The other thing was smoking dreams. They are so realistic that I woke up really angry with myself that I had succumbed and had a cigarette. It took a few seconds for me to work out that I couldn't have smoked cos I was asleep!
The dreams are amazing. The cravings reproduce the smell and the taste and feeling of smoking exactly.
I wish I was a glow worm A glow worm's never glum Cos how can you be grumpy When the sun shines out your bum!
This helped me. Try getting a ironed pillow case and fold it to make a pad that you can press over your mouth. Just a few times pull the air though to breath. It may get rid of the ache in your chest. You are almost though it, tomorrow will be better. Val
Ok, confession time. I am a smoker. I said I would give up when I reached 50. That’s past. I tried cutting down to 10 a day - got myself a dinky cigarette case and filled it with my daily allowance. Didn’t work on weekends, I just refilled it. OH smokes too, which doesn’t help. Have read all the books, know all the techniques, but there has to be a will to actually give up. My dad smoked heavily all his life until my sister had a baby at home. He simply stopped - going gaga over my nephew did it.
You have my utmost admiration and respect. I am really rooting for you and hope one day soon I will have the willpower to do likewise.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Nollie, one day there will be a little click in your head and you will think 'that's enough now'. What caused the click for me was the day my brand went up to £8 for pack of 20.
I wish I was a glow worm A glow worm's never glum Cos how can you be grumpy When the sun shines out your bum!
My dad stopped his 120 a day habit the day my brother, then about 18 months, went and brought him his own cough bottle and said "bad cough daddy". That was it. he never smoked again but as Dove said, he always said that he was only one away. My brother and I never smoked. I didn't have to...I often wonder will passively smoking so many cigarettes as a baby and child catch up with me some day. My dad lived till he was 84 and regularly over the forty odd years I would have a recurrent nightmare that he'd started smoking again. I would get so upset. Good luck with your onward journey @hogweed. Mint Imperials worked for my dad. Can you even still get those??? ps and pure bloody mindedness of course!
Thanks everyone. Day 18 done and dusted. Am very grumpy and nothing is pleasing me. Just as well I only have the cats to shout at! My decision making skills have departed me. And so very hungry!! Going to the shops tomorrow to get lots of fruit and low cal snacks. Also phoned the Stop Smoking clinic at the doctors so waiting an appointment there. Feel as though I need some back-up. I am still surviving though!
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
@hogweed, so glad to know you haven't weakened. Here's another thought to bolster your resolution: how many starving children could be fed off the land currently used to grow tobacco?
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The dreams are amazing. The cravings reproduce the smell and the taste and feeling of smoking exactly.
A glow worm's never glum
Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
You have my utmost admiration and respect. I am really rooting for you and hope one day soon I will have the willpower to do likewise.
A glow worm's never glum
Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
My dad lived till he was 84 and regularly over the forty odd years I would have a recurrent nightmare that he'd started smoking again. I would get so upset.
Good luck with your onward journey @hogweed. Mint Imperials worked for my dad. Can you even still get those???
ps and pure bloody mindedness of course!