Hey guys and gals, just reporting in for the first time in ages.
I'm still going fine, still cold turkey. Not really caring about smoking anymore.
I've casued a good few people to quit too bydoing nothing, which is nice (some many years my senior too!)
How is everyone doing?
Thanks Boudee, good to hear from you again!!!
I think you'll find life actually begins after smoking 
Well I'm off to get 2 chips in my teeth repaired and have my teeth professionally polished into a pearly white bliss, all with money I would otherwise have set fire to.
Damn this just gets easier and easier 
well done mannion.
how long have you been quit? im on day 34, im using patches this time though. tried cold turkey last year:eek: take my hat off to you!
Hey thanks Destiny!!!
Congratulations, 34 days.... IMO you are well on your way out of the "nicotene pit"!
I quit on the first of July, so that's...34 days too!!!!
To be honest I can't really believe I have come this far. My previous quits were all cold turkey and lasted a few hours at best.
Allen Carr's book really has worked wonders for me this time. I know it's not for everyone, but he really insists that nicotene suppliments don't help the process - and it made sense to me!
As I "only" smoked for around 3 years (something like that :rolleyes: ) I guess I am fighting a weaker demon than some of you guys, but it still hasn't been easy!
Well done Mannion. 
We quit on the same day as you.
Cold turkey from day 8, with Zyban for me the first 8 days and patches for Allyson the first 6 days.
This is the longest we have ever lasted, and we are not determined to not give in. :cool:
Do not want to go through those first few weeks again.:eek:
It's easy to forget just how hard they were, but my hundreds of failed attempts over the years are proof that it is no walk in the park.
Keep it up
zip929 - Well done you guys. That is exactly my attitude... If i smoke now, I'm back to the hell that was day 1 withdrawal. I think I'd rather not!
How is everyone doing?
Since quitting and starting weight training I've gained about half a stone in weight (which I'm very happy about hehe!)
I need to consume 2000 calories per day, which is real easy for someone who just quit smoking
Hello Mannion *hugs*
Glad tis going well for you
I too have put on happy weight but as its the summer hols the gym has taken a back seat and the happy weight is kind of extra baggage, spare tyre type weight
Missing the gym loads but am very busy here!
Well done,
~Buffy x x
Thanks guys!!!
Still going strong, everything is good - day 42 (I had to work that out, I stopped counting!!!)
I was very, very drunk last night too. The mental link between alchahol and cigarettes seems to be broken.
One of the girls that was out with us tried to tell me I should smoke a cigarette as a kind of birthday treat LOL, obviously assuming I considered quitting a sacrafice of something really good - which is not my frame of mind at all hehe.
Also another girl who before tried to tell me to be a social smoker "like she is" woke up this morning and started routing around the place for a cigarette... I am careful not to say anything at all in such situations, there's nothing worse than someone rattling on about what you already know and try to not think about.
My friend Jamie who inspired me by quitting then keeping on at me afterwards has ACTUALLY STARTED SMOKING AGAIN. Which Sucks 
But as I say, I keep my opinions to myself!
My dad is still going too, day 3. He keeps asking me questions and stuff which is really cool. I'm basically reeling off the teachings of Allen Carr's book to him as the questions surface!
Really pleased your doing so well and sound so positive I take my hat off to you. Is your dad using any thing to help his quit or is he ct tell him well done day 3 is not easy. Good luck to you both Love Linda xxx
Thanks Linda!
My dad is going cold turkey too! I still can't really believe he is doing it if I'm honest! It's fantastic.
Pooo at Jamie!! huh, give him this website addy
And lil miss 'social smoker' ROFL scrounging for butts in the morning aint so social! (ok i exagerated but funny right?)
Glad you had a good night out Rambo Jambo x x x
~Buffy x x
Greetings all, just checking in again.
I'm ill today, somehow I think I've ended up with the flu!!! I was awake at 5am this morning, sweating like crazy!!!! I went downstairs to get a drink, then accidentally fell asleep at the table in the kitchen lol. So then I woke up there at about 9am, freezing cold and went back to bed 
As weird as this may sound, this is one of the hardest days i've had.
