Giving up smoking

[snez1]

Is fucking hard, it's been 2 days and i'm chewing my arm off. Encourage me and remind me why i'm denying myself such a wonderful pleasure as tobacco please!

[The-Sir]

Uhm. So you dont die?

[DJLJ]

I thought it was piss easy myself. You do it to be able to walk up stairs without stopping half way up, food tastes better, you don't have stand outside in all kinds of weather for a fag etc.

[Redder Lurtz]

Is fucking hard, it's been 2 days and i'm chewing my arm off. Encourage me and remind me why i'm denying myself such a wonderful pleasure as tobacco please!

 

Take heart mate. I was on 30 odd a day for about 18 years. I went to see my GP and told him I'd tried everything, which I had - patches, lozenges, cold turkey, chewing gum. He prescribed me some Zyban. It's not NRT, it's a drug which fools the receptors in your brain into thinking you don't want any nicotine. My gp told me to smoke as normal for the first month and I did, although every time I lit one I found I just didn't want it. I went from 35 a day to 3 a day, literally overnight. Stayed on Zyban for 3 months then had lozenges for a couple of months. Sorted.

 

If you're really struggling I'd highly recommend it.

 

Good luck fella.

[Dirk]

I stopped using Alan Carr's Easy Way, no NRT, no Zyban, just a book that uses simple methods, similar to the ones that Real Red mentions above. I was a 20 a day smoker for 10 years.

 

Here's a pdf version of the book if you want to read it, it's not a big book and it's quite simple to understand.

 

http://www.opposingdigits.com/ebooks/Easy.Way.To.Stop.Smoking.pdf

[Newman]

I packed in 9 months ago, it's not easy but the extra cash available is a big incentive to stick with it.

[Sweeney287]

I stopped using Alan Carr's Easy Way, no NRT, no Zyban, just a book that uses simple methods, similar to the ones that Real Red mentions above. I was a 20 a day smoker for 10 years.

 

Here's a pdf version of the book if you want to read it, it's not a big book and it's quite simple to understand.

 

http://www.opposingdigits.com/ebooks/Easy.Way.To.Stop.Smoking.pdf

 

Exactly the way I gave up as well.

 

tried 4 or 5 times to give up previously and failed miserably everytime, but read his book and thought it was a breeze.

 

That was 3 years ago and haven't looked back since. Got fat mind, as I've put on about 1 1/2 stone, but that is better than smoking.

 

Stick with it snez, you won't regret it. Try to keep yourself busy and if you get a craving, do something that will take your mind of it and it will soon pass.

 

Good luck

[Redder Lurtz]

Exactly the way I gave up as well.

 

tried 4 or 5 times to give up previously and failed miserably everytime, but read his book and thought it was a breeze.

 

That was 3 years ago and haven't looked back since. Got fat mind, as I've put on about 1 1/2 stone, but that is better than smoking.

 

Stick with it snez, you won't regret it. Try to keep yourself busy and if you get a craving, do something that will take your mind of it and it will soon pass.

 

Good luck

 

I hear you, brother. I've whacked on 2 stone since I jacked it in and I'm having a fucker of a time losing it. I don't eat any more than I used to (I probably did initially) and I don't exercise any less / more but I'm a fat cunt all the same. Need to condition myself to spending more time in the gym. Motivation thread might appear later, as in 'how the fuck to stay motivated.'

[Sweeney287]

I recently lost nearly half a stone just by cutting down drinking beer when at home.

[snez1]

Today has been hell, but still not had any so nearly 3 days now.

 

I'll give that book a look in a bit, cheers for the stories guys.

[Elmyn Noos]

Stop being a gayer and just have a cig. You don't believe all that propaganda put out by the Stop Your Fun Brigade do you? Sex will kill you, so will eating red meat, drinking booze, and spitting in the face of nightclub bouncers. In short, everything that puts a smile on your face.

 

Be a man, have a cigarette. It's cool, it's hard, and it's fucking clever.

[cochyn]

Smoking is NOT sexy, or glamorous! :telloff:

 

 

oh...

[hamstrung]

I'll add my comments shortly, just nipping off for a fag first.

[Remmie]

Fags are for Fags

[Stouffer]

I found having really heavy flu helpful when I stopped.

 

If I want to smoke now tho' I will, Stouffer is not bound by self made rules.

 

I enjoy a cigar quite regular, got a nice box of Habanas in the kitchen as it happens.

[Shanklys Ghost]

Fags are for Fags

 

Fag i am, if thats even english.

 

32 yrs and 2 days with only the nicotine in a joint to keep me aware of smokers delights. And then shit happens and all of a sudden smoke in your lungs seems like a perfectly reasonable 10min time killer.

 

No advice except keep your lighter safe, too many people rob them la.

 

P.s Rimmer, im not a goat.

[bigredruss]

i just went cold turkey after a virus and chest infection, 3 weeks on antibiotics and i was cured. easy except when out for a beer then was desperate for 1 but held firm, now over 10years as non smoker

[Thants]

Give up, it's a really fucking stupid habit.

[The Chief]

i just went cold turkey after a virus and chest infection, 3 weeks on antibiotics and i was cured. easy except when out for a beer then was desperate for 1 but held firm, now over 10years as non smoker

 

I did exactly the same mate, and at about the same time. Do you still get the craving now and again? I do, but now it doesn't even bother me.

As for patches and gum, IMO, they just keep the craving going, let's face it if they really got rid of the craving , a couple of packs and you'd be off ciggies forever.

[Elmyn Noos]

Real men smoke - and that, my friends, is FACT.

 

I don't smoke as much as I used to, because as I mellow with age, I'm not as cool or hard as I used to be. That said, I'm still pretty cool and pretty fucking hard, so I smoke on Fridays and Saturday nights only.

 

I frankly can't fucking wait til I hit 50 as the day I do, I'm upgrading to the ultimate in carcinogenic intake equipment, the pipe.

[Stouffer]

Real men smoke - and that, my friends, is FACT.

 

I don't smoke as much as I used to, because as I mellow with age, I'm not as cool or hard as I used to be. That said, I'm still pretty cool and pretty fucking hard, so I smoke on Fridays and Saturday nights only.

 

I frankly can't fucking wait til I hit 50 as the day I do, I'm upgrading to the ultimate in carcinogenic intake equipment, the pipe.

 

Nice work Noos, likewise I cannot wait for my pipe time (you heard).

 

The best tabs I've ever had were called Myrrh, stronger than Pink on steroids.

[Remmie]

If smoking is manly does that make female smokers a bit mannish?

[Elmyn Noos]

If smoking is manly does that make female smokers a bit mannish?

 

Nope - makes them sluts though, which is about the highest compliment I can pay a woman.

[Remmie]

Nope - makes them sluts though, which is about the highest compliment I can pay a woman.

Does your daughter smoke? Your sister does I believe.

[Elmyn Noos]

Does your daughter smoke? Your sister does I believe.

 

My daughter does not approve of smoking, and does not do so herself, as far as any parent can be sure of such a thing.

 

My sister does. You may draw your own conclusions.