Becoming a Non Smoker

keep it up, it will take time for cravings to go but its worth the effort

Don't think of it as giving up you are saving money and your health      

Originally Posted by Sharpink

“Just wanted to share the fact that I gave up smoking 3 days ago

Still got a stressful day job..thumbsdown

Still running the shop and working on our website...

Am I coping?

WHAT DO YOU THINK.....arghhhhhhhhhhhh

back soon with further updates, probably from HMP Hull.”

Good on you. Once you do it once, you will find it easy. I hope you never go back.

I just started smoking 2 weeks ago from 2 years of not smoking. The funny thing is intended to start smoking. It's not like I was in a social situation or a club or pub and felt any pressure. No one around me smokes.

I stop and start. The last 6 years has been majority non-smoking. However, I do plan to quit again. For now it's giving me something to do  , sad but true. 

Oh nooo! Don't do it  Go for a run, watch East Enders, eat a curly wurly, anything but fags

Originally Posted by Ryan

“For now it's giving me something to do  , sad but true. ”

OMG, if you can stop that easily why on earth would you start again? Once an addiction catches hold of you the grip just gets tighter, why risk smoking again. Like Steve says, watch east Enders, run, take up bungee jumping....anything but smoking..

it is possibly the best decision I have made in my life...But I don't want to preach because I hate ex -smokers that do...!

good luck anyway, whatever you decide

Recently i gave up after 3 month of not smoking. But i will quit again if Arsenal win the FA cup for sure!

Originally Posted by Steve Richardson

“Oh nooo! Don't do it  Go for a run, watch East Enders, eat a curly wurly, anything but fags ”

Watching Eastenders would drive me to smoke again tbh!!!!!!

I was recently around someone that smoked, funny she didnt mention it before we met up, but the not so subtle pungent odour of stale cigarettes hit me when she walked in. Strangely enough not seeing her again!

Think as a former smoker the smell of smoke is possibly one of the worst about, but that just sounds preachy 

When I wrote this reply, I had already been smoking for a week or two. I was going through a bad patch - a bit directionless, too many things to get into here. I am just at a point in my life where I am floating. I went out of my way to start smoking because I thought it's the less evil than some of the other things I could be doing. So, I smoke for a week or two, or even a month if it lasts that long. Then I stop. I do believe it's extremely bad for you. It's toxic. I go out of my way, so that my 6 year old daughter has never seen me smoke in my life. I don't want to OK smoking by her seeing her dad smoke. It's a bit of a hypocrisy, but it is what it is.

Otherwise, I would say I lead a relatively healthy life. Go for walks daily, twice with the wife. We eat lots of fruit.So does our daughter. We don't really have fizzy drinks in this house. I love chocolate so much, that I don't allow my wife to buy them in the weekly shop. She normally used to buy them from me. So, I suppose on some level I am probably trying to justifying it to myself. I know it's not good, and it's not right. However, even when was a non-smoker I was always OK with others smoking around me. It did not effect me. And I did not also want to be that ex-smoker who always has a go at smokers. 

Oh by the way, we don't hardly watch telly in my house. I wish we did because, my daughter really needs to learn to watch regular telly, like saturday programmes so she can talk about it in school. 

Based on the description above, you guys will probably think we are Amish or something  - not to say it's a bad thing to be Amish. 

Originally Posted by Ryan

“Based on the description above, you guys will probably think we are Amish or something  - not to say it's a bad thing to be Amish. ”

That's it now Ryan, I've got a mental image! The things you London folk do to beat the congestion charge

Will confess to being an ex-smoker bore (after vowing never to). Always having a go at my old fella who is a lifelong smoker and wish he would stop, though I know he never will. I'm with Clive though, I can't believe now how strong and offensive I find the smell of stale smoke.

I think a lot of it now is as an non/ex smoker, the only contact you have now with smokers is friends and family. I know there's a lot of talk (and it's prob true) that the smoking ban killed pubs and restaurants, but it is nice not have to smell smoke, or know you can bring your kids into a clean environment.

I hate to admit that I agree with any government policy, however on this occasion I must concede that without the smoking ban in public places I don't think I would have given up. In others, I can't smoke at work, my local rugby club or any other public gathering. I never smoked in my car (she would never let me for fear of killing the kids) and I never smoked in the house. 

Believe it or not but I was that sad bloke standing on his drive, smoking in the rain with an umbrella. Quitting for me under those circumstances was quite easy I suppose....

Keep at it, and try not to use things as a reason to smoke you can do it !!!

Originally Posted by Sharpink

“Just wanted to share the fact that I gave up smoking 3 days ago

Still got a stressful day job..thumbsdown

Still running the shop and working on our website...

Am I coping?

WHAT DO YOU THINK.....arghhhhhhhhhhhh

back soon with further updates, probably from HMP Hull.”