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Mersey <3 ;-)

<3 :-D

Thanks Mersey I will see you in Sheffield and prove how strong I managed :-0

Stay strong Uzzi, you can do it :-) <3

lol Ann yes we are still having problems with the hissing Belgian. It is difficult both of us going cold turkey but it wouldn´t work if one carried on smoking and the other didn´t. As soppy as it sounds we are a pair so it´s all or nothing. It was him wanted to pack up so I agreed to do so also. NOT my choice this time but my support. He did this once before hence we have e.cigs but didn´t last because I was going through the mother dear stage and Smoked.

I know I will feel better for it eventually, I just am not sure how at the moment :-D

Stick with it both of you. Must be difficult with both of you stressed at once. It's the dogs I feel sorry for :-D :-D No, I know they are safe. Still having problems with the Belgian? If my T can do it you can. <3 <3 <3 <3

UPDATE .......

I would love to say that it is going fantastic, but it´s not :-( :-(

I haven´t caved in yet but my stress levels are in the danger zone. It hasn´t helped that a few little niggles have occurred .............like a couple of the light fittings going t*ts up, an on going ruck with the hissing Belgium at the top of the community is reaching new levels (that is a long long saga ! ) . It also doesn´t help that OH is very short fused also. he has sneakily nabbed the odd 1 or 2 from work I think so didn´t help with a whole 24hrs with me :-D It has made me grin mind as he is up and running to do outside jobs, running something to the insurers , taking the rubbish out, going to fetch small items from the shops instead of waiting for us to walk the dogs and calling in ;-)

I might have to dig the e-ciggie out. NOT to smoke it but to sit it in the ashtray so I can play with it :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

LOL Emma :-D Yes, I've heard people say stick the patch over your mouth - not to me. They do work if the smoker wants to pack in the habit but you do have to be in the mindset for stopping. I say your neighbour doesn't want to give up and is expecting the patch to do all the work.

I agree with Island in one respect if you are
determined to give up you will .
I went cold turkey.
I watch a neighbour in the summer time who smokes
like there is no tomorrow, who uses more than one patch
makes no difference to him, He says the patches don't work,
I told him the only way they would work for him if he placed
them over his mouth.
Stick with it Uzzi <3

It isn't hard to stop if it's what you really want. I chucked out all the trappings of smoking and slapped on a NRT patch for a month ten years ago and never looked back.

I went through a very stressful time a few years after stopping and never once thought of cigarettes.

Everyone one is different.

Giving up smoking is just about possible but very hard. For some cold turkey works for others tapering off. The craving never quite goes away especially if you are very stressed.

After failing three serious attempts ( at a time when I smoked > 40/day ) a friend said to substitute something else ... so I always had a tube of toffees with choc centres and a Rubic cube to rotate. It worked! I put on weight though :-(

I think it is easier to give up smoking now than 30 years ago 'cos the ciggies are hidden away at shops etc, far fewer people smoke anyway and there is nothing like the same social pressure to smoke. Joining the miserable crowd out in the rain littering the pavements is not very attractive.

Also it costs a fortune. For a year or so I put the smoking money in a tin. It financed quite a decent holiday.

good luck

Good luck Uzzi, have you got the celery ready?
Lizxx

Emma thank you

Island cheers for that :-D I have already tagged jobs to do just to stop me from wanting to smoke. So it seems like a full spring clean is about to happen :-D :-D

Ann I could do without enjoying food more but dog walking will be good for all 3 of us.

:-D@Mayfield knowing me if Dad had smoked a pipe then so would I :-0

LaGooner I am impressed as 14yrs ago the pressure to quit wasn´t as strong as now. Good Luck to your son

I gave up smoking almost 60 years ago, pestered my dad to try his pipe when I was about 7 or so, boy did I turn green! Never touched the stuff again!

Well done Dad! :-D

T said the first thing he noticed was how his sense of taste returned and he enjoyed his food more. I am sure that you will do it. You may be resorting to walking the dogs more at first :-D

The very best of luck Uzzi. I gave up smoking 50 a day habit 14 years ago and never looked back. Youngest son gave up 2 days ago so you are not alone :-D

Uzzi, in 3 days your sense of smell will return big time and you will spend the money you saved on cleaning ;-)

Good luck, you can do it - just keep busy.

Good luck for tomorrow.

I gave up 24 years ago, never thought I could. :-)

Well I went into Monday morning with 4 ciggies left and this morning smoked my last one. So my 4 or 5 days lasted a lot longer. I didn´t have a problem not smoking for the rest of the day when I had some left but today after smoking my last one I have been very aware of not having any :-( .
Tomorrow morning will be my test :-P

:-D Ann I shall have my head out of the window as we used to do in school ! :-0

Wisechild sadly I won´t see the money (in cash) that I save but OH will be grateful :-D :-D. Mind it will mean more meals out in the summer ;-) :-D I will be saving him more than €120 a month and his cigars are more expensive so 1 extra meal out a month sounds a fair exchange to me.