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I had my last ciggie!!! Haven't had a cold, can climb up hill to school without coughing my brains up, no night time cough......and completely addicted to nicotine chewing gum!!!!!  ;D ;D ;D Lottie  ;)

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Well done Lottie.  Quite an achievement, some day, some day......  not got a stutter, talking to myself.........


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LOL!! Not sure if you should, Carol!! Loved the smell!! No really, if you can, excellent, if not....breath it out near me, please!!! Lottie  ;D

That is brilliant Lottie.  Good for you,  -  keep up the good work.  busy_lizzie

Well done Lottie! 

How can you love the smell ..it's vile?!!   I hate smoking. I hate breathing in someone elses smokey breath when I'm walking behind them in the street...yeeuuuk!  Do they realise they stink so much? Someone the other day managed to flick their butt into my 2 year olds eye. If I had caught the b*gg*r  I would have stuck his "tabs " up his backside.

Well done Lottie. I gave up for a very long time (after I had cancer) but I am afraid when I lost Charlie the cigs started again!!!!!  Have tried again without success. However if I buy cigs I would smoke 20 a day again SO (believe it or not :)) son John GIVES me 4 per day, in return I always buy their lunch once a week. A month ago John decided to try and give up so far so good, I am so pleased for him. Now Donna (d.i.l) gives me 4 per day. I know I am pathetic ::) I really do admire you Lottie. For those who have never smoked , I can tell you it is very hard to give up, yeah yeah I know no willpower. Lorna. (Reaching for her first cig of the day)

well done.

Derekthefox

I was a really heavy smoker but gave up just like that and have never smoked since.  23 years ago.  Now I hate smoke and smoky places.  Went for a pizza the other day and every table had an ash tray on it  >:(

Wardy. My husband was same as you, we had haulage business then and he would be out on the lorries all night. He had a cold, lit a cigarette and thought what the hell am I doing smoking when I have a bad cold. He  kept a packet in his cab for weeks. but never smoked from that night .  As I said all down to willpower!!! Lorna.

Hi Wardy, we went to Italy for our hols this year and there is no smoking in any restaurant.  It was wonderful not having meals spoiled by drifts of smoke.   Hope it happens here too and soon.  It doesn't seem to have put the clients off from eating out either.   We've been to the same beach area a few times now and the restaurants were all just as busy.

Good!  My B & B is totally non-smoking but I still get guests who insist on smoking in the bed rooms and one git burned a hole in my carpet when he fell asleep  >:(  It's been groups of workmen every time who have been the only ones to ignore the signs so now I'm very relucant to have more in.  I grill em first  :)

Thanks for kind words!! Have to say, I do get frustrated that having given up, when I do go out my clothes and hair end up stinking like an old ash tray, and it's hard to sit there and see others lite up and not want to wrestle them to the ground and nick the ciggie!! I would love it to be smoke free. But on the other hand, I can't see why some pubs/restaurants shouldn't be for smokers and some for those who don't want to smoke. Or am I being too simple? Wardy, try lightly poaching.........Lottie  :-\

weldone lottie, me and oh gave up about year and half ago i lasted 8 days and oh is still off they cigs ,i must get my head around it and try again ,

Many congrats - you 've done fab

I,m an ex smoker - have been for twelve years but its not easy even though like most of you i now hate it if been out and clothes smell etc I sometimes still find myself wanting ciggy especially if had a stressful day!

Well done again and keep up the good work!!

Dibs, the only reason I managed it this time, was due to circumstances was in hospital for while and knew it would be perfect opportunity, no driving when home, so I jumped at the chance, and discovered nicotine chewing gum....I don't think I'd have done it without being isolated and not allowed out!!!! Thanks Delilah, know what you mean, some ciggies just look so goooooood..Lottie  ;D

Well done Lottie, keep it up :D

When we go for a beer I'll try not to smoke in front of you!

