30 & 1

OriginalGriff

It's not easy - I remember well - so well done! How's the sense of smell, mine went balistic and I can still smell which soap someone uses from far too far away... I wouldn't go back to it tho. My mother was the real smoker in the family, even in hospital with throat cancer she was caught behind the curtains, hanging outside the ward window with a cigarette in one hand and her oxygen mask in the other...

PompeyBoy

Congratulations Does it get any easier??? I am currently 10 weeks yesterday without smoking after 18 years. I am using pills (Champix)they work a treat although I still get mild cravings everyday, can I expect these to go away anytime so or am I stuck with them as punishment for being a stupid 13 year old.?? :sigh:

hairy_hats

After 10 weeks I expect the nicotine cravings have gone away, what you're left with is mental association: have a cup of tea, have a fag*; have lunch, have a fag. That association of the physical actions of getting out a fag and lighting up will take longer to go, but you really don't need pills to get over it, just time. * - not to USians: fag in the UK means cigarette.

Stuart Jeffery

It does get easier but never truly goes away. I needed no gum, patches or inhalator in the end, just a change of career back to Software Development from a life (3 years) of servitude in an internet cafe. I left my last job on the 20th of April 2008 and smoked my last cigarette on the way to the car that evening (probably the best cigarette I have ever had).

OriginalGriff

I used the patches on prescription from my doctor, and I must admit I wore the last one for nearly three weeks before finaly letting go. Yes, it does get easier, but (like all addictions) you have to be careful, particularly in the early stages as it is very easy to backslide. In particular, be careful under stressful situations - when my mother died (of smoking related cancer) I nearly went back to fags despite it being a year and a half since my last one. Now, at five years I seem to be ok, and the smell of smoke is becomming quite unpleasant! It's amazing just how many things in the house stink of smoke that I didn't notice before, to the point where I have had to give away half my books because they are too unpleasant to read!

R Giskard Reventlov

Congrats! I am nearly 13 years free and never missed them for a moment. You are either ready to give up and it is easy or you are not and it can then be a fight; hence the need for patches, gums, etc.

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Nagy Vilmos

Did the '30' years ago and have just started on the road to '1'. Congrats on both xl:beer:

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Gary Wheeler

Congratulations! Starting smoking was the dumbest #$$%@#ing thing I ever did, and quitting was one of the smartest. I quit January 1, 1991.

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

Happy birthday! :jig: Many happy returns Stuart :) Quitting smoking was one of the best things that I've ever done. Nearing 5 years now since I stopped. Good going my friend!

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