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Awful isn't it and I want to give up, but it seems my willpower has died on me.

I gave up over the Easter weekend, but I'm back at it again now, seems I can stop for about a week before I go all weak kneed and start again.

Has anyone any tips that can kick start me again (not smoking that is).

Chew a licorice stick instead.

Eat unsalted nuts (walnuts, etc..not peanuts)

Get a hobby that involves concentration.. your mind is focussed more to the job in hand.

Do the washing up as opposed to using the dishwasher. hands busy, mind on summat else.

Remember youre not exactly in the flourish of youth and when you peg it.. well, there'd be someone else yer missus.. (ok maybe not, but for the purpose of giving up smoking, there's some 25 year old waiting in the wings.) it's therefore imperitive you give up smoking in order to outlast her!!

All various ones the blokes ive worked with over the years have used... me? I just flit between bouts of giving up. Im on course for 4 weeks so will be giving up for that, hopefully afterwards, maintaining it!

What do i use? fek all. I just stop... takes me a day or 4 to wind down, but i dont give myself goals, etc, just, well, go 'right, fekkit. no more!'

My failings are usually induced by shite at work. Maybe I should switch my career.. i dunno..

Foods out, I'm putting on a bit of weight in all the wrong places

I think one of the reasons I'm struggling is the inane comments, "oooh given up then", "I bet you want one", "it won't last". FFS with stupid comments like that is it surprising I don't, oh and before I forget it always winds me up

Stop buying them.

People will soon get fed up with giving them to you.

Smug non smoking git talking here

Gio wrote:Foods out, I'm putting on a bit of weight in all the wrong places

I think one of the reasons I'm struggling is the inane comments, "oooh given up then", "I bet you want one", "it won't last". FFS with stupid comments like that is it surprising I don't, oh and before I forget it always winds me up

Food's out? Buy low GI snacks.. they slow burn off, rather than go whoomph! and appear on your hips.

Dont look to me for inspiration tho' I prefer high GI. Comfort food... hmmmmmmm...

Buy a new packet, have one out of it, carry them around with you all the time.

Every time you want a smoke chew some gum, if you really need a smoke, have one.

You're not giving up smoking, you're just stopping smoking all the time!

I stopped in Oct last year, didn't give up, but then again haven't started again.

My bug was sitting in front of a computer, driving, and down the pub.

I've put on god knows how much weight, but that can be dealt with once the craving etc has gone. (well thats my excuse any way)


Twiz you can stop smoking whenever you want, you can start again any time you want, just try and make the stopping more often than the starting.

XJR Jason wrote:Twiz you can stop smoking whenever you want, you can start again any time you want, just try and make the stopping more often than the starting.

I give up every time I go to sleep and start again when I wake.







I'd rather keep the numbers equal thank you!

Samray wrote:

XJR Jason wrote:Twiz you can stop smoking whenever you want, you can start again any time you want, just try and make the stopping more often than the starting.

I give up every time I go to sleep and start again when I wake.







I'd rather keep the numbers equal thank you!

So it's not just me then. How many tales have I got about failing to stop smoking (he says as he pauses typing for a quick draw)....

I paid a good part of the cost of my SV with the money I'd saved from giving up for a year before I hit 40. Bought the SV for my birthday, but once I'd got it the motivation had gone and within a few months I was back to 20 a day.

I've found patches work quite well, lozenges are foul, and gum hurts my throat (and makes me feel sick).

...but at the end of the day it is simply a question of determination and willpower, and I'm sadly lacking in either.

Goldie wrote:So it's not just me then. How many tales have I got about failing to stop smoking (he says as he pauses typing for a quick draw)....

I paid a good part of the cost of my SV with the money I'd saved from giving up for a year before I hit 40. Bought the SV for my birthday, but once I'd got it the motivation had gone and within a few months I was back to 20 a day.

I've found patches work quite well, lozenges are foul, and gum hurts my throat (and makes me feel sick).

...but at the end of the day it is simply a question of determinatiion and willpower, and I'm sadly lacking in either.

How about quitting together?

I'm quiet good at stopping with others as I hate losing

Gio wrote:How about quitting together?

I'm quiet good at stopping with others as I hate losing

Could be a plan, but I'm going offshore on Friday... couldn't go cold turkey for a week with f*** all to do in the evenings but fret!!! It'll have to wait for a while 'til I'm ready. (You've got to build up to these things... get in the right frame of mind ...procrastinate a bit ...I'm an expert at that!!!).

