Smoking ............... No more.

[Cletus Van Damme]

Well that was a waste of time. I can only get Champix if I attend loads of clinics that I just can't make it to.

Back to the drawing board then, I'll just have to do it the old fashioned way. I won't use anything with nicotine in it cos I've used them all before, so it'll have to be cold turkey and willpower.

Have you tried contacting the NHS smoke free line? Thats what I did on the advice from my doctor and they prescribed me the Champix. It may be different in different counties, but it was very straight forward in mine.

http://smokefree.nhs.uk/ways-to-quit/call-the-nhs-helpline/

 

[Hobbio]

Cheers mate, just tried it but all they did was direct me to the stop smoking clinics.

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Cheers mate, just tried it but all they did was direct me to the stop smoking clinics.

Thats what they did to me, gave me the number of my local stop smoking centre/clinic. I then phoned the number they gave me and I was given the option of either going into the clinic to see an advisor or getting a telephone consultation. I took the telephone consultation at work, the appointment was made very quickly. I just explained to the phone advisor how I had failed so many times using nicotine replacement methods and that I had read about champix and would like to try it. She explained the possible side effects and then sent a presciption through to my doctor. It is a really good system, well in Cumbria anyway.

 

[Hobbio]

Right! Next week booked off work, wife and kid are going camping with a group of friends from Tue to Fri and I'm picking up my new bike on Saturday. Tue 28/05 is my stop date, and I'll be doing it the old fashioned way.

This will be the last time I stop smoking.

 

[hopless500]

Right! Next week booked off work, wife and kid are going camping with a group of friends from Tue to Fri and I'm picking up my new bike on Saturday. Tue 28/05 is my stop date, and I'll be doing it the old fashioned way.

This will be the last time I stop smoking.

Good on ya. Go for it

 

[korsch]

For me personally what worked perfectly was reducing and reducing by getting rid of habit of smoking with coffee or after dinner. Once you get to this point you can take it wherever you want.
good luck

 

[grumpyoldgit]

Right! Next week booked off work, wife and kid are going camping with a group of friends from Tue to Fri and I'm picking up my new bike on Saturday. Tue 28/05 is my stop date, and I'll be doing it the old fashioned way.

This will be the last time I stop smoking.

Good luck.I went to the Alan Carr clinic.8 months & counting.Btw,I was on about 80 a day.

 

[Peteaud]

Good luck.I went to the Alan Carr clinic.8 months & counting.Btw,I was on about 80 a day.

80 a day

 

[roadrash]

bloody hell i wasnt smoking that many in a week

 

[Robxxx7]

Still off them here ... been about 3 1/2 months now and despite the odd yearning i've been as good as gold.

 

[grumpyoldgit]

Still off them here ... been about 3 1/2 months now and despite the odd yearning i've been as good as gold.

That yearning never goes away,or so I am told.

 

[hopless500]

That yearning never goes away,or so I am told.

Not entirely true. You still get the very occasional 'a smoke would be quite nice' thought, but can't be *rsed to follow through with it.
As opposed to the psycopathic tendencies in evidence the first few weeks due to the constant wanting to smoke.

Edit// Managed to not kill anyone or chop fingers, cats' tails etc off when cutting the hedge pi**ed as a fart in an attempt to not drive/cycle to the shops for baccy. Nice to wake up the following day and think, oh, that's nice, someone's cut the hedge.....

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Well I have not smoked for a week now. I am using Champix and it is really good, but it does not totally do away with wihdrawal pangs but it certainly dilutes them by a hell of a lot. I have found that when I get that anxious feeling of needed a smoke that going out cycling totally gets rid of it, I seem to suffer most around tea time. It is the habbit that I struggle with, when I normally smoke after a meal, in the car etc. Still it is getting easier and I have no intention of starting ever again (how many times have I said that before!) this time.

 

[Peteaud]

Well I have not smoked for a week now. I am using Champix and it is really good, but it does not totally do away with wihdrawal pangs but it certainly dilutes them by a hell of a lot. I have found that when I get that anxious feeling of needed a smoke that going out cycling totally gets rid of it, I seem to suffer most around tea time. It is the habbit that I struggle with, when I normally smoke after a meal, in the car etc. Still it is getting easier and I have no intention of starting ever again (how many times have I said that before!) this time.

This time you mean it.

And treat yourself to something with the money saved, each victory over the habit brings you closer to being an ex smoker.

 

[Velo711]

Your stories are inspirational. I've been smoking 38 years. Not once have I tried to quit. I find it quite disgusting too.
I've never wanted to take a drug to get off of a drug. I think I have a fear of quitting. It is such a subtle addiction.
At least if you take another drug, it does something, with cigarettes, it feels like there is no effect. Go figure, the only weed
the government makes legal, is the one that's fatal. My times coming.