Smoking - I QUIT

[TightPaulFolds]

Feel great, glad i've got the wife to call on it helps to have a sounding board.
Today would have been a failure day in past attempts so it's all good.

And when the next ciggie crisis arrives, you can refer back to this one - how you WON the battle, how you never gave in, how you refused to become an addict again. It's easy now, you've passed the threshold. Nicotine addicton from ciggies is mostly out of your body within 3 days, & completely gone in a few weeks. You are over the worst.

Congrats.

Yeah, good point. Even if you lapse, each time it gets easier and easier to cut free from it.
Otherwise, there's always surgery....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6298557.stm

[thetank]

Well done on 1 year without cigarettes Trace.

Tell you what I don't miss, using an empty can of fizz as an ashtray. Drinking a new can of fizz later on, and taking a swig of ashtray by accident.

Yuck

Also, everything else about smoking, really is a filthy habit.

[Nem]

Well done on 1 year without cigarettes Trace.

Tell you what I don't miss, using an empty can of fizz as an ashtray. Drinking a new can of fizz later on, and taking a swig of ashtray by accident.

Yuck

Also, everything else about smoking, really is a filthy habit.

I never knew you stopped Tank?

[thetank]

2 days after Tikay, Chilli etc.

You were in the middle of your mauve period at the time.

[Nem]

2 days after Tikay, Chilli etc.

You were in the middle of your mauve period at the time.

 

[barhell]

I think i'll stick with easy way sod surgery. After 1 week feeling good popped down to Brighton Friday night bumped into Jen, Flushy, Indestructable and last but not least Tikay.
Best of all though sat and had a beer with smokers around and not even a bit of doubt crept in.

I must say i think i need to thank this thread for helping me as i had never heard of Mr Carr before this thread so  to the Blonde forum.

[TightPaulFolds]

I think i'll stick with easy way sod surgery. After 1 week feeling good popped down to Brighton Friday night bumped into Jen, Flushy, Indestructable and last but not least Tikay.
Best of all though sat and had a beer with smokers around and not even a bit of doubt crept in.

I must say i think i need to thank this post for helping me as i never heard of Mr Carr before this thread so  to Blonde

The surgery is quick and relatively painless. 12 stitches and your mouth is sealed shut, making smoking through your nostrils the only option. I gave this up after only 3 weeks, and haven't suffered the 2 stone extra weight normally associated with quitting.

[tikay]

I think i'll stick with easy way sod surgery. After 1 week feeling good popped down to Brighton Friday night bumped into Jen, Flushy, Indestructable and last but not least Tikay.
Best of all though sat and had a beer with smokers around and not even a bit of doubt crept in.

I must say i think i need to thank this thread for helping me as i had never heard of Mr Carr before this thread so  to the Blonde forum.

Good to see you Friday, & this is just amazing....

Best of all though sat and had a beer with smokers around and not even a bit of doubt crept in

Which shows just how effective the Allen Carr method is.

Delighted this thread has helped you, as it has me & many others, but it was that Nemesis - he of the "mauve period" (!) as Tank put it - who started the ball rolling by sending me the book - & I've never even met Nemesis.

[tantrum]

I stopped.


This book is great, while reading it I realised all the myths that are created about smoking.  Today it was my last cigarette and I really don't wish to put another one in my mouth ever again.  Last night I was at the party and instead of my 20 I smoked 4 and I hated it, so today was the day of reading the last pages of the book which contain the last cigarette part. 

The interesting observation is that before reading this book, I could not visualise myself as a non-smoker, now I can, and will use this technique when in a next few days I might feel like lighting up.  All my clothes are in a washing mashine or sent to dry cleaners.  Having recent health problems prompted me to give up.  I am sure the fact that I have to stop drinking as well will make it easier for me not to fall in the trap again.  So thanks for the thread and good luck to all others who are in a process of reading this book.

[Royal Flush]

I think i'll stick with easy way sod surgery. After 1 week feeling good popped down to Brighton Friday night bumped into Jen, Flushy, Indestructable and last but not least Tikay.
Best of all though sat and had a beer with smokers around and not even a bit of doubt crept in.

I must say i think i need to thank this thread for helping me as i had never heard of Mr Carr before this thread so  to the Blonde forum.

Off topic but it was good to meet you, hopefully i will see you down there for a game soon.

[RED-DOG]

I started reading Allen Carr's autobiography today, "Packing it in". His writing has a nice straight forward, easy going style, and it's an interesting story.

[Nem]

I stopped.


This book is great, while reading it I realised all the myths that are created about smoking.  Today it was my last cigarette and I really don't wish to put another one in my mouth ever again.  Last night I was at the party and instead of my 20 I smoked 4 and I hated it, so today was the day of reading the last pages of the book which contain the last cigarette part. 

The interesting observation is that before reading this book, I could not visualise myself as a non-smoker, now I can, and will use this technique when in a next few days I might feel like lighting up.  All my clothes are in a washing mashine or sent to dry cleaners.  Having recent health problems prompted me to give up.  I am sure the fact that I have to stop drinking as well will make it easier for me not to fall in the trap again.  So thanks for the thread and good luck to all others who are in a process of reading this book.

Well done - told ya it was easy!

[barhell]

11 Days in and i have only had 1 day where i have had any pangs, as Nemesis said "told ya it was easy!" i would add that it is only easy when you know how.

[barhell]

I stopped.


This book is great, while reading it I realised all the myths that are created about smoking.  Today it was my last cigarette and I really don't wish to put another one in my mouth ever again.  Last night I was at the party and instead of my 20 I smoked 4 and I hated it, so today was the day of reading the last pages of the book which contain the last cigarette part. 

The interesting observation is that before reading this book, I could not visualise myself as a non-smoker, now I can, and will use this technique when in a next few days I might feel like lighting up.  All my clothes are in a washing mashine or sent to dry cleaners.  Having recent health problems prompted me to give up.  I am sure the fact that I have to stop drinking as well will make it easier for me not to fall in the trap again.  So thanks for the thread and good luck to all others who are in a process of reading this book.

Best of luck (not that you need it) and keep us all updated Tantrum.

[tantrum]

Today I had this urge to have a fag, so got my skipping rope out.  Feeling a bit better, skipping instead of smoking...