Help to give up smoking??
- Thread starter Guvnor
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Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
Another vote for Champix, (Zyban has a few side effects, incl mood swings, Champix is a more bespoke alternative)
Try willpower alone (you're a better man than me if it works)
WIth Champix you tend to feel averse to smoking while you're on the medication which stops you being tempted to try one and see etc etc.
Best of luck, it's a fantastic feeling to be free from the slavery and ill health after all these years
Try willpower alone (you're a better man than me if it works)
WIth Champix you tend to feel averse to smoking while you're on the medication which stops you being tempted to try one and see etc etc.
Best of luck, it's a fantastic feeling to be free from the slavery and ill health after all these years
515mm
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Carmarthenshire
As with anything else that's hard to do, like losing weight in a world where bacon exists; if you fall off the wagon, don't beat yourself up about it.
Just start again tomorrow.
Every day without fags is a victory.
Best of luck.
Just start again tomorrow.
Every day without fags is a victory.
Best of luck.
Zippy
New Member
- Location
- Camborne, Cornwall
Hi Guvnor. I don't know what the set up is in your area - is there a Stop sSmoking Service in Essex? a couple of things come to mind:
You are more likely to quit and stay smokefree if you have the support and on-going advice from a trained stop Smoking Service advisor for as long as you need. This gives you someone to seek support from, ask questions to and monitor progress with throughout the process. Your local surgery should be able to tell you how the service works in your area.
Secondly, if you decide to use nicotine replacement therapy it is far cheaper to have it via prescription at your surgery than over the counter. Again, your surgery should be able to advise. Certainly Zyban and Champix are only available on prescription.
If you call 0800 169 0 169 the national Stop Smoking Helpline they should be able to tell you how it works in your neck of the woods and give you local contact numbers.
You won't regret going smokefree. I have been for six years now and feeling much better than I did as a smoker.
My job? Oh, I'm a Stop Smoking Service advisor for West Cornwall!
You are more likely to quit and stay smokefree if you have the support and on-going advice from a trained stop Smoking Service advisor for as long as you need. This gives you someone to seek support from, ask questions to and monitor progress with throughout the process. Your local surgery should be able to tell you how the service works in your area.
Secondly, if you decide to use nicotine replacement therapy it is far cheaper to have it via prescription at your surgery than over the counter. Again, your surgery should be able to advise. Certainly Zyban and Champix are only available on prescription.
If you call 0800 169 0 169 the national Stop Smoking Helpline they should be able to tell you how it works in your neck of the woods and give you local contact numbers.
You won't regret going smokefree. I have been for six years now and feeling much better than I did as a smoker.
My job? Oh, I'm a Stop Smoking Service advisor for West Cornwall!
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
mickle said:
An excellent piece of advice, as others have said. It does give you an insight into the nature of addiction, and it really helps. Well worth a read.
Me too, but only after I had decided that it was the most important thing I could do and that I was a non-smoker rather than someone who was giving up.Rhythm Thief said:
I would certainly avoid alcohol in any situation where you need will power, especially to start with.
Bill Gates
Guest
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- West Sussex
Giving up smoking was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Nearly everyone smoked at the time and there was no escape - cinemas, restaurants, pubs, buses and trains etc. no bans in those days. Always getting offered cigarettes by family and friends was a real test of willpower. Advertising and commercial sponsorship of F1 and snooker was in your face and no health warnings on packets.
Anyone who starts smoking these days needs their head examined.
Smoking is addictive and it's associated with relaxing and socialising although the reality is that it's a stimulant and anti-social.
1) You have to want to give it up and enlist support from close family members.
2) Get rid of all the cigarettes in the house
3) Don't think that substitutes are going to satisfy the cravings because they won't.
4) Be prepared to suffer during withdrawal. Other people have done it but if they say it was easy then they either didn't inhale properly in the first place or are lying.
5) Believe this fact. You are perefectly capable of dealing with situations much better by yourself such as stress without a cigarette than with one.
