First day off the fags

[NeilRoss]

I stopped 20 od years ago. I kept a full packet never opened in my pocket for weeks/months. Each time I got ‘panicky’ I told myself, it’s OK, I have some in my pocket so I can wait half an hour and have one then. By that time I’d be distracted, and on it went. I never did open that packet. My thinking at the time was, If I don’t have any on me I’ll probably race into a shop, buy a packet and rip them open in desperation. So the unopened packet gave me the assurance that I could wait just that little longer. LOL It worked for me :thumbup2:

Neil

[Ewan Chrystal]

Ive done the opposite Neil, Binned all tobacco, lighters, ashtrays. Removed all trace of smoking. I’m on Champix which is tablets from the doctor. They do work in suppressing the nicotine craving but the fact i know ive not had one since last night, My body’s like WTF man, somethings missing here

[Phill Fenton]

I stopped smoking when my son was born 24 years ago. But unlike Neil I had to remove all temptation. Every now and then I would have a lapse and go out and buy a packet – but everytime after I’d finished one cigarette I would destroy all the rest to stop me being tempted to have another… cost me a bloody fortune 😕

Having said that it was the best thing I ever did and I’m proud and happy to be a non smoker. Stick with it Ewan :appl: :appl:

[NeilRoss]

quote Phill Fenton:

I stopped smoking when my son was born 24 years ago. But unlike Neil I had to remove all temptation. Every now and then I would have a lapse and go out and buy a packet – but everytime after I’d finished one cigarette I would destroy all the rest to stop me being tempted to have another… cost me a bloody fortune 😕

LOL :lol1:
I tried a few times before the one that worked, and I’d rush out for a packet and go straight in! The first one used to taste absolutely foul, but the second and the third were OK so I’d be back on them. My feeling was that the craving wasn’t due to a physiological problem, but purely to a psychological dependency. It wasn’t my body that craved the effect, it was my mind. So instead of trying to hide it from my mind, I thought I’d simply delay the ‘medicine’ each time I thought about it, by putting it off for a while, but without introducing a panic situation. What happened was my craving periods got longer and longer until one day I just didn’t have any cravings.