As you have all been given up for quite a while when did you find it got easier , do the thoughts of having a ciggie ever go will be a week on wednesday and they are driving me insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To the Seniors!: As you have all been given... - No Smoking Day
To the Seniors!
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I'm told it gets easier over time, casey. It has to, doesn't it? You just have to ride out all the bad stuff and come out all the better for it at the other end.
Keep up your quit...just think of all that money you're saving!
I have been quit for 2 Weeks, 2 Days, 5 hours, 51 minutes and 13 seconds (16 days). I have saved £114.83 by not smoking 454 cigarettes. I have saved 1 Day, 13 hours and 50 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 02/03/2008 07:07
Hi Casey, well done for still being here. Keep yourself busy, do suduku, read a book, take up cross stitchin..... anything to keep your mind off the dreaded nicotine.
It does get easier, just don't give up your doing sooooo well 
With all the talk about positivie reinforcement, positive mindsets, and so on, I am slightly amused (and bemused) by the fact that this thread, addressed to our "seniors", includes talk of "quit", "giving up", "other side".
THIS is the other side (at least for most members of this community). One side is smokers, one side is non-smokers. Choose your side and stick to it.
I've come to conclusion that as long as any of us admits to ourselves that there is some kind of middle ground, where we can possibly WANT to go back to the dark side, means that we're still there, on the dark side.
I get over this quandary by refusing to accept I am a non-smoker, at least just yet. I prefer to think of myself as a non-practicing smoker, putting off my next cigarette for as long as I can.
I'm not burdening my brain and emotions with the thought that I'm never going to smoke again (the fact is, there are several things about smoking that I still like!) - I'm just telling myself that I won't have that next cigarette JUST yet. And I've been telling myself that for six days now.
I'm not saying that this method might work for anyone else, but if all else has failed, perhaps it's worth a go? 
(I have, incidentally, changed the wording on my stop-o-meter to something a little more positive, too)
I smoked my last cigarette 6 Days, 1 hour and 14 minutes ago. I have saved £55.18 by not smoking 242 cigarettes. I have saved 20 hours and 10 minutes of my life.
Casey
I have stopped for 11 weeks yesterday and yes it do get a lot easyer the first week is the worse. You are doing really well keep going keep posting the great thing about this site is everyone is going though or been though the same. keep strong mate it gets better honest. linda xxxxxx
Hey yes it will get easier but i agree with plumski - we were smokers, not non smokers so i say 'i am currently not smoking' seems to make it easirt somehow.
Keep up your quit you have broken the back of it already
jojo
I have been quit for 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 13 hours, 45 minutes and 17 seconds (77 days). I have saved £351.40 by not smoking 1,551 cigarettes. I have saved 5 Days, 9 hours and 15 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 01/01/2008 00:05
Sad to say that I have a friend who smoked 15 years ago or so and still thinks about cigarettes now and then!! And he's a smoking cessation practitioner. Don't let that put you off though. He says the thought comes and goes in a split second and happens hardly ever.
anyway think of all the money saved. I'm off shopping tomorrow!
As you have all been given up for quite a while when did you find it got easier , do the thoughts of having a ciggie ever go will be a week on wednesday and they are driving me insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wouldn't call myself a senior, as I only stopped smoking on Jan 4th, but even in those 10 weeks there has definitely been a change. In my own experience, which may be quite different from everyone else's, I've found that I've been gradually "getting used to" not smoking any more. So in the early days, every advert break in the middle of "The Bill" would have me scurrying out of my chair to go for a fag because that's what I always did. When I went out to the pub for a drink, I'd look at the people popping outside to smoke, and think about going too because that's what I always did. Then after a month or so, I realised that I didn't have those thoughts anymore, because what I always did wasn't the same anymore. I think I've sort of got out of the habit of smoking simply by not smoking.
The longer you go without smoking, the easier it gets to carry on not smoking. Your yesterdays (when you were smoking) become your last week's, which in turn become last month. Your memories of being a smoker are still there, but they become dilluted with the non-smoking memories, which are more recent. You now have an alternative lifestyle in which everything doesn't revolve round smoking any more, so inevitably, you become more comfortable with not smoking...it's becoming what you're used to doing.
Hope that makes sense. Probably would have been a lot quicker just to say "Yes, it does get easier". 
I have been quit for 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 hours and 10 minutes (74 days). I have saved £391.93 by not smoking 1,481 cigarettes. I have saved 5 Days, 3 hours and 25 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 04/01/2008 11:45
Unfortunatly there is no set time or date on when it gets easier, ie.. people who have quit for two days could feel better than someone who has quit for three weeks.
I stopped with my brother on the same date - after 3 weeks his climbing the walls, in his own words - his gagging for a fag.
After one week i lost the cravings and had no desire to smoke, why? i did nothing different, we used the same methods and took the same advice.
Its down to the individual, their approach and their mind set.
I just stopped waiting for something to happen......
So in the early days, every advert break in the middle of "The Bill" would have me scurrying out of my chair to go for a fag because that's what I always did. When I went out to the pub for a drink, I'd look at the people popping outside to smoke, and think about going too because that's what I always did. Then after a month or so, I realised that I didn't have those thoughts anymore, because what I always did wasn't the same anymore. I think I've sort of got out of the habit of smoking simply by not smoking.
i dont think anyone can give timescales but im the same as coolerkingtrev, the thoughts of nipping out for one in the adverts are hardly there , because i dont.
im getting out of the habit, not all the time, but its getting better.
and i am a ex smoker, i choose to be. to me, a non smoker has never smoked.
each to their own.
and i am a ex smoker, i choose to be. to me, a non smoker has never smoked.
each to their own.
I agree with what you're saying about non-smokers, and I'd like to see myself as an ex-smoker, but I'm not at that stage yet, I still see myself as a smoker who isn't smoking at the moment. I've said before on here that I feel I want to smoke but I don't want to be a smoker. That is gradually changing. The good thing is that, while I still don't want to be a smoker, I'm not even sure I really want to smoke any more. I can read the posts about people gagging for a ciggie, and think, yeah, I used to feel like that, but probably the last time was about 6 weeks ago. So it definitely gets better. At least in my experience.
I have been quit for 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 hours and 46 minutes (74 days). I have saved £391.13 by not smoking 1,483 cigarettes. I have saved 5 Days, 3 hours and 35 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 04/01/2008 11:45
its the same for me, i dont say im gagging for one anymore, its more of a thought now.
im not envious of smokers when i pass them, i do still like the smell of fresh smoke, but not the smell it leaves on people.
it gets very interesting to read how everyones quit is so different.
