Quiting

[Tarot]

Well how many of you managed to quit for good this year.

Did you use aids, go cold turkey,or plain old willpower.

I know a lot of you wanted to quit, hope you surprised yourself.

[Annette Curtain]

Shut up.

[zeban]

Quit what? A shitty job you hated?

[Tarot]

zeban Wrote:

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> Quit what? A shitty job you hated?

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Smoking.

[Mick Mac]

Tarot Wrote:

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> Well how many of you managed to quit for good this

> year.

> Did you use aids,

If you want to quit life for good - use aids.

[Narnia]

Did you quit Tarot?

[ratty]

6 weeks off using champix

[derbyean]

A celebrity was asked what was his greatest achievement by some interviewer, and the celebrity replied

'giving up smoking'!

I thought that was an interesting answer.

I packed up loads of times before I succeeded and only then with the help of that chewing gum.

That was a steep learning curve to use, the pieces are far too big and too strong for a ten to fifteen a day man.

I finally worked out that cutting the lowest strength tablet into four strips with scissors, and then leaving one of them in the mouth between teeth and gum.

Do not chew it until you feel the twitch of desire, and then only a couple of bites and put it back to lie there.

It took longer than I expected but I had been smoking for thirty years.

Having now quit, to smell smoke going in and out of the supermarket or a blast of one in the street makes you feel a bit queasy.

The advantage of quitting is feeling free-er with less wheezing, coughing, clearing one's throat, and more money.

Look at it as every ciggy you don't have is a victory, and if you have a day without a victory of any kind then the next day or week you will have more successes.

Persistence, perseverence, and determination, are all words I have very few dealings with in my life, but indulgence, greed, and avarice are very close friends,

but little victories I could somehow understand.

[karter]

Nice one derby good words and advice. Alan carr workshops i hear were useful too, if anyone on here attended.

[Annette Curtain]

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Mark Twain.

[zeban]

Yes I figured that Tarot! love it Mic Mac!

Congratulations derbyean that's a real achievement. It really annoys me when people say, 'god do people still smoke?'!! aghhhhh- it's an addiction people

[Jah Lush]

Yesterday I smoked 40 Marlboro Red and I enjoyed every single last one of them.

[candj]

I met my husband when he was 29 and told him if he wanted a life with me he had to quit smoking by his 30th birthday. My reasons were purely selfish as I saw my poor grandfather suffer the last 10 years of his life with dreadful emphysema caused by my grandmother's smoking (she died 15 years earlier of a heart attack). On his birthday my husband smoked about three packs and went cold turkey the next day. That was 12 years ago. I think weaning must prolong the problem but then i wouldnt know. But I do know he doesn't go a day without thinking about smoking so I know it's very difficult.

Very best if luck to you I hope it works out.

[Annette Curtain]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Yesterday I smoked 40 Marlboro Red and I enjoyed

> every single last one of them.

Way to go Jah....

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[Tarot]

Narnia Wrote:

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> Did you quit Tarot?

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Yes I did Narnia. after a bout of ill health.

I had all the usual sarcastic,cocky comments from the non smokers,the wasting money lectures,books etc. I didnt try the patches as a friend had a mild heart attack using them too much nicotine caused rapid heartbeat or something.

It was the illness and craving fresh air down my lungs that made me see logic.

Like Derbyean just persevere,when you have that tea or a meal and you think of a ciggarette, just go into the fresh air breathe deeply and tell yourslf you dont need cigarettes

[Narnia]

Well done. Me too.

[Tarot]

You to Narnia ,Did you treat yourself to anything special.I got a Cannon digital S,L,R. I am healthier,didnt put weight on that is a myth.

Didnt become nasty to live with, that is a myth, I think the reason was I really wanted to stop and feel better

mind and body, so none of the "myths" affected me.

But I did find it annoying how many people tried to make me start again.

You can socialise with smoker friends, just dont lecture them about smoking.

The benifits, are brilliant. How did you do it Narnia?

[Ridgley]

Don't smoke