LOL!! Thanks but no probs, Crash, really. Some of my mates smoke, very considerate in that they didn't smoke near me in the beginning, but now, it's no problem. I have bought my self treats along the way, and the thought of having to pay me back....ouch!! So you drink your beer and enjoy your ciggie!!  ;) Lottie  ;D
PS won't let me type f*g....!!!! GG 

Well done ;)

I have given up twice :-[

The first time was for 10 years. Then my mum died and I started again. :-[

I will have been F A G free for 2 years this christmas. I still crave them a bit but I havn't lit one yet. :)

Well done, Joji. Not surprised you started up again, Hun, must have been awful. But 2 years, excellent!! Hope I can say the same this time next year....My OH gave up after seeing the film Frequency.......Watch it, if ever tempted to start again!! Lottie

Lottie - there is no need for smelly gum.

Smug? On second thoughts, no. Not really. Just hugely glad that I was able to do it. Because I started at 10 &, during the war, with free cigs, it was the thing to do. One had to have 'a nervous drag' before every operation. Calmed your nerves? Like hell it did. Just the opposite. Just an excuse. Something to hang onto. Same later, when one swallowed down half a cig before going in to a meeting.

There should be no half measures - if you (anyone) REALLY want to chuck it, you can. But so long as you feel that your human rights are threatened, you're lost.

I'm a wimp but, 25 years ago, I stopped while away from home for 5 days. Having done so, I can now smell a smoker 6 feet away, & someone's smoke in the street 50 feet away. And we never now go to a public eating place.

If only one could believe that smoking not only harms others, but is almost certain to bring on terminal or near-terminal bronchitis at too early an age. I just hope that I stopped early enough to give me another 5 years. The family need the pension!

I just so wish that someone could have convinced me in the early days that I would join the queue for out before I wanted to leave. And I so regret fouling up non-smokers' houses with the habit. And habit it is - & one's human right - NOT a need. That's an excuse.

Keep it up Lottie - & you'll even ditch the 'gum -shield' yet!

To be fair - I now drink 50% more - but that doesn't seem to offend anyone.

Tim, you're a tonic!!! And never will you be a wimp....
Gum not smelly, minty fresh...... ;D! But I get your point. When I smoked, I was on the band wagon of it was my right to smoke, I loved it etc, but really, it was because I never thought I'd be able to quit, so pretended that this was what I wanted.
I can say I never smoked near kids, in the same room or anything, so I thought there was no problem. But I have been truly amazed by how the whole family nolonger gets many coughs/colds etc. So it must have come from my clothes, hair etc
I still remember with dread those awful dry coughs that would keep me awake all night, and I'd go downstairs,  sit in the garden, and have a f*g!!!  ::) ::) ::)
But I'm well aware how hard it is. Good thing about the gum.....I have the strongest jaw muscles.... :o :o :o ;)

I gave up 40 a day three & a half years ago, I really don't mind if someone smokes near me, I've smelled far worse things, ex smokers can get really uptight about it but it don't bother me ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

  My name is Kevin I have an addiction........I have smoked since I was
   thirteen I have tried to stop once.........but my nerves ended up shot
   to bits... I used to smoke 40 a day....now I smoke 2oz of shag a week
   never yet had a cough..

Well done lottie, I stopped 6 months ago today (1st April), it gets easier, although I know what you mean by the smell of a cigarette.  I still stand next to smokers occasionally just to get a whiff!

MikeB

If only they'd make a perfume...... And Jags, I know hun, is real adiction, hence the gum! Tried patches, eating wood, chewing coal, lip chewing, cleaning everything.....

ooo Good for you Lottie!  Very strong indeedy!  My darling and I gave up some 7 years ago, when we decided to start trying for a baby.  Had to stagger the giving up as we both near killed each other when we stopped at the same time.  However, 7 years on, we still miss it like mad, and when you watch someone on tv take that first drag............hmmmmmmmmmmmm...... I always say, as soon as they put vitamin c in it, I am starting again!

