THE Quit Smoking Thread

[ackbarthestar]

You only stop because you believe that it would be to your advantage (expand in all directions to suit your predicament). If for some reason it is not, then don't stop....
I can only debate this one on a subjective level.

 

[Guest123]

3rd day off the smokes today for me.

Since George O bunged 37p on a packet, i havn't bought any, screw him & his decision to penalise normal folk for other peoples failings.

 

[parker56]

stay strong lenny,you can do it :hurray:

 

[MKS]

I quit when our youngest son was born premature (30 weeks) with under developed lungs, that was ten years ago, after being on 80 a day!

 

[Guest123]

I quit when our youngest son was born premature (30 weeks) with under developed lungs, that was ten years ago, after being on 80 a day!

How the hell did you find time for 80 a day???:sifone:

Hope your son is ok now too.

 

[MKS]

How the hell did you find time for 80 a day???:sifone:

Hope your son is ok now too.

Chain smoker, put one out and lit another up...

He is fine now, but does suffer from bad asthma...

 

[MNR]

Three weeks smoke free. Starting to feel better for it already.

 

[JohnTeigh]

I know a lot of people who have tried repeatedly to stop but they can't. I smoked for years and one day I was just fed up and I never smoked again. I think you have to be in the right frame of mind. Most of the time when people set a day when they are going to start they're not ready to really give it a go.

 

[jonathan2340]

Smoking is not a good habit. You should quit it immediately if you want to live your life properly and healthy for long period of time. Otherwise you will die very soon.

 

[aido11]

im an expert at giving up smoking, i've done it loads of times:sifone:

 

[Dave 85]

im an expert at giving up smoking, i've done it loads of times:sifone:

I quit minimum twice a year. Been off em for a month this time, got a feeling this one's gonna be serious though.

 

[Des 56]

Smoking is not a good habit. You should quit it immediately if you want to live your life properly and healthy for long period of time. Otherwise you will die very soon.

Cheers mate,just what I wanted to hear

I have been smoking over 50 years and will definitely make sure I take on board what you say

Up till now,it has caused me to not lose any of my hair,defintely no grey either
Made me still have the fitness and dexterity to jump up and down attics regularly
Never in my life use the taxes I have contributed to the Health service for my own use other than a broken ankle recently (smoking must have defintely caused that one)
Caused me ever to be in trouble with the law and finally become poverty stricken because of the waste of my own money

Just wish I read your conclusions before I ever started

 

[ackbarthestar]

Good to see the smoking lobby has been mobilized ....

There's a lot worse than smoking the occasional spliff, or was that a cigarette ? I don't know anymore since I'm sailing away with fairies in my greenhouse. :rockon2::rockon2:

Advantages: Not much, except the bird to those are fanatical about you stopping and are determined to make you suffer to not bending to their will.

Disadvantages: It makes your clothes and furnishings stink ....:sifone:

 

[Silly Sausage]

This lot... About Action on Smoking and Health can go and boil their heads.
I bet they're quite happy using the tobacco tax funded NHS when they've broken down from being so up tight.

 

[RobWansbeck]

ASH is a 'fake charity' whose principal funding source is the UK taxpayer.

We're paying tax to fund a 'charity' that lobbies government to raise taxes.
Sadly, they are not the only one.

 

[Dave 85]

In the words of ozzy Osbourne in regards to ciggarettes:
"That sh*t will kill you quicker than crack"
Never a truer word said.

I've smoked on and off for years, but have always seen it as a problem and never given up giving up.
I've never understood people who criticise anti smoking enforcement. Even while being a smoker I welcomed the smoking in pubs ban, welcomed the upping of the age limit to 18, welcome the restriction on displaying tobaco products and to be honest would welcome an all out ban on the sale of tobacco products if it were possibble.

Why are people so determined to exercise and fight for, their right to smoke. Its completely pointless and doesn't benefit you in any way.
At least getting pi**ed is fun.

I bet half these people are the same people moaning about how bad it is that people are willing to risk their lives doing DIY electrical work and should be stopped at all costs.

