My guilty secret...

[Scilly Suffolk]

... is that I've started smoking again. After just a couple of weeks I can feel the effects.

I don't seem to be that bothered by a nicotine craving, but being out of work again I've too much time on my hands and it's just something to do.

It started innocently enough, cadging "just the one" and then buying some to return the "favour".

Apart from not being so pathetic and to HTFU, do any of you have some advice to help me knock this on the head?

 

[MontyVeda]

i've stopped and started so many times i've lost count.


you need something to do... take up origami if you roll your own and enjoy 'rolling'

put a hurdle before each and every smoke. i.e. after the house is spotless, the bike has been serviced and the garden tidied, etc...

I guess you'd quit for a considerable time... so you can do it again.

 

[chris-s]

Have you considered the 'electronic cigs'? A number of friends adopted them and haven't looked back, mind you I think they are just as addicted to them as before. The way I understand it is they still contain the nicotine so you get the 'hit', but thats not the harmful part.

Chris

 

[Fab Foodie]

Zyban.

 

[subaqua]

Zyban.

and then you can murder people legitimately



patches and some willpower is what finally worked for me. oh that and having my daughter say in a "im not scared of becky taylor" way , that she wasn't scared of anything except me dying from smoking . that sort of put the final coffin nail in.

 

[YahudaMoon]

Take up TT road racing :-D if you already dont.

 

[VamP]

You have to want to stop. Really really want to.


Then you will.

 

[dan_bo]

Zyban.

F*** Zyban. My missus wasn't my missus on Zyban. Wasn't smoking- was scary.

Go and have a tug instead.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Go and have a tug instead.

Certainly cheaper and tax free, for now.

 

[dan_bo]

And certainly keeps your smoking hand busy.

Might want a cig after though.

 

[4F]

Jimmy, MTFU. By the way nice meeting you on Sunday, that was a good ride out.

Have to do it again soon

 

[Fab Foodie]

F*** Zyban. My missus wasn't my missus on Zyban. Wasn't smoking- was scary.

Go and have a tug instead.

I tried that first, then I found I was soon up to 20 a day!

 

[smokeysmoo]

I tried that first, then I found I was soon up to 20 a day!

 

[Crankarm]

I don't suppose a doctor telling you "Jimmy, you have lung cancer" would make you stop? Plus all the other bad effects it has on your organs - heart disease, stomach cancer, circulatory problems, teeth and smelling like an ash tray. Smoking is a disgusting habit.

How can you afford to smoke if you are unemployed?

 

[steve52]

do what ever it takes to stop and if you must have one make sure u do a hill climb first