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I have been a smoker for a few years, I'm 22 and the main reason I have for quitting smoking is for my little girl and the fact that I just can't afford it anymore ! I'm on my 6th day smoke free, I feel a lot better then what I did when I was a smoker the only problem I'm having is that I'm extremely bored being a stay at home mum I'm happy when I'm busy but when my little one is napping I find i...

I have so many triggers I don't know where to start. If I get stressed about work I turn to a cigarette. If I have success at work I celebrate with a cigarette, if I get bored with a task I am working on, I take a break with a cigarette. I need to find a replacement for each of these situations . It might not be one.

Ok so today is day 5 of being a non smoker, it sounds so unfamiliar and kinda weird calling myself a non smoker but it's something I have to get used to. I guess that's where one of my first steps started really. It's been a pretty rough first 5 days.....but that's my own fault you see I'm on Champix and you generally give up the cancer sticks roughly 8-10 days in, well I decided to challenge mys...

Hi and welcome to my journey  my journey of smoking started when i was about 13 ,i have heard and read about from other soucers that you may not remember when you first had your first drag from a cig.well i do remember my first drag and wish i didnt start puffing on them dam things .like every one else or most people we all have hope and dreams of beening some thinking in lije.but when you s...

Hi just what to no who people went on champix I start tomorrow I would love people to tell me there story thanks 

I'm on Champix day 14 and am 2 days smoke free. This is the longest I have gone without a cigarette in years. I think that what is helping this time is that I know what my triggers are and planning on how to deal with them. my biggest challenge so far has been not getting a job that I really want and need. I was really upset and knew I would be tempted to smoke. I went straight to my mum (my supp...

Hello This is the first time in have signed up to a quit smoking site on the pc. In am hoping this will be some sort of an incentive to actually quitting. In am (and in mean AM) stopping smoking today. Both my husband and in smoke, and both stopping today. Why today? No reason, just the end of the pack in guess. We have done it before, at the end of the pack stopping .. and not been succes...

I started smoking more than 45 years ago as a teenager.I smoked 20-25 cigarettes a day.Early last Wednesday I stopped smoking cold turkey.My age is now 61 and I have C.O.P.D. (a lung disease including emphysema) and I take medications a min. six times a day to help my breathing.On some days I can hardly walk off my front steps without losing my air.Other days I can go about two km. to the river w...

Day 1 of my life changing journey.  Have my journal at hand with all my affirmations, reasons, goals, etc - have pages printed out from online quit kit posted up all around the house.  Kids have been forewarned that I'm probably going to be a bit narky for a few days .... giving up both cigs and alcohol (HelloSundayMorning).  I'm actually quite excited (but it is only 11 am). ...

I Have been smoking now for around 23 years, i currently get chest pain although i do work in a jobwith lots of labour.I am a binge smoker, so i wont have any for 2-3 days and then as usual i go have a few beers maybe 4-8 after work at a mates and will smoke around 15 smokes and when i go to the shed on weekends i often go through 1.5 to 2 packs in one night.I am also a binge drinker which is tie...

I really just had a question. I am at day 3 of quitting. The last two days have been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster, irritable, angry and even weepy (unusual for me) Anyway its a heatwave at the moment its 41... I would really love to have a beer this evening but at day 3 still feel like this might be a bad decision. Does anyone (esp regular drinkers) have any thoughts on when is the best...

So after 20 years of smoking I'm on my 3rd attempt at quitting.i have a 5 year old son who is my inspiration to quit.i want to be around for him for a long time to come and couldn't see that future with a death stick in my hand.im also overweight and have high cholesterol.thing is...these f@ckers have me by the balls.30 a day and I find it hard to manage stress without them, they are my crutch.so...

hello everyone,    so to begin hope everyone is doing well on their plans to quit smoking and keep consistent :D, so i am 22 and have been smoking for 4 years about a pack a day so 20 smokes daily maybe a bit less, i am a premed student and have come to a commitment to quit, its not a healthy habit im wasting my time and in long labs i lose concentration because i dont smoke during ( ...

Hi everyone, I have been wanting to quit for a while. I started smoking at 16years of age and I am now 34, I would like to start a family soon and planned to quit before pregancy, this is my motivation even though i enjoyed smoking (this is my main trigger), I am starting to feel unhealthy and have a lack of energy. My partner also smokes and we plan to quit together he has been coughing alot and...

So I have taken my first champix tablet. I have been thinking about starting the prescription for over a year. In that time I have moved accross the world and started a whole new life with my partner. I have moved around australia and seen some amazing things.  My partner quit on the 1st of January 2013 and he is still a very proud non smoker. Which of course means that he has been on my ca...

I always start out so well, really determined, positive about being healthy, big statements like "THIS is the time i finally stay quit." i think this has happened 6 times in the past year and a bit now :( This time, im not making big gestures, im not making it public knowledge that im quitting smoking, im just not going to smoke no more. i have the Nicobate lozengers there to help if im really c...