 

[ackbarthestar]

It will all pass away, just like the extra tax on Gin or the reduction of light into your house in the C18 , prohibition in the 20's America, or the future legislation, (when somebody realizes the damage it does to peoples lives) that will put an end to gambling in this country.

 

[Silly Sausage]

I've smoked on and off for years, but have always seen it as a problem and never given up giving up.
I've never understood people who criticise anti smoking enforcement. Even while being a smoker I welcomed the smoking in pubs ban, welcomed the upping of the age limit to 18, welcome the restriction on displaying tobaco products and to be honest would welcome an all out ban on the sale of tobacco products if it were possibble.

At least getting pi**ed is fun. This is never in dispute!

I bet half these people are the same people moaning about how bad it is that people are willing to risk their lives doing DIY electrical work and should be stopped at all costs.

I basically agree with what you're saying there, you shouldn't smoke in the presence of children especially.
What urinates me off about it is their self righteous attitude, once they've eliminated smoking, who'll be next, the obese chip munching lot or climbers etc (have a look at Daily Mail online...quality hyperbole there!)
We're just easy targets, like most motoring offences are for our glorious Police force.
If I want to kill myself slowly, that's my business, so they can all go and........

Now where's that bottle of Peroni?

 

[ash77ah]

11 day with out a smoke today!

 

[jhampson1874]

I am part of a quit smoking group on Facebook and someone recently posted this:

Interesting Facts About Smoking [Infographic] | E Liquid Blog

Its quite shocking...I always knew that cigarettes contained harmful chemicals but cyanide and arsenic?? The sooner I can quit the better. What makes it worse is I am part of a gym and feel that all the hard work I put in I am wasting every time I light up.

 

[tomh1982]

I quit in march 2011. I left a job I hated to somewhere else and decided that was the time to stop smoking & pleased to say I havnt touched one since. Hopefully I won't go back to it!

 

[markc123]

Haven't read the thead, cba...but i think i may be a minority here, i am on-site anyway WHICH IS NOT FAIR BTW...i've never smoked, ever in my life. Disgusting habbit lads you should all be ashamed

And why it isn't fair i hear you ask...you all get smoke breaks every half an hour, and muggings over here has to carry on working lol.

 

[sparkless]

yes, but you get to live longer.

so, you get all them smoke breaks back

 

[dim_bulb]

I've stopped smoking for 11 days now had major cravings initially but starting to forget get about them. I stopped because I was Ill I thought that was a good spring board.

 

[SAILOR48]

I am not the most appreciated poster on here I know, I like a joke and stuff
But I feel one of the best thing I ever did was to give up smoking it was one of the hardest but most rewarding.
Its one day at a time if you fancy a smoke leave it a day then another think I have gone through this, if
I have one it’s for nothing.
You will find that you will find excuses such as “I am under stress, I have had a drink blaa blaa de blaa.
Its not it’s the addiction to tobacco.
Don’t have mini cigars you can have no tobacco, I have given up now for 35 years but if I smoked 1 smoke now I think I would start again

All the best to you, you can do it.

 

[gnuuser]

quit over 20 years ago (cold turkey style) it was very rough but i can tell you this.
your body will let you know when its time to quit.
i dont recommend quitting cold turkey because the stress it can cause more damage than smoking.
i generally recommend dropping amount by half every 2 weeks.
this is gradual enough to easily get used to.
also keep healthy snacks on hand like dried fruit, fresh veggies and drink a lot of water

this method is very successful

 

[ackbarthestar]

Yea , sounds pretty cool.
However, you can kick a habit but its a lot harder to kick an attitude.

I'll stick with my habit until I can kick the arse out of the attitude that makes me interested in the habit....

 

[jonni770]

Im desparate. To quit... but cant bare the thought of coffe with ni smoke.. cinnecting a intercom or sumthin with a smoke in mt mouth ect

 

[Jamsplash]

Cheers man this is actually the most sound advice I have ever heard on this subject matter. I might actually give this a go and if nothing else at the very least I will have halfed the amount I smoke and had some healthy snacks.

