General Chat

If it´s any encouragement Uzzie, I have been restricting myself to 5 a day for the past 5 weeks & have just banked €100.
Just hope it lasts. (the smoking that is, not the money!)

I shall be sniffing as I go past :-D :-D

Ahhh Ann good point :-D No I couldn´t lie in April either when you will be here to check on me.

30 ciggies to go and OH pinched 2 :-0. So we should be smoke free by Monday ! :-D

Could you lie in April?

With help from OH I have just opened my last from one pack. I have 39 fags left. In many ways I wish I had just decided that was it buy no more once I had run out. This gave me the chance to cut down and to say I am packing up to you all. After all there is nothing better than an audience, yes I could lie and type with a ciggie in hand but could I lie in June !!!! I have Joy and Stray there :-D :-D

So 38 smokes to go :-D

Ann I normally read the news on line with my morning coffee, or I prop my kindle up. When my cigarettes run out I am going to buy a load of celery :-0 Now I am not partial to celery but can only hope sucking on it will break the habit :-D

3 days left of smokes !

Uzzi can you read while drinking your coffee? Maybe having something in the opposite hand to your cup will help you looking for a ciggie.

Wisechild I haven´t seen our bill yet so that just might be a good boot up the backside reason to say out ya go snouts (my Dad´s name for them). Mind it´s also a good reason to say to OH´s boss - time for a pay rise.Although after 7yrs it really is time for one anyway !!!!!!!

Andysmum I will have to go cold turkey although I can cut down it never lasts.

Mind I was happily cutting down with view to making my 4 days last 6 or 7 and also in respect for OH who has already run out of cigars, when I discovered OH is happily helping me also by filching my smokes :-S. My cutting back is better than his sneaking as I still have approx 3/4 days left.
It´s the ones I rely on ie my morning coffee one etc that I am trying to cut back on :-0 as they are the ones that I will miss most.

Different methods suit different people. I tried cutting down but it was hopeless. :-( :-(

I found that I was constantly clock-watching and the gaps were getting shorter!! By going "cold turkey" I had no cigarettes in the house, so I couldn't smoke.

Good luck to everyone who is trying to give up. :-) :-)

Have to stop whether I like it or not.
Just had an electricity bill covering 20 Nov to 20 January. €211 .
If the government is stopping the winter fuel payment this year, we will freeze to death by next Christmas.
Thank goodness for "hottie bottles"

one can only hope Liz xx

Onward and upward Uzzi and Wisechild, treat yourself to something nice with the money you save, next year around this time you will be saying that it is a year since you stopped smoking!!

Lizxx

Ann if I delayed my coffee I wouldn´t function :-D :-D I have to say the coffee is more important than the smoke at that time in the morning :-0 did I really say that ?

Even though I smoke I have never liked the smell of stale smoke so hopefully that will help.

You can do it Uzzi. If my T managed to do it in 1994, completely stopped, having failed before when trying by cutting down, then you can too. He did have to change his habit of having one first thing (as you do with a coffee.) So maybe delay the coffee while you do something else then you won't look for that one. These days he actually hates the smell.

Uzzie.
An article in today´s newspaper says that you are better cutting down gradually than going cold turkey, especially if you have smoked for many years.
I had been sucking Ni Quitine lozenges for a couple of weeks to supplement the fags. Have almost run out so sent OH to the farmacia for a replacement supply.
They have been withdrawn from sale in Spain because of the risk of addiction!!!!!
He was offered a nicotine spray at €38, or nicotine gum at €12. Cheaper to keep smoking than buy the spray.
You are right about the encouragement.
I´m inclined to think s*d you.
:-P :-P :-P :-P

Wisehild we shall encourage each other :-D I still have approx 4 days of ciggies here, having eeked out my stash last night. So when they have gone it will be cold turkey sink or swim.

OH ran out of cigars yesterday so he will either cave and smoke my ciggies or encourage me to throw them away :-0
You need to tell OH that his comments are more likely to make you smoke than to encourage you to pack them in.
Well done you for cutting down as you have done just one more step to go. ;-)

With you all the way Uzzie.
Have managed to cut down to 4 or 5 a day for the past 6 weeks, but don´t seem to be able to make the complete break.
I´m sure it´s psychological. No encouragement from OH. Just constant remarks about my smoking too much if he happens to see me, so I find myself having a crafty drag every time he is out of sight, whether I really want one or not.
Quite proud that I have cut my consumption by 20 a day, so a bit of encouragement would go a long way.
Well done you. Really hope you succeed.

Thanks for all the support. I am finding that I am cutting down ready now whether that is to prolong how many ciggies I have or a weaning off the weed I am not sure.

I automatically cut down when with non smoking friends so hubby packing up also will be a help :-D.
The one I will miss most will be my early morning smoke and coffee whilst the world sleeps around me.

Errol I will hold you to that :-D

I will keep you informed as to how I get on.

I quite smoking 24 years ago, after having smoked since I was in my teens.


I did have help ..................... laser acupuncture. It worked for me, did not work for the friend I went with



But Andy'smum's tip is a good one


I used to sit after a meal and have a cigarette .................. best to get up, and even go for a walk outside.


That was one tip given to me by the guy who did the treatment, other tips from him included ..................


drink lots of water to help flush the nicotine out of your system

try to stay out of situations where others are smoking, eg bars


smoking is also a physical habit ................. the action of lifting your hand holding the cigarette to your mouth, and the sucking in of smoke which exercises the cheek muscles. You have to overcome these "habits" as well.

He suggested getting a plastic coffee stir stix, hold it in your fingers and play with it, even put it to your mouth and pretend to suck on it by making that sucking motion with your mouth and cheek muscles.




Good luck!

Best of luck Uzzi, you can do it, one day at a time.

After a while you will notice how other people who still smoke, smell when you stand next to them or pass them in the street. I haven't smoked since I was in my early twenties, except for the odd one socially now and again but it never makes me want to start again.

Lizxx