...and you're quiet good???

...and I don't give a shit about losing!

Goldie wrote:

Gio wrote:How about quitting together?

I'm quiet good at stopping with others as I hate losing

Could be a plan, but I'm going offshore on Friday... couldn't go cold turkey for a week with f*** all to do in the evenings but fret!!! It'll have to wait for a while 'til I'm ready. (You've got to build up to these things... get in the right frame of mind ...procrastinate a bit ...I'm an expert at that!!!).

...and you're quiet good???

...and I don't give a shit about losing!

Okay then, end of the month or from getting up 1/05/07.

Balls in your court

Gio,
Not sure if this helps but I smoked for 40 odd years until last September.
Had been as high as 20 to 30 a day, untipped initially.
I had been cutting down gradually for years, always smoked more to de-stress at work, (about 10 on a good day 15-20 on a bad one), but they banned it at work and had gradually got down to only 2 or 3 a day. Also been slowly cutting down the strength for years, so finally I ended up on ultra mild. Never found this bit too bad, when you first start on something weaker for 10 days or so, they taste like fresh air, but you do get used to them. A number of mates have tried this and it also worked for them.
Then over last few years, I always seemed to pack up for about a week, if I'd had a bad chest and it didn't seem to be a problem. Was also seriously pigged off about the new smoking laws coming in, (have always smoked with a pint!), so anyway, I had a bad cold and chest on holiday in Spain last September and didn't have a fag for a week, became a month and now it's 6 months.
My final trick was always having a packet of fags in my pocket, always told myself at first I'd just stopped for now and could have one if I wanted.
Don't know about you, but when I was smoking, if ever I ran out or forgot my fags, I always had to have a fag, just something about not having any, so had to buy some.
I also brought home 600 fags, duty free, still in the wardrobe.
Wife had no faith in me and said you'll end up smokin' again so, might as well buy 'em cheap.
Not sure if this little lot would work for anybody else, but worked for me so far, and can't see me starting again now.
Good luck mate.

HowardQ wrote:Gio,
Not sure if this helps but I smoked for 40 odd years until last September.
Had been as high as 20 to 30 a day, untipped initially.
I had been cutting down gradually for years, always smoked more to de-stress at work, (about 10 on a good day 15-20 on a bad one), but they banned it at work and had gradually got down to only 2 or 3 a day. Also been slowly cutting down the strength for years, so finally I ended up on ultra mild. Never found this bit too bad, when you first start on something weaker for 10 days or so, they taste like fresh air, but you do get used to them. A number of mates have tried this and it also worked for them.
Then over last few years, I always seemed to pack up for about a week, if I'd had a bad chest and it didn't seem to be a problem. Was also seriously pigged off about the new smoking laws coming in, (have always smoked with a pint!), so anyway, I had a bad cold and chest on holiday in Spain last September and didn't have a fag for a week, became a month and now it's 6 months.
My final trick was always having a packet of fags in my pocket, always told myself at first I'd just stopped for now and could have one if I wanted.
Don't know about you, but when I was smoking, if ever I ran out or forgot my fags, I always had to have a fag, just something about not having any, so had to buy some.
I also brought home 600 fags, duty free, still in the wardrobe.
Wife had no faith in me and said you'll end up smokin' again so, might as well buy 'em cheap.
Not sure if this little lot would work for anybody else, but worked for me so far, and can't see me starting again now.
Good luck mate.

I smoke Silk Cut silver now, its the mildest fag I can find, anything else and I'm coughing my lungs out it seems, so I'll try what has worked for you.

Thanks for that Howard

That's a bloody coincidence, if you don't manage it, I've got 600 Silk Cut Silver in the wardrobe I can sell you cheap!
Seriously though, good look mate, this year's the best year to do it, or be a complete outcast. It's a lot easier givin up Silk Cut Silver than a roll up!
Did you hear about the smokin ban applying in cars.
If you have a company vehicle of any type, you are at work and it's classed as your workplace, and this law includes a workplace ban. If you are in your own car, you can smoke going to work, but if you use your own car at work, you can't smoke in it.
Never really bothered me cos I never smoked in the car for years, since I last knocked a fag end off on the steering wheel and almost set my balls on fire, (hole in the seat but my privates survived, although I wasn't on a busy road at the time, so could have been worse!). Did occasionally smoke though, if stressed out in a long traffic jam and going nowhere.