Smoking - I QUIT

[Nem]

Good Luck to Tikay and Chilli on deciding to give up smoking, and anybody else who joins them.

I have smoked 40-60 a day for the past 20 years  (nothing to be proud of, just a fact), have to be honest and say my main concern was  always about the financial side rather than the health aspect.

Then i found the answer? its cheaper to quit the UK!!!!! 

So here i am on a little island in the South China Sea, Cigs 23p for 20 (Malboro), McDonalds Meal 33p Diesel 26p per Ltr
Oh, and my 3 bedroom beach house, swimming pool cost 6K!!!!! Temp mid/high 80s every day (life is not so bad)

What do i miss? LIVE POKER.

Good Luck people, Be happy

You should stop smoking so that you can enjoy your lifestyle even longer...

[Decider]

Today i had a really grim day 12 hour day at work including 300 miles of driving and sitting in traffic jams. I also had to deal with some of the most annoying idiotic people i've had the pleasure of meeting and i amazed myself  by not getting stroppy or stressed or marching straight to the nearest shop for ciggies.

This is 3 days in tonight and i feel totally unfazed by quitting, where as when i tried to give up in the past by now i would of been almost at wall climbing madness time and with my wife quitting at the same time WWIII would have been starting.

As it happens we are both coping fine and just happy being quitters.

That's great news, another 2 get off the sinking ship, fantastic.

[tantrum]

Ok, I bought a book.  Wish me luck.  I will try, can't promise nothing though.

[Nem]

Ok, I bought a book.  Wish me luck.  I will stop smoking.

FYP

[tikay]

Ok, I bought a book.  Wish me luck.  I will try, can't promise nothing though.

"I will try, I can't promise". Sorry, that kite won't fly. Go in with that mindset, & you are GUARANTEED to fail.

Buy "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" by Allen Carr & you WILL quit. It's that simple.

Please?

[tikay]

Today i had a really grim day 12 hour day at work including 300 miles of driving and sitting in traffic jams. I also had to deal with some of the most annoying idiotic people i've had the pleasure of meeting and i amazed myself  by not getting stroppy or stressed or marching straight to the nearest shop for ciggies.

This is 3 days in tonight and i feel totally unfazed by quitting, where as when i tried to give up in the past by now i would of been almost at wall climbing madness time and with my wife quitting at the same time WWIII would have been starting.

As it happens we are both coping fine and just happy being quitters.

You are home & hosed if thats how you coped! It's exactly as I felt when I quit, after reading "the" book, it was no hassle, no stress, no pangs, no nothing, just "what an idiot I was to smoke for all those years, & stink of ciggies, & be enslaved to nicotine".

[Mango99]

Congrats to Tikay and all the others who have given up smoking! It really is a pointless exercise. I used to smoke between 5 and 10 a day, but have now given up buying my own Now I smoke about 2 to 3 (4 max) on a night out where beer is involved and 0 when no beer is involved.

I wish I could cut out the beer fags. Not sure how to do this though... I found nicotine gum helped with the day-to-day fags.. Maybe I should take some of that along with me when I'm on the booze, and chew a bit of that, instead of trying to cadge a ciggy..?

Anyway, congrats again to those who have succeeded. Keep it up!!

[TightPaulFolds]

Congrats to Tikay and all the others who have given up smoking! It really is a pointless exercise. I used to smoke between 5 and 10 a day, but have now given up buying my own Now I smoke about 2 to 3 (4 max) on a night out where beer is involved and 0 when no beer is involved.

I wish I could cut out the beer fags. Not sure how to do this though... I found nicotine gum helped with the day-to-day fags.. Maybe I should take some of that along with me when I'm on the booze, and chew a bit of that, instead of trying to cadge a ciggy..?

Anyway, congrats again to those who have succeeded. Keep it up!!

Not quite pointless, it does protect you a bit from Parkinson's disease (weird, huh).
I've kind of got over the beer bit, having a pint was the hardest, easier now in Scotland with smoking ban. Live poker still hard, everyone goes out for a fag during the break...so hard not to. Have tried the gum but can't stand the taste. Am giving up hope of never ever smoking again.

[Nem]

Congrats to Tikay and all the others who have given up smoking! It really is a pointless exercise. I used to smoke between 5 and 10 a day, but have now given up buying my own Now I smoke about 2 to 3 (4 max) on a night out where beer is involved and 0 when no beer is involved.

I wish I could cut out the beer fags. Not sure how to do this though... I found nicotine gum helped with the day-to-day fags.. Maybe I should take some of that along with me when I'm on the booze, and chew a bit of that, instead of trying to cadge a ciggy..?

Anyway, congrats again to those who have succeeded. Keep it up!!

Not quite pointless, it does protect you a bit from Parkinson's disease (weird, huh).
I've kind of got over the beer bit, having a pint was the hardest, easier now in Scotland with smoking ban. Live poker still hard, everyone goes out for a fag during the break...so hard not to. Have tried the gum but can't stand the taste. Am giving up hope of never ever smoking again.

Just read the book and you'll both stop for good.

[barhell]

Today is my 5th day and what a shock it was, i got up done all the normal things and went to work all with no problems, then suddenly at about 11 am i have my first real attack of the "i want a ciggie", so i start to think to myself no you don't and as i bought the book with 2 free C.D.s which i keep burnt copies of in my van i chucked them both on.
Amazingly 2 hours later i was still suffering and had to resort to disturbing the good lady at work, this had the desired effect she talked alot of sense at me.
The silly thing was in my head i was saying to myself the things out of the book but i just couldn't seem to get my mindset right maybe it was just because i'm tired.
The most important thing is i stayed on the right path and feel absolutely fine again now.

P.S. Since i quit i have talked to 4 people from work all are quitters with Easyway(why no book thrust at me earlier).

[tikay]

Today is my 5th day and what a shock it was, i got up done all the normal things and went to work all with no problems, then suddenly at about 11 am i have my first real attack of the "i want a ciggie", so i start to think to myself no you don't and as i bought the book with 2 free C.D.s which i keep burnt copies of in my van i chucked them both on.
Amazingly 2 hours later i was still suffering and had to resort to disturbing the good lady at work, this had the desired effect she talked alot of sense at me.
The silly thing was in my head i was saying to myself the things out of the book but i just couldn't seem to get my mindset right maybe it was just because i'm tired.
The most important thing is i stayed on the right path and feel absolutely fine again now.

P.S. Since i quit i have talked to 4 people from work all are quitters with Easyway(why no book thrust at me earlier).

Crisis passed, & I bet you are WELL proud of yourself. yes?

[barhell]

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.

[tikay]

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.

[Trace]

Happy Anniversary to me!

Free From Ciggies

1 YEAR TODAY!

[Indestructable]