It has struck me recently that a lot of people have been surprised, not with the fact that I have quit smoking, but with the fact that I have not had a single drag in 8 weeks. There is more suprise when they realise that I have not used NRT and used Champix only until I was 4 weeks quit.
My question is, have any of you encountered this reaction yourselves? And how many people had a blip and took a drag/ a cig/ a night of smoking? I don't want this to become a thread about going back to day 1 because you had a smoke, I just want to see if this is a common attitude.
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Heyy Mark, yeah strangley enough from my sister who also quit using Champix, she stopped 8 weeks in and was violently ill. When I was chatting to her, i was telling her some bad days/ good days and she says to me, you have no will power, i never had that ? WTF thanks for encouragment. i mean i am in to week 8 not one puff not even reached my lips in the hardest possible times of sipping 4 bottles of wine and having 400 in the kitchen. If you ask me thats more than will power ? she then goes on to say, well i had a half a fag after 8 weeks and it made me ill... the cheeky mare saying i dont have wil lpower when she actually had one after the same lenght of time.
Other people. Like a guy at work using NRT keeps stopping / starting, and so amazed i have stopped on champix!!! i think like you M i was a serial quiiter
no one beleives me and some people still think i will give in!!!
Me too.Every Monday I quit so now everyone waiting for me to cave in.But I dont think I will this time and have a fag in the drawer for emergency(im a creature of habit) and havnt even been tempted this time.of course nobody believes me.lol
I never thought I would get this far either...10 months, 9 days quit. I had the will, I had the desire but, I had failed before. And especially since I was up to 60 fags a day. That was so scary for me. But, I still thought I would fail. And when I took the patch off after 12 or 13 days and said no more, went cold turkery..I thought for sure I would pick one up again. But, I haven't. I realize the danger of just one puff. That is all it would take to put me back at the beginning again.
I don't know if I will ever be able to say that I beat smoking...I sort of feel like a recovering alchololic.....it only takes one taste to put me back at the beginning. I will always be a recovering smoker. But, I am good with that....ppat
I am just crossing my 8th week today. I have used no other methods like champix or patches gums etc. I had just followed the cold turkey method. I'm facing a typical problem, i did not get any urges in daytime, but after 5 p.m i get loads of craves until 23.00 hrs. Anyone facing it?
To be honest, i'm a feeble quitter as i have studied myself i'm still not confident why i'm quitting it (a self always tells me to smoke...u r very tired ...go have a smoke) but my inner self telling NO and whenever i think a ciggy on my lips i feel very ashamed, but as i'm not confident like other senior members, i dont know how long i'll carry my quit. But honestly i want to carry it.
Hi mark, yeh I had the people doubting me in the early days but as I have progrerssed and they can see how determined I am they are now starting to stay "fair play" and "well done" etc which is great.
Same here... just coming up for 9 weeks and haven't so much as held a ciggie in my hand. No NRT but I am on champix still. Everyone is surprised when I tell them I haven't had a single ciggie.. I know loads of people who have 'quit' but they still smoke! I used to accept that before I'd quit... but now as far as I'm concerned, even if they only smoke a couple of ciggies a week.. they are still smokers.
I haven't had a single puff since the day I threw that last cigarette on the ground.
I actually can't imagine taking smoke into my lungs now. I was behind a smoker walking along the street today and accidentally breathing in some of the cloud she left behind her made me feel ill!
@Niladri - try to stay strong. I felt the same as you at the beginning of my quit. I really thought it was only a matter of time before I caved in and I thought of smoking constantly. But each day I made the conscious decision not to smoke, and over the weeks things gradually changed, my whole attitude to smoking changed. I don't miss it at all any more, and neither will you. Read the link in my signature, it says it all!
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