The day after the smoking ban kicked in I went for a smoke outside work and started coughing my guts up, in true smoker style I smoked the rest of the pack, but so far haven't bought any more. I've got as far as the newsagent, but resisted at the last second and bought a Twix instead.

Goodbye lung cancer, hello obesity and dentist bills.....

Well i'm going to go for it next week after smoking for 18yrs. Patches will do, i'd go insane cold turkey and probably want to smash things up the weight gain i could do with as i'm on the skinny side.

Cor, there are a lot of people here giving up smoking.

I'll just keep filling my lungs with crap thanks.

But I'm guessing cold turkey might be the way to go. I was in hospital for a while a couple of years ago and didn't smoke in all the time I was there. First 2 or 3 days seemed to be the worst, but after that it didn't bother me. But the first thing I did when I got out the front door when I left was roll a ciggie. Not much reason for me to give up really. I thought maybe health reasons, but when I went for some tests recently, I appeared to be very fit and healthy (the nurse didn't even realise I was a smoker from the results, and even my oxygen level was almost 100% when they did those tests.

I suppose I might feel differently if I had kids, or had a girlfriend who didn't smoke.

ok I've admitted my puff habbit - that's puff! not poof - in another thread so...

I'd been smoking 25 years, tried a good few times but never actually went a whole day without. Last November but one, had the flu and as hadn't had a flu or even cold for a few years, forgot how bad I get when I carry on smoking - bad cheast cough for weeks! Which is exactly what happened.

So stareed smoking tiny spliffs only - one skinners. And got some padding from a mate - the dried trimmings and male plants of his home-grown. Started making them up one third of each and kept a diary. Over about 10 days I cut them down from around 12 - 15 a day to 4 or 5 a day, and reduced the amount of tobacco down to a single strand or two, then cut the tobacco out completely. Wow! I was off the niccotine for the first time since I was 16! I'd been on two packs of full streangth camel a day or one and a half large packs of drum a week.

I've had one or two spliffs with tobacco in em since but its completely disgusting! I do still get the odd craving, only when next to a mate who's smoking, but all I have to do is remember that I'm not physically addicted any more and also how totally disgusting it would tast!

Job done


Good luck to all of you, its dam worth it in the end!

And here's a thought to help you through the difficult times.

One day you will realise that you haven't even thought about a cigarette for a whole day! And that particular moment will be a very special day indeed, it was for me

i gave up smoking 10 years ago after being a smoker for 10 years, smoking 20 a day. i just stopped buying them, it was hard for a week or 2 but after that i just forgot about it. now i look at smokers and just laugh at the amount of money they are wasting

Because its such a personal achievement to quit the ciggies, we do become smug superior ex smokers lol

well i've just had my last fag. Bought some max strength 21mg patches, the prices of these things is criminal. Superdrugs doing buy one box get one free so i've got 2 weeks worth. I'll just cut the patches down next week to lower the dose, sod that step 2, step 3 crap.

I may try the Champix pill, ...patches would do me no good at all unless i covered myself in them from head to foot

I have just recently decided once again to try and stop smoking. I did get Zyban (the pill thing) from the doctor which disagreed with me and gave me very very bad stomach pains. Ive now got a doctors prescription for patches in which i get a months worth for the price of a prescription so maybe could be worth some of you trying to stop to have a little trip to the docs and see what he can do for you