The Smokers' Thread

[ramboacdc]

i quit using champix. I started again when i got stressed once and i refuse to do champix again. that stuff messed me up in so many ways. my girlfriend used to have to keep an eye on me for 30 minutes after i took it cuz i felt so sick and spaced off the planet. now i am onto using e-lites to get off them. only the light version. what i am hoping is that i now know i can beat the addiction and it is in my head. if i have my fake fag there i can use that if i need to. If you do not have the thing tempting you, you want it more. I have it close......absolute rip off for them though. 

[lavrentis]

Im not a smoker, never smoked ever,but on holiday weve had these moods cigarillos and they are a good smoke. would recommend

[lavrentis]

had a sheesha session which was pretty fun aswell

[The Horse's Mouth]

Atleast this thread is about quitting, I was abit worried when I seen it at first.

[BigAL88]

the electric cigs are working for me 2 months with out a real cig, just wish the cravings would stop

[Saxondale]

Think I'm nearly five weeks into smokelessness now. I lapsed on a few isolated occasions but haven't at all for a couple of weeks now.

 

Finding the daily routine without cigarettes easier to get used to now, but still getting the odd incredible urge for one. Anybody have any idea when I can expect that to calm down a bit?

 

Feeling a lot healthier now - my throat is no longer wheezy and I'm not coughing up mucus crap. Stopping smoking has, however, played havoc with my shitting.

[pSinatra]

Think I'm nearly five weeks into smokelessness now. I lapsed on a few isolated occasions but haven't at all for a couple of weeks now.

 

Finding the daily routine without cigarettes easier to get used to now, but still getting the odd incredible urge for one. Anybody have any idea when I can expect that to calm down a bit?

 

Feeling a lot healthier now - my throat is no longer wheezy and I'm not coughing up mucus crap. Stopping smoking has, however, played havoc with my shitting.

 

 

I wouldn't call it an 'incredible urge' but I do still think about smoking a fair bit.  I smoked my last cigarette over a year ago.

 

I'm sitting here now thinking that a cigarette would be quite nice, out in the garden with a cup of coffee.  I just have to keep telling myself that it is easy to start smoking but so much harder to give up again.

 

I seem to have a romantic idea of what smoking was when the reality is totally different.  I might remember how nice a cigarette was & how relaxing it was, but I only need to remind myself of how expensive it is, what it does to my health, the disgusting taste in my mouth, coughing up my lungs in the morning, yellow teeth, yellow fingers, the stink, etc, etc.

[surrifox]

I was on 40 or so cigs a day then switched to cigars.Started smoking at 14 . Displacement therapy really worked for me. identify when you most enjoyed the fags and you realise that a lot of smoking is habit / something to do with your hands/ blowing smoke rings. You can cut those out relatively easily. the tough ones are the morning coffee/ after meals etc and "sitting in the garden with a cup of coffee/glass of wine". Once you identify those danger signs immediately get up and go out for a walk dont watch telly or sit around or go to the pub- the craving will go if you take your mind elsewhere. My habit developed at a time when you could smoke in offices/workplace now getting up and standing outside the building assists with the process of breaking the addiction.

 

Good luck - I tried a lot of stuff like patches and lozenges etc also acupuncture (which shows that I had a real interest in stopping!)

Nothing worked but the brain training did

[hairy]

I quit on October 17 2012 after 30 years of smoking. To date I have saved £1,450, don't smell like a ashtray anymore and don't have to keep going outside or trying to squeeze a quick one in before a meeting etc.

 

I caught gastric flu in October and spent three days out of it in bed from flu symptoms and not smoking. When I recovered I decided to carry on not smoking and I have not regretted one bit since. I was short tempered and intolerant for a few weeks and have put at least 1 1/2 stone on but at least I am not smoking.

[Kyle_Le_Don]

Ive quit 5 weeks now =p

[lavrentis]

Ive quit 5 weeks now =p

 

 

Must be hard to get rid of the fags on uranus

[Rincewind]

Has anyone tried electric fags? There is a shop in Leicester that specialises in them. Near the market I think.

[Saxondale]

I've packed in smoking for about four or five months now. I previously smoked 20 a day and I basically went cold turkey - though I did (and still do) use nicotine lozenges.

 

I've managed to not cave in, even when out on the piss - and even while spending three days drinking on a canal boat with four mates who were all smoking.

 

The thing that's bugging me is that, even though you would have thought I've done the hard bit, I still want a cigarette basically all of the time. I feel like that, at any time, I could just start again. The only thing that prevents me from doing this is my original motivation for stopping, the cost.

 

Ex-smokers - does this feeling ever go away?

[Rincewind]

I started to see more people using E-fags. They are available in some shops now.

[hairy]

I've packed in smoking for about four or five months now. I previously smoked 20 a day and I basically went cold turkey - though I did (and still do) use nicotine lozenges.

 

I've managed to not cave in, even when out on the piss - and even while spending three days drinking on a canal boat with four mates who were all smoking.

 

The thing that's bugging me is that, even though you would have thought I've done the hard bit, I still want a cigarette basically all of the time. I feel like that, at any time, I could just start again. The only thing that prevents me from doing this is my original motivation for stopping, the cost.

 

Ex-smokers - does this feeling ever go away?

 

Yes it fades with time. I went completely cold turkey, no substitutes at all. The first month was hell but now after nearly twelve months its gone.

[Manwell Pablo]

I've packed in smoking for about four or five months now. I previously smoked 20 a day and I basically went cold turkey - though I did (and still do) use nicotine lozenges.

 

I've managed to not cave in, even when out on the piss - and even while spending three days drinking on a canal boat with four mates who were all smoking.

 

The thing that's bugging me is that, even though you would have thought I've done the hard bit, I still want a cigarette basically all of the time. I feel like that, at any time, I could just start again. The only thing that prevents me from doing this is my original motivation for stopping, the cost.

 

Ex-smokers - does this feeling ever go away?

 

Your continued use of Nicotine Lozenges means you'll still be addicted to Nicotine and as Smoking is the quickest and best way to get that into your system you will continue to want one as long as you are using them.

 

Cravings will actually stop within 3 weeks if you actually come off Nicotine completley.

[MooseBreath]

I've quit and started again about four times now. I actually find it really easy to stop smoking at any time, but I can't seem to shift the desire to 'consume' or do something when I'd usually have a cigarette. So I'll usually eat something or go out and buy something to fill the void. Such that I become both poor and unhealthy because I've eaten too much and bought things just to fulfil my desire for some kind of consumption. Sometimes I think I'm better off smoking, and so the cycle of quit/start continues.