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gum free week 1-moving on!

Hi all

well i am moving rooms tomorrow-into month 4, i decided to come off the nicotine gum last week, i found it similar stopping smoking all over again, however i cant work out if it was psychological or physical withdrawls, i was taking 6x 4mg gums every day, so i think it was withdrawls!!

a friend of mine told me to use 'airwave' gum and that helped-i know 'odd'

i truely feel like a 'non smoker' now, and have very few 'faint' cravings-alot less than when i was on the gum, i found the gum was extending my cravings rather than preventing them, however gum did have its place in the early days.

my sister has stopped smoking for 3 years and is still taking gum and relys heavily on it-i didnt want to be like that.:confused:

My other sister is stopping smoking mid february and is joining the forum-please make her welcome-which im sure you will!!!

i feel so much better-particularly today as my netball team won the cup today-we thrashed them!!! way-heyyyyyy!!!

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When I came off lozenges I was using about 5 X 1mg ones a day, and found it a bit awkward and weird but not too bad.

That said I was only taking in about 5mg a day as opposed to 24mg.

So I suspect that it was withdrawal!

Nic-yeh 24mg! alot to get out of my system-no wonder my eyes were popping out of my head!

BB-In Feb when she comes back from working in America-yeh-excuse maybe!!!

Well done Shabba, seriously.

We will be moving into month 5 tomorrow... don't see yourself short

tomorrow marks the END of month 4, not the beginning of it

YAY to us!

Thanks stu!-im just bloody thick me! Finished your garden yet?!

I meant moving to room 4-5-we obviously dont deserve a room dedicated to month 4 only!!!:confused:

Thanks stu!-im just bloody thick me! Finished your garden yet?!

I meant moving to room 4-5-we obviously dont deserve a room dedicated to month 4 only!!!:confused:

Ahhhh... but it's for months 4 and 5.... I've just spent the last month in that room

Not that it really matters, the only thing that matters is the quit.... and now you're nicotine free it must feel great!

And not finished, but finished the back breaking turning over of heavy waterlogged compacted clay soil!

Got to dig down to lay a path now (I guess about 3/4 of a ton of earth to shift), build a fence and fit 2 gates... lay a lawn...

A mans work is never done!

yeh well as i said-'thick!'

im in the college netball team-and i felt so much better playing today-cant believe how much i was destroying my body with the fags! im just aware of complacency now- and keeping on my guard for ever emerging nic-demons

bet you feel better doing the garden(not smoking)-hard work shifting earth! i did my garden last year and its back breaking!!-even got a veggie patch and a greenhouse-loving it!! -i think its a great thing for children to get involved with my little nephew loves helping plant things and watch them grow-he even eats vegetables now, because he knows where they come from-sorry waffling !