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Gave up smoking the 23rd of March, I'm using some tablets the nurse prescribed which at £8.05 a fortnight is miles cheaper than anything I've tried before & they work, I've no physical need for a smoke.

So when am I gonna stop thinking, "I'll do that next after I've just had a FAG" Oh Yeah I don't smoke anymore ?

Thats the bit that bugging me not the physical but the mental.

Regards
T

What's the name of the tablets the nurse prescribed?

It does get easier - but as you say, it's the habits you miss, rather than the nicotine - I smoked roll-ups for 20 years and for ages I missed the little ritual of rolling up. And I'm sorry to tell you that even today, 20 years after giving up, just very occasionally, after dinner, or after a cup of coffee, if anyone held a lit fag to my lips I'd still take a puff. (It'd make me feel sick, mind!)

Good luck with the giving-up - stick with it - saves you a bloody fortune, too!

Sounds like you've been on Champix tablets. You take the prescribed course and about 8-14 days in the craving for a cigarette just goes away. I had them a yr and a half ago and packed up on the 10th day of taking them. (somewhere around mid October) Then at the beginning of December I had a slight stroke. Doctors wouldn't stick their necks out and say it was caused by the Champix, but on reading the leaflet accompanying them, there is a very, very slight risk of having a stroke. (could be the manufacturers covering their own backs though) Have to admit though that the Champix did work for me and didn't crave any cigarettes ,,,,, until pressures at work got the better of me in April last year and I started again (b,stard area manageress tried to get rid of me (unsuccessfully as it turned out) ) I am considering resuming the Champix again this year and will see our practice nurse about this soon.

Yeah Champix, 33 years smoking for me, not sure I like the sound of a stroke though I did feel a tighten across my chest last week, I just thought it was the sight of the young lady not wearing very much and asking me to put a pound in her pint glass

I'll keep an eye out for that, thanks JJ

Regards
T

I gave up cold turkey about 8 years ago on doctors advice and still crave cigarettes frequently. I still smoke on my pencil all day at work

I tried champix a couple of years ago couldn't get on with them I'm currantly going through cold turkey done 8 days so far

I tried nicorette patches once,horrendous experience using them as they gave me really really bad nightmares. It's funny how we all know they ain't good for you but it took a doctors warning to make me stop.

The one enjoyable experience with the Champix tablets were the "vivid dreams." You know how you wake up in the morning, having a nice dream and a few minutes later , you can't remember what it was about?? Well , with the Champix tablets, you can have strange dreams, and when you finally wake up, you can remember them. ( a bit like you can remember nightmares, except these can be nice dreams) Without going into too much detail, it was like being a young teenager again.

joinerjohn wrote: Without going into too much detail, it was like being a young teenager again.

They're called 'wet dreams'...

i gave up on the 7th january. cold turkey. went from say 10 - 15 a day to nowt. no chewing gum no patches nothing. first few days was canny hard. then after that it was fine.

i smoked from 14 or 15 years old and im now just recently turned 33.

think about it i bet the companies that make tabs have something to do with the companies that make patches or chewing gum (nicotine variety) or those tablets. they wont want you to just stop. better getting a few more quid outa ya than nothing at all isnt it. especially if you then get hooked on say the chewing gum.

the nicotine is gone out of ya body after a day or so. after that its breaking the habbit. after 3 months i barely think about smoking now.

the other day i was at a wedding. i was with my mate and his wife. he smokes. so when he went out i just chatted to his wife. didnt bother me at all that i was missing out on a smoke.

good luck giving up. it deffo gets easier. i feel fantastic now. and a lot fitter when im out running about playing foota with my mates or at the gym

Good luck, my Sister & Brother In Law both stopped smoking last year just before their first Grandchild was born.

After 50 years of smoking, in his case, they both had tried Patches etc, but found 'Accupuncture' worked for both of them.

It was about the same cost as smoking but now after over a year they are in pocket.

Congratulations to you, keep on stopping, if you know what I mean


John

Hmm... The nurse mentioned "the dreams" before, only problem is I NEVER rememeber any dreams, the wife says she can tell I'm dreaming but, I wouldn't know it.

Still got all my smoking stuff in the kitchen cupboard, my man cave still has an ashtry full of buttends and it still smells great too, kinda figure there's always gonna be temptation so, WTF & well done Fin, Philprime & steviejoiner74. I tried cold turkey on New Years Day, it was not good, it was not for me & it was not for good or for anyone I was around either so, I mulled it over for a while, tried some cheap shitty eletronic fags from ASDA of all places, felt like sh*t and thought I better go to the professionals hence, the Nurse.

Regards
T

steviejoiner74 wrote:I tried nicorette patches once,horrendous experience using them as they gave me really really bad nightmares. .

Your susposed to stick them over your eyes, so you cant find your fags.

cotswold builders wrote:

Your susposed to stick them over your eyes, so you cant find your fags.

Or over your mouth, then you can't drag on a fag.....