Brilliant haha fair do's shaun

Hi my name is john , i've been smoking since i was 14 and im turning 22 in aa few days.

Unfortunatly not clean as of yet but im happy i have someone to talk to ( shaun at the mo ) about my problem.

 

Haha i should really ask a deep and meaningful queston here shouldnt I!?

How many a day are you on? try anything besides will power to give up?

 

QUOTE (Shaun @ Mar 8 2011, 02:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Haha i should really ask a deep and meaningful queston here shouldnt I!?

How many a day are you on? try anything besides will power to give up?

haha

currently 20-30 a day. everything , patches , gums, inhalers, CHAMPIX.

So tell me how did you overcome the drug

 

I'll try when my **** are gone, if I don't have any it'll make it easier. And no I'm not throwing them out haha!!!

 

Haha are you giving up for lent!? If nobody else signs up we may change the thread title!

As i said on the other thread purely willpower, Kinda by accident didnt plan to but just ran out of smokes one day at work and that was that, didnt buy any more! I havent had a cold, flu or cough since!

Whats the deal with champix?

 

QUOTE (Shaun @ Mar 8 2011, 02:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Haha are you giving up for lent!? If nobody else signs up we may change the thread title!

As i said on the other thread purely willpower, Kinda by accident didnt plan to but just ran out of smokes one day at work and that was that, didnt buy any more! I havent had a cold, flu or cough since!

Whats the deal with champix?

Ah I need to, one of my lungs collapsed when I was 19, It's not nice!!! Get random shooting pains in my chest, I don't want it to be a recurring problem!!! I gave them up for 6 months after that but went back on them, different frame of mind now though and know what I want!!

 

My name is keith and i'm a smoke-aholic. Smoking since the early age of 14, 26 this year. I smoke 20/25 a day. I Gave up at new years and lasted only 4weeks on pure will power alone. The biggest problem i found was telling people i'd given up. Not because i was ashamed to have given up, but other men being childish keep goading you and trying to make you crack as much as they can and eventually you get so irrate, you bash the C**t with a hammer and steal his cig's.

I'll be giving up again for lent, and telling nobody!

Although this thread makes me feel like a degenerate lowlife, i will happily take part.

On a serious note, my dads a smoker like us. He started around the same age. He's mid 40's now. He drove a bike all his life and smoked 80 a day. He now uses a nebiliser (sp?) and has no end of health problems. Obviously you'd need to meet the chap to see the real effects it can have in the long term, so i'll ask him if he'll come to our meetings for a "show and tell" afternoon

 

Dev is my name. Started when i was 15. 24 now and want to quit. Wev something similar going on in the workplace. We all threw a tenner into a kitty and if we all stay off them after lent the money goes towards a shiny new radio for the workshop.

Anyhow. Best of luck chaps. Starting to wean myself off them today. Although feck all good thats gonna do.

 

Lent means pancakes, when is that all going on??

20 a day for nearly half my life. I'm 31. Where do I collect my cold turkey and how will that go with the pancakes?

 

Been on them since about 14 or 15, on and off and then gave them up when I was in leaving cert and went back on them again in 09 after some pretty annoying events. Was on about 30 a day up until a month ago and been slowing cutting down since to about 10 a day now.. nights out are a killer though, with drink in me I smoke like a train. Have some motivation on the way to get me off them for good though.

 

QUOTE (Shaun @ Mar 8 2011, 02:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Haha are you giving up for lent!? If nobody else signs up we may change the thread title!

As i said on the other thread purely willpower, Kinda by accident didnt plan to but just ran out of smokes one day at work and that was that, didnt buy any more! I havent had a cold, flu or cough since!

Whats the deal with champix?

Wouldn't go near the stuff again Shaun , for myself it'd be better to take acid than to go back on that stuff " crazy "

Well I'm guna give it a go tomorrow and see what happens I'm shocked that there's actually a few that replied haha. And as Keith said people constantly at ya trying to coax ya off the **** doesn't help so I'll give not telling anyone a go.

Anybody any tips on what to do when cravings kick in that might be a little different from the normal answer I'd. Think of something else haha

 

QUOTE (Brian47 @ Mar 8 2011, 10:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>nights out are a killer though, with drink in me I smoke like a train.

See thats why i gave up the beer for new years '10 with the intention of giving up the smokes, still booze free but never got there with the smoking.

