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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Well Luke's given up smoking for a good few months now and is dropping massive hints that I should give up now as well!!

So I have dug out my E-cig brought the refill thingys!

Any tips or advice on how not to light up the nasty cigarettes?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can't offer you any tips but well done to you both. I shall be looking into buying one very shortly.

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

I chewed a pen whilst at work , never bothered with the e cigs , kept my fingers and mouth busy and seemed to work , good luck

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I stopped over a year ago

Chose not to use the ecig as I didn't want to replicate smoking in anyway,I wanted to cut off from it completely and not have another habit to deal with

Ive know lots of people say they helped though

Good luck,just take one day at a time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Switch to cigars

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By *odareyouMan
over a year ago

not far from iceland,,,,,, tescos is nearer though :-) (near leeds)

Will power.. You have to want to give up, good luck

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I stopped over a year ago

Chose not to use the ecig as I didn't want to replicate smoking in anyway,I wanted to cut off from it completely and not have another habit to deal with"

I'm not sure I could and would rather just have a nicotine addiction than a tobacco addiction.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I stopped over a year ago

Chose not to use the ecig as I didn't want to replicate smoking in anyway,I wanted to cut off from it completely and not have another habit to deal with

Ive know lots of people say they helped though

Good luck,just take one day at a time

So completely cold turkey? Not sure I could do that, did you find that you ate more? Did you take up a new hobby to replace the smoking?

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

I gave up years ago now.

I had no money.

I didn't die.

I just got better at breathing and had more money.

I found taking slow deep breathes every now and then took the craving away.

After two days you are clear of nicotine in your system.

Why go back after that ?

If you were lost somewhere you wouldn't have cigs and you wouldn't come to any harm.

All the screaming and moaning is a learned behaviour from just hearing others going do lally ...... NO ONE needs a cig.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"Will power.. You have to want to give up, good luck

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Sorry I meant to stick my thumb up

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"I stopped over a year ago

Chose not to use the ecig as I didn't want to replicate smoking in anyway,I wanted to cut off from it completely and not have another habit to deal with

I'm not sure I could and would rather just have a nicotine addiction than a tobacco addiction.

The excuses. That's what keeps you there.

You've already told yourself you can't do it.

Do you KNOW how much your brain listens to itself ?

The power of rehearsal and visualisation work.

Keep telling yourself you can't and you won't.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"I stopped over a year ago

Chose not to use the ecig as I didn't want to replicate smoking in anyway,I wanted to cut off from it completely and not have another habit to deal with

Ive know lots of people say they helped though

Good luck,just take one day at a time

So completely cold turkey? Not sure I could do that, did you find that you ate more? Did you take up a new hobby to replace the smoking? "

Yes you can.

Two days is all it takes.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Had a call from an old mate two days ago

He went to hospital shit scared that he had cancer.

Wasn't cancer it was emphysema ... stupid bugger smoked all his life. He's glad he hasn't got cancer but ....there's no cure for emphysema.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I stopped over a year ago

Chose not to use the ecig as I didn't want to replicate smoking in anyway,I wanted to cut off from it completely and not have another habit to deal with

Ive know lots of people say they helped though

Good luck,just take one day at a time

So completely cold turkey? Not sure I could do that, did you find that you ate more? Did you take up a new hobby to replace the smoking? "

I had the champix tablets but hated them

The thing that I kept telling myself was that if I have one I know ill have another one and I didn't want to start back at day one

I did put weight on,my boobs got massive but I expected that and thought id wait until I felt completely free of cravings before I dealt with the weight,then I joined a gym,ive lost most of the weight but the boobs still seem huge

Its a fabulous feeling not to be a slave to when I can have the next cigarette

We went on holiday in June and I felt sorry for all the people stood outside the airport getting their last puffs in before not being able to smoke for hours,its liberating x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hi I wanted to quit & will power alone wasn't workin so went to drs & gave me a tab called champix they were amazin I had quit within 2 weeks & I am now a non smoker for 3 yrs so good luck & think each day ur body is recover a lil from the damage cigarettes av done to ur body xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I stopped over a year ago

Chose not to use the ecig as I didn't want to replicate smoking in anyway,I wanted to cut off from it completely and not have another habit to deal with

I'm not sure I could and would rather just have a nicotine addiction than a tobacco addiction.

