disgusting it is) and I don't 'taste like a ashtray' :) Plus my lungs don't feel like they're gonna collapse when I run (well not as much, working on that). The coughing and sore and phlegmy throats aren't missed either!

    Good luck to those of you quitting :)


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    #437
    Jennie2312
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭Jennie2312


    Yoda, thanks a million. Always great to be reminded of the benefits of not being a smoker anymore.

    I'd been smoking 15 years and lots of previous attempts to quit failed miserably and irritably.

    This time I went to a fantastic hypnotist in Stillorgan near the N11. Very relaxing 40 minutes. €200 and only one session necessary. Felt ultra chilled but can remember abs everything. Of the two other people I know of that went to her, they're both still off.

    It doesn't magic away the fact that you would really like a smoke but it has made it sooooooo much easier to stay off them. Actually I was at a house party on Friday last and thought it was going to really push me. Instead I was a little bit grossed out by the smelly, smokey air. I would have loved to somehow let everyone know what an unnecessary and unpleasant thing smoking can be! They do say x-smokers are the worst tho don't they?! :cool:


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    #438
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    Parents smoke 60 a day each. Never touched one until I left home at 23 and started myself as a form of 'independence'. Plodded along for 20 odd years and was the last of my group still smoking when the ban came in. Tried various methods of giving up with regular success. Cutting down is a fool's errand.

    One day I had to tell my 14 year old son that his best friend had been tragically killed in an accident on his way over to our house. Trying to keep him together at the funeral made me think what it would be like for him get through similar if I went early because of the smokes. Had a last one outside the church that day, got some patches and never put one to my lips since. 2yrs next month thank God. Kids will never tell you their Da is cool but my wife tells me they often say they are proud of me for doing it. It keeps me going


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    #439
    havetoquit
    Registered Users Posts: 429 ✭✭havetoquit


    Thank you so much for this much needed positive list of real incentives. I intend reading them each and every day.


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    #440
    havetoquit
    Registered Users Posts: 429 ✭✭havetoquit


    Well done to you and I so admire you. Your story gives me inspiration to really change my attitude this time and to start my own wake up call rather than making feeble attempts and accepting the pkt of ciggies my non-smoking husband buys for me once my withdrawl symptoms gets to him. I guess I must have been so hard to live with and as he said, he just could not watch me 'suffer' as he put it.


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    #441
    smokingsprint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭smokingsprint


    ex smokers are certainly the worst! ::rolleyes:

    So many friends of mine are x smokers and they just never shut up about it


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    #442
    havetoquit
    Registered Users Posts: 429 ✭✭havetoquit


    smokingsprint wrote: »
    ex smokers are certainly the worst! ::rolleyes:

    So many friends of mine are x smokers and they just never shut up about it

    Yes, I agree that some can be irritating, but whenever I try to give up I have to say that I tend not to speak about smoking to anyone during that time, especially not smokers as it really isn't my business to lecture others, particularly when we all know how easy it is to fall off the wagon.


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    #443
    samantha2000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭samantha2000


    Twenty years a smoker. I ended up smoking 80 a day, and honestly thought that I would never be able to give them up. When hubby suggested that I read Alan Carr's book as he had helped so many to quit, I actually laughed at him. Cigs were my life, how could one man stop me from smoking?
    A few months ago, hubby gave me the cd of Alan Carr. In spite of myself I put it on one day, a week later April 2nd I stubbed out my last cigarette.
    I cannot even begin to say how easy I've found it, even I am astounded. My friends cannot believe how well I've done. I cannot recommend Carrs cd enough, if he can help me to quit, then he can help anybody.
    To all those who have quit, congratulatioins, to those yet to do so, I say Good luck.


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    #444
    barkingmadlolly
    Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭barkingmadlolly


    After more failed attempts than I would care to remember I attended an Alan Carr seminar on Saturday and smoked my last cigarette then. Its been 2 days now and so far so good, no real cravings as I really dont want a cigarette but I have a feeling Im missing something that I cant place. Hopefully it will pass in the next day or two. Best of luck to al Quitters out there :D


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    #445
    howamidifferent
    Registered Users Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭howamidifferent


    howamidifferent wrote: »
    Free and Healing for Four Months, Nineteen Days, 10 Hours and 19 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 9 Days and 16 Hours, by avoiding the use of 2789 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me €1,135.88.

    Plasma nearly paid for...Bluray player next...:p

    Makes it all worthwhile...

    Free and Healing for Six Months, Thirty Days, 12 Hours and 22 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 14 Days and 16 Hours, by avoiding the use of 4230 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me €1,728.26.

    Plasma paid for, Bluray player paid for...Nice movie sound system next on the list...:P


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    #446
    barkingmadlolly
    Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭barkingmadlolly


    Today I am smoke free for 7 days and so happy as this is the longest Ive stopped smoking for in years. I know I am by no means over the cravings etc but just wanted to take a minute to celebrate 7 smoke free days :D


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    #447
    Jules
    Registered Users Posts: 6,756 ✭✭✭Jules


    Well done everyone!


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    #448
    verycrazy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭verycrazy


    Hi everyone.First time poster.After 16 years smoking of which i loved every drag,i've decided to quit.
    Ive found it easy enough BUT one minor detail.If i go the pub i dont think i could resist.I hav'nt been to the pub now for 2 weekends which was'n too bad either but i know my love for socialising will have me back soon.
    Anyone with advice it would be greatly appreciated.


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    #449
    Floodzie
    Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭Floodzie


    Well done verycrazy!

    I found the best advice I got about going to pubs, was to just go home the second you started to feel like a cigarette. I avoided the pub for 2 weeks, then went for a drink. I lasted the first pint and then left. The next week was the same - just one pint. After that, I made it to 2, then 3 etc. Now, no matter how much I drink, I would never, ever smoke.

    Drinking with ex-smokers helps too. Smokers never like to be alone, and will be the first to offer a quitter a cigarette - where were all these free smokes when I was a smoker?? :-)

    A lot of my friends smoke joints - I bought a pipe. Important to cut the nicotine out completely!!

    Off them since Jan 3rd, 2007. Not so much as a drag - zero nicotine in the blood since then. First few days were ok -ish, was glad to be off them (Alan Carr was the trigger), then the odd craving over the next weeks and months, but nothing like the first few days. I NEVER want to go through that again.

    Good luck - you've made it this far, the rest is easy.


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    #450
    Mezcita
    Registered Users Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Mezcita


    verycrazy wrote: »
    Hi everyone.First time poster.After 16 years smoking of which i loved every drag,i've decided to quit.
    Ive found it easy enough BUT one minor detail.If i go the pub i dont think i could resist.I hav'nt been to the pub now for 2 weekends which was'n too bad either but i know my love for socialising will have me back soon.
    Anyone with advice it would be greatly appreciated.

    Good luck with this. Found that avoiding the pub for a few weeks was an ideal way to get the ball rolling. As it's only on nights out that I still get the urge.

    It's been said endless times before on here but worth repeating that this does get easier with time. I'd also recommend doing some type of exercise to keep your mind off it.


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    #451
    verycrazy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭verycrazy


    Thanks for the advice.im not even thinkin about smoking still. I cant believe it.2 full weeks tomorrow.
    I've a big hurdle on sat.A family christening,so its in the pub for 4 o clock and party til the death.If i can get thru sat il be fine .Fingers crossed.


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