 

The hardest thing I notice is really the social part of it , it's always a bit of craic going for a *** and I found when I quit I was a bit bored to be honest !

 

QUOTE (dubbedout007 @ Mar 8 2011, 12:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Wouldn't go near the stuff again Shaun , for myself it'd be better to take acid than to go back on that stuff " crazy "

Well I'm guna give it a go tomorrow and see what happens I'm shocked that there's actually a few that replied haha. And as Keith said people constantly at ya trying to coax ya off the **** doesn't help so I'll give not telling anyone a go.

Anybody any tips on what to do when cravings kick in that might be a little different from the normal answer I'd. Think of something else haha

I found popping into the bog for a handy shandy worked for a while, but trying to combat 20 a day, its far less painful to just smoke

Fruit. Plain and simple. They tell us we eat alot more when not smoking, hence putting on weight. Eating supposedly kills the craving. So i used to bring a 10 bag of apples to work with me. Its what i intend to do for lent and thereafter if i still feel the need.

Also on the CHAMPIX note, their is a whole book full of side effects warnings that comes in the box. that can't be good. And also at the first week/2 your smoking and taking champix which is hard to combat once the 3rd week comes and you need to stop. Its hard to smoke with the tablets and then just without. Weening is one way or for men, If your stoppin, STOP.

My grandfather smoked and smoked a pipe for up on 50yrs, got told he'd throat cancer and just stopped. Fair enough he had good reason, but at the same time it was too late for stopping so he could have carried on. So if a man with a 50+yr habit can just kick it, then so can we.

 

Smoking since i was 13 .Smoke 20 a day giving up cold turkey tomorrow wish me luck

 

names paddy, being smokeing since i was 14 going on 19 next month.
dont smoke many a day, i mean i could go off them for a month if i wanted but il always find my way back to them, i just love having a *** sometimes.

when im drinking id def smoke alot more so iv been trying to give up the drink, only gone out once since new years and drank at home about twice, so thats going well enough.

iv been smoking rollys because they take so much effort to roll up and they smoke alot quicker and you can decide how much tobacco you put in them, also there alot cheaper.

good luck to all the lads and woman that are given up.

 

This thread has to be motivation/competition to everyone that signs on!! Place your bets now, tenner a head

 

QUOTE (MannixLacey @ Mar 8 2011, 01:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>This thread has to be motivation/competition to everyone that signs on!! Place your bets now, tenner a head

€3500 a year is the prize for me

 

QUOTE (wot @ Mar 8 2011, 01:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>€3500 a year is the prize for me

Bingo, although my health would be 1st prize, saving money after. Simply because i'll spend the money on cars/car parts but i'll have my health longer.

 

ok...i will offer the first two GENUINE people to pm me as much detail as possible why they wanna quit....free CLINICAL hypnosis.
you come to me(im in laois)
2-3 sessions(people are differant)
midweek only

if this is a problem please remove ....the offer is there if you wish.
cheers phill

 

Sweet offer there! The lads can update then how they got on!? Has to be better than taking those dodge tablets!?

 

QUOTE (jedi @ Mar 8 2011, 02:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>ok...i will offer the first two GENUINE people to pm me as much detail as possible why they wanna quit....free CLINICAL hypnosis.
you come to me(im in laois)
2-3 sessions(people are differant)
midweek only

if this is a problem please remove ....the offer is there if you wish.
cheers phill

And to all who have no interest in quitting, pm me

 

I would like to quit but there is more chance of an eagle landing on my bonnet, tear out my windscreen and give me a lecture in quantum physics.

 

QUOTE (jedi @ Mar 8 2011, 02:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>ok...i will offer the first two GENUINE people to pm me as much detail as possible why they wanna quit....free CLINICAL hypnosis.
you come to me(im in laois)
2-3 sessions(people are differant)
midweek only

if this is a problem please remove ....the offer is there if you wish.
cheers phill

Very generous of ya phill , pm'd ;-) I'd give it a go , nothing else is helping !

 

QUOTE (jedi @ Mar 8 2011, 02:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>ok...i will offer the first two GENUINE people to pm me as much detail as possible why they wanna quit....free CLINICAL hypnosis.
you come to me(im in laois)
2-3 sessions(people are differant)
midweek only

if this is a problem please remove ....the offer is there if you wish.
cheers phill

fantastic offer

Only for i'm in cork i'd be up for entering. An idea what the going rate is please for a visit? does it take the 2/3 sessions? And what is the success rate?