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16-03-2007, 04:20 AM
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 I gave up smoking!!! 5/03/2007 9pm!!! Hello everybody!! it is around 3 am and I have that terrible urge to tell everybody that I gave up smoking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! after 23 years of a miserable dirty filthy expensive smelling habit.........yes!!! I have to say to the whole world that I managed to kick the smoking habit. How do I feel? ....fantastic!! energy level extremely high..so high that I cannot sleep, wife has got an headache, too dark outside to do some gardening, gym still closed and here I am!!! writing all this not related gardening subject with a bottle of home made cider and waiting for day light!! Regards Don Vincenzo       |
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16-03-2007, 04:39 AM
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| Well as I appear to be the only other person in the Vine at the moment- I thought I'd better reply!! WELL DONE!!!!!!   Must be really hard for you (I've never smoked but I get the jist of giving up) A few of the guys on here packed in last year- check out this thread... Giving up smoking was "What I did today" Some of the guys might be able you give you tips which worked for them! Daylight will be here soon though it looks like we have a frost here at the moment. Long night for you eh? Let us know how you get on....it will be worth it I'm sure! I'm back off to bed now so ta ta!!!  Last edited by Nicos; 16-03-2007 at 04:40 AM. |
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16-03-2007, 08:21 AM
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| Well done Don! Just remember the old adage ' If God had meant us to smoke. he would have put a chimney on our head' Keep up the good work!
__________________ My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE) |
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16-03-2007, 08:42 AM
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| I gave up the habit in October after 40 years of poluting my kippers(lungs) The most difficult bit is when I go for a pint. Madderbat gave up the"weed" at the same time & she has been great support without her I don't think I could have done it. 
__________________ I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. W. C. Fields |
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16-03-2007, 08:49 AM
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It was something I always aimed at. Reasons for giving up beside cost are: 1)older non smoking people still alive and more energetic than smokers. 2) proving myself that I can have total control of my body and mind. 3) Cannot let my GP down ( She is a lovely little authoritarian dictator who loves to inflict pain ). The first few days were extremely painful not so much for the nicotine but for the habit, I found locking myself in the front room and going to sleep on the sofa at various stupid hours, not letting anybody in and in a horrible mood. Didn't eat for three days. After two days I found that my energy levels were increasing together with smelling things completely in a different way. My blood circulation must have improved as I found that I could walk uphill without pain, deeply breathing and not running out of breath, this is when I new that I really gave up smoking. I also have been bombarding myself with quotes from ex smokers about the benefits of giving up. Person A: You find yourself reborn " " B: I couldn't walk because of poor blood circulation till I gave completely up Person C: Never have a single puff again as you will find yourself smoking again in a no matter of time. Yesterday was the first day that I got up without thinking for a cigarette. Yes I made it!!! I only hope that my wife hasn't got a headache today otherwise she will be the next thing to go!! Regards Don Vincenzo  |
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16-03-2007, 08:54 AM
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| Another good reason is you tend to smell a little sweeter. Also your taste buds recover.
__________________ I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. W. C. Fields Last edited by bubblewrap; 16-03-2007 at 08:54 AM. |
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16-03-2007, 09:00 AM
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| Congratulations DV. Keep up the good work. I gave up about 8 years ago now. No patches, gum or anything and at a very stressful time in my life (my mum had a breakdown and total personality change the day after I stopped smoking). To those who want to give up - do try. I kept a full ashtray in the house and if I felt the urge to light up I smelled the ashtray. If that didn't put me clean off, I put a bit of water into the ash and sniffed again - it smells so bad that when you realise that is what you smell like as a smoker you won't feel the urge any more. |
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16-03-2007, 09:10 AM
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| Also try putting the money you would have spent on fags into a tin for a month & see how much you save. 
__________________ I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. W. C. Fields |
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16-03-2007, 09:12 AM
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| Well done Don
__________________ it's written in the wind that we're two, carved out in the sand that we're real, it's lit up in the stars that we're true, we're destined in the sky to be glad Paul Weller http://johntygreentoes.blogspot.com/ |
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16-03-2007, 09:21 AM
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| C'mon all you 'Quitters' from last years thread - Giving up smoking was "What I did today" - how are you all doing. Maybe some more tips from you will help Don keep off the fags! Keep on saying 'I don't smoke' Don.
