Hiya all and i'll start by saying well done fellow quitters if like myself you now find yourself in your 3rd week.
Decided to quit over 2 weeks ago, bought the 2 week kit of NiquitinCQ clear 21mg's as i was smoking 20 a day prior to the day of quitting, finished the first 2 week kit on saturday night and am now 2 days in on week 3
I'm coping really well with the no smoking thing.. we sat down for our usual friday night in (due to having a 2 year old can't go out like we used to), and watched a DVD from blockbuster and polished off a nice bottle of Rioja. No cravings.. and slept well that night.. think i woke briefly.. but that was it!
Certainly finding myself to be a bit 'sharper' this last 3 or 4 days mind you, seem to be concentrating quite a bit better without my mind sloping off thinking about a smoke.. i'm maintaining my focus alot longer now which is great!!
Still annoyed at the dream i had last week though were i quite openly had a smoke and then when i woke the following morning, had that awful gutted feeling you have when you feel you've failed.. only to then get that immense sense of relief when you realise.. 'ang on? no I haven't!! Quite the mix of emotion that is!!
Anyway, BAMM week 3, here i am, already experimenting a little bit by seeing how long i can go before i put the next patch on, but not being silly with it mind you :)...
soooo glad to be quit again, and when i added up £5.70 (price i was paying per 20) x 15 days = £85.50 it made quitting seem all the more worth while.
So hi all, I hope to find a few friends and fellow quitters to help strengthen those weak moments, and look forward to getting to the 1 month+ mark (doesn't seem too far away now that i've actually made this post here!)
Jase (Chester in the Northwest)
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Sounds like you have got a great positive attitude and that is certainly a big help.
I live in the middle of nowhere you don't need to tell me about wood pigeons, they are a pain in the ar**.
You seem to be coping really well with the quitting, some seem to find it easier than others. Lots of people seem to have the dream thing at some stage, but the relief that it was only a dream must be great.
Maybe you could think of something nice to treat yourself with once you get to the month mark, with all that money you have saved.
Let us know how you are going and of course would love to hear more about the wood pigeons, do you think they would go nice in a pie
This is my 3rd very very very determined effort to quit and break a 15 year habit once and for all. Even if the wood pigeons have other ideas hmmmm pie...
Nah i took a very long hard look at my life recently, where things are, and where i want to be with it in the future, and with the downward trend in our economy, bills going up and wages seeming never to match them quite as well as you hoped, you tend to then look at ways of saving money, and when i added up my £5.70's which i was spending religeously each day at the same garage where i stopped on my way home from work.. it added up. In fact if i multiplied that £5.70 by 365 (days in year), its £2080! Sounds alot for something you set light to and never see again once its burned to the end eh!
Well, that got me thinking, i need a new car soon as my 1995 mondeo is showing all the signs of its age now and with a 2 year old daughter too, any spare cash is important.
and thats just outside the health reasons for quitting.. and indeed the plain simple fact, i don't want my daughter thinkin 'whats daddy doing?'...
so yeah.. week 3 began on sunday morning for me, and despite the waking in the night, the wood pigeons and lucid dreams, its in the main.. actually quite ok! I get the odd tetchy moment, but i've found i'm recognising the moments now and just go find something to occupy my mind for a bit to channel the excess energy .. eg. go browse the web.. or do a task around the house/work.
Just happy to make each and every day smoke free now.. i've been here before on this quitting lark, but i don't think i was ever so determined as i am this time... and its nice
I do get some negative moments.. last one was saturday afternoon.. i was pushing to see how long i could go with no patch on or anything.. and got to 16 hours.. found i was getting a bit moody so i summed it as being an achievement nonetheless and continued with a fresh CQ patch.
Sunday was fantastic just a bit marred by the lack of sleep last night, but hoping i make up for it tonight with a better sleep. This morning i walked outside 'with the smokers' and stared the demon in the face, they stood in the shelter, i stood outside in the fresh air, and i tackled it head on, i'm never going to be one of those ex-smokers that smokers despise, but it did help me realise i was making the right choice. I got my 5 mins of fresh air, and came back inside feeling quite good about quitting again. I got to chat to them as normal too as they work in different departments to me and why should you stop chatting to friends just coz you've quit eh
Anyhoo, back to work for me for a bit.. glad i found this forum.
