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It starts getting a tiny bit easier after about 3-4 days. The worst days of all most report are in the first 2 weeks. After a couple of weeks you can look back and see how much harder it was the first days. The real improvements come at about 4-6 months when you have finally replaced many smoking related habits with non smoking related ones.
Never forget the hard first days no matter how normal non smoking becomes -- it should remind you that you don't want to go through it again.
Good luck to those quitting/trying to - makes such a difference and I'm looking forward to those days once more!
'cept I've had a malignant neck tumour this year (3 ops and radiotherapy and happily over it - so far!) - now I can't prove that the smoking caused it (I used to smoke French fags and the incidence of oral cancer in French fag smokers is higher than smokers of Virginia tobacco) but there's a very good chance it may have precipitated it................
if that's not a good enough reason to pack in the fags, I don't know what is......
not hungry but huge chocolate craving aaaarrggghhhhhh- keep going people!!!!!
Day 87 for me, by the way, which means that if you laid the fags I haven't smoked end to end they would reach nearly a tenth of a mile. Frightening!
Hint: Use this thread to have a good rant when you need to. It's so much more convenient than having to hide the body and clean up the bloodstains.
cant be doing with paying allen carr to tell me what i already know- easy way to give up smoking- dont buy anymore cigarettes!
whatever works for the individual!!
am going for a run tonight and know that my run will be alot better if i stay fag free today
well done Huge- we need to show the same resolve with this smoking as we do with our running!
Personally I've already gained a lot of weight -- in my wallet :-)
The real test will be the Friday night bottle of wine! I am volatile enough after a few without the Nicodemon getting hold!(good name skinny, sums it up well)
Hello Bootoo, well done on stopping! Am on day 11 myself after smoking since i was 13, am now 34. It feels great to run without coughing my guts up after a run. I have also noticed that I no longer wheeze or stink. Not stinking is quite good for the social life!!
There are times when i find it hard and times that i just don’t think about it. But i am trying to avoid social situations that would normally lead to a ciggy.
That’s right i have now become a self sufficient hermit living off the land in the Outer Hebrides.
…………Errr, I mean I have stopped going to the pub!!
Once again welldone and keep it up.
Good luck with the weekend everyone!
Major milestone for me tomorrow, 3 months. And it *does* get easier, guys, it really does.
Since quitting I've done a few marathons and a few triathlons as well...
Stay strong this weekend and you can look back on it with pride...
Lightheadedness..
you may feel a bit woozy, dizzy.. guess what... its oxygen...
you may feel anxious....
you may find that you feel you are forgetting something...
you may harbour less than kind thoughts about your partner...
you will have whole days of sheer joy
you may have days of sheer sorrow..
you may have days where you feel you cant go on....
your partner may be put off a touch by your bottom burps.... and so will everyone else..
you may re-discover your teenage acne....
you may feel like getting fitter, now that u have more energy..
you may feel that you want to reward yourself by eating junk food... (best not to if poss)....
So, remember.... your not a freak.. your normal and everyone else will have been through the same thing..
I wish you the very best of luck with ure quits... whichever method you choose to quit.. i.e. NRT or CT there WILL be someone on the boards ready to help you through.
Lightheadedness.. (after beer)
you may feel a bit woozy, dizzy.. guess what... its Beer!!!!...
you may find that you feel you are forgetting something...Like last night (Beer)
you may harbour less than kind thoughts about your partner...(that’s normal!!)
you will have whole days of sheer joy (beer and brunette!!!)
you may have days of sheer sorrow..(beer, only to find shes a he?
you may have days where you feel you cant go on....(when he tells your mates)
your partner may be put off a touch by your bottom burps.... and so will everyone else.. (don’t get so close then)
you may re-discover your teenage acne....(aw…thanks)
you may feel like getting fitter, now that u have more energy..(another round then?)
you may feel that you want to reward yourself by eating junk food... (best not to if poss)....(try beer?)
So, remember.... your not a freak.. your normal and everyone else will have been through the same thing..(even is she became a he, and you’re a spotty farter!!)
Only joking, am sure there are plenty of good pints errr points. (BEER)
Huge -- congrats on becoming a dad. NO CIGARS, understand?
SOG is at 93 days, having not smoked some 1581 fags, much to the annoyance of HM Treasury.
Yes I made it through the weekend without a cig! I am v happy about it!
Congrats SOG. I hope I can say I have been quit for the same length of time soon!
Apparenty Allen Carr does a book about food too. I hope it's not called the easy way to give up food!
The big test of the pub is on Friday! If I can make it through that I am cured!!