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Just read through the Joe Cole thread...QuartzGooner wrote:Good luck.
When you feel like a smoke, say to yourself that you will wait 20 minutes and then decide.
Make sure you fill those 20 minutes with something worthwhile and the feeling can pass.
Good stuffmerson_is_god wrote:I had the same last night, 3 of them in fact! I wasn't able to sleep properly though.franksav63 wrote:Hmmm... Well I went to a NHS quit thingy, whereby you go into a group firstly, to discuss, my main problem with quitting was I could do it with patches but would start again when then course had run it's course (usually 6-8 weeks)merson_is_god wrote:I went to the nurse yesterday and got some patches and an inhalator to try and stop smoking. I'm using them as of today to hopefully quit this awful, smelly, expensive habit FOR GOOD!
Any words of advice from any ex-smokers who managed to quit?
Cheers,
MIG
So they just said, don't take any notice of that, and use the products longer, they also said that you could use patches/gum/losenges, so I was on the whole lot at the start. Top dozes of those 3 products, now nearly a year later, I'm on gum (lowest strength, which I have occassionally and a patch (lowest strength from time to time) Also gave up the booze for around 2 months, as I associated that with smoking (and smoking loads) If I go to the pub now, I bung a low strength patch on, and make sure I've got plenty of gum with me, although 1 stick normally does the trick.
My girlfriend quit at the same time as me, and she had the pill called Champix, and she said it was excellent, you can also smoke on them, but it does something to the brain receptors, and just makes you forget about smoking, and didn't suffer any side effects, and she's been quit nearly a year also.
The only side effects I had, were crazy, trippy dreams on the full strength 24 hour patches, they were brilliant, but subsided when I cut the strength down on them.
Anyway, good luck with it, and I hope the above information helps you a bit.
Heard a lot about this Champix, someone at work gave up with that stuff.
Still not had a fag and I've been awake 9 hours!
yeah, he'll stop smoking, and in the end will want to stop living too...franksav63 wrote:Just read through the Joe Cole thread...QuartzGooner wrote:Good luck.
When you feel like a smoke, say to yourself that you will wait 20 minutes and then decide.
Make sure you fill those 20 minutes with something worthwhile and the feeling can pass.
feck me, how expensive are cigarettes in the u.k.??olgitgooner wrote:I stupidly started smoking again, after being off them for six years
If I'd have stayed off them, and put the saved money to one side, I'd have about ten thousand pounds. Which is some real serious spending money.
Good luck.
When I went to Centreparcs in May, they had a vending machine in their supermarket, and they were selling packs of 16 for £7.50...I Hate Hleb wrote:Nearly £7 for a pack of 20!!
FECK ME!!!I Hate Hleb wrote:Nearly £7 for a pack of 20!!
im young an all so should have time,but its so addictive )Today made 13 weeks since I gave up. Been using lozenges (I was allergic to patches!). There are now several minutes when I don't think about smoking although now I dream about itmerson_is_god wrote:I went to the nurse yesterday and got some patches and an inhalator to try and stop smoking. I'm using them as of today to hopefully quit this awful, smelly, expensive habit FOR GOOD!
Any words of advice from any ex-smokers who managed to quit?
Cheers,
MIG
