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[Hampden Park]

i gave up smoking 6 weeks ago and i am now using those lozengers 2mg. i have, on average, 3 a day. i could murder a fag. i thought that giving up fags and having a substitute would be quite easy but i am finding it furkin hard. anyone else done the same recently??

 

[aftershavedave]

i gave up smoking 6 weeks ago and i am now using those lozengers 2mg. i have, on average, 3 a day. i could murder a fag. i thought that giving up fags and having a substitute would be quite easy but i am finding it furkin hard. anyone else done the same recently??

try the patches rather than the lozengers....they give a steady nicotine stream and really work!

 

[Hampden Park]

cheers afters i might as well do that. quite a few of my friends tried the patches but they said they were crap, so i havent bothered with them. will have to give them a go as lozenges dont really stop my cravings!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Eddie the Seagull]

Have you tried chewing gum? And also a fake cigarette? My brother also gave up 6 weeks ago - he smoked rolys - he walks around with a roly & filter, but it has no baccy in it.

He didn't use patches or lozenges - my Dad tried patches a few months ago & he reckoned they made him itch

Good luck - I'm still on 20 a day

 

[Hampden Park]

cheers eddie

 

[Barnet Seagull]

best thing to do is to change your routine.

 

[aftershavedave]

cheers afters i might as well do that. quite a few of my friends tried the patches but they said they were crap, so i havent bothered with them. will have to give them a go as lozenges dont really stop my cravings!!!!!!!!!!!!

the secret, if there is one, of the patches is to go large...take the strongest ones you can get, and gradually reduce the strength...worked for me at least (a couple of years ago now.....)

 

[Hampden Park]

trying that barnet, half the problem with giving up the fags is that. i got used to having one after my first cup of tea, after every meal etc and yes most of the time it was a habit of having a fag when i had nothing to do. when i did smoke it used to cost me £4.50 per week (rollys) it now costs me more to have stopped altogether. i have given up because my old man died in august this year from chronic heart disease caused mainly by smoking.

 

[Barnet Seagull]

trying that barnet, half the problem with giving up the fags is that. i got used to having one after my first cup of tea, after every meal etc and yes most of the time it was a habit of having a fag when i had nothing to do. when i did smoke it used to cost me £4.50 per week (rollys) it now costs me more to have stopped altogether. i have given up because my old man died in august this year from chronic heart disease caused mainly by smoking.

I'd say 90% of the difficulty is the habit.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Congrats for giving it a go Hampden I've been fagless for nine months now. Started with the strongest patches, worked down, then got bored of the hassle and just gave up anyway.

Keep it up, sir!!

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

Everyone's experience is slightly different - here's mine.

I've tried with patches three or four times and my best was three months. The patches definitely take the edge of the physical craving, and therefore help you getting through breaking the habit (after a meal, having a cup of coffee etc.) My weak opint was then giving up the patches, and having to break the physical craving again, which I failed at.

This time I went cold turkey, and tried to completely ignore the whole thing (easier said than done). The constant thought that you are giving up something very hard, the whole patches paraphanalia, talking about it, for me, just kept it all at the forefront of my mind and that's not what I needed.

So three months ago I just stopped. I didn't really tell anyone I was stopping, and most people didn't even notice, so after the first week of physical craving it became easier. It was also "the right time" and as I was in my mid forties I just had an image of me as a sad old man smoking myself to my grave. Three months down the line I feel very confident that this is the last time I'll give up.

 

[Hampden Park]

thanks to everyone. will try the patches as i feel that i may find it hard to give up to lozenges. just spoken to my brother in law and his mate has been on these lozenges for over 3 years and he is having snags getting himself off them!!!!!
when do you start to feel better

 

[eastlondonseagull]

First thing everyone noticed was that after about a week I wasn't grey anymore! Never realised how much colour I'd lost until I compared a b4 and after photo. Frightening! That in itself made me feel better!! Plus the fact you stop smelling like an ashtray, it all helps psychologically.

 

[Withnail]

I'm sorry to say it never really does go away, you just learn how to cope without one. I've been off them for about 18 months and still get times when I fancy one. It really is all about willpower. Constantly talking about it doesn't help as it only reminds you of what you're trying to give up. If you fancy one go and do something else to take your mind off it. Sorry to hear about your father but if that isn't motivation then I don't know what is.

 

[Icy Gull]

I'm sorry to say it never really does go away, you just learn how to cope without one. I've been off them for about 18 months and still get times when I fancy one. .

I agree but the cravings generally only last a few seconds and are then forgotten?

Given up about 5 times and each time lasted between 3 months and 18 months but had the occasional cigar and gradually started on the fags again thinking I could limit it but never did. This time I'm up to 14 months and haven't smoked a thing and feel confident I can kick it if I can just continue to resist the urge to smoke anything. I have a friend who gave up for 8 years and then started again so it seems you are never safe.

It seems that you'll always be an ex smoker rather than a non smoker, as the cravings always seem to be there, however mild or infrequent?

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

God I could murder a fag after reading this - the cravings never go away? hell. I'm 4 days into giving up 60-a-day. It hurts, it really hurts

 

[Meade's Ball]

God I could murder a fag after reading this - the cravings never go away? hell. I'm 4 days into giving up 60-a-day. It hurts, it really hurts

60 a day?!?! How do you find the time?!

 

[kevinsmith]

i gave up smoking 6 weeks ago and i am now using those lozengers 2mg. i have, on average, 3 a day. i could murder a fag. i thought that giving up fags and having a substitute would be quite easy but i am finding it furkin hard. anyone else done the same recently??

I gave up"Cold Turkey" the day we played Leeds(Oct 23rd) nearly 6 weeks ago. Have taken up 2 packs of mints a day and like you could murder a fag.

It is not easy I agree, but it is down to willpower. Think about how much money you are saving every time you want a fag.

If like me it has been a constant strugle for the previous weeks why give in to the weed now.

Keep fighting it. You can do it

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

60 a day?!?! How do you find the time?!

I live in a world where you can smoke anywhere - in an office, bus, airport, taxi, corner shop, hospital, police station - you name it!

 

[Meade's Ball]

I live in a world where you can smoke anywhere - in an office, bus, airport, taxi, corner shop, hospital, police station - you name it!

If i wanted to, could i smoke in a dwarf?