Well done you, keep it up!  And all the rest of yous who have done it.  It can be done, if you really wanna!  ;D

Two things to sort.

1. I am not uptight in the usual sense - it's just that my lungs get uptight. They just object the smell. Me too.

2. And I never had a cough on 40+ for decades. But by God I have one now. When the curve of age catches up with the curve of deteriorating  lungs, you soon know about it. (Sorry!)

Trouble was that, in the 30's, no one was without a cigarette. (And cigs then were quite different - they lasted for many minutes, so none of this nervous tapping the ash off every couple of seconds. When you opened a tin, they smelt sweet & moist). It was the norm & there was certainly no stigma. I learnt too late. But can't complain - I'm  luckier than many with health. And we've been through many more threatening situations than bronchitis!!

PS Lottie - I meant the after-taste of nicotine. Or don't you get it?

Whatever, I wish all you triers the best of British!

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LOL!! Thanks again all!!! I use the minty fresh one, Tim, cos the unminty stuff tastes like you're chewing on a pack of fags!!! When I tried before, I used that, but the taste was so bad, I used to spit it out and have a f*g to get rid of the taste.. ::) ::) ::)!! Same here, Em, OH and I tried to give up together a while back, nearly ended up trampling each other in the rush to get to divorce court!!! So he gave up first, then me!!!  ;D Lottie

Since my oh gave up you would think he never did smoke he hates the smell, goes mad with me for smoking , tells me to get in the garden ,i want to give up and i will i hope but when i tried last time i felt so spaced  out was horrible ,most try again for my health and the money

It does get easier eventually - I've done about 25 years now.

i know beejay oh keeps telling me gets easier , but at the time seems so hard , just have to find some good strong will power

There is nothng worse than being made to feel pressurised to give up by someone else, it never works, and just makes you feel crappy. You do it when/if you're ready Dibs, cos you want to. Or, I could put you in OH's cage for bit?  ;) ;D Lottie

I am very fortunate...I did try a cigarette or three when a youth but didn't really take to it.

What really finished me off (in more ways than one) was the day I arrived home early from school on afternoon (I was about fourteen years old) l decided I would try my step-fathers pipe. I played it safe by sitting in the outside loo puffing away like a good un.. 
I was so ill I couldn't eat my meal that evening and daren't admit the real reason for my serious loss of appetite and green face.

No one told me you 'didn't' inhale when smoking a pipe.. the phrase NEVER AGAIN really meant something to me that day.

Derek

I gave up four years ago when our first born was ...well, born.

In all honesty, I could smoke one happily this minute. Does the attraction ever fade??

i bet you where green derek  ;D ;D ;D

terrace max dont say that i hope it gets easier as i really must give up

When I gave up Lots I didn't tell anyone and so it wasn't discussed and no-one drew attention to it so it was easier.  I think you er blew it so to speak  ;D

Unfortunately though since giving up the fags Lottie I have become an alcoholic  ;D

Thought it was compulsory when gave up, Wardy!! I went the opposite way, told the kids. They very sweetly made me a star chart!! I couldn't disappoint them, or lie to them unfortunatley!! Getting over that prob now...... ;D Lottie

hi all, on the 23NOV it will be 4 years ago when i stopped smoking 25 to 30  a day, the day my granddaughter KACI was born, and the reason why, it was my dad (rest his sole) deid on 3 sept a month earlier and he so wanted to see her born,
It was very hard for me to come to terms with my dads death, but at the sametime having to be happy for my granddaughter's birth, the more i smoked, but kaci smiled at me (probly wind) and i thought this was the time to stop, the longer i can be around for her and my own children,
when times get bad i still wish i smoke but then i think no i made a promise to kaci,
so stick it out
windy

Aww Windy, he'd have been proud of you, KC sounds beautiful, and I'm sure it was a smile smile.......well, that;s what I kept telling myself!! Lottie

Lottie it won't be long before you're tutting at folks who smoke and wafting smoke away in pubs, and asking them to put the fans on  ;D

I don't miss the fags at all - drink like a fish instead  ;D

Oo I hope not Wardy!! I don't think I really miss the fags,99% of the time, it's just that darned 1%.....!!! Mind you, woebetide anyone that should come between me and my gum!!!  :o :o :o Lottie
(http://bestsmileys.com/drinking/7.gif)cheers, by the way  ;)

Again well done! And for the 1% - go & put the washing machine on - or prune some roses - or pickle some onions??

