http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 22:20:58 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415&page=2#post-124867 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:14:36 +0000 JohnA 124867@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Smoking, if you think about it, is a complete waste of time and (especially) money. </p> <p>There will come a time when you stop thinking about smoking for a few hours, then a day, then several days. At each point you have to remind yourself that smoking is addictive and the only answer is complete abstention and not give yourself any bullshit excuses why "just the odd one" is anything other than a really bad idea.</p> <p>Then you'll start enjoying life a lot more. </p> <p>Hopefully you won't become an obnoxious ex-smoker, but its still lots better than a noxious smoker. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415&page=2#post-124857 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 10:13:24 +0000 beau-jolly 124857@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>True Quaz<br /> I spoke to someone about the pill/injection thing. Apparently you have to start it while still smoking as it relies on you having some nicotine in your system. By the time I saw the medics I had not smoked for 2 weeks.<br /> This week I are been mainly going cold turkey. Suprisingly easy, as is the no drinking. Probably because I've been off my tits on pain killers. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-124810 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:26:56 +0000 Quaz 124810@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Beau, I know people who have tried the new pills from the docs that kill the buzz from smoking, makes it all just 'yeach' tasting and that worked for them. Personally, I think all nicoteen gum and electric fags do is keep you addicted to nicoteen. There maybe is no long term solution apart from rememembering why you stopped and marking off days, and maybe giving yourself a prize every now and again funded by by what you would have spent on fags. Good luck. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-124809 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:23:19 +0000 Scroat 124809@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oy vey! </p> <p>Look on the bright side already!</p> <p>It's the Jew-Bilee weekend! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-124805 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:56:11 +0000 Sinnick 124805@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Still, could be worse </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-124800 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:48:03 +0000 beau-jolly 124800@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sinick: The hamster is safe!<br /> Scrote: No joke intended but I'll take it.<br /> Gero: Love interest was catalyst but is safely back in Brisbane. Still not smoking but ironic twist:<br /> Nicorette gum pulled on a tooth cap. Tooth became infected. Infection got bad. Now on strong antibiotics and can't bloody drink for a week! Can hardly eat. </p> <p>Not smoking or drinking but have had fever, pain, infection, toxic antibiotics and various pain killers that either f*ck what the toxic stuff has left of the liver, make your stomach bleed or stop you shitting for a week. Still; must be healthier for you, eh? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-124786 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:49:33 +0000 Gerontius 124786@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Update please BJ<br /> I see from your initial posting there was a 'love interest' angle for giving up.<br /> How did you get on?<br /> Did you manage to swap one patch for another? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-124691 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:38:29 +0000 Scroat 124691@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Just got the joke - "Any TIPS?" </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-124686 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:27:20 +0000 Sinnick 124686@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ok, BJ, it's confession time.</p> <p>Have you been having a fag behind the bike shed, or just smoking ?<br /> Is this the hamster's last breath of fresh air ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-121191 Wed, 02 May 2012 23:22:19 +0000 Ironduke 121191@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nice work BJ.</p> <p>I smoked for seven years at uni and when started work, went hardcore Marboro Red during foot and mouth, then stopped for a year, started again for a two week period whilst revising for a set of exams and stopped again straight afterwards. Had a fag out in Jan; loved it, but no desire to return to them.</p> <p>So, as this seems to prove I have awesome willpower...thing is, it seems only natural to want to test it...just the one hit of skag, and I bet I can walk away.... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-121177 Wed, 02 May 2012 21:01:28 +0000 dvo4fun 121177@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>and in the red corner ........... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-121153 Wed, 02 May 2012 17:32:31 +0000 saltire 121153@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If you'd care to put your name to the tag,bring it on,otherwise..shut it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-121142 Wed, 02 May 2012 16:00:22 +0000 shitsu_tonka 121142@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nice one beau-jolly. Keep going.</p> <p>Don't get your lube in Superdrug it doesn't taste very nice, the Anne Summers stuff is much better. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-121138 Wed, 02 May 2012 15:46:58 +0000 Sinnick 121138@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well done so far. Have you got all aggressive in the company of smokers yet ? it'll come.</p> <p>If you buy too many Nicorette patches, you could always start smoking them ...</p> <p>Report back on 1 June, or else the hamster gets it </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-121113 Wed, 02 May 2012 12:24:58 +0000 beau-jolly 121113@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hi Sinnick: Sorry I should have reported back yesterday. Still not smoking! Harrah for me!</p> <p>I eventually got my NHS stop smoking appointment a few days ago. They basically go though a catalogue of Nicorette products and ask which ones you want to have for £7.65. I have a bag full of patches, micro tabs, gum, lozenges. Just have to kick the nicorette habit now.</p> <p>BTW. Has anyone else noticed that wherever you shop, the nicorette is always merchandised alongside Durex products? Amazing what they now stock. You can go into Superdrug and buy a cock ring and some lube....apparently. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-118375 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:33:21 +0000 button 118375@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It will be 5 years this August since I gave up and I still miss it terrbibly! However as Gerontius says I don't miss the horrible smell.</p> <p>Also it obviousley is clever and hard and makes you look cool.</p> <p>Wasn't 'Fags be gone' the Core Issues bus advert? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-118345 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:51:30 +0000 writinginbsl 118345@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>good luck, b-j </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-118315 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:02:38 +0000 Gerontius 118315@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like Wallster said....do it for yourself.<br /> Oh, and £7.00 a packet is quite a good reason too.