6) Consider yourself a non smoker from day 1. If you have the mindset that you are trying to give up then the mere idea of trying assumes there is a potential of failure and then counting the days takes on a signifiacnce of it's own.
You are now a non smoker pure and simple.
Anyone who starts smoking these days needs their head examined.
Smoking is addictive and it's associated with relaxing and socialising although the reality is that it's a stimulant and anti-social.
1) You have to want to give it up and enlist support from close family members.
2) Get rid of all the cigarettes in the house
3) Don't think that substitutes are going to satisfy the cravings because they won't.
4) Be prepared to suffer during withdrawal. Other people have done it but if they say it was easy then they either didn't inhale properly in the first place or are lying.
5) Believe this fact. You are perefectly capable of dealing with situations much better by yourself such as stress without a cigarette than with one.
6) Consider yourself a non smoker from day 1. If you have the mindset that you are trying to give up then the mere idea of trying assumes there is a potential of failure and then counting the days takes on a signifiacnce of it's own.
You are now a non smoker pure and simple.
e-rider
Banned member
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- South West
I found the cravings peaked between day 4-6 and lasted for about 2 weeks.
After 3 months things get very easy indeed and after a year you wont even think about them at all. I'm five years in and feel just like I did before my first cig now. I can even get really drunk and still not think about smoking.
It takes some serious effort but You can do it - it's worth it in the end. without doubt
After 3 months things get very easy indeed and after a year you wont even think about them at all. I'm five years in and feel just like I did before my first cig now. I can even get really drunk and still not think about smoking.
It takes some serious effort but You can do it - it's worth it in the end. without doubt
Thanks for all the good advice folks, very much appreciated. I'm 3 days in now and to be honest, not finding it that bad. I'm using will power alone and it seems to be going well. I very rarely drink at all so that shouldn't be to much of a problem. The mrs being pregnant and not hearing a weezy sound when I breath are good incentives so far so hopefully, I'll go the full distance and look forward to becoming a non smoker
thanks again folks.
thanks again folks.
mickle
innit
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Brilliant, keep it up Guv. I'm smoke free since August and have never looked back.
And If I can blah blah so can you cliche etc.
And If I can blah blah so can you cliche etc.
Good luck Govenor.
I have been off them for about 6 years.
Just gave up no patches or anything.
Found the first couple of days OK. Then after a couple of weeks had the usual I am over it could just have one, mainly in the pub around 11ish!
2 things I focused on, which may or may not be true.
1st physical addiction is over in 24 - 48 hrs, the longing is purely mental.
2nd the "high" from a cigarette only brings the smoker to the same level as a non smoker. What you are doing is recovering from a low. So why bother in the first place.
As I said, could be complete eyewash but worked for me during the 11ish mental debates in the pub.
I have been off them for about 6 years.
Just gave up no patches or anything.
Found the first couple of days OK. Then after a couple of weeks had the usual I am over it could just have one, mainly in the pub around 11ish!
2 things I focused on, which may or may not be true.
1st physical addiction is over in 24 - 48 hrs, the longing is purely mental.
2nd the "high" from a cigarette only brings the smoker to the same level as a non smoker. What you are doing is recovering from a low. So why bother in the first place.
As I said, could be complete eyewash but worked for me during the 11ish mental debates in the pub.
Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
If I slip off the wagon and try a fag now when having a bear, two years after giving up it makes me feel physically sick, but alcohol is the danger as it reduces your willpower. I will always be a smoker I just choose to abstain.
I've actually found it very easy and i've not missed it at all. I'm noticing the benefits already so happy days....happy days indeed
I quit over five years ago and while it was difficult, it was probably the best thing I've ever done in my life. The first few weeks are the toughest but it gets better with time. I quit cold turkey but my wife who quit at the same time, used patches. If you fail at quitting, don't stop and give up on quitting. Try another medicine or treatment and try, try again until you succeed.
