Stories and experiences

I just made an enormous stuff-up, by buying another packet of cigarettes, when I'd been doing so well.

Hey ev1 sorry haven't been around been pretty flat but guess what 🥁🥁🥁 155 days smoke free.no hiccups no nothing there's been days that I felt like a smoke n I just tell me self I have money all the time n it works still have trouble with other demons like my knee injury n anxiety depression n panic disorder but I've done it there is defin no turning back for me now.... and everyone on here is ...

5 weeks Cold Turkey here too and it's a fantastic place to be. I really think that Cold turkey is the only way, any other aids are just dragging out the addiction and wearing down your willpower. For me it was about making a mental shift from: "I can't have another smoke now" to "I don't want to smoke anymore" One night I went for a walk due to a stressful situation, I wasn't planning to ...

Thankyou to the people that replied to my post!

I have hardly smoked today!

Some people have thicker skin than others. Most are easy going and let things slide while others can take things more personal or literally. Thankfully I am the former and am still expressing my point of view in spite of a few (very few) disparaging remarks. If someone wants to punch me in the nose (now that's pretty personal) because I go back and read the history of a persona and try to get...

It just bought some NRT therapy.

Hi my name is Nathan I gave up smoking 7mths ago after I was diagnosed with Emphysema. At the time I had a problem with smoking and the Poker Machines. I was quite messed up and depressed. Has anyone else experienced anything like this- it's pretty full-on quitting smoking and having Emhysema. I don't want to smoke. Can't go near the pokies either. It's pretty full-on. does anyone relate to th...

I have just started reading material on quitting, and the people that deliver my cigarettes came when I was thinking about smoking cessation. It seemed like a possible way in to quitting.

wow what a week this one has been. Week one was easy, it flew past without even really a thought. Week two has been awhole lot different. The gloss of being a non smoker is starting to wear off and normality is setting in. The novelty is gone and the reality is here. My business this week has thrown everything at me it possibly can. Ive been called into stressful meetings where normally i would s...