Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject: Why is it So Difficult?
Just why is giving up Smoking so dammed hard? I think for me, the hardest thing is not having something to do with my hands, because I do not smoke when I'm actually driving, or doing a task that requires my total concentration. I am managing to cut down quite a lot, however, and I feel that this is the best way for me to go about it. What methods do you find works for you? _________________ http://sewardchronicles.ning.com/
This is a question I have often pondered over myself Admin, and to be honest, I have not found a satisfactory explanation yet !
I must confess to a slight relapse myself today. I got a bit stressed out Sunday afternoon and ended up smoking 2 ciggies on the trot to try and calm down. It seemed to have the desired affect but I'm a bit ashamed that I gave in so easily to the craving
Still, I will persevere, I really do want to give up, both for health and financial reasons.
I'll root for you admin if you'll root for me, between us, we will lick this once and for all
There was an ad on ITV tonight advertising Nicotinell, and they do claim to reduce your're consumption by 50%. They certainly have helped me do just that, so for once, an ad is not making any wild claims, but actually telling the complete truth. _________________ http://sewardchronicles.ning.com/
Well, it's over two weeks since trying to cut down on the roll-ups, but I've run out of nicotinell and the damn stuff is more expensive than a 25g. pack of Drum. So, guess what? I'm back up to where I was when I first started
I think, to really give up, I'd need something drastic, ....like hypnotherapy! _________________ http://sewardchronicles.ning.com/
Well, I'm ashamed to say that I've joined the re-starters club today Admin Somebody has been doing their level best to wind me up for a while now and today I finally came close to actually wacking them. Intstead, I took myself off to the local newsagents and bought 10 fags, to date, I have smoked 6 of them ! I am as annoyed with myself as I am with the moron who is winding me up, it was either buy some fags or do something really evil to this person. Once I have calmed down, I will endeavour to kick the weed again and then wack the annoying moron as well probably !
Please, Ken, don't feel bad about it, it's much preferable to have a smoke than a 'punch-up' and to risk being done for assault. _________________ http://sewardchronicles.ning.com/
There speaks the voice of reason again, how do you fancy a full time job as my concience Admin ? I'm afraid to say that I am still having the odd crafty drag and still beating myself up over it, what i can't get my head around is how I can get so determined and pig headed over some jobs and see them through to the bitter end regardless of personal cost etc. but can't manage to give up smoking ? It drives me crazy, good job there's no one else around to see me rant and rave in private !
The smoking, or rather lack of it, was going great until the night the burglar struck I kinda went over the top a bit that nite and havn't quite recovered yet ! I still intend to kick the weed but if things keep going the way they have done the last few weeks, it will be an uphill struggle !
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject: why is it so difficult?
hello admin, hello ken,
you both have my sympathy in your battle to give up the weed. i gave up almost 4 years ago in an instant, but it took a mini-stroke to do it. i had had a fag, walked into the kitchen, stood there for ten minutes, turned and walked back into our living room, when wallop, i was going down into a chair when i had a mini-stroke. within an hour i was in a&e at the nearest hospital 15 miles away and this is the conversation that took place as near as i can recall it and i was laying on a hospital trolley at this time.
doctor. do you smoke?
me. yes 20 a day.
doctor. i would give up if i was you.
me. give up what?
doctor. the cigarettes.
me. i don't smoke.
doctor. you said you are on 20 a day.
me. not any more i'm not.
i gave up there and then, but will admit, i do still get the pang for one and would be a liar if i said otherwise, so good luck to you both.
Well done Brian, you have my admiration, as does anybody who manages to give up just like that. I am determined to get there myself and hopefully, soon
Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:20 am Post subject: smoking
Ken R wrote:
Well done Brian, you have my admiration, as does anybody who manages to give up just like that. I am determined to get there myself and hopefully, soon
good luck, because without the stroke, i think i would have found it hard as well.