I'm never a person for sitting still for a single minute, but this bug/virus thing really has hit me hard, I'm as weak as a kitten, it sucks!!!
No gym, no walking the dog... I can't be bothered to move!!
Even though I know a cigarette now would be utterly disgusting (more so being as I'm actually ill too!) being bored has got me thinking about it again!
This sucks, I hope I'm better tomorrow.
Dont let it get you Mannion sorry to hear you are feeling rough, stay strong.
xxxxx Pupalup xxxxxxx
We all go through this crappy ill feeling post ditching the ciggies,but keep your chin up,stay strong.We are all in this together!!
ONWARDS AND UPWARDS!!
Hi Boudee,leave those ciggies in the shops,and dont let the b******s get you down when you are down!! Ha ha he he
ONWARDS AND UPWARDS and i have gone 49 days now cold turkey and LOVIN' IT!!
Oh yeah!!! Oops Sorry mate!!
Still rough today. I'm going to just go to the sauna later and see if that doesn't sweat it out lol.
(I'll have to go really late this evening so nobody else gets the lurgy!)
ooooooooooo yeah steam will make you feel loads better, just don't go and steam your self till you pass out all red and sweaty looking like a hamburger on the floor
Boudee, you are blessed with the great gift of foresight!
Greetings all, just checking in again.
I'm ill today, somehow I think I've ended up with the flu!!! I was awake at 5am this morning, sweating like crazy!!!! I went downstairs to get a drink, then accidentally fell asleep at the table in the kitchen lol. So then I woke up there at about 9am, freezing cold and went back to bed
As weird as this may sound, this is one of the hardest days i've had.
I'm never a person for sitting still for a single minute, but this bug/virus thing really has hit me hard, I'm as weak as a kitten, it sucks!!!
No gym, no walking the dog... I can't be bothered to move!!
Even though I know a cigarette now would be utterly disgusting (more so being as I'm actually ill too!) being bored has got me thinking about it again!
This sucks, I hope I'm better tomorrow.
My bf and i have this too, he has had it since last thursday and hasn't smoked since :eek:
I have been totaly bunged up and sinusy, sore throat and feeling v lethargic since Monday.
Prolly this rank changable weather :mad: Wish you well very soon x x x x
:eek: Aaarghhh my eyes!!!
It burns! it burns!!!!
You could of given us some sort of warning!:mad:
Now where would the fun in that be Barney ??
OMG!!! What a swizz!!! Father christmas orders the presents online :eek:
Hehehehhe
I am offski got to prepare for entertaining :rolleyes: pah
got aboot 30 mins to tidy hehehe
ttfn x x x
See you later Buffy!
ROFL great fly on the wall smilie ting
T'was me mother in law i love her to pieces infact decided to adopt her and let her be my mum too
But!! Still got to treat it like a royal visit !! she is anthea turner in her home!! lol but not stuck up at all she is non judgemental and soooooo lurvely but i still feel to look perfect hehehehehe
well that is a rarity u never hear of people genuinley liking their mother-in-laws, hmmm yes that is a new one on me.
hope the royal visit went well, it must be nice to have a mother-in-law that isnt the xrtwo.speedcentral.co.uk/im...
hehehehe, charlene.
I have one of those. I divorced my first husband in 91...caught him cheating. My mother in law was behind me 100% and when he remarried, he got the new wife and I got to keep his family! Still to this day I love my mother in law to pieces. My new husband isn't so thrilled about it. When I went to New York this past October to see my son I stayed at her house. All my in laws came and see me and we all got to hang out. Was like the good ole days. I have to say I am very very lucky!
Well day 48 for Rambo (hehe)
Strangely, I was really thinking about smoking a lot last night. I did a lot of driving, then I was seriously struggling to get to sleep and my mind wandered through all sorts and ended up on the subject of smoking
A friend had dropped a cigarette box with a load left inside in my car. When I found it I did stop and look at them for a few seconds before chucking them lol.
