Well here we are, 2nd attempt....

[Penelope_Grey]

At stopping smoking. Yep, about half an hour ago, I smoked what I hope to be the last cigar I ever smoke. I already stopped with my occasional cigarette on Friday's so now its the cigars.

To that end, I have threw away my cigar box, my lighter, ashtrays, the whole lot! Chucked out. Gone. Bye bye. C ya!

Yes this time I'm really going to give it a fighting chance, my mental focus is strong, and my will to do well is there. It will be hard because of my father still smoking, but, well... I gave up nagging him to stop when I was 10, because I knew it was a waste of breath.

So wish me luck. And if I can get through the weekend, and the following weekend, as that is when I light up. I think I will be sorted. I am lucky in as much as I only smoked on the weekend, it was not a daily thing, but I want to seriously sort myself out before my 20th birthday.

This is step 1.

[waste gate]

Good luck Penny. I think if you do something different than what you usually do when you smoke you have a chance. Breaking the habit/addiction will mean breaking many other habits/addictions. Once again good luck!!

[Tchocky]

Good luck, Penelope.


(I'll not smoke for another half hour, in your honour :))

[Dowly]

Good luck Penelope! Hope you make it this time! :up:

One good advice to follow: DO NOT WATCH TELLY!!! Everytime I've tried to quit, there's always been some movie or TV show with somebody smoking all the time. I think the last it was the movie "Boondock Saints". DAMN YOU TELLY!!! :damn:

[Lagger123987]

Good luck Penelope! Hope you make it this time! :up:

One good advice to follow: DO NOT WATCH TELLY!!! Everytime I've tried to quit, there's always been some movie or TV show with somebody smoking all the time. I think the last it was the movie "Boondock Saints". DAMN YOU TELLY!!! :damn:

Then play on the computer or play on your PS3 or Xbox360 or Wii or PS2 or play with your army's guns when you go bak to service or somthing you like to do.

[Rilder]

Heres the greatest tip to quit smoking...


Have surgury, you can't smoke in the hospital so your drugged up during all the cravings... my dad quit cold turkey that way and he smoked ALOT.

[lesrae]

Good luck to you Penny.

My advice - after a few months you'll hear a little voice saying 'I can have just one now, I've cracked it', usually when out drinking - don't listen to it!

[kiwi_2005]

Good Luck.:up:

Avoid Tea & Coffee. Well for me i love having a ciggarette when i have a Tea or Coffee.

[Camaero]

Just remember what a very wise little green man once said, "Do, or do not. There is no try!":up:

[Skybird]

Seing is believing. We talk again in six months.

Just some therapeutical sneering remarks. :smug:

[GlobalExplorer]

I have found it very easy to quit smoking - but much harder not to start again ;) !!

[Penelope_Grey]

ROFL.

thanks for the encouragement, I have had my resolve tested today with some computer problems, though so far I am doing ok. I certainly hope that I crack it.

[Chock]

Just a suggestion:

Get a big transparent jar, and every time you get a craving, put the cost of one cigarette/cigar into it. This achieves two things; one) it replaces your habit with another one, two) you see how much money you are wasting on smoking!

Another way to do it is put the cost of a box of cigs in it every day in small denomination coins and see that baby build up. at the end of the month, buy something really cool with the cash.

[Onkel Neal]

ROFL.

thanks for the encouragement, I have had my resolve tested today with some computer problems, though so far I am doing ok. I certainly hope that I crack it.

Aren't you fairly young? It can't be a long-entrenched habit for you, right? Hang in there, you really should reject this habit. It's expensive, wasteful, smelly, and will probably cause you to suffer serious health problems. Cigarettes are beneath you, reject them forever. Smoking is a sure fire way to broadcast to the world that you can easily be duped into picking up a bad habit by peer pressure and trying to "be cool".

Stop now, it will be easier to remain smoke-free in the future.

[Penelope_Grey]

Thanks all for the support, I am so determined to get it right this time, it ain't even funny.

