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17 Sep 14
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Anybody have any stories to tell?
Am currently on day 4,i've been here many times,nearly always after a mega bender(had one last wkend) i cant face one the day after,so that day is easy,the other time i find it easy to fk em off is when i have a heavy cold,so imagine my delight when i started to feel the onset of a cold monday to keep up with the charade that i am now a non smoker,two days pretty easy as a result,tonight now....dad calls round,we have a few bets,we do a bottle of red,he has a few ciggies,all nice and civilised,apart from i am looking for the ciggies and at the same time telling myself sundays catch phrase "fc uk the **** s"...
I remember working with a lad who would smoke 30 a day easy and had done for nearly 20 years,he came in to work and just said he didnt smoke no more and that was that,he was a non smoker. Tbf he was one stubborn fker though,he argued with his mrs boxing day and he didnt speak to her til easter,his mrs of 20 years that lived in the same house,i sh1t you not.
Am currently on day 4,i've been here many times,nearly always after a mega bender(had one last wkend) i cant face one the day after,so that day is easy,the other time i find it easy to fk em off is when i have a heavy cold,so imagine my delight when i started to feel the onset of a cold monday to keep up with the charade that i am now a non smoker,two days pretty easy as a result,tonight now....dad calls round,we have a few bets,we do a bottle of red,he has a few ciggies,all nice and civilised,apart from i am looking for the ciggies and at the same time telling myself sundays catch phrase "fc uk the **** s"...
I remember working with a lad who would smoke 30 a day easy and had done for nearly 20 years,he came in to work and just said he didnt smoke no more and that was that,he was a non smoker. Tbf he was one stubborn fker though,he argued with his mrs boxing day and he didnt speak to her til easter,his mrs of 20 years that lived in the same house,i sh1t you not.
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and then you watch fergie utter the words "never let yourself down"...and tonight becomes easy...
"fc uk the ****"
"fc uk the ****"
yes,write down the words (free at last)put your note in a picture frame and the date your stopped under the three words.it will give you great strength.And hang it on the wall.you will live up to your forum name and be that starr.
wow brassneck,im shocked and surprised,that does seem like good advice,the date will be easy tbh but i like the general idea of having something to remind you of that date and drawing strength from it,thank you
Is giving up really that difficult....
I mean if someone offered a cheque for 1 million pounds to stop smoking for a year....would it really be that much of a struggle.
I mean if someone offered a cheque for 1 million pounds to stop smoking for a year....would it really be that much of a struggle.
Day 18 here patrick, I'm on the e-cigs.
I'd love to give you some good news. In fact, about a week ago I started a thread titled "I can honestly say I don't think I'll ever smoke again."
That was before I saw 30 days Horse Racing profit wiped out in the last 5 days. Now I'm really, really craving, and I think it might be an idea to take a couple of days off betting otherwise I can see myself giving in.
I'd love to give you some good news. In fact, about a week ago I started a thread titled "I can honestly say I don't think I'll ever smoke again."
That was before I saw 30 days Horse Racing profit wiped out in the last 5 days. Now I'm really, really craving, and I think it might be an idea to take a couple of days off betting otherwise I can see myself giving in.
You're either lucky or you're not.
I stopped smoking ciggies in 1987 with no problems at all.
Been smoking cigars ever since.
My nan and grandad used to smoke 'Olivier' cigarettes. On the day he retired he said to her 'Dolly, we're pensioners now, we can't afford it any more.' and threw the last few ciggies and the packet on to the fire. Sadly, she only lived another few years, and the grim reaper took her on her first heart attack. He lived for another 16 years, died from complications following a fall when he was 81.
Mrs CMATs gran was an 80 a day smoker, and she packed up when she was 70. She died a two and a half years ago, aged 92.
One of my friends, Jimmy Pollard, used to run half marathons for charity. He used to play darts, but the most he drank was a pint all night, resorting to orange juice most of the time. He popped in the pub one Saturday lunchtime to speak to his wife, who was a barmaid, then went home to watch racing on the telly. He had a heart attack and she found him dead on the sofa when she got home. He never smoked. He was 42.
Work colleague, Barry Fenn, a small bloke, no taller than 5-5, weighed about 8 stones soaked through. Got married, just over a year later they had a child. Saturday morning at home, the baby started to cry. His wife had been up twice to feed the baby during the night, so Barry told her to go back to sleep and he would feed him. She woke two hours later, at roughly 9 o'clock, to the sound of the baby crying. She called Barry but there was no answer. She went downstairs, Barry was holding the baby in his arms sitting in an armchair. He had died of a heart attack after feeding the baby, while watching television. He didn't smoke. He didn't drink, and iirc he was 33.
Live every day the way you want to live, because one day, tomorrow won't come.
or you're not. I stopped smoking ciggies in 1987 with no problems at all.
Been smoking cigars ever since.
My nan and grandad used to smoke 'Olivier' cigarettes. On the day he retired he said to her 'Dolly, we're pensioners now, we can't afford it any more.' and threw the last few ciggies and the packet on to the fire. Sadly, she only lived another few years, and the grim reaper took her on her first heart attack. He lived for another 16 years, died from complications following a fall when he was 81.
Mrs CMATs gran was an 80 a day smoker, and she packed up when she was 70. She died a two and a half years ago, aged 92.