<br /> And yes, you will be horrified once you realise what a disgusting smell you've been carrying around in your breath and hair and skin and clothes all these years. The fags didn't help either. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-118270 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:42:37 +0000 rickwestwell 118270@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well done BJ - all I can say is that you really do get to a stage where you don't miss it any more - it took me a couple of years, but I'm not even slightly tempted now. </p> <p>And if you slip up and have one, don't worry, just start giving up again straight away.</p> <p>Brisbane's great, btw - you should move out here! :-) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-118231 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:41:43 +0000 FlashArry 118231@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Quit 'properly' about 8 years ago, but still have the odd Bisto moment even now - but still clear. Good luck with the will power b-j - but how can re-tasting thousands of wines be a downer ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-118226 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:56:06 +0000 Mandy Lifeboat 118226@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good on you - hope it's going well. Was going to suggest ringing the NHS smoking quitline (0800 169 0169 from memory) to get on your nearest quit group (4 times more likely to succeed using NHS stop smoking service than using will power alone) but just read your post. If that's the medical centres own I'd still ring the hotline and see what they can do as suspect you've been a bit fobbed off with a small local one/excuse. The smoking cessation team in your PCT should be able to offer 1-2-1 and/or group support a bit quicker than that. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-118221 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:18:38 +0000 shitsu_tonka 118221@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Great news! Both on the you kicking the smokes front and the return trip by the Lady from Oz. Wishing you every success with both. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-118219 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:09:42 +0000 beau-jolly 118219@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks guys. Still not smoking. I made an appointment at the medical centre non-smoking clinic today. The earliest appointment is weeks away. I will have given up for well over a month by then!<br /> Amazing how sensitive to the smell of smoke you become. I can detect a fag at a mile. The down side is that wine tastes slightly different so I will have to go back and re-taste thousands of wines. Oh well. </p> <p>Oh, and the lady in Oz is planning a return trip to the UK! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-118215 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:30:12 +0000 The All New Jeni B 118215@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bunch of quitters.</p> <p>Seriously, well done to all who have stopped.<br /> I managed 7 1/2 months before the Homeland Security bully-boys took me off for 45 minutes of questioning regarding a mythical lost passport. (I've never, ever, lost a passport, so no idea where that line of questioning came from).</p> <p>Once they released me, without once apologising, the first thing I did was run up to a complete stranger and cadge a fag.</p> <p>Thought it'd be just the one, but at the supermarket later that day, I accidentally bought 100... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-118192 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:34:41 +0000 dvo4fun 118192@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well done you b-j. As has been noted above &amp; elsewhere once you start again it's not too easy to put the brakes on again. In drug treatment they used to say (and may still do so) 'don't give up giving up'. </p> <p>I managed 29 years before deciding at some ripe old age that it would be a wonderful idea to start once more; well just the few one evening at the pub. Like I'd never been away, welcome home... </p> <p>It was a bastard to stop again. At my [older!]brother's 60th birthday meal I had the obligatory trips outside for a smoke. I coughed so long &amp; hard that I thought I might invert myself; didn't know one could breathe/cough out for so long without drawing breath. I had a few nicorette [?] patches left from the last attempt so started on those the next day and have just passed the four year mark. I too would love to 'have the odd one' but my experience leads me to another path. I found my local GP surgery's group meetings surprisingly helpful and the nicorette inhaler found a good use for my hands.</p> <p>Hope it goes well </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-118137 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:15:44 +0000 simonjmr 118137@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's all about breaking the habits and associations, the first fag of the day, cup of coffee and a fag, after a meal etc - if you can associate something unpleasant with smoking then that will reinforce your desire not to smoke again - I did this by buying those cafe creme cigars with filters and smoking them like a cigarette - just thinking about it even now (12 years later) makes me feel nauseous. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-118134 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:04:51 +0000 bonjonelson 118134@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I've always been a non-smoker, so I can't advise you what to do.</p> <p>All I can say is I think giving up smoking must be pretty easy, because my mother has done it loads of times. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-118129 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:26:44 +0000 Scroat 118129@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like Wallster says, it will only work if you really want to. If so, take each half day at a time. So each morning or afternoon/evening fag free is an achievement. Also keep a tally. By the time you get past a couple of weeks, the part of you that wants to give up will say "don't have a fag because all those fag free days will have been wasted and you'll have to go back to nought on the 'zero-fagometer.'" </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-118119 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:49:00 +0000 Sinnick 118119@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good for you, BJ.</p> <p>You can now enjoy making grumpy &amp; sarcastic comments to smokers who say things like "Do you mind if I smoke?" by replying "Do you mind if I fart?"</p> <p>You'll appreciate just how much smokers carry the smell of stale cigarettes around with them. Enjoy a longer life !</p> <p>[EDIT] and report back here, let's say, 1st May ? There'll be trouble if you don't ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=41415#post-118116 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:28:16 +0000 wallster 118116@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I quit about 2 &amp; a half years ago after a 25 year habit. The only reason it worked that time was because I was doing it for myself and not the people who'd nagged me about it. I was fed up with being all wheezy and tight chested and knew that would only get worse over time. You have to really want it or you'll always find an excuse to have that 'just the one'. </p> <p>Also make sure those around you know you're stopping so they can be supportive when you're threatening to cut people for nothing more serious than asking if you want a cup of tea.</p> <p>The folks here on the biscuit boards were also very helpful at pointing out the slow painful cancerous death that awaited me should I fail again.</p> <p>If you really want it, you'll do it. Best o' luck. </p>