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| 14 Jan 11, 4:51 AM Richtea UK(BN), 2 yrs   |
I'm exactly the same. Whenever the craving strikes the hardest -usually when I've got a mug of tea- I find it helps if I get up from the settee and do something for 5 minutes,(for me it's been eating a bit of fruit), and the craving passes.
I may be in the gutter, but I am looking at the bars. | |
| 14 Jan 11, 11:45 AM Farnam UK(SE), 3 yrs |
I had my last one back in October. I'm 3 months off them. Used willpower/the flu method (you can't go to the shops for a pack of fags when you are too sick to get out of bed - it really works!)
I still get massive cravings daily. The worst is when I first close the door behind me heading out to work in the morning. It hits each day like a physical blow. God, I used to love that first smoke of the day. After an hour of rushing around, yelling at the kids, getting the lazy shits out of bed, washing breakfast dishes, getting dressed, all that crap - that first smoke lit in the doorway was the first thing I did for me, my first selfish act of the day. Since giving up smoking I don't get to be selfish any more - and thats a good thing, but crikey do I miss it still. The first 3 months my health just deteriorated which I found very frustrating, and I ended up in hospital with my asthma which hadn't happened in over a year. Then, over christmas that changed. I got a massive boost in energy - since being really ill 5 years ago I thought I would never get my old energy levels back. Now, all of a sudden, if I get 7 hours sleep, I can be NOT TIRED AT ALL during the rest of the time. I'm just getting so much stuff done these last few weeks its unbelievable. If there is even an outside chance this is due to quitting, then I'll just cope with the cravings however long they last. | |
| 14 Jan 11, 2:57 PM MistressRouge UK(B), 6 yrs £ |
Goodluck with the quitters 
I have give up, on giving up, loves Ma fags " The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it
and your soul grows sick with longing, for the things it has forbidden
itself"
Oscar Wilde | |
| 14 Jan 11, 3:28 PM trillium UK(N), 4 yrs  |
I quit about 6 months back, got myself an e-cig which I used to dose myself up with nicotine whenever I got a craving not many weeks later I stopped getting cravings for real cigs. "It's pointless to be hesitant when you're absorbed in play. It's like throwing cold water on ecstasy once it's finally caught flame." (from Tsujimura Takashi's Camera Hunt) | |
| 14 Jan 11, 3:42 PM tattooed_princess UK(SS), 3 yrs |
Not beaten the evil nicotine yet :-/ | |
| 14 Jan 11, 10:15 PM Miss_Dee UK(L), 5 yrs   |
I cant remember the amount of times I have given up over the years, the longest being four years (before and after two pregnancy's). I had resigned myself to never being able to give up the evil weed. I did stop last year without even thinking about it, I woke up one morning and I had stopped. I have no idea why or how but I have. Good luck to everyone who has stopped or who are trying................ Miss D | |
| 14 Jan 11, 11:30 PM silver_lotus UK(CB), 3 yrs |
Its odd how the way in which you stop sticks in the memory. I did it at 6:30 pm on 30th Dec 1978, sitting in my lounge just about to watch the tv... It was a really wet day, the rain chucking it down.. I'd walked from the office to the car park and got soaked, then into the car which steamed up, drove home with great care, awful lights reflecting on the wet road. Stopped the car to open the garage, parked car and got wet getting to the house, changed into warm dry clothes, made coffee, switched on the fire and tv, sat down all nice and comfy.. no fags. So the question was, do I go through all that bloody palaver again, wet clothes, get the garage open, drive looking for fags, get back, get wet again, get dry...to get back to where I already was, ..and do that every time I ran out... or.. do I just stop doing it? It was weird, I just stopped. The rain was too much. I watched my hand do a dance every few minutes, looking for the cigs, and wondered what it was doing, as I hadn't consciously started it.. I concluded the fags had me hypnotised... and that I was stronger than they were. It became a real laugh, looking at myself and the way I behaved. Anyway, it worked. Never had another urge to smoke. Always remember the exact time, place, situation, feelings, everything at that moment. 32 years.... 'More than just a few quick flashes!' | |
| 15 Jan 11, 6:18 PM subbie00 UK(TF), 7 yrs |
i recommend going to the quit smoking clinic at your local gp and ask for champix... worked for me. Edited 15 Jan 11, 6:19 PM by subbie00 | |
| 16 Jan 11, 10:29 AM smurf123 UK(YO), 17 mths |
I got up one morning about 5years ago and said that's it I've stopped smoking and my kids said yeah whatever dad  ,but I did and 5yrs later I've never had or wanted another cig some times its just the right time |
