General Chat

Ta Clare. I'm OK tho. Still full of life and can walk about 5 miles since lost over 2 stone with diabetes in 2002 WARNING Anyone using nicotine patches, chewing gum etc etc AND also continuing to smoke is really putting themselves at risk. There were some articles in papers a couple of years back warning that such a mix put people more at risk of heart attack/stroke.

There is no easy way, I'm afraid, but first of all you really must want to give up. I stopped about 8 years ago. The cold turkey lasted a couple of weeks, and in a way that was the easy bit. The hardest thing after that was wanting to smoke whilst having a drink. Good luck.

i will tell you one of my secrets now but you mustnt laugh , when i get the urge i get a birthday candal and pretend its a cig and i puff away on it lol and trust me it really does the trick . But thats between you and me lol Rosex

Possitive vibes coming your way LOl i dont light the candal lol i would be singed lol good luck Rosex

I got the strong ones, just took it off when I felt the urge... naughty naughty... they give me a dead arm by the end of the day!! Excuses excuses. Cx

lol what i have done is i have drummed it into my head that if i smoke while on patches i will die so i dont even think of smoking when you did patches perhaps you didnt get a high enough strengh Rosex

Do you light the candle??? pmsl!!!! Perhaps it will have to be Alan Carr and cold turkey... all the other things havent worked. Send me some positive vibes... ummmmmmm Cx

Oooohhh thats lots... what I could do with that!!! Might have to retire with that Alan Carr book again....I need geeing up a bit... Cx

Aww Clare, it must be awful. Having never smoked I can't say how awful, but I understand it's not easy. If cold turkey doesn't work, try cutting down slowly, i.e 20/ day to 19 / day for a week...cut down the ration on a weekly basis...would that work? You conscience wouldn't let you slip back to 20/day, it would have been a waste of effort if you did. I wish you loads of luck, you obviously want to give up....just think...perfume will smell much better without being tainted. All the best. Tina x

Clare i go to the one that used to be moss but i think boots have taken them over just ask your GP they will tell what chemists do it and its one to one aswell . i have got a pot here with a £110. in it and i feel good lol Rosex ~~~waves ~~~~~~~~~~to Lesley x

Think I need to channel my stubborness into not wanting them..... is that reverse psychology do you think, and can you do it on yourself??? lol coz I have to else id go mad!!! Cx

Rose, that makes sense to me. :-)

I didnt know they did that at the chemist... must admit i went to the no smoking clinic down at the docs last year, and didnt go back coz I failed and was too embarrassed to face the nurse....might try the chemist then - is it any or just a particular chain of them do you know???? Cx

Imagine you are me!! My arteries clogged and in 1992 my right leg nigh on stopped working was threatend with having it cut off. Three angioplasties later over several years and with 3 stents in my gut artery it's still working but at reduced power. 1995 admitted to Coronary Care 4am one morning when I said to myself if I survived I'd stop smoking - I did. 1997 major surgery for cancer - again, linked to smoking. Your choice ain't it? Yes, I know it's hard (I smoked over 20 a day) but I hope I've scared you and got you thinking. Good luck - You need it!!

Clare if you do it through the chemist im sure you would be better off coz its like a goal , a bit like weight watchers ... you go in and blow in a tube and then they see if you have been smoking atleast then you wont smoke coz you will be cheating only on yourself <, does that make sence lol Rosex

hypnosis looks good,xxx

why don't you choose a perfect holiday, somewhere that you really really want to go with your family. Draw up an itinerary of what you are going to do. Imagine it all in your head. Cut out the pictures from the brochures and keep it in your handbag. When you go to pick up a cigarette, look at the pictures first (and those of your children)

I'm sure you've done this too - work out how much money you will save a week/month/year if you didn't smoke. Put that money towards a particular goal/treat eg holiday Put the money aside that you would use to buy cigarettes for the week. If you buy a pack deduct the money for them. Any money that you manage to save at the end of the week/month put into a separate bank account. At the end of the year spend it on that goal if you have enough money.

Muffy, have read Alan Carr (actually have read 2 of them!!!) I think I must be a really stubborn person. Ron, poor you, you really have been through it. I know I need to give up before I get a scare like yours... Might try the old patches again tomorrow..... I will keep trying... Cx

Have thought, and seen, what it does... I think i need to find some sort of switch in my head. Havent found it yet. Wish I could!!!!