General Chat

Thank you all for your support, I keep thinking of all the advice you have all given me and it sure helps.

Sylv x

I gave up smoking 11 years ago. I gave up because i wanted to, i used no patches or tablets or inhalers nothing just good old fashioned will power, i didn't put my fag money away , i just no longer scraped around for money for basic things, i cannot believe that people pay £6.50 for a packet nowadays!!!
Oh and if the smell of a dirty ashtray doesn't make you feel ill, then i don't know what will.

Good luck at the clinic today, Sylvia. Buy yourself something nice with the money you have saved, no matter how small. `And well done, you are getting there!! BC XX

My wife and I used Zyban. She stopped smoking and I stopped using Alcohol. I have never touched Alcohol since, about 5 years now.

Early this year my daughter said to me that I smelled bad when I had been smoking and could n't I stop. So I did. No pills, no patches, no inhalers, and I have to say I found it very easy, I just did n't smoke any more.
If I need any reminders of why I stopped, the first smoker I go near is enough to remind me that smokers STINK. And they don't realise it.

Also if you use patches or any other nicotine replacement, you are not breaking the nicotine addiction, but merely teasing your brain with small doses of the drug. You've got to get it out of your body which takes about three days. Remember nicotine is more addictive than heroine. But give it a week or so and it gets sooo much easier.

Thanks for being honest makes me feel better

Sylv xx

Awww thanks Sylvia...

I'l be honest there are times she tries to bribe us to get her a packet of fags!! lol :o)

You can only do your best.....

What an achievement . Hope she is doing ok. their is hope for me yet.

Love to your nan and thanks

Sylvia

Good for you Sylvia...Well Done!!!

My Nan started smoking at 10 years old and that was just on brown paper in them days or so she says....

She is almost 91 now and gave up 10 months ago...lol

We are all so proud of her and love her to bits....

You keep going Sylvia........YOU CAN DO IT

Amy

Thanks for that info, I am due at the smoking clinic tomorrow so will enquire.

Sylvia

There is a new pill now it is called Champix., you might be able to have it if you cant have zyban.

Thank you

Well done!!
Keep yourself busy Sylvia and also think of all the extra money you'll have in your purse to treat yourself with.....pamper day mebbe? :O)

I'm soo glad I don't smoke now.

Mau xx

No puffs for 3 days and going out of my head

sylvia

If your going to give up, you have to do it 100%., you have to STOP there and then, no puffs here and there...because you will never break the habit.

Good luk tho, it is a hard one to crack and you will only crack it if you are 100% committed to wanting to give up.

Hi, Thanks again for all your support, I went thru my GP to the smoking clinic. cannot take zyban as am on antidepressants but get my prescriptions free as I am over 60

Sylviax

Just hang in there,you can do it. just keep reminding yourself...You do not smoke.And after you have stopped dont have a wee sneaky puff as it will start you off again.

Marion

Hi Sylvia

I forgot to ask you yesterday.......Are you doing this through the chemist cos if you do you can get your patches on prescription & it works out cheaper....also they monitor you so you can't have a sneaky one lol

Julie :o))

Have you read about Zyban? It really worked for my father-in-law. He'd had many unsuccessful attempts at quitting smoking but this was the drug that helped.

Rose

Well done Sylvia and we will all be here to support you and to make sure you don't slip:-) It was one of the most important decisions I ever made and I am so pleased I did it and so will you be. It is not easy but very worth it! BC XX

Hi Sylvia
I had been smoking from the age of 14 until I was 60. I woke up one morning with a horrible cough but had cigs in the morning until my throat couldn't stand anymore. Got through the next day without one and carried on day after day saying not today and still saying it after three years.
If you really want to give up you will, and feel better for it. I do and so do a lot of my friends, no more smelly clothes and houses
Good luck
Maureen