[Closed] Packing in smerking tabs. Again. Who's with me?

I'm going [u][b]to attempt to[/b][/u] pack in smoking. Anyone fancy joining me.

Not feeling particular optimistic then?

FTR, I quit on NYD 2003. POP.

I'm with you all the way binners... I've just had a bit of a headstart...

I stopped 16 days 1 hour and 17 mins ago (approx).
Ian

I'm in. Are we allowed patches gum etc or is this on willpower alone?

I'll join you binners, despite the fact that I can't believe that anything Hora says can actually affect you in any way!

I've set a target that when the current stock runs out, that's it. It would have been last week but I was offered 200 for £20 and I'm weak 😳

We're allowed to use anything at our disposal (apart from fags obviously). I've got a stock of patches. And failing that, heroine

oh you have a heroine which one?
Florence Nightingale? Dame Helen McCarthy?

I will give up after dinner jazz fags till August if that helps

Does anyone have access to a 'facility'? I was thinking a locked room with no access to nicotine products of any sort for about a month should do it. A bit like Trainspotting without the puking.

Day 9 for me today, so if you'll allow me my false start then I'm in too.

Champix - Available from your doctor, got them, followed the instructions haven't smoked since.

Some of it comes across as a bit overly religious and it is not everyone's cup of tea, but I found the first 4 steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous programme very useful to help understand addiction (to smoking in this case) and how to overcome it.

Bloody hell fella. Dealing with my alcoholism can wait til I've jacked the fags in 😉

If you haven't got it, try the Allen Carr method. It'll cost you less than a packet of tabs and may just sort you out: [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/014103940X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299596681&sr=8-1 ]clicky-linky[/url]

It worked for me after many failed attempts with willpower alone.

Good luck.

Im in for not smoking tomorrow, if that works out then we can take it from there

konaboy- I have a cellar?

Count me in Binners. I've three fags left in my pocket, which I'll have tonight. Then we'll see how it goes...

TSY - I've had some offers in my time... I've also seen Pulp Fiction.

When I set my facility up for paying customers I may ask your advice...

Excellent. Looks like we got us a self-righteous, grumpy, short-tempered posse for tomorrow

Yeeeeeeeeeee-haw 😀

Be a quitter. Be fitter.

I quitterlicker

We can regale each other with tales of what snacks we've resorted too. I shall be bringing a selection into the office. I'm presently favouring the Mini Chedder as the solution to any potential problems. Have you tried the Branston one's? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Also we can see who manages to lose their rag with the highest ranking member of their company. We could have a league table. Maximum points for telling the Chief Exec to * my *, you *ing *!!!!! then a sliding scale from there down

It's not going to be today for me I'm afraid 😳

Go for it. If you approach it in the right way, it really is quite easy. 😉

I'm in.

I've not slapped my nicorette patch on just yet. Though I'm armed with a pack of them.I'm going to see how far the will power thing lasts. Probably another five minutes.

My preparation has involved chain smoking last night until i felt sick. My mouth tasted like a clay oven this moring

I have a selection of savoury snacks to see me through the day.

Pork pie anyone?

If someone asked me to give up espresso's I think I'd murder them.

binners get yourself into proper and serious coffee.

Mmm coffee. Even if here they make it with UHT milk...

Binners if you feel all crotchety and wound up, simply relieve that frustration by hurting Hora.

It's a win-win.

[i]Hurt[/i] him.

It's dead easy Binners. Stop being silly.

Mmm coffee. Even if here they make it with UHT milk...

Whoa whoa whoa. You do not put milk in coffee unless its a mocha.

what you need to do is observe the craving coming and consuming you then feeling it go away again - this takes a painfully long time at first but becomes quicker and less often over time
I also found it odd how it did not do the things I thought it did. Angry have a fag to calm down for example - Angry do anything for 10 mins and you will be calmer etc
good luck
FWIW I drunk loads of brews but did not really eat much more

You do not put milk in coffee unless its a mocha

Yes you do.

Has Binners resorted to hurting Hora yet, as an outlet for his frustrations?

Ooh I do hope so. 😀

I jacked tabs about 4 years ago, cold turkey style. non of this namby pamby patch rubbish no way.

Chaps, find your triggers, the things that make you want to spark up and AVOID them. Its a habit you need to break.

My triggers were:
lager, instant coffee, a set of traffic lights on the A580.

