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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Hi Fellow Fabbers..
I have decided to stop smoking.. I have been smoking for 10 years and once stopped for 10 months using the Alan Carr method.
For thoses ex smokers what worked for you?? I believe have the battle is mental.. So come on how did you stop .. and stay stopped??  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've decided it's time for me to stop too. Mainly because I just have no energy at the end of the week and I want to be around to play footy with my son. I'm gonna do it cold turkey, no fads, no gimmicks, no patches or ciggie sticks. Shakin' 'n' shiverin' all the way.
I've smoked since I was 9 and I'm 44 now and I simply cannot remember what it's like not to smoke. So here goes, wish me luck. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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well done _irtydan.. I suppose at the end of it all does it matter what you use as long as you stop??
WishyNsiren .. go for it.. I read some research recently that the "best" way to stop is to go cold turkey rather than patches etc .. Carrs method makes the point that why would you be trying to stop one drug then take it in another form??
This is what I am gonna do too cold turkey... Best of luck and dan keep it up (excuse the pun lol) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I stopped smoking 2 years ago today. I had previously stopped for a year purely by accident because the kids gave me chicken pox and I was very ill in hospital with it. This time I tried everything else which didn't work so the doctor gave me a drug called Champix. Plus side...stopped within a week haven't even wanted a cigarette . Negative side ...I went completly insane on the tablets and I really do mean away with the fairies, doolallytap wibblewibblecrazy which was corrected with further tablets. It doesn't happen with everyone but it did me lol.
Would I do it again ......absobloodylutely.
I was spending £38 a week on cigarettes that I now spend on 'us' . I have put 2 stone on but again not everyone does that and my chest and breathing is amazing. No smokers cough, no colds,no chest infections, better taste and I smell booooootiful, oh and I am tastier to kiss as well.
Go for it and dont tell anyone just take it one day at a time,even one cigarette at a time if needs be and no guilt ...guilt and pressure are the killers.
Good luck
j
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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only time i have ever managed to stop smoking was while i was pregnant, i think just knowing i had another life inside me gave me that extra will power, i actuaslly never took it back up again after i had the kids for nearly 15 years, dont know why but then started smoking again, to be honest smoking dont bother me and i have no desire to pack up, if im going to be honest i think its because im scared i will gain weight if i do and id sooner smoke than be fat lol |
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I stopped for 8 months but developed terrible bowel problems, had a cigarette through pain and frustration at being woken in pain nightly. Since then no bowel problems at all. Better the devil you know! |
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By *ugby 123Couple
over a year ago
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I stopped in 1991 by cold turkey. They did say this week in a report that this was the best way to do it.
The other half has been trying to stop for the last year or so, has used pacthes, champix and is still struggling  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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All the best of luck to all you people fighting your addiction.
A plus point though, is a lot of you have given it up, all beit for a short time, so you have been there and done it, and you know what to expect this time around.
My mate wanted to buy a new motorbike but was struggling financialy, so he dicided to stop smoking to help fund his dream to buy his bike. He put pics of the bike all around his house and his work place to remind him what he was working towards.
He got the bike just before Christmas, and is now saving for a European trip on it.
Not saying it will work for you, but its something you can try with no cost to yourself.
Best of luck peeps
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I wish all those trying to smoke the best.
I failed yet again and i can only say it was only due to pain...and bieng awake all through the night.
My fault and no one elses.
But i will try again and hopefully succeed.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Hi Fellow Fabbers..
I have decided to stop smoking.. I have been smoking for 10 years and once stopped for 10 months using the Alan Carr method.
For thoses ex smokers what worked for you?? I believe have the battle is mental.. So come on how did you stop .. and stay stopped?? "
I am not an ex smoker BUT an uncle of mine is a pharmacist (retired now) when I was asking him about patches and stuff for an old girlfriend he told me his story. both he and his wife were life long smokers (20 yrs+) when they decided to stop. His advice was the very first thing you need to do is to break the habit cycle. i.e. if you wake and have a coffee and a fag DONT drink orange juice instead. If you have a fag and not a sweet after dinner make a conscious effort to eat something different. So you break the association. I understand some smokers need to when under stress That's the hard part to break but a big start is in the habit / association with smoking.
Does that make sense ?