LOL!! Thanks again, Tim. But ,I can't help it, I've got to ask, why do you hate my gum so much......? ??? ;) Please...put me out of my misery!!! Lottie  ;D

You'll be like a demented gnat buzzing about 100% of the time.  Had to laugh at Tim's "go and pickle some onions"

We can compile an A4A  list of all the little jobs you could do to keep your hands busy  :)

Do you think that would be wise, Wardy.......... ;D ;D ;D  ;)

have you heard the latest L?~

QuoteA lager made with nicotine is being marketed by a German brewery as the world's first anti-smoking drink.

~now that's got to be better than chewing gum ;D ;D[/color]

And the link,GW!!!!! Quick!!! Sounds wonderful, but will end up chewing gum whilst slurping lager, bouncing off the ceiling...........Excellent!! ;D ;D ;D ::)  Lottie

Good for all of you who have given up.

In my other life I'm a cancer researcher working on new drug trials and I get to see a fair few people who didn't manage it... There are so many cancer links to smoking (stomach, bladder, oesophagus) as well as lung and heart disease, and even if you do have that niggle occasionally, think that you're still alive and you'll get over it. 
The sad thing for me is the people attached to drips etc standing outside the cancer wards puffing. They usually say it's too late for them, but don't realise that the extra oxygen they'd have if they didn't smoke would make their treatment work better, whether it's radiotherapy or chemo.  (less O₂ means narrower blood vessels means less drug delivery to cancer, and with the RT it's the oxygen effect - the molecules 'set' the DNA damage caused by the radiation in the tumour...)

For those of you who wish you could give up - good luck - you can! Please help put me out of a job! (Then I can go down the lottie every day :)

I've never smoked, parents did and I loathed the smell so it never occurred to me to start.  But I have given up caffeine and that was hard enough and I know giving up the weed is a lot harder so you have my best wishes there too.

moonbells

Moonbells reading what you have just wrote , really makes you stop and think ,makes me think why do i smoke , i really must try to give up makes me worry loads about what i am doing to my health ,

lottie its your fault you started the subject  :o :o :o

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Must be a hard job to do Moonbells, and I do want to be around to see what my kids do with their lives, future grandkids etc, how'm I doing, Dibs???  ;D Lottie

feeling so much better lottie thanks hun  >:( >:( :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D

Glad I could help, hun!!!  ;D ;D ;D, Ooo then there's the brown bit on your finger from the nicotine......the dogs knocking over the ash tray........ :-* I'm a running!!!

good job you had a head start cause i am after you  ;D ;D ;D

Many congratulations Lottie!  ;D

I'm trying at the moment, currently 6 days and not missing it yet (although I do have a rotten cold and chest that sounds like a Harley Davidson revving up when I cough, so that helps...). When I've done a year, perhaps I'll be able to call myself an ex-smoker!

Cheers,
Rob ;)

Whehay Rob!!Well done! I found I felt lots worse before I felt better...... ::) ::) ::) In fact, think it took a couple of months to really feel the benefits, so don't be disheartened, and good luck....and...thank you.... ;D Better keep going, that Dibs is quite nippy..... :o

Well done Lottie ;D and keep it up Rob  ;D
I only smoked for about 3 months the summer after I did my A-levels and haven't touched cigs since. My OH has asthma but smoked until a month after I met him 8 years ago when he threw his packet out the window and hasn't had one since. I work in restaurant and hate having to serve tables in smoking section and i HATE it when i'm out with my son in his buggy and people blow smoke all over him - can sympathise with you Heldi.

