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Hopefully you will give up long before but when you are running think how much better you will feel running without smoking. Eventually our brains get the message!
Good luck and welcome to a whole new world...
Its normal to relapse sometimes and buy a packet (of 10, not 20!!) so dont beat yourself up. Good luck!
From the day I stopped over 12 years ago(and there's nothing worse than a born again non-smoker)when anyone offers me one,I simply say"I don't smoke" rather than"I'm trying to give up"or similar.If you say you're giving up,it leads rise to speculation you may one day start again,wheras if you are simply a non smoker then no-one need know you smoked in the first place.
The other thing is that smokers don't want other smokers to quit in a funny sort of way(the social co-dependancy thing).Next time a pal offers you a fag and you say you're trying to stop yet they still insist.....take it,then snap it in half in front of them.After a while they'll stop offering you cigarettes,trust me.
Just my 20 pence.Hope it helps,and good luck.
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Got a throat like sandpaper, and am missing certain good things in life eg tasting food properly. Tasting wine properly. And I want to run further and longer.
there, I've said it now. got to do it
I'm going to keep a diary this time so everytime i think of one, i'll write it down and write a "why not to" next to it
thanks for the good lucks - I really want to do it this time!
No I dont feel any better, I still hate exercise, I want a fag, my lung function was recently tested at 120% of expected. Am 42 and a smoker of nearly thirty years averaging 20 a day.
I've now had to stop running beacause I have been hit with quittitus (that series of viral illnesses that seem to plague just stopped smokers).
However, this is now raising the stubborn streak in me (we all have one). I WILL do that 10K one day and I have mentally dissassociated smoking with running, they do not go together.
So far, it seems to be working.
If you want to go cold turkey, do it with a hangover.
Good luck
I was out last night and burnt a shedload of fags watching the footie in the pub. I could'nt face lighting up now even if you paid me.
the other thing I just did is put on the heart rate monitor. I don't smoke on the weekends (don't ask) and on sunday nights my resting rate is 48 - 50 bpm. now, over 12 hours since I last had a ciggie, the rate is in excess of 80 bpm. and the barking thing is, I'm a healthcare worker.
SO glad I found this thread. I am now going to say, I am a non-smoker, have been for 12 hours and hopefully will be forever.
Good luck all...
PS that said, when you draw your pension and buy an annuity, make sure you tell them you DO smoke though. . .
Why tell them you smoke?
and if i am 65, on 300 filterless gauloise a day, the life expectancy is pretty short, hence an increase in the pension. its not as important as the interest rate conditions prevailing at the time, but its the one time when being a smoker can be a positive thing...
the people who do that kind of mathematical analysis are normally exceptionally well paid, mathematically brilliant but sadly rather dull. And often called Clive.
so I should tell them I'm a 70 year old obese male who drinks 20 pints a day and smokes. Ok, got it.
ho hum, 16 hours ish without a snout. can't say I am missing them yet. hows everyone else getting on ?
You can go quite a long time without, say a day, after a hangover and then the craving hits. You start again. Just one. Etc
Although substantially unpublicised, (my local cardiologist dept didn't know), assistance, both financial and mental, in giving up smoking is available on the NHS. Talk to your GPs smoking clinic.
Patches are 16 quid a week privately. Last Saturday, I collected four packets (four weeks) on prescription, just over six quid the lot.
So far the difference has funded a new pair of Reebok Premier Roads, Ronhill gloves and a natty little water bottle from sweatshop.
And what the patches do to your head....... back to the sixties man, a 15 mg patch is the equivalent nicotine blast of 150 of my old cigarettes in a day. Oh look, there's a fire engine climbing up our lightning conductor dude!
so far so good - going down the pub tonight so should look really funny with my inhalator (although to be fair I am using one sixth of the recommended dose which is possibly why i had a temper tantrum last night)
Just a suggestion. I suggested to the quack that I did not need the full strength patches. I am glad she overruled me. You may find that your efforts are more successful if you go closer to the recommended dose.
Now on the equivalent of 100 fags a day.
All the time you are using patches you are still dependent on something. Give the crutch up - the physical withdrawal symptoms are tiny - you need to fight the psychological demons and you can't do that while you are still using a replacement of any sort.
I know its been said before but can I suggest Allen Carr?
Good luck to you all
M xx
I just know my weak spot comes down the pub after about half a glass of something, so I have the "it's there if I need it" inhalator.
The temper tantrum was horribly spectacular though. Reduced me to giggles!
Oh yeah - that's my top tip. If it feels like youa re going to explode, go for having a paddy in the most comical fashion you can - you end up laughing as does the person who is witnessing the rant. and they say laughter is the best medicine...
but for me (and I know I look like a muppet with a bra-strap like structure around my chest), I have just strapped on the heart rate monitor this morning. The fact that I can actually SEE the benefit of not smoking in a lower flashing number somehow works for me. going to avoid the pub for a couple of days though - most of my friends smoke.
oh and DB - the smokers clinics are a great idea, but sadly highly discriminatory against those of us with lisps. Pretend you've got one, and then try saying "East London Smoking Cessation Services". its hardly fair, innit ?
Seriously though, stopping smoking is very, very difficult. The thing I can say from personal experience is that smoking makes you feel like crap, stopping has untold health benefits.
I feel like a different person since I stopped. Just keep at it and try your best.
Did the patch thing for about two weeks then went cold turkey, it was worst down the pub and sitting behind the wheel on long journeys, for the second L just made sure I had no fags around me for the first I just suffered.
I am still not clear of the cr*p and stuff in my lungs and have had a bad year for coughs colds chest infections etc.
running times have gone to the proverbial place in a basket but I am now finally turning the corner and feeling the benefit.
it is a long road but hopefully worth the effort in the end.