smoking pangs

fog

no it's not a brand new version of pang :D

I was out yesterday and got a wiff of a ciggy.. it's been since last June I stopped, but aggh! today has been a dip..

No I won't start again, as I remind myself how hard it was to quit + the massive amount of money spent.

any other ex smokers feel like this some times?

(and no I don't wanna here from the militant brigade.. SOME ex smokers are the worst like that hehe)

ZnorXman

You made an excellent choice, keep up the good work!

grey key

I suppose you don`t want to be the BUTT, of any smoking jokes either........You will probably get an infestation of mice if you start again, one cigar and I got Gerald..............

dm_boozefreek

I quit for 6 months folded and I was back on them again until about october where I lasted the grand total of 15 days before folding once again.

I still smoke nowhere near as much as I did when I was younger, I'm on less than 10 a day usually.

I will quit again sometime soon, just trying to find the right time where my mind is fully depressed with smoking again. The next time I quit I'm staying off them for good.

But yes I can understand when you're off them smokers friggin' stink, it's true.

RoseCotton

ZnorXman wrote: »

You made an excellent choice, keep up the good work!

Hear, hear!

zx1

My mother stopped smoking 4 weeks ago and has only had 1 ciggy since but she's been very irritable. I'm keeping out of her way!

Dave Fountain

Oh yeah, you know sometimes I walk by someone smoking as they huddle in a doorway like the despised lepers they have become, and that wafting smell its like an old friend, but on the other hand I went round this guys house the other week and he had one hanging out the side of his mouth in his garage. I couldn't breathe! If pubs still allowed smoking in them I wouldn't be able to go in, I'd be too busy coughing than drinking. Best decision I ever made and that was 10 years ago.

Morkin

You've done well if you've lasted 8 months without even having a drag. Took me the best part of a year after I quit before the cravings completely disappeared. For the first month, immediately after a meal & down the pub were the worst times ever.

Got a horrible cough after I stopped, which lasted about 3 months. I guess that's your lungs trying to get back to something like normal again.

I don't think I'm a 'reformed smoker' as such, but it always annoyed me when mates who smoked after I gave up said things like 'you didn't smoke that many anyway', as an excuse for them not stopping.. As far as I'm concerned you're a proper smoker whether you're on 3 a day or 40 a day, it's giving up completely that's the hard bit.

Tom Gale

For me it's when I've had a couple of drinks at home (i.e. half a bottle of wine or so) and I see someone smoking in a film or on tv.

def chris

Ive given up about 10 times and I always start again.

if I have a drink then I have to have a smoke.

on the other hand when I wake up I never need a cig, go the whole day without smoking then usually around 6-7oclock I get a craving.

they say when you give up smoking the first week is the hardest but for me the first week is easy , then 2 weeks a bit hard, 3 weeks normally relapsed again.

def chris

Im going to check the archive in a minute but I probably won't find it - can anyone remember the speccy game about giving up smoking? Im sure I played it off here. there's about 4 stages one of them possibly involving shooting little cig sprites?

Jumping Stack

def chris wrote: »

Im going to check the archive in a minute but I probably won't find it - can anyone remember the speccy game about giving up smoking? Im sure I played it off here. there's about 4 stages one of them possibly involving shooting little cig sprites?

Nicotine Nightmare

Unfortunately, it is more liklely to make you simply give up, than give up smoking.

zeropolis79

I can't tell what it's like, since I've never smoked, but I do find it very annoying that you go out somewhere and you see lots of people puffing away, young mothers of babies adn toddlers chain-smoking right in front of them, even blowing the filthy stuff at them..

My mother's family (all of which smoke bar my second cousin (mainly because she's only 8 months old)) are surprised I never took up the habit, but I swore I never would (and never had).

But well done Fog for lasting this long and hope you manage to continue..

Vampyre

def chris wrote: »

if I have a drink then I have to have a smoke.

I'm exactly the same. Fortunately, although I've been smoking 20 years (eep!!!) I've never been a heavy or even a moderate smoker and if I'm perfectly honest apart from certain times (like when drinking) I've never really enjoyed it all that much. I'd say at the very worst I got through six or seven a day and that lasted about a month. It's absolutely bloody mad that I've even continued.

Over the last ten years I've gone from two a day to one a day to five a week to my current 2 per week (all on a Friday night when I have a few cans). Even when I went for an op a couple of years ago the doctor actually said "why the fu** haven't you just given them up". I must admit I enjoy the couple on a Friday. I cycle to work now and a month ago I had one before I set out - never again - I was gobsmacked at the effect it had!!!!

BiNMaN

About to turn 40 and having twins that were only 2 made me realise I needed to make sure I was here for as long as possible. So I gave up last spring. Although I miss it I can't be arsed to start again, I'm too idle to go and buy them who'd have thought my tendancies towards idleness would pay dividends.