I am keeping myself busy. Avoiding my triggers, coffee, reading and drinking alcohol. I have changed my work smoke breaks to yummy hot chocolate breaks. After work when i jump in my car ive been winding the windows up and cranking the air con. during my lunch breaks im working out. First afternoon was the hardest. I worked out for the second time, washed my car, cooked dinner and realised it was...

I am 44 and have never ever wanted to quit smoking. I am at that stage of hating it. I have been smoking for 35 years and I view it as a constant companion and a bad relationship I need to let go of. My main concern at the moment is:- 1. What do I do when watching tv or relaxing at home???? 2. What do I do when I have my morning coffee????   Ugh....  I would love some of your comme...

i had my last smoke yesterday and now i am ready to stop i hope any way my partner is over me smoking but he is one of my triggers to and he doesnt understand when i get mad at him i would perfer to sit outside and have a smoke or when i am waiting for him to get home i fell like smoking all the time i wish it was as easy as he thinks it is but it not so here i go giving it a real go this time so...

Champix helps me a lot to try to quit smoking.

Hi everyone, thank you all for your support, it makes it so much easier to know I have so much help. Today woke up and thought time to get up for coffee and smoke, then felt disappointed that I couldn't have one, went out and had weetbix on my porch. Today I ate healthy food and am starting to actually enjoy water, your taste buds adjust after awhile. To all those worrying about weight gai...

Cant believe it. Have now lasted 13 smokefree days. I was a smoker for 50 years and enjoyed it. Have gone "cold turkey" with a little help from gum and the constant reminders of chest pains and the morning coughs and the outcasting by my friends.  My life has been a contradiction. I ride my bike 15kms most days and when not riding I am walking the golf course dragging a buggy. Peop...

Well, I have made it to day 3! Pretty proud of myself, I've been so strong. The car is my main trigger, after a long day at work, I really enjoyed my afternoon cig in the car on the way home. I have replaced it with Music been listening to some new music, I'm finding tha Dubstep is really helping which is unusual as I don't normally listen to it unless I'm going out, I have also been chewing norm...

This will be the nth times I try to quit smoking. I quitted on cold turkey for 4.5 years as a promise to my boyfriend that I would quit as soon as we were engaged. It was a piece of cake to quit cold turkey back then even I had been smoking for 10 years. I couldn't recall experiencing any withdrawal symtoms, I guess the engagement and the dream of spending the rest of my life with the one I love ...

NOTE: Prior to today, I was a 3-4 cigarette with morning coffee person, 2-3 after lunch, 1 in the late afternoon, 2-3 in the evening.  Day 2: Had my pill in the morning. Slightly nauseous for about 20 mins, then had a banana. Seemed to fix it. Morning: 2 cigs and a coffee: All three tasted funny - coffee was more bitter than usual? Subsequent cigarettes: 2 after lunch.  Both al...

I have tried to quit so many times that i would need everyone's hands and feet to count the attempts.  The biggest setback to any quit has always been my own mind.  I have been a non smoker for 4 days but what is the differance in me this time? I will NEVER NEVER EVER BECAUSE I'M A NON SMOKER :) There is nothing to quit because I'm a non smoker. Why would I smoke - I'm a non smoker. I ...

Hi my name's Matt, I'm 24 and have been smoking since I was about 17. I've had asthma from birth but I had it pretty well managed with constant sport, fitness and vigilant use of medications, all up until my mid/late teens when I fell into the smokers crowd, boy what horribly stinky crowd to be a part of, but I knew none the wiser! Smoking has been in my family since before I can remember and I ...

ok going to quit tommorow havent gone to get champax or anything so im sacred that i will slip up once again .... but i want to start asap going to doctors tommorow to get champax but everone has said to be on champax before you quit as it is a little easier im affraid that ill slip up again and let my partner and children down .... not sure how i will go as i stress out very easy hopefully i can...

Hi Everyone, First off, its very reassuring to read everyones ups and downs whilst trying to quit and seeing the amount of support everyone has for one another! I just have a question on how everyone has dealt with their "habit"? Not the nicotine craving itself but the "after dinner smoke, morning coffee smoke etc...?" What has everyone else done instead of going for a smoke? I am on day 2 of ...

Hi all, I am determined to quit this time for health reasons. I have been smoking for 20 years! I normally have only around 1-2 a day but when I drink I chain smoke and I feel like crap the next day. And I drink quite a bit. I'm here for support while I go cold turkey and to ask for tips on not smoking while embibing. I'm hoping by quitting I will cut down on the alcohol as well!

I have changed my date too many times, today is the day, have to do it.

Tension, sore jaw and constant cravings i have gone from 30 smokes a day sometimes more sometimes less to 6-7 a day on the patches i did quit yeas before after being a 60 a day smoker i was a non smoker for 10 years but stupidly took it up again 2 and a half years ago through hypnotherapy unfortunatly the man that treated me retired i recently had a course of champix and it was very good no side ...

