i've been to my gp today and got the champix which i'm gonna start taking tomorrow,feeling really ready for this challenge!(hope i can still feel this positive for good!:confused: )
and i'm armed with my allan carr's "easyway to stop smoking" book and i did find it really helpful! i did manage to stop for about 3 weeks by just reading the book alone but my downfall was going out to the pub with other smoking friends & family(as you do)
i tried patches and gum prevoiusly and failed AGAIN due to the social side of things.
The best thing was i didn't start smoking regularly till i was 32!!!! and around the same time had to give up work due to back and joint problems so i think i fell into the smoking trap through boredem,depression, ect.(then after 6 years of different hospitals,injections,accupuncture,ect,ect i was finally diagnosed with fibromyalgia & benign joint hypermobility,& last week arthritis(but all thats another lonnnnng story:rolleyes
Anyway just thought i'd introduce myself, and hope that i can turn to the forum & you guys for help and advice?
kind regards....poskit16k
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today's not been too bad,i have had 4 ciggies today: , and i've noticed that with each one i'm not that bothered wether i smoke it or not! , i went to the shop tonight and i didn't buy anymore usually i'd buy 20!(got to smoking between 15 & 20 a day, sometimes more with a drink!)
so i'm quite happy with how i've done .
i'm gonna let my lazy dog max out, and then i'm off to bed, (without having a night time smoke!!, so hubby will be pleased it doesnt smell like he's in bed with a dirty ASHTRAY!!
night everyone.
poskit.
READY FOR TOMORROW NOW!! BRING IT ONNNNNN!!
ps..i will post an update for you all tomorrow. nite nite
Taken my 2nd tablet this morning just before my brekkie, as yet not felt sick or queezy (but i won't count my chickens just yet )
anyway will update you all later today, going out to potter about in the garden while the sun's still shining and its a beautiful ("less" smoke free day for me, than it was yesterday!! )
got through day 2 ok(i think:confused: ) seemed to want to eat more though, and i did have 4 ciggies, but pleased with that, i've got 4 left out of my pack of 20! (i would have bought 20 a day normally) got these on SUNDAY!:eek:
Day 3....
not felt too good today! infact i've been in bed nearly all day! not had a ciggie ant all today though! not even felt like i want one,
i feel absolutely worn out,tired,light headed, even as if i've been out on a bender n drank loads of booze & i'm still abit drunk!
although! with my positive thinking head on.... IT'LL ALL BE WORTH IT IN THE END!
just wondered if any of you guys had had anything similar? and i am just normal afterall! (not what hubby says..haha)
Yeah I felt like that from my 1st day of not smoking, I just laid about with no energy and didn't feel like I could be bothered to do anything! Felt like I had been drinking and felt sick without having had any of the fun of being drunk!
On the bright side I felt human again since day 5, now on day 7 thats a whole week without a ciggie! Unbelievable!
So keep up the good work it's only a few days and it will be well worth it in the end.
gonna stick with it, no worries,it's worth feeling like this, as long as it stops me from smelling like a dirty old ashtray .
i'm used to the aches n pains stuff,even been tired all the time, with me suffering with my joints ect, it just seems more intense at the moment though but if it's part of the process it will be worth it all in the end
feeling ALOT better today!the pack of 20 ciggies which i bought on sunday, i've just smoked the last one! wasn't really bothered about having it either,
i really do think that this champix is worth giving a go, even if you do feel abit crappy sometimes, my stop date is tues 14th august, which will be my day 8, i know the nurse said to smoke the first week if i wanted to, while the champix kicked in, but i don't think i'll even bother buying any more ciggies to get me through to tuesday,
but i'll see how it goes?
going to start reading allan's carrs "easyway to stop smoking" book, it really helped me last time i tried to stop, it was only going out to the pub and drinking that i got back into it, but now no one can smoke in pubs ect it will be alot easier for all of us quitters
anyway gonna keep busy today(now that i feel up to it, after yesterday)
Well done on day 4 Poskit ! I'm on day five today (as I stopped at midnight on Sunday !) so I'm right with ya..................I'm going cold turkey though. 'Er indoors (Sharkbait) is on Champix though - and is now countin in weeks not days.................so YOU CAN DO IT !
You've got Champix, Allan Carr and US to help you !!
Have a great, smoke free day - and if you get time later - walk outside, look at the sun, close your eyes and take a deep breath................it's sooooooo much nicer than a breath filled with smoke........................
Congrats on your quit 14 august great date I will be 5 months smoke free that day. Champix sounds like a magic drug if ever I find my self quiting again(hope not) I will defo try them Good luck Linda xxxx
it really helps to know that we're all in this together and aiming for that smoke free life
now that i've smoked that last smelly, horrible, cancer stick of a cigarette
i don't seem to be even cotemplating having one!(and not buying anymore!eventhough i've not set my quit date till the 14th!)
just going out to potter in the garden,the sun's shining!...... it's a beautiful day!.......the birds are singing....the butterfiles....and beeeeeeeeees...................... aww alright maybe i am getting carried away!haha
but it is nice out, so i catch up with u all later.
not had a ciggie now since monday night!(i know i told you all i wasn't going to buy anymore when i run out at the weekend! but i did!!) went out a couple of times over the weekend, got totally wasted on sunday:eek:but i told you all That my stop date was the 14th and i have stuck to it:p!
i think its' got easier now iv'e got on to the second week of the champix cos then the dosage goes up! funnily enough iv'e not missed smoking, at all! haven't really thought about it either!but i know if i fall off the wagon(which i don't intend to do!) i can count on you guys to help me through it!!
it's soooooo nice not to smell like an old dirty ashtray! my clothes all smell nice n fresh,
anyway just thought i'd give you all an update(hope everyones' been good too?)
it's really funny, it's as if i've never smoked! don't even think about it now. i know it's early days n that,but it's not like the other times i've tried with the patches ect. hubby's never mentioned it either! when he's come in from work? usually he calls me grumpy:mad: ect and asks how i've done.But he's never said a thing??
mmmmmmmmmm:confused: don't know what to think really!Apart from"THE CHAMPIX IS REALLLLLLY WORKING"!and i don't seem to be struggling at all!!
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