I think it's that I don't remember the intensity of the day 1,2,3, etc craves and so these "ideas" about smoking feel like intense craves.
They really are ideas that pass quicte quickly without any real discomfort or change in mood, but they are still weird.
Haven't been to the gym for days either, as i'm still noit completely over this cold/flu buniess yet!!
I think it's that I don't remember the intensity of the day 1,2,3, etc craves and so these "ideas" about smoking feel like intense craves.
The words nails and heads spring to mind!!
your very right x x
If it makes you feel any better I have a rotten cold/cough too as has Boudee I think it must be spreading across the 'post a pic' thread!
I think we can become non smokers and do fine with that but never get too cocky about it :rolleyes:
Well done James x x x
you have come a long way x x ~Buffy x x
I feel like smoking 20 fags and downing a whole mahoosive bottle of voddy tonight :rolleyes:
:confused: Are you serious?!?! :eek:
Ah blimey, Boudee tell all!!!
I wanted to share this earlier, now seems about appropriate. Great video to put things in perspective....
No, it's not - I promise. I jsut hope it might help you!!
Day 51 woop!!! Been doing a lot of thinking about smoking still Of course I haven't smoked though, i'm not even sure if I actually want to or not if that makes sense?
I'm just thinking about the subject a lot through the day.
I blame most of it on stress which seems to double everyday for me lately!!
Also (and this will sound harsh) certain people at my local pub that keep talking to me about how "I just stopped". They are full of questions about how and why and tips and pointers and I'm only too happy to help (I'm not sure if I'm really in any position to be advising them, but I answer the questions anyway lol)
Also I don't mind advising these people (or trying) but they have been asking me for weeks now and haven't made any attempt to stop, so I can't see the point in asking me every time and telling me how they "will do it next week" and all the rest of it!!!
While I'm only too happy to try to help anyone else out, it doesn't help me either!!!! I don't want to be labelled the person that quit smoking, I want smoking to be out of my life and forgotten about!!!!!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
All better
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Loving the primal scream does wonders
It is not easy but you have got to a stage where you have forgotten what smoking was really like.
Ignore Mr Nic trying his last ditch attempt at trying to say 'it's ok!'
I believe The 3's are hard (or there about) 3days 3 weeks and 3 months.
Ride this one out and again you will feel much better after!!
~Buffy x x
Dear Buffy
Are you watching BB - and seeing Brian trying to do elocution??
What a scream AHHHHHHHHHH HA HA
Poppyfairyxx
Shhh going to watch it on 4od tomorrow
been watching 'help i am a teenage mum'
look forward to that brian and elocution what a mix!!
Thanks guys, just had to get that all off my chest hehehe
I'm sure when things start to go a bit smoother and i'm not constantly looking for a release from it all I will stop thinking about it (Even though I don't believe it would help even if i did smoke now, it's just a habitual pattern of thought I guess!)
xxx
Dear Mannion
Well done matey!
Just to say all the peeps in the pub who keep hastling you are actually really envious that you have been so strong and quitted and stayed quitted. You know how it is when you've been a smoker you spend so much time thinking it would be brill to quit but then convincing yourself of justifiable reasons to stop. When you meet someone who has quit and done it - it reminds you of the promises you made yourself to stop and panic sets in to do something about it. The fact they keep asking you shows what an inspiration you are to a lot of people.
Take Care of You!
Poppyfairyxx
Thankyou Poppyfairy!!
60 days without a cigarette today!
Although I am finding it very hard.
I'm quite down and I guess I'm searching for anything to make it all go away at the moment. Obviously a cigarette will add to my problems, but it doesn't feel that way right now!
Congratulations Mannion,
Well done that is fantastic,
Why are you feeling down? You have done brilliantly, you should be very proud of yourself honey.
