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.

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!

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!!!

[Lagger123987]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Good luck Penelope! Hope you make it this time!

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!!!

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.

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.

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!"

[Skybird]

Seing is believing. We talk again in six months.

Just some therapeutical sneering remarks.

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.