Best of luck Mrs P I am sure you can do it xxxxxxxxxxxx |
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By *irtydanMan
over a year ago
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"well done _irtydan.. I suppose at the end of it all does it matter what you use as long as you stop??
WishyNsiren .. go for it.. I read some research recently that the "best" way to stop is to go cold turkey rather than patches etc .. Carrs method makes the point that why would you be trying to stop one drug then take it in another form??
This is what I am gonna do too cold turkey... Best of luck and dan keep it up (excuse the pun lol) "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Hi Fellow Fabbers..
I have decided to stop smoking.. I have been smoking for 10 years and once stopped for 10 months using the Alan Carr method.
For thoses ex smokers what worked for you?? I believe have the battle is mental.. So come on how did you stop .. and stay stopped??
I am not an ex smoker BUT an uncle of mine is a pharmacist (retired now) when I was asking him about patches and stuff for an old girlfriend he told me his story. both he and his wife were life long smokers (20 yrs+) when they decided to stop. His advice was the very first thing you need to do is to break the habit cycle. i.e. if you wake and have a coffee and a fag DONT drink orange juice instead. If you have a fag and not a sweet after dinner make a conscious effort to eat something different. So you break the association. I understand some smokers need to when under stress That's the hard part to break but a big start is in the habit / association with smoking.
Does that make sense ?
Best of luck Mrs P I am sure you can do it xxxxxxxxxxxx"
Ooooo read some of that as the need to when you undress
I will try and again and do as a budgie does.....
succeed |
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By *irtydanMan
over a year ago
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"Hi Fellow Fabbers..
I have decided to stop smoking.. I have been smoking for 10 years and once stopped for 10 months using the Alan Carr method.
For thoses ex smokers what worked for you?? I believe have the battle is mental.. So come on how did you stop .. and stay stopped??
I am not an ex smoker BUT an uncle of mine is a pharmacist (retired now) when I was asking him about patches and stuff for an old girlfriend he told me his story. both he and his wife were life long smokers (20 yrs+) when they decided to stop. His advice was the very first thing you need to do is to break the habit cycle. i.e. if you wake and have a coffee and a fag DONT drink orange juice instead. If you have a fag and not a sweet after dinner make a conscious effort to eat something different. So you break the association. I understand some smokers need to when under stress That's the hard part to break but a big start is in the habit / association with smoking.
Does that make sense ?
Best of luck Mrs P I am sure you can do it xxxxxxxxxxxx
Ooooo read some of that as the need to when you undress
I will try and again and do as a budgie does.....
succeed "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The other reason I want to give up is that it's costing me £1,947.40 per annum. That's £5.35 x 7 x 52 - or 4 months nursery care for my son, or a holiday for the four of us, or it will pay for the sofa we just had delivered today, 6 months of grocery shopping, or it won't equate to an extra 4% tax that I give the government! (That's enough on it's own to make me want to quit!) |
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By *ensterMan
over a year ago
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I had tried to stop smoking because I was made redundant at work.
I originally used the nicorette inhaler. I also quit drinking and started eating healthier.
Believe it or not, the inhaler in conjunction with hot vegetable broth(stock), and celery sticks, took away all urges and desires of smoking for me.
Weird isn't? What a combination lol. I swear though, that worked really well for me.
I unfortunately did not quit smoking, but I will give it another try very soon.
The warnings and some of the side affects for champix is just frightening. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I am just weeks away from completing my training to be an acupuncturist and there are points on the ear which can be used for addictions such as smoking, will be trying this out on a few friends who want to quit so will let you know if it works but good luck to all those who are going cold turkey  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The people who say they gave up fags for X amount of time then started again never really gave up.
What they mean is that they went without a fag for that amount of time.
The way I see it is that you only give up once.
My dad started smoking aged 9,then when he worked down the mines he chewed tobbaco and took snuff.
When he left mining,first thing in the morning before work, he used to smoke 5 Woodbines while rolling a tin full of Early Bird fags for work.
When he came home with the tin empty he'd smoke St Bruno in a pipe.
Then,one Budget Day when he was 50,they put them up,he said "Bugger that!" and quit,no gimmicks,no help,just stopped.
Even though my mam still smoked Park Drive he never smoked again and lived to be over 80.
My old man could be a bugger in many ways but I'm so proud of what he did. R
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Hope all you quitters have the same success as my old man,good luck!
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