I drank bitter or red wine, drank tea instead, drove a different way to work for 3 months.

easy.

Good luck all of you giving up. be strong and you'll get there and when you do, you'll have more money to spend on bike bits!

[i]what you need to do is observe the craving coming and consuming you then feeling it go away again - [/i]

Oh yes, this especially!! Junkyard you've hit the nail on the head. It got to stage where I could feel wanting a fag coming on, and then moments later the feeling would just go away, at first you feel it's never going away, but it does, and eventually it comes and goes in a flash.

What is really weird is the dreams where it feels so real that for a moment in the morning you wake up thinking you still smoke. Properly freaked me out!

I went through a phase when, in every dream I had, I was smoking. Wtf? I've never smoked and never wanted to!

Or have I.....? 😯

I sometimes dreamed I was nodding off with a fag in my hand (something I did in bed when I did smoke). When I had these vivid dreams I'd wake up sweating and scared and I'd manually check the whole bed 'just incase' before the fog of sleep gave way to reality.

Only had these dreams post-quiting.

Then maybe you shouldn't have given up then?

Has Binners started hurting you yet?

Did you manage it?
I resisted the temptation of an after dinner jazz one after a particularily stressful evening spent at Ikea - that said I am over the addiction so no doubt not as easy for you.

Dreaming about giant cigarettes eh ? Hello, Mr Freud, over to you...

I'm down to five a day at the moment.. I fairly confident that I could go lower but Mrs Yunki has vetoed the idea until I get hold of some patches.. 🙁

Cutting down like that does not really help as it is just managing the addiction when you need to end it.
Makes you think you are doing something but you are not really
I did the same for 2 years then hid the prescription for nicotine replacements as well to delay the start day

Sorry folks. I succumbed and had one last night. I'm rubbish. I'm into 'managing the addiction' territory. I need to knock it on the head completely. I really bloody want to too

well.. you might believe that to be the case Junky.. but I'm fairly confident that I am gently increasing my ability to cope with the higher stress levels that cravings produce..

I gave up cold turkey for six months last year using the same recognising the cravings pass technique that was mentioned earlier in the thread.. but I'm struggling to do the same again due to more stressful outside influences this time around..

I've gone from 20 a day down to five over the course of three days..
I've not used patches before.. any tips..?

I haven't had one today yet. I did want to hurt someone an hour ago

Good luck to all with this. even cutting down helps, so be positive about what you are achieving even with the odd setback. Find another addiction, I found getting fit helped, cos it makes you hate what the tabs are doing to you. eventually it was a chance meeting with an Aussie, who was going cold turkey on his massive weed habit that put it into perspective for me. Whenever I was tempted, I thought of what he was going through and told myself to get a grip etc etc.

anyway, chins up and save your tab money for bike bling

binners dont beat yourself up over it.

If you smoke a fag on average say one an hour- just double the time between each fag. Then when comfortable- again.

I went from smoking 20 on a night out (waking up with yellowed-fingers) to 10 to 5. then when I did go cold-turkey I'd 'made my bed as comfortable as possible' so to speak 🙂

Don't smoke, just wanted to say good luck.

I put on a patch (full tar) yesterday morning, just so I could say I made some effort on no smoking day. Didn't smoke, but it was a close thing.
Put another one on this morning to see what happens. Haven't caved yet. Baby steps...

dont worry binners

even that nice mr sixx had problems 😀

I jacked tabs about 4 years ago, cold turkey style. non of this namby pamby patch rubbish no way.

This is the only way. you have to want to give up. I mean really want to. What did it for me was my last stretch in the desert before I left the mob. I was doing 40 a day as it's so boring and depressing out there. I could feel my body and lungs going downhill fast so I decided in the carpark after getting dropped off after tyhe journey back that this was it. And it was. 6 years and counting. 7 days is the first barrier and after that you just take strength from what you have achieved and how crap you must be to let something like that rule your life. 3 months and you start to feel really good. At 6 you start to cough up all that shite as your lung cleaning mechanisms start to kick in again. Do it. I could never go back now. I do put away an awful amount of beer at a weekend now though!

This thread has inspired me to work on giving up the junk food. I need to MTFU.

binners dont beat yourself up over it.

No Binners, don't. 🙁

Beat Hora up instead! 😀

Much betterer. Will make you feel nice and relaxed.

Hurt him Binners. [i]Hurt[/i] him.