Smoking..

[gordiniseb]

Got to admit its terrible. But i do smoke! Rearly want to give up, but worry about putting on weight. (12 stone at min) Any good voodo stuff thats gonna make me quitt?

 

[TURBO]

bloke nxt to me at work has just stopped smoking, but he has swapped **** for polo's and is eating about 4 packs a day!!!
plus he's turned into an even grumpier git!!! :lol:

 

[Karl]

My misses got tonsalitise and that stopped her from smoking

 

[gordiniseb]

polo idea just makes u look like nutter, and karls idea of some kind of chest disease dont seem much better.

 

[Ollie133cup]

Buy 2 stress balls to keep your hands occupied

 

[gordiniseb]

nickorote for me then.

 

[gavin-h]

Got to admit its terrible. But i do smoke! Rearly want to give up, but worry about putting on weight. (12 stone at min) Any good voodo stuff thats gonna make me quitt?

OK. Gav's patent method for giving up smoking:

"When you want a ***, don't have one"

Sounds dumb, huh, but think about it...

YOU have got to want to do it - not your partner / mum / best mate, but YOU. If you don't or you try to do it for someone else, you'll never manage it. So you REALLY need to get that straight in your head first.

Try not to put too much pressure on yourself by telling everyone "right, I'm giving up smoking"; everyone will try and "help" by asking how you're getting on and it won't help (a bit like when you're ill and people tell you you look like **** - you don't need that discussion...); for me keeping it quiet at work and with mates, and telling just Mrs-H was what I chose to do...

Then, think about how you're going to do it - I think there are two aspects to smoking: there's addiction and there's habit. These are DIFFERENT things; "habit" is "I've just had my dinner so it's time for a smoko"; "addiction" is "I'm climbing the walls 'cos I need the nicotine".

For me, treating the two separately worked best - firstly, breaking the habit: don't have a *** just because you've had dinner / got home from work / had a cr@p / whatever - break up the routine and you're breaking a mental link between certain events and having a smoke. That may take a long time; maybe even a few weeks.

Once that "mental link" was broken, I was ready to deal with the addiction. I did it by cutting down gradually and eventually stopping altogether. Having broken the "habit" made it easier for me to cut out more and more cigarettes until I just didn't have another one.

Yes, you WILL be bad tempered - Mrs-H said I was a pain in the ar5e for months (well, more so than usual...) - but that will pass.

And yes, you'll probably put on weight, but it's easier to lose weight than give up smoking, so don't worry too much about that now - accept that it's going to happen.

But you WILL feel better, you WILL breathe more easily (within a matter of DAYS) and the cravings WILL pass.

AND you WILL have more money - how many do you smoke? If it's a pack a day that's 6½ quid a day, which is about £45 a week, or nearly £200 a month, or well over TWO GRAND A YEAR !!! And if you have a life insurance policy it will go DOWN by as much as two-thirds once you've been clear for a year (think about that, if you're paying £30 a month now, it could drop to a tenner!!!)

The main thing it comes back to is what I said at the start:

"When you want a ***, don't have one"

You can try all the acupuncture and nicotine gum and patches and hypnotism in the world, but in the end it'll come down to WILLPOWER.

Good luck - and if you want to talk about it, you know where I am

Gav (clear for 11 years and 5 days as of now...)

 

[Dazza1]

bloke nxt to me at work has just stopped smoking, but he has swapped **** for polo's and is eating about 4 packs a day!!!
plus he's turned into an even grumpier git!!! :lol:

He must get the ***** from eatin all them polo's lol

 

[Anonymous]

i gave up when i was in and out of hospital. i had the words smoking effects your healing recovery and meds, whilst it was bull i'd thought id keep them happy and was getting fed up of having to wheel myself a mile to get off the grounds to have a ***. Diazepam also helped me stop but i wouldnt go down this path lol.
i think now, that pack of 20 could be spent on an awesome blast down some b-roads on a sunday etc.
but once i stoped, i did do the social smoking thing but the main thing which has stopped me going back full time is that now i cant stand the taste and smell of it and the aftershave man is making a killing off me. not sure if other quitters find this the same .

 

[nick7]

i hate it but being around a smoker affects you more than not being. which i dont like at all


take advice from above really

 

[Al]

it's all about breaking routine. Just cut back that one or two from the course of a day, say when you wake up, and then gradually get out of the regularity by making in longer in between **** and eventually you"ll cut back and then stop.

It is a lot of will power and also to do with addictive personalities. I went cold turkey and was fine after three days. Some people really really struggle

 

[Graham]

Why would you want to start? Ask yourself why did you start in the first place? Why do you want to quit? Surely that should be all the motivation you need. If you want to do something, you'll stick to it

Smoking has never appealed to me, and it doesn't matter how attractive the woman, if she smokes, urgh. You're welcome to her. Complete turn off. Imagine kissing her with a mouth/tongue full of *** ash!!!!!!

Want some hard hitting stuff to help hehe, you smell of smoke. Doesn't matter how much Lynx you spray yourself in or Extra Gum you chew, you stink of smoke. You'll save a fortune in money. If you don't stop, you'll have a higher chance of dieing from throat/lung cancer. And, if you have kids, you'll give them a higher risk too from breathing in second hand smoke.

 

[Al]

Oh I forgot to say I used to smoke after sex. It was costing a fortune after 40 a day so I quit. Sex.

 

[DrDrew]

Back many years ago I saw a science prog on TV where they had an artificial lung effectively smoking cigarettes, and after a while they cut it open to show you what was inside. Tried to find that, but couldn't see the proper one on youtube. Found this though which gives some idea, though mainly from a tar perspective.

[youtube]lMDfyF1VF6o[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMDfyF1VF6o&feature=fvsr

 

[Graham]

Oh I forgot to say I used to smoke after sex. It was costing a fortune after 40 a day so I quit. Sex.

:shock:

**** me!!!!!!! 40 a day, how much are ****, £5 for 20 (approx)?? That's £10, literally burnt away, every day. £10x365, I'll let you do the maths. Why waste that amount of money each year...??

I could burn a £5 note, per day and be better off both financially and physically. Crazy.

 

[Al]

I pray you haven't taken what I said seriously.....

 

[Matt]

I pray you haven't taken what I said seriously.....

I'm praying too... lol

 

[Karl]

I pray you haven't taken what I said seriously.....

I'm praying too... lol

I did

 

[Graham]

I pray you haven't taken what I said seriously.....

Spend a evening with me, fumbling in the sheets and you'll need a *** just to calm your heart rate down giggidy giggidy goo gaa :lol:

Tee-hee, I knew you were joking around, but still my point remains. If smokers were to put that fiver a week into a piggy bank the shape of a *** box, they'd have enough to go to Florida or buy a Clio 172

 

[frediiii]

and karls idea of some kind of chest disease dont seem much better.

if your tonsils are down your chest, you have other problems than smoking