Smokers

[Dingdell]

They say after 12 days something you have had to do with unease becomes a habit.so you're there really. Just have to enjoy the habit now........Good luck. I gave up when I was aged 21 and have never regretted it - I hate smelling smoke on people now and I definitely would never kiss a smoker.

Keep going!!!!

Tracey

[RED-DOG]

I hate smelling smoke on people now and I definitely would never kiss a smoker.


Tracey

I don't smoke 

[thetank]

This thread sounds like my mum.

[RED-DOG]

This thread sounds like my mum.

Your mum wants to snog Dingdell?

[Lancy Howard]

I havnt read the total thread so it may have been mentioned previously.  THE EASY WAY TO STOP SMOKING BY ALLEN CARR WORKED FOR ME.  I was as bad as red dog mentions in regards to fags.  I have retrieved dog ends from the bins in my house and lit them even though the other rubbish had made them a bit damp and smelly, your self respect cant get much lower than at that point.  Thats what an evil habit smoking is.  The book I mention above saved my life, I higly reccomend it, it is the Doyle Brunsons supersystem of self help books.

[Nem]

THE EASY WAY TO STOP SMOKING BY ALLEN CARR WORKED FOR ME.

A truly great book. It worked for me too.

[thetank]

Allright, I'm getting it. Cough, cough-wheeze.

I hope Amazon take a long time to deliver it, because I f#*@ing love fags.

[SKA Dealer]

Now and again Im prone to the odd cig, but I can take it or leave it, never get any cravings or anything. Sometimes it would be the only thing to get you through a shift at the Casino. God knows we're not allowed to drink!!! Guess I'm lucky. Simple fact is.... I enjoy smoking now and again and I'd like to decide for myself what to do and not be told what to do. Bill Hicks had it right...

"I smoke, if this bothers anyone, I recommend you looking around the world in which we live and... shutting your ******* mouth."

"Non-smokers die every day. Sleep tight! I know you've employed some kind of.... eternal life fantasy because you've chosen not to smoke. Let me be the first to pop that bubble and send you hurtling back to reality – because .........  you're dead too. And you know what the doctors say: '****, if only you'd smoked – we'd have the technology to help you. It's you people dying from nothing who are screwed."

Offensive? Maybe. Hilarious? Definitely!!! True? Undeniably.

Gotta love him.

[thetank]

Customers who bought Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking also bought:

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol

I don't think so thankyou very much. Let's not get silly.

[Trace]

Customers who bought Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking also bought:

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol

I don't think so thankyou very much. Let's not get silly.

PMSL

Thank God that wasn't another "coffee moment".

Talking of Allen Carr's book, a colleague has two chapters left to read and so has conveniently but the book down for now.  It's her birthday on Monday and she has asked her mum to buy her some nicotene patches.  lol   We will see how she gets on.

Hopefully I have started a new trend within the department.

[Lancy Howard]

message to Tank

You say you enjoy fags, you dont m8.  well you do but you dont    Put it this way:

If you have a new pair of shoes and they are tight and give you blisters YOU ENJOY the moment you get home and take them off, but the crazy thing is YOU DIDNT HAVE TO PUT THEM ON  this is one of the fundamental themes of the book and that was one of a high number of examples.

Having read your threads you are obviously a bright guy, you will easiliy grasp the ideas in the book.  Cant say the same for the person mentioned in the previous post as nicotine patches as also mentioned in the book are fighting poison with poison and will not work under the EASY WAY method.

[Trace]

At the end of the day, if whatever method you choose suits you and works - does it really matter?

I've gone cold turkey in the past when I've given up, but I have on both of those occasions been 30 weeks pregnant, so had a bloody good reason to.

This time however, I didn't want to pack up, I had to as I was spending £35 a week on ciggies, and being £3k in debt, smoking seemed selfish.  On top of this my dog, whom I love dearly, is now on medication till the end of his days (he's 16 this year), which was going to cost me £15 every two weeks.  So when weighing it up, my dog is more important to me than smoking is.

If the patches work for me, which currently they are doing, yesterday was hard only because I have got into the habit of rubbing the darn thing when I feel an urge coming on, then I will keep on using them.  I dont fancy being on them for the full course, but if it works I will.

T
xx

[zelda]

Well done Trace, you can feel proud of yourself 

I tried giving up last week and went 2 days without a cig - but it was all I could think about...  I rationalised that I smoke less than 5 a day, that I smoke outside, and cost isnt an issue as I only smoke rollies.  Im just not ready to give up yet   but im in awe at you Trace...

[Lancy Howard]

Trace

I didnt mean you I meant your friend, if she is reading the book and considering using patches then she is either not reading it or not understanding it.

If the patches are working for you then good luck the book is not the be all and end all just another method, you do what works for you and well done for being brave enough to give it a go.

Just a footnote though !

The 'easyway' method done properly means that you never have those moments where you reallly fancy a fag.  Right at the beggining of this thread RED DOG mentions that he really fancied a smoke, this is typical (apparently) of the willpower method of giving up, where you do actually feel as though you are giving up something as opposed to just stopping an awful addiction.

Irrespective of your chosen method I reccomend giving this book a read it has some real good common sense stuff in it.  I hope I dont sound preachy or condescending its just that I consider quitting the weed one of the biggest achievements of my life and anything I can do to help others to achieve the same I am happy to do.


good luck

[Trace]

Hi Lancy

I doubt very much that my colleague will kick the habit.  The fact that she is dragging her heels in finishing it gives me a fair idea that she won't.

I may just go and buy this book at lunchtime, at least it may keep me offline for a while too.  lol

Thanks for the tip.


Zelda

Don't be in awe of me, please!  There are people out there in the big wide world that deserve it more than I do.  I think all it boils down to at the end of the day is a reason to stop.  Like I said previously I didn't want to stop - I had to.

T
xx