Okay, here goes my third attempt to quit, so far I have tried the patches (that made me sick) the gum (it tasted aweful) and the e-ciggarette (worked for a month) now my plan is to go cold turkey, I think that reasons to quit just keep stacking up, I have smoked since I was 14 I am now 20. Reason one: I am scared to death of dying. Reason two: I cant walk for more then 3 minutes without being out...

Hi there, So 6 weeks ago I have quit smoking weed - I used to smoke every single night with my partner and have been a full time weed smoker for over 3 years.Over these past 6 weeks my mood swings have been ridiculous, my anxiety is off the radar, my sleeping patterns are screwed, my chest is on fire, I'm depressed, I'm hungry all the time and it's affecting my life in every single way.These las...

I have been smoking on and off for about 14 years. I have two gorgeous little boys who unfortunatelysee me and are around me when Im smoking.. only becasue when I am smoking its my 'time out' so I suppose they see this as their opp to hang out and talk to mum while im not busily doing something around the house. I hate that they see me smoking, and hate that my littlest has been around it since h...

Hi all. Well - here goes. Ive been smoking since I was about 15 years old (I'm 44 now) and I have turned a serious corner and really dont want the darn things anymore. A freind said that when I quit smoking, I'm "not giving anything up, but instead, I'm gaining". So I dont say "I'm giving up smoking anymore".  However, as any smoker will admit, cigarettes are a part of my life. Quitting mea...

If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you always got! Hey guys, my name is Dean, i am 29 years old (30 in three months) and have been a rather heavy smoker for 15 years now. Thats right, half my life. Well i recognised the need to stop, and am now on my day 3 as a non smoker. I know it's only early days right now but i well and truly had enough of killing myself softl...

Trying to quit again! It's been 6 days and I'm feeling quite lethargic. Giving up coffee hasn't helped but it is a huge trigger and I'm no prepared to tempt fate. Orange juice tastes much better,

Today is day 1! have tried to give up several times before but am determined that this will be my last! Have been using the mini lozengers and hubby is also on board so we will probably make it into a competition! Am going to avoid alcohol for a few weeks as this seems to be my trigger!

....Default is a word that if we use computers we understand.  If you don't intentionally change a default, it will keep going on.  Like in your word processing.  The font will be the way it was set originally unless you change it.  Well, to make a long long story as short as possible, we are like computers.  We have placed defaults in place and unless we take a hard look...

I bought Allen Carrs' book off Ebay today and hopefull will have it next week.

I thought I was doing really good, especially since I haven't started the patches yet. A friend I havn't spoken too for so long rang....I didn't even think; I picked up my smokes while I was on the phone for over an hour and I am so MAD with myself!! I didn't even enjoy it!! I have cut back again because I start my patches on Friday. I so much want to stop this filthy habit but I guess I have to...

Day one towards a smoke free life after being a smoker for 26 years and numerous attempts to quit! I have started on patches this morning and so far have had to ditch the morning coffee for tea because I always had my coffee with a cigarette to start the day. I plan to keep busy at work today although I am feeling as though I have forgotten something or am missing something.....scary to think how...

I decided this time to stop smoking in a spur of the moment way...it's been two days today & every time I get a strong craving I think "what was I thinking" but I've just got to apply that willpower (which for years I always thought I had very little of) & hope that it's going to get stronger & really pull out all the stops this time around. I turned 40 recently and have been swaring ...

I have been a smoker since I was 19, I tried many many times before and failed then I started setting up my mind that I'll quit when I'll get married. And finally I planned to get married this but by this time I forgot the promise I made to myself of quitting. So One day sitting on the couch my would be wife said that she like to get married to a non smoker, She told me how much she hatted smokin...

Well time has come!!! after 10 years smoking today is the first day smoke free!!!! On the 7th day of champix and feeling not to bad, plenty of running after work and gym is really helping, if anyone is on champix would love to hear how you are going. cheers rusty

Hi everyone, long time no see.  Yes, i had a relapse, but i know i dont want to smoke an am starting all over again from the start. My quit day will be as of tomorrow, i currently have 4 smokes left in my pack.  Going on my little trip to QLD, being surrounded by smokers made it depressing an so difficult to stay strong, i caved in, i wasnt ready to put myself thru that situation even...

Its now day two of my journey to become a non-smoker. Yesterday was a very good day for me to start, i can recall only 3 cravings, two whilst i was at work and the other last night after dinner. BUT i didnt smoke. I had the help of my nicabate minis at work but i didnt want to rely on them while i was at home. I took a deep breath, read some facts about the benefits of not smoking and the c...

Hi All, I am new to this site and thought that I would share my experience with everyone.... Well where to start, I have been smoking since I was 15 and now I am 32. It has been the hardest thing I have ever done quitting, it is even harder then comming out. I have tried to quit so many times but have always managed to find an excuse to take it back up, either I was to stressed or I would just...

Well, one day down, thousands to go... I have made it through one day without a cigarette! It was hard, but the patches and inhaler are sure helping. I even managed to say no to a smoke today. One of my friends asked me for a smoke, and i managed to say no. It was hard, but I made it. Might be starting on champix soon. Any opinions on champix?