Yes Neal I am reasonably young, I am not 20 just yet, I started smoking when I was 16, the very day after I turned 16 in fact! That is when its legal in the UK to purchase. Prior to that, I never smoked at all, not even to try.

Most people do start via peer pressure, I didn't really, I just wanted to see what was so special about it, when I tried my first cigar ever, I quite liked it, and so rather than ending my experiment there and then, or rather being sensible and never tempting myself I kept going.

For the past three and half years I have only smoked on weekends, just 2 cigars. It wasn't till I was 17 that I began smoking a couple of cigarettes on Fridays, and then it was there that was my habit, 2 cigs on Friday, 1 cigar saturday and another sunday.

My first attempt to stop I managed to stop the cigs, but I am thinking the cigars could be harder because I enjoyed them a lot! But you can't put a price on health and wellbeing.

I have put a jar and I am going to pay into the jar for 6 months a'la sky birds suggestion of time... I am going to pay in what I normally spent on cigars and ciggies. I'm still going to the gym, so I will see if stopping makes a difference on my fitness, I can't see that it will because I am fitter than most non-smokers I know. So... excuse my arrogance there but, well...

thanks for wishing me luck. :up:

[Sailor Steve]

What can I add but...good luck!:sunny:

[Rose]

Good luck!

[The Avon Lady]

You go girl! Don't look back. Generations of future Penelope Greys will be ever thankful. :up:

[Penelope_Grey]

Well the first hurdle is done. I went Sunday smoke-free! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, I am expecting to be a doddle but when Saturday comes around next, I will have to watch my step.

[Letum]

Link (http://www.singulartists.com/artist_p/phil_harris_lyrics/smoke_smoke_smoke_that_cigarette_lyrics.html)

Keep you will strong and good luck!

[CCIP]

Good luck and keep at it!

I'm ever thankful that I've never even been tempted to smoke, though my dad's been there when he was my age, and my brother's girlfriend's been there not too long ago, and both of them pulled through and quit.

Good idea starting this thread too. Helps kind of keep yourself in check with all the people watching/wondering :p

[ASWnut101]

Well the first hurdle is done. I went Sunday smoke-free! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, I am expecting to be a doddle but when Saturday comes around next, I will have to watch my step.


GOOD!!! KEEP GOING!!! :D


In fact, take this advice: If for some reason you find a pack of ciggerettes in your house, take them into your back yard and set them on fire (In a fire pit, of course). Run quickly back into your house to watch them burn, with you free of smoke. Go ahead and pat yourself on the back.:up:

[GSpector]

Well; Penelope, I have faith in you. Good luck. :sunny:

Just remember, nothing worthwhile is ever easy.


If it helps, Pearly whites are hard to see through yellow stains.:roll:

[I-25]

i wish you the best of luck!:up:

i convinced my girlfriend to quit about 6 months and so far so good. but its gonna take a lot of will so keep it up i wish you the best of the best and dont give it!

[bookworm_020]

Good luck and keep going.:yep:

It will be worth it in the end, both health wise and financialy as well.:up:

[moose1am]

It took me a few times before I eventually stopped my three pack a day habit.

Two things:

Keep your hands busy
Try the nicotine patch for the first week. It really does help take the edge off.

I quit smoking in 1993. 14 years ago. I am 55 now and have high blood pressure due to all that smoking over the years. I started when I was 18 and a Senior in High School. I barely smoked at all back then but by the time I was working full time and out of college I was smoking 2 packs a day of the light cigarettes.

If I can stop anyone can do it.

Hang in there as it's MIND OVER THE POISON.

Hope this post helps.


At stopping smoking. Yep, about half an hour ago, I smoked what I hope to be the last cigar I ever smoke. I already stopped with my occasional cigarette on Friday's so now its the cigars.

To that end, I have threw away my cigar box, my lighter, ashtrays, the whole lot! Chucked out. Gone. Bye bye. C ya!

Yes this time I'm really going to give it a fighting chance, my mental focus is strong, and my will to do well is there. It will be hard because of my father still smoking, but, well... I gave up nagging him to stop when I was 10, because I knew it was a waste of breath.

