Wonder if anyone can help me, I'm trying to start running again, and trying to give up smoking. Unfortunately the two don't seem to go as if I have a cigarette I decide that I can't then run!! Has anyone sucessfully managed to stop smoking - and if so how!?!?!?
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You could try something similar - go for a run, and if you still feel like a cig when you return, then you can have one......but if you do still want one, tell yourself that you can wait till you have showered.......but then you will be nice and fresh, so you don't want to get all smelly again, so wait until after you have eaten.......oh, you can last half an hour more.....and so on.
There's nothing to stop you running after smoking, in fact it might help clear the smoke out of your lungs. Try a run having just smoked, and next time don't smoke before you go. The difference may encourage you to stop!
Others on the forum have used patches, gum, hypnosis etc. Try them all if you need to. Stopping smoking is the best thing you will ever do for yourself. Starting running is the second best.
I'm sure you've heard a thousand stories about how to do it, the most important things are that you decide you DEFINITELY WILL DO IT, and that you DON'T GIVE UP!
My running partner has almost completely stopped since she started running. As Nessie says, you start to notice the difference it makes to how you run and how you feel, and that in itself motivates you to keep cutting down.
You've already made a great start on both running and quitting smoking just by deciding you want to do it. So keep going! Good luck!
a couple of hours afterwards, and hopefully you will suffer from a really bad throat
infection for a few week or two afterwards,during which time the last thing you will want
to do is smoke.
By the time it gets better the craving should have gone away, and you should be in
a bit more of a routine of going running.
Worked for me but there are probably more pleasant ways of giving up.
Occupied means doing someting every day after work to avoid "socialising" down the pub or going straight home to a glass of wine and a cig, so that after the gym or a run (or whatever else you choose to do after work) by the time you get in, shower, change, eat, etc it's time for bed and you haven't had time to smoke.
I always smoked a lot more when I drank so alcohol was the key. You don't have to give it up forever - just until your will power is a litle stronger! :-)
Oh and hang out with lots of non-smokers!
Ex smoker cold turkey
I'd forgotten the keeping occupied one. My after evening meal ciggie was one of my worst craving times, so rather than light up, I'd tell myself I would have one after I'd done the dishes, then I would put on a washing, then offer myself one as a reward for doing some ironing. Then the clothes would have to be put away, etc. etc. etc.
I've never had a tidier house - before or since!
Mind you, sitting by my dad's hospital bed and holding his hand as he expired from a smoking-induced cancer also helped with the motivation. Anyone who's been with someone in the very final stages of cancer will understand.
Lady, gradually you'll go from a smoker who does a bit of running, to a runner who does a bit of smoking, to a pure runner. You'll feel so much better in yourself when you get to the final stage. Go for it!
Allen Carr "The Easy Way To Stop Smoking"
It was recommended to me by a friend who has been of them for over a year. Ive been of the tabs for 3 months now and rarely even think about them. Its a popular book and he even encourages you to smoke while you are reading it!
Try it you might like it
Please keep badgering me as to how I`m doing with "been off the fags and on the jog/walking"
lucky enough not to suffer any.
I gave up easily four months ago and do not
even fancy one now or when I am out,
this is after smoking for 15 years.
you can only get this on perscription and
most GP's think it is too expensive.
I joined a smoking group and they gave me a letter to give to my GP.
But it worked for me
Which ever way you choose good luck
i stopped smoking 2 years ago after many many attepts.
i found that using an alternetive method of taking nicotine ie gum or nasal spray helped me.
i thought of it as changing my method of taking nicotine rather than giving up. i still see myself as a nicotine addict but i just chew some gum every now and then.(which isnt harmfull) it is all in the way you think about the addiction.
i also gave my self a date 3 weeks before i gave up and prepared mentally for the big day. at the time my wife was pregnant and the midwife used to bring a machine that measured levels of smoke realted toxins in my body every week. i found that this was a real help as i aimed every week to get a low score.
there are smoking cessation groups all over where you can get a similar test every week. try your local doctors.
most of all keep trying! it took me 5 years of attempts before i finally did it.
good luck
roger
A friend of mine at the office is currently trying to stop. Having free reign on internet access I told him to do as much research on lung cancer as he could find. Yup, scared the shit out of him, and he's now in his 3rd week. I've got a feeling after reading some of the literature, at his own pace, without having it thrown in his face, he's going to keep it up.
Bugger me, it scared the pooh out of me too just being an ex-smoker.
Tim
Go for it - my sister in law and two friends have "used" the book. Allen Carr - The Easy Way to Stop Smoking - it's addictive. It can change your life.
It's a myth, that the tobacco industry is happy to perpetuate, that 'giving up' smoking requires willpower (isn't that a loaded phrase in itself... what are you 'giving up' exactly??).
It'll cost you less that two packets of cigs, and since buying it I've saved thousands of pounds, my asthma has substantially reduced and best of all I no longer have that kind of 'self loathing' that you can feel on those occasions when you REALLY don't want to be lighting up yet another fag but don't know how NOT to.
i spent a few days in a vascular ward (working) in the local hospital, seeing the effects of smoking first hand is quite a shock.
oh and by the way lung cancer is not the only way smoking is bad for you, if you are interested try C.O.P.D. now this is very common and irreversable.
this shocked me into trying again... without any N.R.T. 5 weeks and still going strong. from not able to run 1 mile to 8 miles at 7.30 min miles, just have to put your mind to in.
good luck
if any one needs more info.......
xt350
What is "copd"?
Thanks In Advance
XB
Would like to point out to Lady that I understand exactly what she's going through with this. Am struggling with the weed myself.
Also, have nursed cancer patients. i know what it does to people, unfortuantely, you then find yourself in fear that it's too late (which is totally illogical) but soemtimes it's the fear that keeps you hooked.
Lady I'm behind you one hundred percent and if you want to attempt a joint effort, send me a mail and we'll sort out the arrangements
Yep, that's what I thought when
Allen Carr's book "The Easy Way To Stop Smoking" was recommended to me!
I smoked my last fag 2.5 years ago, whilst reading the last chapter of his book. Not touched one since.
But my cravings are worse than other peoples!!
Are they really?
For the price of 2 packets of fags? You'd be daft not to read it. Do it tomorrow!!
Deev.
Good luck to all those trying.
You can do it too!
C.O.P.D. is an umbreller term for disorders of the lungs, like emphysema, small airway disease and chronic bronchitis. it is the 4th largest killer in the developed world. and once they start are irreversable, so after 10 years of smoking it was quite a shock.
pardon me for not knowing the web address, but if you are interested look in your search engine for the 'british thoracic society' very informative.
good luck
Good luck Lady.