Day 2

trout · January 30, 2018, 06:06:32 AM

This weekend I have finally decided to give up smoking for various reasons.
I am a 50+ a day smoker and I ran out of cigarettes Sunday afternoon and I decided Not to go into Town and buy another carton and give the Ciggies away instead.
Day 1 on Monday was pretty "Crap" But I do have one of those false smokes that I can put a nicotine canister in to ease the cravings.

This is day 2 and I am up at the crack of dawn and the urge to drive into town and grab some smokes is incredibly strong, I will do my best to resist this urge.
I have tried to Quit a couple of times now and the only success I had was the 18 days I didn't smoke whilst in hospital because I was too drugged up to be able to walk down to the smoking area for a lot of those 18 days.
Here is hoping I can give the filthy things up this time and stick to it.

kchan1111 · January 30, 2018, 06:31:26 AM

Well done Trout.

Just think of all the coins you can buy using the ciggie money. That would be a good motivation.

ausproofs · January 30, 2018, 07:21:58 AM

Well done mate... my suggestion is keep yourself busy with things.. also have some chewing gum or have a eucalyptus drop lolly to keep your mouth busy...

gabby · January 30, 2018, 07:58:33 AM

Good for you mate :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

Keep at it and you will have lots of money to spend on more coins

humpybong · January 30, 2018, 08:01:23 AM

Keep going Trout. I gave up over 10 years ago and have not looked back.

:wavemulticolor:

trout · January 30, 2018, 08:25:50 AM

They recon the first twenty years are the hardest :s

Nevol · January 30, 2018, 09:20:52 AM

QuoteHere is hoping I can give the filthy things up

As long as you keep telling yourself this or something similar, you should succeed. I always said that the hardest part about giving it up was making the decision. I quit a 30-35 per day habit cold turkey in 1993 and haven't missed it at all.

I certainly noticed the difference about how my clothes no longer stunk of nicotine, and when a smoker came to talk to me at work, I
couldn't wait for them to go away and take the stink with them.

Even walking down the street, I could tell a smoker by the horribly offensive odour coming off their clothes.

Another plus nowadays, of course, is the huge amount of money to be saved.

Stay strong!

autocoupler · January 30, 2018, 10:31:16 AM

Good luck with it trout, after many years of trying I gave up 26 years ago, the first three weeks were the toughest. Even though I had it beat and the cravings had long gone, ten years later I would awaken in gratified relief from a dream where I had lit up :yahoo:

Ozcoins · January 30, 2018, 10:38:33 AM

Good move Trout!

Unicorn · January 30, 2018, 11:19:06 AM

Top work Trout! :good:

Your cooking with certainly have more flavour from now on!

trout · January 30, 2018, 11:38:18 AM

Quote from: 'Unicorn' pid='113970' dateline='1517273346'Top work Trout! :good:

Your cooking with certainly have more flavour from now on!

If there was any more flavour in my cooking peoples tong's would explode

:laugh2:

keldaw · January 30, 2018, 06:04:13 PM

[align=center] Thats good news jim , i am happy for you [/align]

keldaw · January 30, 2018, 06:06:13 PM

Did you hear we became great grand parents last thursday , baby girl , river joan gunnis ..

Goldseeker · January 30, 2018, 07:24:42 PM

Good for you. The first 7-10 days are the hardest. I know been there done that.

May/can I suggest that you give the QUIT people a ring and get a copy of the book they have for smokers who are doing there best to give up smoking. I gave them a ring and got the book, had a quick read and put it into the bottom draw.

After a week or so and giving everybody hell around me, I got the book out again and READ every word in that book.

Boy did it help.

All we can do is to give you all the support we can via this forum. No smart remarks etc but good open support.

One thing I did was to put the money I was spending on smokes into a debt I still had. Use the money sved from smoking and put it to good use.

Hang in there mate, all is good at the end.

trout · January 30, 2018, 09:13:18 PM

Congratulations on the new arrival in your family Kel :yahoo: :dance2::dance::dance2:
We have 19 Grandchildren so far But the eldest is only 16 so (Hopefully) we won't be seeing any great grandchildren for the next few years yet.

Thanks people for all the support and help, Very Much appreciated.
A while back RG sent me a book by Allen Carr called "Easy way to stop smoking" and on the first few pages it said not to give up smoking until I had read the entire book, This I liked because I could time when I was going to give up simply by finishing that book.
To be honest I have had this book for months But I only decided to Quit on Sunday so I finished the book on Sunday.
To be completely honest I haven't had the intense cravings for a smoke that I have had on all my previous attempts at quitting this time around.
Maybe it's because I am quitting this time because I WANT to and Not because I HAVE to or have been coerced into it that is making it easier, Maybe it is what I read in the Book RG kindly sent to me that is doing the job I don't know.