So wish me luck. And if I can get through the weekend, and the following weekend, as that is when I light up. I think I will be sorted. I am lucky in as much as I only smoked on the weekend, it was not a daily thing, but I want to seriously sort myself out before my 20th birthday.

This is step 1.

[Penelope_Grey]

I am genuinely touched and overwhelmed by the support. Subsim is a top community, well its weekend time again, and I cna say today I am feeling it, that anticipation of smoking tonight is creeping onto me and by tonight I am going to be extremely edgey and probably foul tempered.

I made it through yesterday ok, but tonight will be the test. I know I can crack it, I have to crack it. I refuse to fail.

I have a plan for tonight, it involves Silent Hunter 3, I am going to sit and play that for the evening so that I am busy and that I don't have time to think about smoking and I am hoping for results. I may even give the very buggy SH4 a try. :)

I'll do anything except smoke.

[Skybird]

If you really have smoked on Fridays to Sunday only, like you described, you probably are not physically depending on smoking, and it is close to impossible that you feel a chemical addiction every sxeven days, and four days inbetween you don't. So, it may help you to remember that you are just challenged by a bad habit - nothing more.

[Fish]

Well the first hurdle is done. I went Sunday smoke-free! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, I am expecting to be a doddle but when Saturday comes around next, I will have to watch my step.

Best reason for a young girl is you won't get that old wrinkled skin some smoking woman's have?

[Penelope_Grey]

So far so good, I have made it through satuday, was there in my mind, cigar... smoke.... mmmm smoke.... :/\\k:

But no, I have resisted. and I am feeling throughly happy.

[kiwi_2005]

What Neal said, your young, hell i thought you were a 20+ yr smoker or something. You should have no trouble giving up smoking, its when your into your 15-20th yr smoking then you start climbing the walls when trying to give up.

Anyways keep it up your do it easily.

[U-533]

I remember when I quit...

I smoked for 27 years...

Smoke free for 8 years now...

Some times I still fight the urge ... Especially when things get rough.

Like when my boat almost capsized in a storm Thursday. Afterward (when my butt was pried from my seat) I thought a smoke would be nice but ... I resisted:up:

Hang in there woman!

[The Munster]

Good luck Penelope! Hope you make it this time! :up:

One good advice to follow: DO NOT WATCH TELLY!!! Everytime I've tried to quit, there's always been some movie or TV show with somebody smoking all the time. I think the last it was the movie "Boondock Saints". DAMN YOU TELLY!!! :damn:

And don't watch Columbo ! I liked a good cigar long before starting on the fags so here is my tip for what it's worth .. try to go from week to week i.e. Tuesday to Tuesday then see how you feel; when you get the notion for a smoke, either take a long, deep breath [and I mean deep, in thru the nostrils and out the thru the mouth] .. or drink a glass of water .. well for me, it was screw the water and went for the deep breath stuff and it worked.
Don't worry if you 'fall down', just try again and aim for a smoke-free week and if you manage a week then ask yerself, 'how do I feel ?.. can I go another week ?' if the answer is yes then you're on your way.

[Penelope_Grey]

Something seriously cool happened today, I was in a meeting and it involved me and another woman going to this mans house. While we were there, I took the notes but afterward we were having a quick break. The man, and my partner both had a cigarette, they offered me, and I said to them "I don't smoke!"

I was like, OMG, I said that! :D Even though its not weekend or Friday, on a special occasion, I would indulge this time it just happened automatic. was cool.

Im really grateful I started this thread because now I feel like I can't fail or I will look ridiculous, I hope others here are inspired by my effort, I'm probably one of the most pro-smoking people around, lol so if I can change.... the rest got no excusse!

[Skybird]

Im really grateful I started this thread because now I feel like I can't fail or I will look ridiculous,

Oh I can help in that. If you fail, I will make you look ridiculous so much that you will regret that one moment of weakness for the rest of this thread, really! :smug:

[The Avon Lady]

Penelope, according to sig, you have kicked the habit!!!!!!! :rock:

[Skybird]

[angrily grumbling in self-restraint]

:up: That is five more months, then. :D