__________________ Manda. "Wouldn't it be nice For maybe an hour To not have a care." |
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16-03-2007, 09:25 AM
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I gave up 5 years ago and can now cycle (my other hobby) further and faster than before. Last edited by srodders; 16-03-2007 at 09:25 AM. |
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16-03-2007, 09:39 AM
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| 28 June this year will be 2 years quit for me....(oh yeah and its paid for a 1st class flight to New Zealand to visit my brother as well!)
__________________ Geordie Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure |
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16-03-2007, 09:59 AM
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| Congratulations DV Well done DV and every one else, BW and I went cold turkey on 3rd October last year. It took about three months for the agony to stop, 35 years of nicotine washing our of my system, but things have got better now. I always said that I would NEVER 'TRY' to give up, but would do it when the time was right and I really meant it. Spent several months beforehand psyching myself up to the fact that I didn't really enjoy it, it tasted horrible and was doing me no good at all. When D-day came if I thought about having one I just told myself ' you don't do that any more'. Poor BW went through more difficult times and still gets the urge now and again (but resists, bless him). Keep it up DV, and just remind yourself that 'I don't do that any more'. Life just gets better And I hope the wife's headache goes away!!!!
__________________ Regards, Jane What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? The creative adult is the child who has survived. Ursula LeGuin http://www.etribes.com/madderbat Last edited by madderbat; 16-03-2007 at 10:17 AM. |
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16-03-2007, 10:10 AM
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| Well done DV. Both OH and myself gave up back in 1991, "cold turkey" style and both found it surprisingly easy. We didn't put the ciggie to one side; in fact we both wondered where we'd found the money to smoke in the first place. |
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16-03-2007, 10:20 AM
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| Congratulations! As a lifelong non-smoker I can't empathise like other viners have done but know you'll continue with the health benefits forever. It takes some time for the effects to leave your body but you'll improve your lung capacity and this will increase your stamina. Keep saying 'I'm a non-smoker' and it will keep being true. We're all trying to make sure we put good unpolluted food into our bodies. Now you are not undoing the good work. Well done, Flum
__________________ Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake) |
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16-03-2007, 10:46 AM
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| My TOP TIP is to have a cup of tea everytime you want a ciggie...just the act of getting up and putting the kettle on distracts you, for a start....and all that running up and down to the loo starts you on the road to better fitness! I was on 20 cups of tea a day for a week or so, but you start to realise what a faff it is to smoke e.g. have to go outside at work, say, and how much time it takes up (I'll just finish this ciggie, then....). Day 3 def the most difficult - significantly easier after a week, as you've broken the physical habit of reaching for a fag! HTH and keep up the good work, DV!
__________________ Hazel www.hazelandjanesallotment.blogspot.com update Sun 30/11/2008......Indoor Allotmenteering too!..... |
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16-03-2007, 12:03 PM
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| [quote=Hazel at the Hill;77709]My TOP TIP is to have a cup of tea everytime you want a ciggie...just the act of getting up and putting the kettle on distracts you, for a start....and all that running up and down to the loo starts you on the road to better fitness! I was on 20 cups of tea a day for a week or so, but you start to realise what a faff it is to smoke e.g. have to go outside at work, say, and how much time it takes up (I'll just finish this ciggie, then....). NO way I was a 50- 60 a day man(3x50grm packs a week) would have needed a catheter? I just thought of my health & not being treared like a leaper 
__________________ I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. W. C. Fields |
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16-03-2007, 01:39 PM
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| How's it going?????
__________________ Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now. Which one are you and is it how you want to be? |
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16-03-2007, 02:20 PM
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| Hi Don Keep going there..... I found I had to stop doing the things that made me want one in the first place... like at the pub if I had a bottle of beer in one hand i had to have a cigerette in the other! I'm not saying give those things up but just give yourself a break from them while you're at your most vunerable point. Also decaf might be an idea, otherwise you might be reaching for a cig when that next bout of stress kicks in? dunno i know its different for everyone, i guess you don't want to give up too much at once, but one might aid the other... Take care and keep it up. |