good on you Robkb i only lastest 8 days so i hope you last longer then me , iam sure you will i don't have very good will power,

lottie i am catching you up  ;D ;D ;D ;D

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  Jesus lottie.........thats some serious hair gel............or did the nicotine chewing
  gum get caught in yer hair... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

lottie have no fear i am chasing you in my JCB you will never get away ,ICY lottie is wearing her hair like that to your party  :o :o :o

I know, I know you're just jealous Jags......Dibs, mind me paint work on the JCB....... :o ;)

well i need a word  with you about the Jcb lottie i sort of hit a fox in the country lanes and put it ths way i am not chashing you anymore ,Jcb is in a dicth but dont worry i am fine  ;) ;) ;)

And the Fox!!!! :o :o :o ;)

I'm with Heldi on this one (the smoking, not the JCB)- I grew up asthmatic & seriously allergic - asthma gone now but I still can't go near smoke.  As far as human rights is concerned - fine for people to smoke in their own homes if they want to, but not in public - otherwise they're violating my human right not to inhale second-hand smoke :P!

So a very big well done Lottie! - keep going without those cigarettes - & Rob too.  Like Moonbells, I've never smoked, but I have given up caffeine, among other things, & I'm sure it's not easy for you.  It's worth it though!

Anyone who still smokes & wants to give up - can I add to what Moonbells said, that it's not just yourself you could be killing.  A friend of mine is very ill with angina and has to breathe oxygen through a machine for several hours every day.  She can't walk very far & needs a stairlift to get upstairs as she doesn't have enough puff.  When she was first diagnosed the doctors said the illness was caused by smoking - but she has never smoked in her life!  Her late husband & her sons smoke so she had always had smoke in the house - but I'm sure they would have given up if they'd realised what it was doing to their wife/mother.

Woohoo! A whole week now, and I haven't killed anyone (yet...).

Juliet, I know what you mean about the secondary smoking, which is why I've never smoked at home or around the kids - and then I thought "so why on earth am I smoking at all?"

Another good incentive is to go next door (I work next to Guy's Hospital) and just look at the people crowded by the door puffing on their fags - the other week I actually saw a guy in a wheelchair taking off his oxygen mask to puff on his ciggy, and then holding said ciggy in his hand - next to his oxygen bottle!! :o :o

Cheers,
Rob ;)

Well done, Rob!!!  ;D ;D ;D You need to buy you a little pressie now!!! Worked for me, but I just love pressies!! And I was so kind to me...... ;D

hi, we haven't been about much lately cos we're giving up smoking.not one puff since sept 19th. our computer is right by the back door. we didn't smoke in the house except at the computer with the back door open so now, sitting here is torture!
we're giving up because we can't afford to smoke. while i 'm sure smoking isn't good for you nor is walking down a road where traffic is heavy and twenty minutes standing by a barbeque is apparently equivelant to 10 cigs a day for a year.
i do think the anti smoking brigade have got a bit carried away, if there are places that are smoke free and places that aren't everyone should be happy.
well done to you lottie, and all those who've given up and good luck to robkb and all those still trying to.
bit worried to hear that the cravings remain tho, hoped they'd be subsiding soon! :-\
Tara xx

Well done you two!! I don't think everyone gets cravings. I have a mate who doesn't miss it at all, and an aunt who would still wrestle you to the ground for one after 25 years!! Don't forget pressie!! Best bit....... ;D

A friend of my wife's died of lung cancer a few months ago; she'd never smoked in her life, but had worked for years in smoke-filled care homes. Nobody should ever have to endure smoke as a condition of their work.

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Well done, Rob!!!  ;D ;D ;D You need to buy you a little pressie now!!! Worked for me, but I just love pressies!! And I was so kind to me...... ;D

Well, I did just get my lotty, and next year's seed catalogues are plopping through my letterbox on a daily basis, and I do need a new water butt, and...and...

Cheers,
Rob ;)