Stories and experiences by: Plasticleech

Woohoo! It has been 349 days since I gave up smoking.  After 4 failed attempts over the years to give up, I am so pleased to be finally free from it. To those that are just starting out - good luck, and keep trying.   

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I am happy. Really happy.  No cigarette this morning, which has been my only one for a few days and I AM STILL ALIVE AND SANE. Except maybe for all of the capitalisation!  But really, as I lay in bed this morning contemplating getting up, I only had one concern, which was getting a paper finished today.  Of course I wondered how I would go about not having that cigarette, but it t...

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Ok - Today was the last day of smoking! I had 1.5 all day and didn´t even think about it being the last ones. The half that I had was the last one I guess, and I put it out before Id finished just because it was pointless and gross to smoke it.  Tomorrow morning may be slightly difficult, but I am planning to have breakfast and a coffee, instead of a cigarette and a coffee. 

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Ugh - yesterday was terrible.  It was one of those days that I just felt like smoking more, so ended up smoking four, and then started two others, but they tasted gross so I put them out.  Probably a good sign.  Have started re-reading Alan Carr´s books.  I have been finding it good just before I go to sleep, as it helps with the re-brainwashing! Also: Went around t...

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Cigarettes Today:   3.  Maybe a fourth later on, but I am really putting it off.  Comments:   Today I start on my double dose of Champix.  Any doubts that I was having about being able to quit are floating about in the ashtray full of water outside. My lungs are happily celebrating the drastic reduction of cigarettes (from +10 a day) to 5 on each of the two...

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So, I had a banana this morning, pill, then coffee and two cigs.   The cigarettes still taste funny, and I was a bit busy until about 1pm, when I had another cigarette.   The amount that I am smoking is drastically reduced simply because the urge isn´t there, and they taste funny - almost like the first cigarette that you ever smoked - , and I am not even certain that I want one ...

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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...

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