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tomorrow I go back to working 5 days a week for the first time since my daughter was born three and a half years ago.  I've decided to tie this in with my first serious attempt in a fair while to give up smoking.  I figure the more people I tell, the more likely I am to succeed, so I'm telling you all!  I really want to do this, and, having given up for a considerable length of time before I know I can do it, although it will be tough.  Anyway, wish me luck!

good luck Claire, keep us updated

good luck  :)up

Good luck, fingers crossed.

gl claire


bet u cant do it








reverse psychology there for added incentive

Good Luck Claire, hope you succeed where I continually fail

good luck Claire

Good luck with it, not easy but a great achievement when you succeed :)

Good luck Claire
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Best of luck, hope you do it

Nice one, good luck.
If i see you at BB3 with a fag you will be well and truly nagged.

And the same goes for YOU Flushy !!!

thanks everyone - I can't not do it now can I?! 

Subtle  :D

 just as well Ed didn't say '....in your mouth' :o

Good luck Claire!

just take 1 day at a time claw. all the best

Gl, i gave up a long long time ago when the wife gave me an ultimatum. The best thing I ever did! *cough*

You CAN do it - Good luck Claire - you are right, the more pwople you tell the more you will be able to do it.

As others have said: 'One day at a time.'

Allen Carr's Easy Way To Give Up Smoking

Couldn't recommend it more.

Bollox to cutting down, bollox to patches, gum, gaining weight. Don't worry about it.

It doesn't use aversion therapy, or patronizing "smoking kills by the way" blurb. (We kinda know that already, it doesn't stop us)

The book helps you give up smoking through sheer force of logic alone.

Nemesis and Tank swear by it.  :)up

The key thing is you are not giving up smoking. You are escaping from it's clutches.

You are not giving up anything, being a non-smoker will help you enjoy life more.

The best thing is, if you approach it the right way, it's not tough at all, it's liberating and enjoyable.

I'll close by saying this....

I read that last time I 'gave up' Tank - for 2 weeks!  What would you call it if not aversion therapy?

Ok, fair enough. Only trying to help just in case (apparently it works sometimes)

I read it and gave up for 2 days.  :D

*Lights a fag*

It was on the plane to Vegas. The thing is, packs of fags are like $5 over there, and you can smoke in museums ffs.

Still, hmmmm, might read it again.

lol!

I was just interested in your viewpoint, because when people have asked me what the book is like I usually say something like 'it's just basic aversion therapy and reminding you how bad smoking is for your health etc etc, and here was someone telling me they had seen something completely different in it!!!!

Incidentially, did you know he started smoking again, and now has lung cancer?

I read the book over 3 years ago and I'm so glad I did.

I haven't smoked since.

i might be wrong, but i think he died last  week!

I read in the paper that he had lung cancer but not that he'd started smoking again. He used to smoke 100s a day.

Good luck Claire, I found that i needed a strong motivation to give up. Have you got one?

Shame. One could draw some cheap irony from an anti-cigarette guru smoking and contracting lung cancer.

His legacy is that he has helped thousands of people though. (Or Nemesis at least)

I saw the book as being a reprogramming, rather than aversion. It did have aversion type chapters though.

anybody tried laser therapy or any psychiatric approach??

Im in the clutches of addiction myself

Not tried anything like that before, but this time round I'm going to try a little tip I read in a magazine this week.  It's to do with a 'finger tapping' tecnique.  It says that when you crave a cigarette, you should tap repeatedly on the point between your little and ring finger repeating "I accept that I am addicted to cigarettes, and even though I crave one, I still respect myself" -  apparently the craving passes after that.  I don't know, but worth a try anyway!

good luck claw. if its really what you want to do.


however hopefully its a personal decision, if so i congratulate you on making a wise choice for u and those around you.

if you are bowing to the damn anti smoking police then don't, smoking IS big, it IS clever, it DOES make you look cool and it tastes MIGHTY fine.

hope i havent muddied the waters

gl

raab

haha - no raab, totally my own choice!

My Gran smokes 40 a day and she's 90.

in that case i salute you and wish you well in your nicotine free life :)up :)up

Don't know if ya interested claw but my future uncle in law has quit his job as a professional football coach/manager after he spent some time with Paul Mckenna. He is now helping people quit smoking, phobias etc through the same methods that mr Mckenna advises. He has had some brilliant results .

juist a thought

Best of luck Girlie 8)

Good luck Claire

I stopped at the end of January with the aid of patches.

I used them on my thigh and when I got a craving I rubbed it,
placebo effect it was, but it worked.

I read Allen Carr's book after I'd been using the patches for 2
weeks and felt such a fraud still using them that I tore off the patch
and haven't looked back since.

Beware using food to beat the cravings though, I put on a stone in weight,
and I am so angry with myself, cos I'm finding losing it again tough.  I'm
getting there slowly, but very slowly.

Again best of luck and we are all rooting for you!

Trace
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