Giving up the Marlboro lights....

dhope

msmancunia wrote:

Crapola. One plate of spaghetti carbonara, three bottles of Pinot G and two mates later, I cracked.

Back on the patches tomorrow *weeps*

Don't worry about it, I quit loads of times before I stopped. Sounds like a good night.

jejv

msmancunia wrote:

Crapola. One plate of spaghetti carbonara, three bottles of Pinot G and two mates later, I cracked.

The woman has the stomach of a concrete elephant!

You're doing way better than me. I'm still on the Gauloises roll-ups. Or is that Galois ? Bleh.

Keep trying.

msmancunia

jejv wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

Crapola. One plate of spaghetti carbonara, three bottles of Pinot G and two mates later, I cracked.

The woman has the stomach of a concrete elephant!

You're doing way better than me. I'm still on the Gauloises roll-ups. Or is that Galois ? Bleh.

Keep trying.

What can I say - I was weak. (and I was hungry and a bit stressed). Still really cross with myself though. Can't even put a patch on until tomorrow morning as they give me such strange dreams and last night I dreamt that I murdered my next-door neighbour :oops:

EKE_38BPM

msmancunia wrote:

jejv wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

Crapola. One plate of spaghetti carbonara, three bottles of Pinot G and two mates later, I cracked.

The woman has the stomach of a concrete elephant!

You're doing way better than me. I'm still on the Gauloises roll-ups. Or is that Galois ? Bleh.

Keep trying.

What can I say - I was weak. (and I was hungry and a bit stressed). Still really cross with myself though. Can't even put a patch on until tomorrow morning as they give me such strange dreams and last night I dreamt that I murdered my next-door neighbour :oops:

Maybe it wasn't a dream. Have you seen your neighbour since the dream?
Keep trying.

DonDaddyD

Relapses are fine.

I've quit, but when the kid is at his Nan's (once a month) i have a cheeky 1- 20. The trick is to become able to get off the wagon when you choose.

paulg99

Yep, it's like falling off a bike.

You just need to get back on and keep pedalling.

Good luck.

Wheelspinner

MSM, don't beat yourself up over it. Start again. You will get there.

DonDaddyD wrote:

Relapses are fine.

I've quit, but when the kid is at his Nan's (once a month) i have a cheeky 1- 20. The trick is to become able to get off the wagon when you choose.

Clearly you haven't quit. Just less frequent.

dhope

Wheelspinner wrote:

MSM, don't beat yourself up over it. Start again. You will get there.

DonDaddyD wrote:

Relapses are fine.

I've quit, but when the kid is at his Nan's (once a month) i have a cheeky 1- 20. The trick is to become able to get off the wagon when you choose.

Clearly you haven't quit. Just less frequent.

It's Friday so what the hell - I agree with DDD.

I've quit, but I still have the occasional cig, once a month or so at the pub. I don't have any cravings, I don't keep any on me during the day or have a cheeky fag at lunch at work or before bed.

I'm the BSO owner of the smoking world - not a cyclist/smoker, just have been seen in the vicinity of something that looks similar to a bike/cigarette once in a blue moon.

msmancunia

I wish I could do that social smoking thing but I can't. Unfortunately it's all or nothing when it comes to me and smoking. Will have another crack at it. Well, after I've smoked the six I've got left....

SteppenHerring

msmancunia wrote:

I wish I could do that social smoking thing but I can't. Unfortunately it's all or nothing when it comes to me and smoking. Will have another crack at it. Well, after I've smoked the six I've got left....

Same here.

I think the government should just ban the damned things. Hell they've already made smokers stand out in the rain. Either allow it or ban it completely.

EKE_38BPM

SteppenHerring wrote:

I think the government should just ban the damned things. Hell they've already made smokers stand out in the rain. Either allow it or ban it completely.

Yeah, coz that has worked so well with cannabis, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, speed etc.

People already smuggle cigarettes. Banning them will just put the price up but the government won't make any revenue from the illegal trade.

UndercoverElephant

msmancunia wrote:

I wish I could do that social smoking thing but I can't. Unfortunately it's all or nothing when it comes to me and smoking. Will have another crack at it. Well, after I've smoked the six I've got left....

Now there's the thing, why smoke the rest? You're not a smoker anymore, so why would you?

jonny_trousers

msmancunia wrote:

I wish I could do that social smoking thing but I can't. Unfortunately it's all or nothing when it comes to me and smoking. Will have another crack at it. Well, after I've smoked the six I've got left....

Yeah, very few people who were addicts can go back to that social smoking thing.

For me, I always found getting over the chemical addiction to be fairly easy. It wasn't fun, but it wasn't that great a trauma. Dieting is no easier. The worst bit is ignoring the little devil on your shoulder who tells you a few weeks later that you are no longer a smoker and can therefore go and buy a packet of ten without fear of taking up the habit again (I never could).

On my last, successful attempt I'd been clean for about four weeks when I convinced myself that it was ok for me to go buy a pack of 10, just to smoke one or two out of. Thankfully it was winter and in the time it took me to pull on all my gear, just as I opened the front door to head to the corner shop, something at the back of my mind said, "You actually don't need a cigarette, do you?" and I knew I was free. I've honestly never wanted one since.

It perhaps didn't affect me that time, but on previous, failed attempts, I went through a kind of bereavement once I'd quit. I saw cigarettes as a friend who I was saying goodbye to forever - we really had shared some lovely times together over the years. I just needed to get my head around the fact that they are actually pure evil: convincing me that I need them when in actual fact they were badly damaging my health, costing me a lot of money and making me stink.

My advice: if you really want to quit, man-up, go cold turkey, be proud of yourself for turning your life around, deal with the pretty trivial suffering and get it done. Otherwise, accept that you either don't actually want to quit (and perhaps look for reasons in your life as to why that should be the case) or that you're weak willed.

Good luck!

okgo

msmancunia wrote:

I wish I could do that social smoking thing but I can't. Unfortunately it's all or nothing when it comes to me and smoking. Will have another crack at it. Well, after I've smoked the six I've got left....

Me too, I've socially smoked for 10 years now, and I have certainly cut down in the last 12 months, but I still smoke one or two on a night out.

I am very lucky in that I have never been addicted to it, but I think that must be in the genes my Dad started again after a 15 year relapse (divorce etc), then stopped dead with no help a few months later. Thing is, when he smoked he did it properly - 40 a day - I've never been able to go through them at that rate. Probably the most I've ever smoked in one day is 10 (which would have been all in a night out I bet).