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Just about keeping my resolve up - but wondering if anyone can give me some encouragement?

2006-12-21 09:13:53 · 44 answers · asked by Nicola L 3 in Health General Health Care Other - General Health Care

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dont do it, what would be the point, we al lhave lows even thos of us who dont smoke and we have to distract ourselves in other ways, even a drop of the old baileys lol. Your doing so so well dont give up now, just think how great you will feel in another week when thats another week under your belt xxx well done xxx

2006-12-21 09:16:35 · answer #1 · answered by suzie1968uk 3 · 2 0

I quit 18 months ago keep going. You are doing so well now!!!!

I promise you each week will improve. If you give in you might as well not of spent 13 days suffering. Why do it all again if you really want to break away from the slavery of tobacco.
I know where you are feeling right now and how I was also in the same way. I just kept going somehow refusing to quit, I had gone so far and I PROMISE you if you get through the first month you really start to gain ground fast. Join a Yahoo Quit Smoking Group. You are going to crave because you are breaking free of the slavery of addiction. It has to hurt at first but it will ease off more and more the first 2-3 weeks are the fundimental weeks because your body is going through a lot of changes. I was not even thinking about cigarettes (I mean craving them) after 3 months I mean not craving at all, I woke up and didn't feel the bad need to light up. You can do it, if it was too hard too long nobody would be able to quit but thousands and do and millions have. You can be one of those people that made it.
You are in your early days I stop counting days after about 6 weeks and counted weeks that is when you know you are improving. Now I count months only.
You will be suprised looking back how quicky your quit days build up and when you get your first month that is a fantastic feeling of achievement. If you smoke you will be reseting the 13 quit days you earned back to 0. Do you want all that resolve and effort to be tossed away for a stupid cigarette and only feel bad and a loser for after? Regret will hurt more than the want of cigarette.
YOU KEEP AT IT! I AM ON YOUR SIDE !!!!

2006-12-21 09:27:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Good girl
i have tried to give up loads of times wish i could get to day 3
then think one will not hurt
well it does if you can do 13 days you can do the rest of your life
try activity's where you cant smoke
sex ( but the bf prob will not last long enough and you will want a *** after)
eat ( that works until your full )
bath ( you never smoke in the bath
sleep ( don't smoke when your sleeping do you )
Keep it up

well done

2006-12-21 09:22:43 · answer #3 · answered by gareth O 2 · 1 0

Believe you me ,do not give in .I smoked for forty years and I wish I had never seen a cigarette I gave up when I was sixty I felt better I could taste my food I was breathing better,but alas the damage was done it resulted in me having a triple heart bypass which ended in me being in and out of intensive care and contracting an infection not to mention the worried times my wife and family went through. Now I cannot walk very far without having to stop for fifteen minutes because of the pain in my legs,I cannot play football with my grandchildren I miss this kind of things. There are people a lot worse off than me so just think of what I have to go through and what others have to suffer because THE CIGARETTE a definite killer

2006-12-21 09:52:27 · answer #4 · answered by terrano 4 · 0 0

Well done for stopping and congratulations on almost hitting the 2 week mark! You can do it - you've done so well so far. I gave up nearly 9 years ago (it'll be 9 years in January) and all you can do is take it a day at a time. Go run yourself a bath, or put on your favourite dvd........ or just have an early night with a good book and a hot chocolate. Don't sit and dwell on it - the cravings pass before you know it. Hang in there xx

2006-12-21 09:28:41 · answer #5 · answered by Lost and found 4 · 1 0

Hi Nicola,I gave up 6 weeks today,try and keep it up hun ,it does get easier and easier.

I gave up by reading "the easy way to stop smoking" by Allen Carr,its absolutely brilliant,he has got a 53% success rate,and recommends you dont use nicotine replacement.

You could still read the book even though you havent smoked for 2 weeks,it really helps you.

For now though ,just remember the craving only lasts for a few seconds,just get up and do something till its gone,thats what I do,or sip water thats another good thing to do.

Good luck hun,your already a non-smoker.

2006-12-21 09:27:44 · answer #6 · answered by Pat R 6 · 1 0

u r in the worst of it try making a list of all the benifits of not smoking eg the more money u will have to spend on what u want your health ect then make a list of all the bad things about smoking eg it makes u ssmell bad its unatractive place them were u will read them and read them every time u feel like a smoke. hope it helps u can do it the worst part will be over soon u will have to let u know how u go;)

2006-12-21 09:54:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Hi nicola sorry to hear your not doing to well on pd,when i started dialysis in aug 2000 i was given both options i decided to go on haemodialysis, i feel i have made the right choice,other pd patients i know have had many poblems with pd mainly peritonitis,and problems with the stomach, a guy who started on pd as i went ont haemo was fine at first 10 weeks later i saw him in the unit he was very weak walking on two sticks it was like he had aged about 20 years he is a year younger than me i am now 34.anyway nice to hear from a fellow patient,i dialise at the churchill in oxford which area are you from,hope all goes well have a great christmas,and would like to hear from you again.

Greg

2006-12-21 14:35:09 · answer #8 · answered by TS100N 6 · 0 0

one day at a time . go clean your teeth , have a glas of water go to bed... u` ll feel soo good in the morning if you dont give in .. having a smoke will only take a few mins and you` ll be really cross with yoursrlf afterwards and you` ll stink :) i` m now off them 9 years almost and yea its really hard but your doing sooo well, keep it up .... all the best you can do it x

2006-12-21 09:24:24 · answer #9 · answered by PAULA C 3 · 1 0

I quit recently too. You are going to have times like you are having now, but they get further and further apart. Be proud of your 13 days...too proud to throw them away. At 13 days you already have most of the nicotine out of your system, and remember, it takes 3 weeks to either form or break a habit, so you are almost there...hang in!

2006-12-21 09:18:57 · answer #10 · answered by newph1956 2 · 3 0

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