Lib you can do it,loads of people do,just give yourself time and have faith in yourself

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Had a call from an old mate two days ago

He went to hospital shit scared that he had cancer.

Wasn't cancer it was emphysema ... stupid bugger smoked all his life. He's glad he hasn't got cancer but ....there's no cure for emphysema."

No my uncle has recently passed away, because of emphysema. And I don't want to suffer like he did!!

Going to start my giving up tomorrow

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have a eco pure ciggy and a spearmint liquid one. I use them 80% of the time but still not given up completely. I am getting there though. Good Luck Lucy

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By *heOwlMan
over a year ago

Altrincham

I gave up about 15 years ago. I used nicotine patches for a little while. I think the price tag hit £4.50 for 20 and I decided that was too high. (The patches made it a little easier, but more really after I stopped using them, as they cost a fair amount back then and I was not going to waste that money by going back to smoking.

However at the end of the day there is only one thing that really helps with giving up - you have to want to stop, not someone suggesting you should, but you deciding that yes you really want to stop. The rest may not be easy but it is achievable.

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

I went on the NHS course years ago, it is really helpful, and used Zyban, which made the process a walk in the park.

Yes, a trip to the cardiac unit to see all the walking dead on oxygen focusses the mind somewhat!

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By *asmanian TigerMan
over a year ago

lala land

I have given up over a year ago and I have used e cig, and it helped me a lot I have put on 2 and half stone however I had to stay strong and do it. I have lost 3 stone and I am much healthier. Well done to you both and good luck.

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By *ire_bladeMan
over a year ago

Manchester

Just over 3 months now. Tride patches 1st the basterds don't stay on an very nearly gave up but last ditch attempt I bought a cheap ecig then just did it day by day. Still use the ecig but on zero nicotine now guess iv just got my head to sort out now as I don't even want a cig any more but still cant leave the house without my ecig....

I agree with what's said about ecigs you are replacing 1 addition for anther but for me and after 32/33 years of smoking it's by far the lesser evil I can breath again smell again and best of all I don't smell. No scratch that best of all my doughters got her dad back. Best of luck lucy x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Just over 3 months now. Tride patches 1st the basterds don't stay on an very nearly gave up but last ditch attempt I bought a cheap ecig then just did it day by day. Still use the ecig but on zero nicotine now guess iv just got my head to sort out now as I don't even want a cig any more but still cant leave the house without my ecig....

That's brilliant going Bladey. It gets easier mate

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By *ire_bladeMan
over a year ago

Manchester

That's brilliant going Bladey. It gets easier mate

Shame im turning into a fat basterd though

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

I gave up 30 years ago, cold turkey.

At some point, you realise that as an educated, thinking adult, the choice to smoke is simply ludicrous and stop.

Good luck to everyone that's given up in remaining an ex-smoker.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Five months off now, its still an urge but less so as time passes.

It may help if others mentioned how many they smoked and for how long.

Thirty years, the last five around 50 a day.

As you can imagine, after a few weeks off my chest and lungs felt brand new. From being unable to run for a bus I felt that I could run a marathon.

I made a plan of action lol

Elites, online 100 = 2 a day for 50 days: this cleared my chest from the tobacco but left me with the nicotine addiction.

Join smoke free Berkshire, you will have a local smoke free club near you. You get loads of free quit smoking aids.

I took the nicorette inhalators plus 24 hour patches Niquitin clear. I used both for two months ish then stopped the patches.

The inhalators work well for me, people at the smoke free club didnt like them as it caused them embarrassment sucking on a plastic bullet shape aid, it doesn't bother me so....

I never set myself any firm rules, I used any aid or distraction that I had available and still do for now.

Good luck

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Yes, I always spent so much time with my horses I never bothered with any cardio exercise per se, but I don't have one at the moment so I am swimming a lot. I can't believe how much my heart/lung capacity has responded, I can now front crawl indefinitely and only need about four breaths per length!

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