Day one

How we doing girls???????????? :D :D

none yet for me...I'll make this quick as typing is making me think about it (eeeeeek!!!!) trying desperately to block it all from my mind!!!!!

((((((((((((((( Good Luck Quitters!!! )))))))))))))))))))))))
Olivia xxxxxxx

But you aren't quitters - you are gainers :)

Just think how much money you will have saved by this time next week by not buying any more cigarettes - around £20??? Think about how much that will be by the end of January - £80 plus - and then think how much that will be by end of of the year - you'll all be £1000+ up !!!!

Keep going girls - you're doing fine.   Drink some water when you feel tht you want a ciggie :D

Margot

Good luck, girls :)  Don't forget to put your ciggie money in a jar and watch it grow you will have a very nice bit of spending money by the time you take your summer hols.
No, not a jar, too many bad people about :( a Building Society account.

Good luck everyone :D :D :D
You can do it :D
Just think you wont smell like ash trays anymore. :D
Your food will taste better :D
And if your single more guys will want to kiss you ;)
ANd more money to spend on nice meals, nights out, new dog new car :D :D :D :d
Lea :)

Good Luck to you all.

You will be sooo pleased with yourselves.  Because I found it so hard to give up it made me really proud of myself that I did.  It is so worth it. ;)

Hi every body, and Greetings for 2006.  Am wondering how my fellow (new ) , non smokers are doing? I'm a bit jaded , too much champagne last night, but not feeling too bad  without Mr Nicotine in my system. Last fag about 1 o'clock , so that's nearly 12 hours ago. I am reading Allens Carrs , " Sop smoking for women" book , and finding it very good. Threw the ashtrays in the bin this morning along with the fags, even thrown the lighters out. Feels weird to be doing this , never thought I'd be a non smoker, it's like entering a new world in a way.  Starting to ramble a bit here, maybe it's nicotine deprivation talking! Hope every one out there is feeling positive .

I am trying to keep all of these things mentioned in my head......money etc, i spend four pound a day on them, and thats just to feed my habit.

I really am struggling, but i'm gonna keep at it....and i have my inhalor here to help me :-)

Thanks for the water idea Margot, i have a glass in my left hand as i type with my right :-D

Justlou, it is hard but you can do this.  My OH gave up at the same time as me and he found it relatively easy.  I smoked about 20+ a day and I found it extremely hard, but I did it and if I can do it believe me, you can do it.

A friend of ours smoked 60+ Players untipped a day   His fingers were very badly stained and his teeth were rotten but he managed to give up.  It can be done and you can do it.

£1,492.85 - that's how much you will have saved by this time next year - and that's not countying any extra youll save when they go up again in the budget!!!

You are doing so well!

Margot

Thanks for everyone's continued support :-) I will do it this time.

And for everyone else who's quit today, everytime you think of having one......just think how sick and dizzy you'll feel, if you have one :-(

Well done, girls :) So proud of you all - keep it up :)

My weight management routine isn't starting until Tuesday as I still have three kids here - when they depart on Tuesday, I can begin (or at least that's the theory :D )

Daisy

Thanks Daisy :-) Once i've got the smoking sorted, then i will lose weight :-D I don't want to set myself to many goals, otherwise i will fail :-( but my weight is next :-D

I've put my 1st four pound in a clear jar :-D So now i can see my cash growing, instead of me burning it :-D Hubby's gonna quit 1st Feb :-D

I incorporated a reducing diet alongside my "giving up" regime in anticipation of my taste buds and appetite improving.  I actually found it helpfull to be concentrating on other matters such as healthy eating.  I think it can be part and parcel of the whole "new" you, think not only bags of spending money for your summer holiday but the best body on the beach too! :)

I have already broke my resulution. {{{{{{{{ smoking }}}}}}}}}}}

Its too hard with my 6 kids and OH around me.

:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

I'm so sorry :(  I'm not sure if it is the best time of year to try this you know but with 6 kids I certainly think you have the incentive :), is your partner a smoker, was he being supportive?  Why don't you have a chat with your GP about what support he can offer you and try again.  Those kids are going to give you grandkids who are going to want you arround :)

Hi all,

I dont know if youve seen but Boots are trying to help people keep up with there resolutions whether it be smoking or losing weight and theres some other ones, but these are the 2 that apply ... the site is ...

http://www.bootschangeonething.com/?wblinktype=HPI&wblinkdetail=S2R1

Hope it helps :-)

Thanks Sarah :-) I seen the advert on t.v yesturday :-D

Claire, It's only the first day and with everyone around it must be hard.  Don't give up on giving up though, there is always tomorrow ;)

You have to really want to give up though

Claire, you've got such a  big thing going on there with the big family ,  good on you for even contemplating giving up the fags. However if you are ready to get rid of the whole smoking nightmare we are all here for you. I 'm finding it quite hard and that's with living with a supportive non smoking OH. Keep feeling something is missing every few  hours, I wonder what that could be,ha  ha!. Like CherylS says it's only the first day, and tomorrow is another day.  Like some one else posted , we all have to help each other to get rid of this habit. Think about the hugh profits the tobacco giants have made, at the cost of  peoples lives, do we really want to condone that??? No , of course we don't. I've given them money for 25 years now, and for what????????   Please  , try again tomorrow, I'll be struggling with it along with the rest of you .
Yours sincerely DD. Gasp, gasp. !!!!!!! OOOOOOOOOOOOOO h for the whiff of nicotine right now, I'd almost sell my soul. God, how pathetic is that??????