Trying yet another gadget in my feeble attempts to cut out my tobacco habit. This time it's an imitation ciggarette, that's 'supposed' to taste just like the real thing. Believe me, it doesn't, and you feel a complete plonker trying to 'draw' on this cold, unfriendly piece of plastic tubing, that allegedly has 'nicotine flavouring'. All it feels and tastes like to me is a small piece of plastic tubing made to look like a ciggy, but has no flavour of the real thing whatsoever.
I'm afraid I've wasted £1.99 on this useless gimick. It most certainly won't help me! _________________ http://sewardchronicles.ning.com/
Please don't despair Admin, it will come eventually ! I hit the weed again in Feb this year after my burglary and I am still trying to wean myself off them again ! I have re-stocked with the dreaded gum and will try again this coming weekend, it may be gradual but I'm determined to get off the damn things again !
Stopping smoking is one of the hardest things I ever had to do. After trying chewing gum, hypnosis and will power over the years I finally stopped six years ago with 24 hour patches. I must have really wanted to stop this time I didn't slip up once.
I hope you both manage it painlessly it is a wonderful feeling when you succeed. _________________ Marie
Marieann, I'm not 100% sure I even want to give up. I enjoy my tobacco, (I roll my own), and it helps to keep me reletively sane in a mad world!
I'd probably eat a lot more if I didn't smoke, so I wouldn't save any money as all the tobacco money would go on choccies and biccies!!!
Then I'd become obese and have worse problems to deal with. _________________ http://sewardchronicles.ning.com/
I gave up smoking 4 years ago ,i had a bad cough and in the end i couldn't breathe,(very scary it was )So by the time i was admitted to hostipal i had stopped smoking.I did have a little craving after but not anymore.
Now im getting podgy
Well if I can do it after smoking for 51 years then you can do it too.
I had nothing to help me even though patches had come out then and the chewing gum.
I did it by telling myself each night before going to sleep that I HATED the smell and the taste of tobacco. This went on for about six months and one day I had two left in a packet.
My hubby knew I was trying to stop and he used to say that I would never give it up.
He watched in amazement as I threw the two remaining cigarettes in the bin saying that I will never be smoking again.
He scoffed at me and said I would be smoking again the next day.
I made a bet with him that if I had not smoked for at least a month from that time he owed me £50.
He had too pay up and I have NEVER smoked since.
I was 68 when I stopped smoking and I will be 76 next week.
It can be done IF you WANT to do it.
Try brain washing yourselves like I did. _________________ If you cant say something nice then dont say anything at all.
This is the first thread I have visited since joining because I stopped smoking in November, had tried cutting down, it really does not work. Had been having terrible Asthma, loads of colds which took forever to get over, you know the things, I stunk, the TV screen, walls, curtains had a permanent dark yellow haze. I did not take a substitute, just went cold turkey and it was very difficult. Plus, my husband smokes and he still does, roll-up's. He did try to get me back on the fags because he could not go more than a day, this despite the fact I had told him not to stop because I was. Think it was a man thing!
I still do not smoke, swear I never will again. BUT I have a lousy cold at the moment, my tum is getting too large. OH! Hell!!
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Just why is giving up Smoking so dammed hard? I think for me, the hardest thing is not having something to do with my hands, because I do not smoke when I'm actually driving, or doing a task that requires my total concentration. I am managing to cut down quite a lot, however, and I feel that this is the best way for me to go about it. What methods do you find works for you?
There was an ad on ITV tonight advertising Nicotinell, and they do claim to reduce your're consumption by 50%. They certainly have helped me do just that, so for once, an ad is not making any wild claims, but actually telling the complete truth.
Well, it's over two weeks since trying to cut down on the roll-ups, but I've run out of nicotinell and the damn stuff is more expensive than a 25g. pack of Drum. So, guess what? I'm back up to where I was when I first started 
Please, Ken, don't feel bad about it, it's much preferable to have a smoke than a 'punch-up' and to risk being done for assault.
