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[nsd_user663_3191]

Hi guys,

I have been a non-smoker for about 3 months now, packed up on 28th January 2008 after being really ill for a week with a virus and not smoking for the week I decided to knock the habit on the head.

I am 28 years old and was smoking about 80-100 a week for the past 10 years.

I am finding it surprisingly easy.... I went cold turkey and although I was on a diet at the time managed to keep my weight maintained although I have probably gone up about 7lbs since those 3 months through eating crap - not just eating food to replace fags just generally being crap. I figured that I had the will power to stop as I have lost 6 stone over the past 3 years so if I could do that I could do anything and my weight was always an excuse why I smoked and the horror stories I heard from giving up smoking made me smoke even more when I was losing weight.

I must admit to having a sneaky puff here and there I have 2 friends that smoke when I'm out and it tends to be when I'm with them I'll have a puff or two - but I'm out every couple of weeks or so and its not every time I go out - just tends to be when I'm really drunk. I would say I've had about 6 puffs of a fag in the past 3 months but I never wake up dependant on fags in the morning - just tend to feel crap and have that awful taste in my mouth. I've stopped getting the cravings after meals as that was my hardest point especially dinner and I have people around me at work that smoke and I can't stand the stench when they come back in (one has just come back in now and it makes me feel sick!!).

I hope I've cracked it some people said that 3-6 months are really hard but I only found the first month hard x

Em x

[nsd_user663_3191]

Hey guys,

I completely understand what your saying and I do get annoyed with myself as it only happens with I'm with one mate who happens to be my best mate otherwise I don't bother at all.

I started smoking through peer pressure at school/college etc.

I don't actually like the taste of a fag, I hate the smell and I get really angry with myself for having that "puff" but it never leads me to feel that I need another fag/puff after I've had that one - it seems to be the motion of hand to mouth and being outside with the other smokers and being part of a social group - that and the fact I dont' like leaving my mate outside on her own.

I do feel in control and I haven't had a puff on a fag since 2 Friday's ago because I haven't been out with her since then (she has a baby and hard to get out anyway).

I hear what your saying tho - I do have will power I just need to use it!

[nsd_user663_3191]

You didn't sound harsh mate just telling it how it is.

I only see my mate once a month out out - when I'm over her house seeing her, hubby and baby she goes outside for a fag then it don't bother me its being the situation and surroundings of club atmosphere and drink - when I'm out with her and my other mate who hates smoking she goes out with her and I stay in the club - its just when its me and her lol

The funny thing is she gave up smoking when pregant and gave up right until her baby was 10 months old then come out with me one night and she just started up smoking - we have known each other 15 years and have always been bad influences on eahc other the numerous times we tried to give up when teenagers and in our early twenties. So now I stopped she started lol I don't think she wants to smoke just smokes outta habit like me.

I will try a lot harder tho - I know I can do it its just losing control wheN I've had a drink or if I know I can get away with it. I really can live without the cancer sticks and I so enjoy not smoking now its a breath of fresh air especially as the cravings are hardly there anymore.

One thing tho I doubt very much that I would have been able to give up without the UK ban in public places - that Law has saved many lives and encouraged people to give up smoking - as I said i had 4 mates smoked and now only 1 because of not being able to smoke in pubs/clubs anymore and I got fed up being the only one going outside for a fag !!

[nsd_user663_2981]

Welcome Em-Wah

Please knock those occasional puffs on the head!!

If the object of the game is to see who can have the least then don't have any!

Me and my sister were each others bad influence and i was convinced that i couldn't stop if she didn't, but i did anyway. Now she is trying to stop too. I've been around smokers, let them have it I say!

Anyway, good luck