One of my friends, Jimmy Pollard, used to run half marathons for charity. He used to play darts, but the most he drank was a pint all night, resorting to orange juice most of the time. He popped in the pub one Saturday lunchtime to speak to his wife, who was a barmaid, then went home to watch racing on the telly. He had a heart attack and she found him dead on the sofa when she got home. He never smoked. He was 42.
Work colleague, Barry Fenn, a small bloke, no taller than 5-5, weighed about 8 stones soaked through. Got married, just over a year later they had a child. Saturday morning at home, the baby started to cry. His wife had been up twice to feed the baby during the night, so Barry told her to go back to sleep and he would feed him. She woke two hours later, at roughly 9 o'clock, to the sound of the baby crying. She called Barry but there was no answer. She went downstairs, Barry was holding the baby in his arms sitting in an armchair. He had died of a heart attack after feeding the baby, while watching television. He didn't smoke. He didn't drink, and iirc he was 33.
Live every day the way you want to live, because one day, tomorrow won't come.
Stevie Strikes 18 Sep 14 10:37
Day 18 here patrick, I'm on the e-cigs
Major furore going on over the e-cigs in government circles, Stevie.
So many youngsters taking them up instead of real ciggies, and adult smokers switching to them, the govt are now saying that they're not as safe as they are claimed to be, reports of exploding ciggies, dangerous to others close by, going to stop them being smoked in public.... blah blah blah blah.
If the government were REALLY concerned about your health, and REALLY wanted the public to stop smoking, why don't they simply BAN IT altogether?
And then, magically, through the clouds of ciggie smoke and e-cig vapour, you see the answer.
E-cigs are not taxed (they will be, count on it) and they're losing fortunes in revenue by new smokers and switchers.
Right, off to the garden, smoke time.
Day 18 here patrick, I'm on the e-cigs
Major furore going on over the e-cigs in government circles, Stevie.
So many youngsters taking them up instead of real ciggies, and adult smokers switching to them, the govt are now saying that they're not as safe as they are claimed to be, reports of exploding ciggies, dangerous to others close by, going to stop them being smoked in public.... blah blah blah blah.
If the government were REALLY concerned about your health, and REALLY wanted the public to stop smoking, why don't they simply BAN IT altogether?
And then, magically, through the clouds of ciggie smoke and e-cig vapour, you see the answer.
E-cigs are not taxed (they will be, count on it) and they're losing fortunes in revenue by new smokers and switchers.
Right, off to the garden, smoke time.
You're right about being lucky or not. Lots of people live with enlarged hearts or other defects that go undiagnosed until they drop dead in their prime, like your mates.
I agree, cmat - a lot of people are managing to stop with e-cigs, and they're bound to tax them before long. I think the health risks of e-cigs are negligible. (Mind you, I still think the health risks of passive smoking are negligible - especially comared to the risks of passive drinking 
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patrick starr
Anybody have any stories to tell?
So yeah, my story is: e-cigs have made this relatively easy. If stress (in my case setback-induced) is a factor, walk away from what's stressing you.
I will not smoke again
Anybody have any stories to tell?
So yeah, my story is: e-cigs have made this relatively easy. If stress (in my case setback-induced) is a factor, walk away from what's stressing you.
I will not smoke again
There are worse things you could than try Allen Carr.
It does work. Once you end up realising and accepting that the most satisfying bit of smoking is relieving the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal, you start to positively frame the process of giving up rather than thinking that you're going without something and it becomes very straight forward.
It does work. Once you end up realising and accepting that the most satisfying bit of smoking is relieving the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal, you start to positively frame the process of giving up rather than thinking that you're going without something and it becomes very straight forward.
Give up..(cough)... smoking.. (splutter)...ffs..(wheeze), its the...(cough)...only pleasure..(spit out a lump of phlegm)...I've got.
4th October 2009 is memorable for me for two reasons:-
Sea the Stars cuts through the Arc field to romp home
Dessie tosses away a half smoked cig in disgust and says, "That's it, no more".
First six weeks are easy, as you're enthustiastic. The next six are treacherous as you're not quite there, but think you could probably risk one, "you know, just socially" (this is where most fail). After that it's plain sailing.
When I think back now to 18 years of around 20-a-day, I can't believe the stupidity of it all. The money I've wasted is eye-watering.
That said, I really did enjoy it and have vowed to start up again in the unlikely eventuality that I live to 80
Sea the Stars cuts through the Arc field to romp home
Dessie tosses away a half smoked cig in disgust and says, "That's it, no more".
First six weeks are easy, as you're enthustiastic. The next six are treacherous as you're not quite there, but think you could probably risk one, "you know, just socially" (this is where most fail). After that it's plain sailing.
When I think back now to 18 years of around 20-a-day, I can't believe the stupidity of it all. The money I've wasted is eye-watering.
That said, I really did enjoy it and have vowed to start up again in the unlikely eventuality that I live to 80
E-cigs are not taxed (they will be, count on it) and they're losing fortunes in revenue by new smokers and switchers.
Tax the nicotine not the tobacco. That's where the government went wrong.
Tax the nicotine not the tobacco. That's where the government went wrong.
many tries and fails recently...then I upped sticks and moved to asia about a month ago. took a days travel between airports where you just cant have one, and now I don't even think about them. all I can learn from that is you need to change your whole way of life. break all sorts of routines. infinitely harder if still at home though. but when your mindset aligns, it is ridiculously easy.
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