Here's the post Chrissie was telling you about already put it elsewhere so you get 2 for the price of one
Welcome to the forum and well done on the decision to quit possibly one of the most important you will ever make and you will be losing nothing but you will regain control of your life and that has to be good
You will find all the help and support you need on here as we all help each other just like a family we are here for you every step of the way cheering the good days and sympathiseing with the bad but the good far outweigh the bad
Read the posts on here you will find a lot of tips and advice and in the signatures of a lot you will find links to other sites just click on them Here are 2 I find very good to start you off whyquit.com and woofmang.com Read, read and then read some more as the more you read and learn about why you smoked and about your addiction the easier your quit will be
Post often to let us know how you're doing, to rant, rave have a moan whatever you like pretty much anything goes on here OK
All the things you've already found are normal the bad night, moodiness etc are all par for the course
But you sound so positive that I'm sure you'll win this war we all fight
i know we all say we don't like mondays, but just got back from lunch visited Boots the chemist to get another 2 weeks worth of patches, and sat down with a cup of tea. Must be a real danger moment for me as just had quite the intense craving. Dunno where that one came from at all, was ok then it was all of a sudden. So i just rode through it with the attitude.. 'ahh you can scream at me for stopping your fix, but i aint budging'
Anyway its passed now. I used to smoke after lunch every day, sometimes just before too, guess i just got my reminder that getting more patches was a good idea as i used my last one up this morning.
You know? i think today was just made all the worse through lack of sleep in the main. Haven't been this tired in the evening in a long time really, so that can't have helped.
I'm going to remove my patch well before bed tonight and see if that helps more. Will try that before i resort to nytol.
I tell you what i noticed today more than anything though and to the positive this time.. my sense of smell has returned with a vengeance.. ohh the smell of the local bakery near my work is one thing.. but today, it just seems sooo much nicer.. and later in the day i think i was able to tell that the person i was speaking with in my office had not long had a smoke, as it was all i could smell.
So here's to tomorrow, not budging, and lack of wood pigeons
and good luck with the rest of your day 4 bev, i've replied to your thread in the other forum so get your iron-will together and get through 4... wanna see u on day 5-7.
Ok took the patch off around 10pm last night , and when i eventually did go to bed. (about midnight'ish), i slept soundly all night.. i don't even remember trying to get to sleep was almost as though the light switch in the room also switched me off
So glad to get a full nights sleep, it helps alot with the no smoking thing if i'm not also v. tired. Going to aim for better sleep for the rest of the week i think.
Oh and... hello day 17. (quit on the 11th july at midnight, last cigarette was 2 hours prior to that) I'm stil trying to figure out why i set my user name to 180709 as it was an entire week prior to that.. 18th was after my bro's birthday and i'd quit the week before, the 18th isn't even an important date. (except for being 1 week quit perhaps)
Just made an excel spreadsheet which is telling me how much i've saved so far in £££ and how many days in i'm in too £91.20 its saying, minus the cost of what i spent on the patches (for now)
yeah i'll make a point of taking off my patch an hour or so before i go bed from now on, it seemed to work last night, and like you say, we don't smoke while we sleep either so it shouldn't make a difference.
I keep a box of patches at home and have the other box at work now, so if i am rushed for time in the morning at least i've got the supply at work too should i ever forget.
So glad i got a good sleep though, today is a lot more bearable than yesterday.
Cool its been a very good day today. No major stress, or at least nothing i can't handle, and the after lunch danger point i usually hit came and went without so much as a minor craving which was that minor i didn't need to stop what i was doing. It just subsided.
Another thing that happened today too was i bumped into one of the chaps who used to smoke outside, now i knew he'd quit using patches about 7-8 weeks back, and i asked him how he felt now. 'Absolutely wonderful!' was his instant reply. Have to admit he looked much happier, healthier and very positive indeed, and you know? I want that too, so its made me all the stronger in my resolve to soldier on with all this now.
Does you good to meet fellow quitters, especially when they are seeing so much benefit from it.
and thats another day of work done. Yay! off home now, and i've changed my route home by an extra mile so i don't pass the garage i used to stop at every day too. Thats one less temptation in my day.
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