I going to try giving up smoking...Again

Pick a date for your last cigarette and stop at midnight 00.01 - so you sleep and wake up a non-smoker. By that time you must have decided, chosen of your own free will, to be a non-smoker. Every time you want to 'sin' remind yourself of your choice. The ways you'll try to excuse sinning are ingenious and plentiful - but always go back to 'I have chosen not to smoke'.

No 'trying to stop' - just won't work.

If you are into psychobubble, see of you can't find out why you smoke - just notice every time you spark up and remember/record what has just been happening and how you feel. A pattern may well emerge, hidden in amongst all the habitual and addicted smokes.
 

Well said Dave, for me it was vaping non tobacco tasting e-liquid and hypnotherapy. I still have the odd roll-up (maybe a couple in 3 or 4 months). I don't allow smoking in my flat or car and if I have a roll-up I don't beat myself up about it. It has been like this for 4+ years now, my GP is happy I am better off a win, win situation. Do what is right for you not what you are told to do...........
 
Well....I was told last year,after a ton of blood tests,if I didn't stop smoking,drinking,and lose about 10 stone,and if I don't take the 19 pills a day I'm on now,I would be in the ground in 3 years (I will be 46 in Feb).But TBH,with all of my other health problems,including a collapsed spine,and a load of other issues (not all smoking,drinking,or weight related BTW),even giving up the ciggies would be a major step!.
Going down the 'E Cig' route,I can at least cut down my nicotine habit,by getting weaker mixtures,as time goes on...

I only got fat because of my spinal problems.I was 13 stone in 2009 (I am 6ft,and naturally broad),took 5 years to get to the stage I am at now,23 odd stone,because I was stuck on a sheet of chipboard,laid out,for 5 years,so that sort of put on the pounds....
My left hand is now virtually dead,I have chronic sciatica in my left leg,I have diabetes,high cholesterol,loads of other stuff,and even with the pain killers I am now on,which sort of work...A bit...I am still limited to what I can do!.
Not to mention my lack of sleep!,I am awake from 2am onwards!...All thanks to that bloody lower spinal rot!...LOL!.
And in case anyone says "don't eat so much",I eat 2 slices of toast for breakfast (I need to eat sommat to take the meds),nothing for dinner,and a small tea,usually a small bowl of Chilli,or beans on toast (so I can have more meds)...

And no,I didn't put this up for sympathy!....Just so you can get an idea of where I am coming from!.
 
I found the patches were effective and certainly helped me during the first week. I didn't follow the recommended procedure of using reduced power ones - just used them as a crutch for a week until the habit part was lessening, then stopped altogether.

You will be able to get them free I would guess.
 
Couldn't agree more its the Nicotine that is the issue. Masking it is well simply masking it, kind of like using a derby in your favourite razor.

I wouldn't like to attribute the success rate of e-cigs, as it could be inspiration enough to quit for an individual.
 
Sorry to hear of what I can only imagine to be quite an ordeal, health wise. I would strongly suggest you check with your doctor regarding how the e-cig liquid may interact with your current meds.
 
Now's the time then, and I mean that in all seriousness.

Stop smoking. Knock drinking on the head for a year (I had to last year) and bring it back in gently perhaps keeping it to with meals only? Eat clean. Home cooked meat, fish and vegetables.Take up walking. No running, no gym or other silliness, just walking. Try half a mile to start with and build it up as you can. Drop the weight, take up a new sport ... for fun. Think out of the box - I took up fencing.

Make it a revolution!

You'll probably be able to stop the pills, too ...

I trust you understand I'm not talking through the top of my head. In all seriousness, get on with it. Far too many folks simply don't get a second chance.
 
Cheers Buddy!.
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Worse thing is,the last holiday I had,in 2005,was a walking trek along Hadrian's Wall...Before that,another walking holiday in Cumbria,mountains and all sorts!.
As soon as my spine collapsed,that was it,couldn't even walk to the bloody toilet!....
 
I spent many years Counselling people with all sorts of substance use habits including smoking...Its horses for courses..In other words "What Works for You"....The only expert in your smoking habit is yourself Sir...Paradoxically...Sometimes the worst advice you can get is from former smokers because they push what worked for them & Rubbish everything else...Just the way it is...When I worked in the Counselling Field people with former substance misuse problems didn't always make the best Counsellors for that reason...I am speaking from a wealth of experience here...

Just do and use whatever aid works for you...Its all about you...

Billy
 
Shall do buddy!.
 
If I hadn't started at the gym to 'get healthy and lose weight' I'd probably still be walking about without sticks - just too much for a spine waiting to crumble. Stay fat and happy! Wish I had 'cos I'm fat again now.
 
I stopped smoking the same way I stopped drinking - cold turkey. I applied the same logic to latter as I did to the former but I've been a lot more successful at keeping off the drink than the fags. No drink for over 12 years but I started back on the fags after having quit for four years and have spent the last eight years going through smoky patches. I gave up again shortly after my fortieth birthday but caved at my borthe's wedding in July and one fag. I didn't get all Rita Hayworth about it though as I did not enjoy it and it holds nothing like the fear or potential for disaster that having another drink would. FB is right - different strokes for different folks. The main thing is stopping and staying that way so however you do it is up to you.

I wish you all the success in the world because it's a pure penis trying to give up. I ain't apologising for the language as its the only word that properly underlines just how bloody difficult it is. Bloody worth it though!
 
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