BUT in all seriousness I think I can do it if i follow your advice

 

[ElleMeFeyo]

Well done to him, all us smokers know how hard it can be.
I stopped for couple of months and saved myself a lot of money, all cold turkey. For some peopke it works for others it dont. Then my life got stresfull and started again, but admittedly, a lot less than before

 

[T0ny]

My misses is on the e-smoke. Puts her own nicotine in, its a lot cheaper fair play and according to her it does not give you all the chemicals but just the nicotine. She did start it and have 4 smokes a day too, that soon went to two and now its none. Shes not quit, because she's still getting the nicotine (I haven't the heart to tell her is effectively a bong) but she feels like she is quoting and she is smoking that a lot less now and has no smokes. Think the kit cost her £30, looks like a smoke box and the smoke freaks me out because it looks real and she's touching the settee with it lol

 

[swapnil]

Lets take a little turn or twist to the forum, because Smoking or Quitting smoking finally depend on the person who is intending to do it, the person determined to left his habit of smoking and to overcome it with a very strong zest in his mind and heart will definitely succeed in doing so, provided he has to keep himself away from it and continuously motivate self to stay away from it, because ultimately it will be difficult for the smoker to quit or not to touch cigarettes initially in starting days or a week so but if he is capable of doing so and not smoking even a puff in a week, he will than find the way ahead a bit easy to handle because he will then get the confidence to fully quit it permanently as well, but for getting this, the initial week or month is very important

 

[T0ny]

Its not just the tiny thinking part of the brain that smokes but the massive subconscious. Yes most people will quit if told you are going to die because you now have this or that illness and if you stop you will live. Or you have been placed in a Thai prison, or kidnapped by a serial killer. My point is, quitting smoking is hard because of choice. Your rationale brain will try to act like one of the three scenarios ie I have no choice I have to stop. But the subconscius will win in the end due to wanting it and the choice ie opportunity is everywhere. Sometimes you will get a headstrong person just say no and quit and succeed but that is rare. The secret to quitting is firstly to fool the brain, do that and you can wean yourself off it, similar to a baby being weaned off a dummy.

 

[Robert Turnbull]

I have had a 10motives e-smoke that was £5 from tesco.
bought last sat and ran out yesterday lasted a week. (Just bought another)

only had 2 smokes since buying. The 1st was while I was driving trying the open the packet of the e-smoke and the second I only had half of it.

would recommend for anyone.

sitting here now in the warm with it and a nice cuppa, while the misses it sitting out in the rain having a smoke lol.

anyone thinking of quitting or trying the quit. BUYONE and just leave the smokes at home after the first day you'll not need a smoke again.

 

[Des 56]

I have had a 10motives e-smoke that was £5 from tesco.
bought last sat and ran out yesterday lasted a week. (Just bought another)

only had 2 smokes since buying. The 1st was while I was driving trying the open the packet of the e-smoke and the second I only had half of it.

would recommend for anyone.

sitting here now in the warm with it and a nice cuppa, while the misses it sitting out in the rain having a smoke lol.

anyone thinking of quitting or trying the quit. BUYONE and just leave the smokes at home after the first day you'll not need a smoke again.

Just read this post and I'll be back in 5 minutes lol

 

[KAS1]

This is month number four without any smokes after 40 years of smoking and it's a real struggle.

 

[Robert Turnbull]

I did nearly 3 years pritty well.

Then I got married !

Had Been smoking since September but now smoke free

 

[KAS1]

just realised perhaps the giving up smoking could be a factor for some of my aggressive and argumentative posts hmmmmmm just a thought

This is month number four without any smokes after 40 years of smoking and it's a real struggle.

 

[Loopytunes]

I used that Allen Carr book, about 7 years now, was really easy

 

[kingeri]

Actually, going cold turkey is often easier than trying to cut down gradually. As long as there is ANY nicotine present in your body, your body will demand it. You need to just stop. After three days your body will be nicotine free. Then it's just a matter of breaking your routine and the feeling that you 'need' a smoke at certain times and under certain conditions. It really is all in the mind. If you don't get the nicotine out of your system then you might as well forget it. I quit cold turkey and after three days my body didn't physically crave smokes, but social situations and my daily routine were harder to overcome. The hardest part was just saying no in the morning when I'd made a coffee and I was getting ready for the day ahead.