Nearly There

[Rex1000]

176 days here getting close to the 6 months mark

big improvement to my health and a cash saving of £1406 which I have actually saved and I bought myself some wonderful things that I would never have been able to buy if I was still a smoker.

[nsd_user663_60382]

How can you afford it?

Rex, well done. I'm from the US and just can't believe the prices you pay in the UK for a packet of cigs! Maybe the equivalent of £2 here if you shop wisely. At £8, I'd literally have to choose between smoking and eating.

[nsd_user663_61136]

I'd literally have to choose between smoking and eating.

Of course, we've all done that. And smoking won, every time.

51 years, Rex! Phew. Just goes to show it's never too late.

[nsd_user663_61153]

Congratulations

176 days here getting close to the 6 months mark

big improvement to my health and a cash saving of £1406 which I have actually saved and I bought myself some wonderful things that I would never have been able to buy if I was still a smoker.

Congratulations on getting there, I'm almost at 6 months too, fantastic feeling isn't it? The health improvements, like you say, have certainly been notable.

[nsd_user663_48218]

Well done Rex!!!

I hope you were able to get the tv you wanted in the sales

[nsd_user663_42390]

176 days here getting close to the 6 months mark

big improvement to my health and a cash saving of £1406 which I have actually saved and I bought myself some wonderful things that I would never have been able to buy if I was still a smoker.

Fantastic, just so pleased for you. Well done Rex

[nsd_user663_48218]

He did, you must've missed it! Here you go

forum.nosmokingday.org.uk/s...

Thanks Kat. Would have still been up to my eyes in panto so no doubt I did miss it lol.

[Rex1000]

Incredible

Rex, well done. I'm from the US and just can't believe the prices you pay in the UK for a packet of cigs! Maybe the equivalent of £2 here if you shop wisely. At £8, I'd literally have to choose between smoking and eating.

Amazing we are taxed to the hilt in the UK! The money I used to spend on smoking would be around $100 a week in your money, which is just over a third of my pension so as you can see I gave myself a massive pay rise and the icing on the cake I feel so much better.

I think if they were that cheap here I would have had less motivation to stop, now I think for the sake of the people they should make them £20 a pack of 20! Good luck to you and everyone who has made the decision to become free of a terrible addiction.

[nsd_user663_59642]

176 days here getting close to the 6 months mark

big improvement to my health and a cash saving of £1406 which I have actually saved and I bought myself some wonderful things that I would never have been able to buy if I was still a smoker.

Well done, Rex! I love reading your posts as I am in a very similar boat to you and I feel as if I am tootling along in your wake!

It's lovely to hear of your health improvements and of your pleasure in the things which you have been able to treat yourself to (I really do understand that!). All the very best to you, Rex.

Val

xxx

[nsd_user663_61136]

Interesting to look at the dates in your signature, Val. A blip after 14 days - was that a "one won't hurt", or was it a "I can't be doing with all this, I'm going back to the way things were"?

I'm only on Day 4 using Not One Puff rules, Day 8 using Not Proper Smoking rules...so Day 14 experiences are very useful advance intelligence!

[nsd_user663_59642]

Interesting to look at the dates in your signature, Val. A blip after 14 days - was that a "one won't hurt", or was it a "I can't be doing with all this, I'm going back to the way things were"?

Hello, Declan! You raise an interesting point because that day (11th October) became an absolute turning point in my battle with stinky stupid fags. It was actually 6 weeks in, not 14 days.......29th August to 11th October, and because I don't want to take Rex's thread and because today is my last day in the Month 3 room, what I will do is this...

first I will make my lunch (because I am hungry!) and then I will start a new thread in the Months 4 and 5 room (albeit a day early) so that I can explain the whole thing. It was the turning point for me and also the reason why I have been able to sail quite comfortably along ever since. It is important and that is why I would like to give it the time and attention it needs, rather than squeezing it into a corner of Rex's lovely thread!

Give me half an hour to have my lunch, and half an hour to compose my new thread and I will explain what happened and what I learned!

Val

xxx

[nsd_user663_61136]

Good one Val! Thanks for that, and good show for respecting Rex's thread too - must learn me some forum etiquette! Not quite sure how I forgot about September but the point still stands - I'll head over to the right room and see you there...

As you were, Rex! Sorry about that....

[nsd_user663_60348]

Wow Rex!! Well Done you