Take some deep breaths and feel how good it is, have you read bulldogs post about his reasons to give up? That made me think, I am not going to smoke anymore.
Good luck and stay strong,
befly x x
Hello you, not seen you about for a while, great to see you are still battling,
I am a couple of days behind you and i too feel a bit down a bit tired and feel like "omg will this ever go away" though if we think about it this it a thousand times better then what it was
I think we are very close to being better but it is strange that i felt like a total non smoker there for a while and now i feel like there is a constant niggle and i feel like i have lost my happy self some where
grab my hand mate and lets make that finish line together
Boudee you are so right !!
and you are both very close to suddenly realising that it's gone!!
I didn't notice the low feeling and niggle go, I just suddenly noticed it wasn't there anymore!
It's in the 3 month marker somewhere !!
Stay strong and well done James and Boudee x x ~Buffy x x
Will you two get a room!!!!
Boudees getting married tomorrow :eek:
:eek: I could stop the wedding at 'Is there any lawful reason why these two shouldn't be joined in holy matrimony?'
Da da dum!!!! Big cliff hanger!!! Could be part of one of Poppys stories!!
Boudee jilts Funkmunk to run off with Buffy.
Ooohhhhh the scandal!!!
Just for the record ............
"I like Men! A Lot!!!"
Well my man anyway
oooh am I digging myself a large hole!?
LOL!!! Keep digging!!!
That should do it
rofl cheers me dear :rolleyes:
Yikes !!
Blimey all that talk of two (hot) women getting a room was just too much for me there !! I had to read right back to page 6 to see that it wasn't as full on as I'd hoped (I mean thought). Dammit.
Ladies, don't "get a room" - get over to my place and I'll give you a room. And a video. And a steady hand (notice there will be only one !!! rofl!)
Another day with no gold stars
You can't say I didnt warn you !!
I haven't had any gold stars all week - I very much doubt that I'm gonna get any this week either - so I might as well just be myself !
You missed
You haven't given me one Boudee.........
I'm more than a little disappointed.
Thanks guys, I'm just having a right shitter of a week. (Pardon my language)
Ladies have these powers over men you know :rolleyes:
I bought a car from a smoker yesterday.... It STINKS lol. Seriously makes me feel ill inside. I need to get the cleaning gear out there ASAP!
I'll never smoke another cigarette, I just wish the thought of doing so would bugger off and leave me be!
Well done all of you guys!
Much love
Let's all become anti smokers
I've just read loads of posts from different people on this forum - and I've had a great idea that I think will help loads of people stop smoking....
why don't we lobby the government and get a petition to get smoking banned in all public places (except outdoors) so that we can show these smelly, horrible, smoker b*st*rds just how much we don't want to be like them........
Actually, I really am beginning to really dislike them..............
I've just read loads of posts from different people on this forum - and I've had a great idea that I think will help loads of people stop smoking....
why don't we lobby the government and get a petition to get smoking banned in all public places (except outdoors) so that we can show these smelly, horrible, smoker b*st*rds just how much we don't want to be like them........
Actually, I really am beginning to really dislike them..............
Very good why didn't anyone else think of it :rolleyes:
Ah you will do well as the rest at being the PM
It's like those natwest bank adds hahahaha
Sorry to be a fly in the ointment, but I think you are being a bit harsh about smokers there max, I mean freedom of choice and all that.
Just because I dont smoke anymore Im not becoming an anti smoking nazi, because I always swore that I wouldnt when I gave up.
My whole family still smokes and sorry but I dont think they are bastards at all.
I agree with the smoking ban because smokers shouldnt expect us all to breathe in their second hand smoke.
However harranging them and name calling is wrong, and Im surprised no-one else has commented on this before now.
Charlene.
I think it was said very tongue in cheek Charlene x x
That's how I took it :eek:
I think he was being funny :confused:
Think max knew the ban had happened and was being sarcastic!
I took it that way 'cos max isn't that type, he is more of a jolly fellow and I would assume humor, before politics from him
~Buffy x x
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