I gave up on 13 October 2005.  I asked my 8 yr old son what he wanted for his 9th bday pressie.  He replied "I don't want a present, I just want you to stop smoking".  Our dog Shadow died 2 days after Jays birthday so I didn't manage to stop until 2 weeks later than originally planned.  It has been hard (after 20 a day for 15 years).  I've used patches and also read Alan Carrs book.  The thing that helped me most is my sons encouragement and praise. I could not have done it without him.  I still have the occassional craving - which soon disappears after I think about who I would be letting down if I started again.  The money saved by not smoking has been put towards our new Great Dane Puppy who I will be collecting on Saturday.  Once she is old enough, I will be able to enjoy long uphill walks with her without getting out of breath.

Keep persevering with giving up - you will feel so proud of yourselves when you achieve it.  Small milestones work best.  Treat yourself to something after the end of day 1, week 1, week 2, month 1, month 2 and so on. 

Good luck
Lynne

What a lovely story - good for you. 

You've nearly made the first milestone - the first of many. 

Well done all of you :)

Remember you can do this

Hi DD ;-) I'm struggling too...........I'll be sitting here and i suddenly start thinking, there's something that i haven't done, or something that doesn't feel right.....and then i remember what it is :-D

I really am proud of all those people who haven't had a ciggie today :-)

Exactly justlou.
only another ex smoker could describe that feeling though . All day long today I've kept feeling that something was missing, some thing was wrong. Hoping that tomorrow my logic will over rule the manic cravings and see them for what they are, well regardless I wont smoke anything, I just can't bear the thought of starting this journey to freedom and them stopping and having to start all over again. !!! Does that make sense?? Some one posted about how awflul it was to stop. fail , then try to stop again,  so if we can, don't fail ,  and have to go thru' it all again. Made sense to me like a lot of the stuff that has been posted for our benefit, so I am trying hard to use all of this good advice .I know that we all have different situations that we are coming from but I do hope we can all give each other that extra little bit of support . Good night and Good Luck tomorrow all you CD non smokers 2006. 

It makes perfect sense to me DD :-) This is so difficult....but, we will get through it :-)

If ever you get the urge, PM me.....i'm always around :-)

Take care & good luck to you too xx

Well done for another day without a ciggie, girls :)

Daisy

They're very quiet today. I hope they have taken up knitting or playing the piano and not got their hands full of the dreadful weed 

I hope you are all coping ok today.  You know you can do it ;)

Come on girls - you can do it.  You've got the first 24 hours done and most importantly you've proved to yourselves that you can do it :)

We are all proud of you :D

Tara x

Thanks everyone :-) I'm still here.....i keep checking to see if any of the quitters have posted, i now have eight pounds in my jar :-D

Well done - that's excellent :)

Thanks Tara :-)

£8 - that's fantastic

Well done you, you are doing well.

The others must be out and about perhaps?  Long walks with the dogs ;)

Thanks CherylS :-) I hope there all out being busy, keeping themselves occupied :-D because i dont want to feel i'm doing this all by myself :-(

No justlou, don't think that way :(  You are not doing this all by yourself, even though we are not physically there by your side we are there virtually and giving you support and love when you need it :)  You go girl, you're doing well :D

You're NOT.  We are really routing for you and if you are the last man standing that should make you doubley proud .  Keep it up, you are halfway through the worst bit now, no point in turning back :)

Thanks Tara & Isabel :-) All your support means so much to me.......I will never go back to the dirty habit :-D

Keep going, Justlou :) I'm supporting you as well :)

Daisy

Thanks so much Daisy ;-) As i type, i'm taking big deep breathe's on my inhalor :-D

My turn to start tomorrow (weight management programme - NOT a diet) - so I may be needing your support as well :D

Daisy

No worries Daisy ;-) We'll all be there for you :-)

Good Luck xx

Hi justlou,
am struggling but have not even thought about going and getting any fags. Felt really angry earlier on today, it's crazy cos I really don't want a fag, oh well . hopefully tomorrow will  not feel  so weird. Wonder where all our other Quitters are? Would be good to hear how they are getting on wouldn't it? This is day 2 of us being non smokers, it's great to be able to write that. Roll on tomorrow, day 3 of being non smokers.

Well done dippydog - another one to be proud of :D

The best thing is when you go to a restaurant and they ask you if you would like a table in the smoking or non smoking section, you can smile sweetly, feel enormous self respect and say with utmost pride "Non Smoking please!"  :D

>I will never go back to the dirty habit 

So pleased to see that! Justlou and dippydog, with your attitude and determination you will get through this and be so proud of yourself.  Everyone you know will be pleased for you and those smokers around you will feel envious of you.  Here is a phrase I picked up from my 19 yr old daughter just before she went off on her Australian adventure year (that's what I call it ;) )  "there are some who say they are going to do something and some who do it" 

You are a "who do it" person - well done, we're all with you :)

Ra Ra Ra Ra Big it up for Justlook and dippydog, here's hoping more come along with good news soon.

>you can smile sweetly, feel enormous self respect and say with utmost pride "Non Smoking please!"

That's a good one! and so true I still take pleasure in that now.

Good luck DD :-) Thanks for staying with me....i wander how HuskyGal's getting on :-D

Many thanks  again to you all , for pitching up with words of help and stories that are inspiratiional . It really has  helped me a lot. Daisy , def. here for you. It will be a breeze , t he whole  management programme you start tomorow. Still  hanging about to hear from the rest of the gang, where are you all?
Regards DD.

Im still here, and struggling but not giving in.
Mary

i had one yesterday and felt so bad afterwards i could have cryed but im going to try again, its like snakes and ladders game you go up, then you come back down but you keep on playing and eventully you get to the top :-)

Good luck everyone ;-) It is hard, but WE can do it.

Hey , Abbymun and Jollyjem ,
great to hear from you, I was begining  to think it was just me and justlou on this special journey. Great to see that  you two are still here, maybe there are more out there that just haven't had time to get in touch yet.  Look forward to day 3,
Regards to all DD.