By accident.

[Jakeymatey]

Well, Im 46 and have been smoking since the age of 18. Roll ups mainly around 16 a day at most.

I've been wanting to set that date to give up for a while, I don't want my 2 year old to see me smoke ever, I do it outside in secret. Makes me feel naughty and ashamed plus I don't want to kick the bucket whilst he's young. We do so much together since moving to Portugal just over a year ago.

Our boy goes to creche mornings only so he can make friends and pick up the language and gives me and the wife chance to work on the old house we bought. He loves going to see his friends but came back last week with a cough that got worse, he needed to go on antibiotics.

Well, two days later I woke up thinking a golf ball was in my throat, old memories of being a kid, yes I had tonsillitis. Great news is a ciggy was the last thing I wanted with me being so ill with a fever etc.

I also made a conscious decision not to go to the doctor's. The longer I feel like this especially my throat the longer I won't want to light up.

It's been almost 90 hours since my last ciggy now and I'm almost back to normal on the tonsillitis front with nothing but paracetamol to hand.

My boy has helped me stop smoking by bringing back a nasty bug from creche. I love my boy.

Now I've just got to keep it up.

[RoisinO1 Administrator 3 Years Smoke Free]

Welcome to our community Jakeymatey and congratulations on now over 2 days smoke free, well done!

Have a read of our pinned posts and keep in touch with us, we are here to help especially if struggling

[RoisinO1 Administrator 3 Years Smoke Free in reply to RoisinO1]

1 week today Jakeymatey - how are you getting on?

[nettynoono Valued Contributor]

Good for you Jakeymatey!! My kids were my major reason for quitting too. Stay strong you can do this👍👍

[ellismichelle 1 Year Smoke Free]

I gave up by accident too got a really bad cold and felt really poorly I’m now on day 104 so keep going — I still get a few cravings but know that I don’t want to smoke again

Keep it up 😁x

[Jakeymatey 6 Months Smoke Free]

You know what! I'm still smoke free.

I'm better now, well apart from the body healing I guess and everything tasting like plastic and weird tasting.

My head is trying it's hardest to trick me, it makes me giggle to myself sometimes and others not so.

Latest thing my head said was, there's not much nicotine in one cigarette, it will be fine. In fact if you get wasted on the local wine you'll never remember smoking tomorrow.

Crafty head eh....Nice try.

[RoisinO1 Administrator 3 Years Smoke Free in reply to Jakeymatey]

Good to ready Jakeymatey , yeah Mr Nicodemon will play plenty of tricks on you to win you back so must have the guard up ready to attack at all times

[RoisinO1 Administrator 3 Years Smoke Free in reply to RoisinO1]

3 months now Jakeymatey - how are you getting on?