Giving up the dreaded Weed!!!!!!!

[Digit]

Well the worst should be behind you now Mike, and hopefully your success will encourage others to follow suit.

Roy.

 

[xy mosian]

Well done Mike, well done indeed.
xy

 

[markwuzere]

Well done Mike its a hard thing to give up, my 1st attempt lasted 11 months and then i foolishly started again, 7 years later and have now been off them 23 days and counting, hopefully this time its for good

 

[Digit]

Have you tried the Nicotine patches Markw?
My wife used them and stopped easily.

Roy.

 

[markwuzere]

Have you tried the Nicotine patches Markw?
My wife used them and stopped easily.

Roy.

tried them last time but stopped them after about 1 week this time just descided enough was enough and so far so good, lots of mints and gum and keep busy in the workshop,
Mark

 

[gnu]

Well done as it cannot be easy giving up smoking with all the temptations.

 

[Mike.C]

Thanks guys.

Cheers

Mike

 

[devonwoody]

Another compliment, well done, join the smokeless free zone.

And if that feeling ever crops up again, just say to yourself, "I dont want to smoke anymore" its worked for me for 25 years.

I still have to say it, especially watching films on TV, I am sure there is a kickback going to the entertainment industry somewhere by the tobacco crowd.

 

[Mike.C]

Another compliment, well done, join the smokeless free zone.

And if that feeling ever crops up again, just say to yourself, "I dont want to smoke anymore" its worked for me for 25 years.

I still have to say it, especially watching films on TV, I am sure there is a kickback going to the entertainment industry somewhere by the tobacco crowd.

Thanks John

Funny enough when I watch the old films (where the whole cast are smoking) I can almost smell the ciggie's :lol:

Cheers

Mike

 

[Mike.C]

Well it has now been 2 years since the house became a smokeless zone and I am still hanging in there \/

Sorry for the yearly updates, but I am proud of myself.

The only thing is every now and again I get a strong feeling of wanting a cigarette and I think that it maybe very easy to take it up again. The feeling only lasts for a second or two but I thought that craving would have gone by now. Did any of you get the feeling after a few years?

Anyway I surpose as long as I don't give into it that is all that matters.

Cheers

Mike

 

[devonwoody]

I've done 25 years and you still have to be on your guard.

If it comes, I say to myself, I dont want to smoke anymore.

That works for me, or I think of some of my sexier moments. :wink:

 

[Blister]

Well it has now been 2 years since the house became a smokeless zone and I am still hanging in there \/

Sorry for the yearly updates, but I am proud of myself.

The only thing is every now and again I get a strong feeling of wanting a cigarette and I think that it maybe very easy to take it up again. The feeling only lasts for a second or two but I thought that craving would have gone by now. Did any of you get the feeling after a few years?

Anyway I suppose as long as I don't give into it that is all that matters.

Cheers

Mike

Well done Mike

I am up to 27 years smoke free :lol: 8)

 

[studders]

Congrats Mr C. Job well done.

Can't do it maself, don't really want to, but appreciate what it takes for them that do.

 

[Tom K]

Wish my wife would pack it in I did 9 years ago and despite her fogging the house out
I won't smoke again. Stay strong Mike

 

[Michael7]

Just seen this link.

http://www.freshcig.co.uk/

 

[WoodMangler]

Don't give up ! I've been off them for over a decade now, after smoking 40 a day for nearly 40 years. Having tried everything without success, I finally (at the surgery nurse's suggestion) had hypnosis. Three session later both the hypnotist and I thought we'd failed, (she even gave me half my money back). Two weeks after that I woke up one morning, just didn't feel like lighting-up - and I haven't had one since.

 

[devonwoody]

Be very careful of lady hypnotists, they get up to other tricks. :wink:

 

[WoodMangler]

Be very careful of lady hypnotists, they get up to other tricks. :wink:

No such luck :roll:

 

[MIGNAL]

Mid January marks one year since I quit. I have the odd moment when I have a 'flash back', it lasts a few seconds. I wouldn't exactly call them cravings, not in the same sense as the cravings that occurred in the first 3 weeks!!!
As I like to say: If you can do 2 years, you can do 4. That's what largely got me through, the fact that I went 1 day without a *** gave me the impetus to go 2 days etc. It became a battle and I wasn't going to be beaten by a stupid cigarette.

 

[heimlaga]

I am pulling for you all who try to quit!
Two of my fiends have quit and they both say it was worth going through the tough absitinence. Myself I have never tried to smoke in my life. I have always disliked chemicals that put my brain out of normal order......well .....out of disorder would be more apropriate when talking about my brain......