Giving up.....HELP!!!

sarahlouise45 · 12-07-2006, 23:54

I really want to give up SMOKING!!!! I started smoking 4 years ago when my mum died to prevent me from becoming an alcoholic (didn't and couldn't deal with her death very well but that's another story). I got quite bad and started smoking up to 40 a day at one point but over the last 18 months, I've really cut down and on average I am now smoking 6-8 a day. However, I really want to give up but don't want to spend money on the giving-up smoking aids as they cost far more than smoking itself, so I was wondering if any of you guys have given up smoking without the help of these aids? How did you do it? Did you use any other form of 'aid' to help you give up? Please help me and tell me your giving up smoking stories....

Cheers!

12-07-2006, 23:58

I empathize with you... there's some help here.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=27155

crazycamper · 13-07-2006, 00:13

if you go to your docs you will be able to get them free

sarahlouise45 · 13-07-2006, 00:15

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Originally Posted by crazycamper

if you go to your docs you will be able to get them free

How's that? I thought you had to pay for prescriptions??

13-07-2006, 00:20

I just stopped after 10 years of smoking and didnt smoke again.Been stopped 15 years

disapline is the only way imo

good luck

sarahlouise45 · 13-07-2006, 00:22

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

I just stopped after 10 years of smoking and didnt smoke again.Been stopped 15 years

disapline is the only way imo

good luck

Thanks hun, the thing is, is i've tried going hours without a ciggie but then I just give in! Seems to be the case most of the time.

TheDaddy · 13-07-2006, 00:26

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

I just stopped after 10 years of smoking and didnt smoke again.Been stopped 15 years

disapline is the only way imo

good luck

So true, I did the same you have got to want to stop, I just waited till I got a cold, probably brought on by the fags anyway and never touched them again.

13-07-2006, 00:32

if you want to stop, just stop...

- if you don't want to, keep pretending it will be good if you do, one day ..

I just stopped

sarahlouise45 · 13-07-2006, 00:36

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Originally Posted by homealone

if you want to stop, just stop...

- if you don't want to, keep pretending it will be good if you do, one day ..

I just stopped

Didn't you find it really hard to just stop?

13-07-2006, 00:41

I had to stop drinking booze too as socially it was very hard.I was a bad tempered git for a while to but when I really truelly was ready to stop it wasnt long before it wasnt to hard.Even now I still sometimes in a stressfull dream (I have a lot lol) I dream about smoking and when I wake up for the first minute im so pee'ed off with myself until I realise I didnt smoke

13-07-2006, 00:43

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Originally Posted by sarahlouise45

Quote:

Originally Posted by homealone

if you want to stop, just stop...

- if you don't want to, keep pretending it will be good if you do, one day ..

I just stopped

Didn't you find it really hard to just stop?

yes, and no

I got scared with a really bad chest infection, just before i went on holiday, a couple of years ago, the scare & the change of environment helped me to ditch an habit I had for years. I feel a lot better now, it wasn't easy, but I think the 'cold turkey' approach is best

TheDaddy · 13-07-2006, 00:44

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Originally Posted by sarahlouise45

Didn't you find it really hard to just stop?

Nope never missed them either, I still think about them now even a couple of years on but I can truthfully say I never craved them.

13-07-2006, 00:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

I just stopped after 10 years of smoking and didnt smoke again.Been stopped 15 years

disapline is the only way imo

good luck

They say it takes 15 years for your lungs to return back to normal. I noticed a few aches and pains some years after giving up.

sarahlouise45, you have to decide who is the boss, you or the fags?

danielf · 13-07-2006, 00:51

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

<snip> disapline is the only way imo

good luck

Right, I'm off to the pharmacy to get some of this disapline Tomorrow. Sounds like smashing stuff. Is it pills, or more of a cream like thingy?

13-07-2006, 00:54

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

I had to stop drinking booze too as socially it was very hard.I was a bad tempered git for a while to but when I really truelly was ready to stop it wasnt long before it wasnt to hard.Even now I still sometimes in a stressfull dream (I have a lot lol) I dream about smoking and when I wake up for the first minute im so pee'ed off with myself until I realise I didnt smoke

same 'ole story, find which behaviour causes a 'problem', then deny it, avoid it or try and deal, sometimes dealing involves making the same mistakes, again, the point is whether you really want to confront yourself ..