stopping smoking

[RABun]

I'm 37, and been smoking for 16 years - about 20-30 a day.

Allan Carr's book was good, I chucked it for quite a while after reading it.

I have just done a straw poll around the staff, I might well set up a group. There are 13 staff here, and 7 of us smoke, the 4 that are here at the moment are all keen to join in. I think it might be a big boost if all the staff are in it together. We obviously have to go outside for a fag, and I think the psychological boost of not being the only one going out for a fag will be a big help.

I am contacting the local NHS cessation service for some guidance later.

[JockInExile]

The bit that I found hardest about giving up was the breaks at work. It was the routine that I was addicted to.

I just went cold turkey and made a coffee rather than going for a ciggie. (Vague memories about coffee not being a good idea when you're trying to quit, but it worked for me).

Smoked for about 10-12 years, had a minor lapse for a week and have been quit for about 5 years now. Still get the odd craving though, normally having had a drink.

[janey69]

Champix is definately the way forward, i smoked 30-40 a day for many many years and was always trying new ways to give up. I havent had a ciggie for a year now having used Champix, It is extremely expenisve and I did have to visit the non smoking nurse for a chat once a fortnight but it worked. It is supposed to block the nicotine receptors in your brain, however for me it just made me so ill for the 3 months I was on it, I really really didnt want to smoke, when I stopped taking them will power had definately set in. Good Luck and never give up giving up.

[SharonStoned]

Become a smoking cessation advisor after quitting !!

I daren't smoke anymore or I'll be out of one of my jobs.

[worm]

Allan Carr's book was good, I chucked it for quite a while after reading it.

[worm]

what methods have folk on here used, and do they work?

Edited August 6, 2008 by worm

[t8yman]

I got my course of Champix yesterday, took the first one at 5pm and woke up this morning not really looking forward to my first ciggie in the car. I had one anyway (my official stop date is next tuesday) but got no buzz off of it at all.

I really hope this works, smoking has now become such a pain in the ass with the ban, and I find myself in non smoking company so often I feel like a leper. Thats without the cost and the improvement in my general health. I just hope I dont eat as a replacement.

[tinygreendragon]

I got my course of Champix yesterday, took the first one at 5pm and woke up this morning not really looking forward to my first ciggie in the car. I had one anyway (my official stop date is next tuesday) but got no buzz off of it at all.

I really hope this works, smoking has now become such a pain in the ass with the ban, and I find myself in non smoking company so often I feel like a leper. Thats without the cost and the improvement in my general health. I just hope I dont eat as a replacement.

[Atlanteanlost]

Bloody easy, don't know what all the fuss is about

[greenfairy43]

Bloody easy, don't know what all the fuss is about

[ampersand]

Bloody easy, don't know what all the fuss is about

[t8yman]

Did you just ask your doctor for Champix?? or did you have to go to the stop smoking sessions?

Edited January 20, 2009 by t8yman

[Katster]

I need some advice.

I don't smoke very often, just when I'm drunk really, and don't want to smoke a naughty fag. My smoking of naughty fags has decreased recently to only having had maybe 2 or 3 joints so far this year (I know it's only January but I used to smoke it daily!!).

My new man smokes properly, he wants to give up.

What can I do to help him???

I can give up the cigarettes I have around him, so that I am ultimately a no-smoker and so he might then feel guilty about smoking around me? But what else can I do to help him? He says he's tried loads of times to quit but has always ended up back on them

[Radar]

I don't know but all these people quitting is really getting me down cos I don't really want to

[Katster]

I don't know but all these people quitting is really getting me down cos I don't really want to

[sifi]

My new man smokes properly, he wants to give up.

What can I do to help him???

[rabid]

My new man smokes properly, he wants to give up.

[Katster]

Tell him that he gets no sex unless he gives up.

That should work.

[Chocscoffer]

I need some advice.

I don't smoke very often, just when I'm drunk really, and don't want to smoke a naughty fag. My smoking of naughty fags has decreased recently to only having had maybe 2 or 3 joints so far this year (I know it's only January but I used to smoke it daily!!).

My new man smokes properly, he wants to give up.

What can I do to help him???

I can give up the cigarettes I have around him, so that I am ultimately a no-smoker and so he might then feel guilty about smoking around me? But what else can I do to help him? He says he's tried loads of times to quit but has always ended up back on them

[Katster]

I have now been a non smoker for 6 years and I used to be a 20 a day girl. i'd even have a cigarete first thing in the morning before brushing my teeth or making a brew! I tried will power, hypnotherapy, accupuncture, tablets from the dr and all the nicorette I could eat! Nothing worked until I read:

ALLEN CARR - EASY WAY TO STOP SMOKING.

I found it so simple! The advantage of this book is that if you are a current smoker, you continue to smoke, he actually advises you when your last cigarette shouldbe (that is near the end of the book). I cannot recommend this book enough. If your bloke doesn't like reading then you can get it on DVD or indeed Nintendo DS!

I have never had cravings or missed smoking at all. it is not a book full of scare tactics either it is plain common sense but it seems the way it is put across the message really does sink in. i have bought this for people and I have yet to know anybody who has read it, not to stop smoking.

[dakyras]

He loves reading but he's not so keen on Allen Carr , I'll suggest the book to him, thanks

[Radar]

It's affecting his health though, so I really want to help him if I can.

[Katster]

*gulp* how old did you say he was again?

you may find a way to help me here - I am understandably concerned with not being in health difficulties for some considerable while, if ever...!

I think it only brings it home when you think about the sh*t that could happen. I suggest visiting a cancer ward, if I wasn't such a coward I'd do it myself.

[Katster]

Alan Carr's an idiot.

Allen Carr reminds me of Dick Van Dyke in Diagnosis Murder. Which is only a good thing.

Edited January 28, 2009 by Katster

[rabid]

*gulp* how old did you say he was again?

you may find a way to help me here - I am understandably concerned with not being in health difficulties for some considerable while, if ever...!

I think it only brings it home when you think about the sh*t that could happen. I suggest visiting a cancer ward, if I wasn't such a coward I'd do it myself.