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smart suggestion :wink-wink
this would keep you off cigs for sure, lol
Good luck FictionNet!! You can do it through sheer willpower alone!!
My last ciggie was on 23 November 2006 (and OK, I have someone else’s health to consider as well as my own which helps with the willpower!) but it’s still not easy. Trying to disassociate myself with places I’d usually always smoke helped…I avoided pubs for a bit and rewarded myself with treats at the end of the day/week (using the money I’d saved from not smoking).
Good luck!! You can do it!!
I quit smoking when I joined the army but stupidly started smoking again after about 5 months. Now everytime I try to quit I do fine until I start drinking. I think if I could make it through a night of drinking without smoking then I would be able to quit again.
Update. Just over a week into this fun and still clean.
The withdrawal sympoms are just as strong but I’m getting them less frequently – probably four or five times a day at the mo.
Understanding the blood sugar connection helped me understand/overcome the craving. That little bit of stress and the urge starts cos the ciggies increase the blood sugar hence the craving.
Orange juice helps clean out the nicotine and also hot baths. If the urge really gets you go for the gum but chew slowly or you will be sick as a dog. Pick up some butts and put in a jar with a little water…when you crave a smoke go whiff that and the urge will go because it stinks!
I quit close to 3 years ago one week after Ellen. Every now and then ya get a split second craving but the health benefits are apparent in six months. At 47 I am in top shape and ideal body weight (I was always a skinny sod).
I was always a skinny sod
lucky B#$tard lol!
Good for you D. I mentioned your father in another thread a while back and how good he looked and to my understanding …. he is still a smoker.
Best for you …. genes are undeniable. Quality health attention such as not smoking …. all the more speaks in your behalf………….
as said ….. “lucky B#$tard”
you go Boy!
ps.
wish I had your will power. Quitting for the lady is an admirable effort.
Yup he is still a smoker…78 and been a heavy smoker since he was 14, coughs like a bastard in the mornings yet still got a clean bill of health just a few months ago.
Fiction ain’t got any of these genes though so you hang in there mate!
Wow! This is such great support!
I am on day two of quitting after smoking for 16 years. Got the patch going this time around. Seems to help a bit, but my co-workers have been walking on eggshells around me :shooter:
But the biggest influence was the other night when I did a bit of math and realized that I was spending about $2,000 a year on smokes…almost $30,000 in my lifetime!!!
I started to cry when I thought of all the wonderful things I could have bought…down payment on a house, a car other than a used minivan, lifetime supply of KFC….
Doing the math is a great idea, we saved 15k in the last 3 years and a good ideas is to reward yourself now and then with something due to your massive savings!
Frank Zappa fan eh? He was mr coffee and cigarettes!
