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« Reply #15 on: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 05:26:48 » |
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I gave up 5 years ago...
and started again about 6 months ago.
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« Reply #16 on: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 06:39:35 » |
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Quit 7 months ago and im ok, only when i've had a beer it doesn't quite feel right not having a ciggy with it.
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Barry Scott
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« Reply #17 on: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 09:07:34 » |
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I gave up 5 years ago...
and started again about 6 months ago.
Read Allen Carr's book. Until I read that all my previous attempts at being a "non-smoker" failed. This time it's different, I don't miss it, I don't like it and smoking as a habit including the whole industry, annoys me. *smug* My old man restarted again after 10 years of not smoking and after a few months, strangely, seemed to realise he preferred not smoking and simply went cold turkey again. |
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« Reply #18 on: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 09:09:43 » |
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Best thing in that book is the chapter titled something like 'Concise List of the Good Things about Smoking'. Below the title, there was a blank page.
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« Reply #19 on: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 09:19:55 » |
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I'm a bit of a smug non-smoker, because I miss it very rarely, mainly when very drunk. I gave up sometime in June last year, thanks to Mr Carr.  Was that from my recommendation? Mr Carr helped me several years ago. |
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You're my incurable malady. I miss the pleasure of your company.
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Barry Scott
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« Reply #20 on: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 09:40:29 » |
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It could well have been, thanks if it was. I know it was recommended and I'd owned it for about 6 months, while "trying" to give up, but having never opened it because I was doing fine.
One day it dawned upon me that the odd cheeky fag at lunch or a few at the weekend meant I was lying to myself about having quit. I then bought some fags, read the book, while smoking normally, and made a real effort to do as he says and absorb every word. A few days later and before it was finished I'd stopped.
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Ginginho
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« Reply #21 on: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 09:41:44 » |
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I used patches last time, worked a treat.
When I want to give up again, i'll just use them again.
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« Reply #22 on: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 10:19:30 » |
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Yeah i gave up in april and went cold turkey.
Piece of piss
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« Reply #23 on: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 10:44:33 » |
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I gave up 5 years ago, but am still addicted to the nicorette !
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« Reply #24 on: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 10:49:51 » |
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I keep giving up, fine in the day, but it's bloody hard not to smoke when out and on the piss.
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« Reply #25 on: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 10:52:10 » |
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Read Allen Carr's book. Until I read that all my previous attempts at being a "non-smoker" failed. This time it's different, I don't miss it, I don't like it and smoking as a habit including the whole industry, annoys me. *smug*
My old man restarted again after 10 years of not smoking and after a few months, strangely, seemed to realise he preferred not smoking and simply went cold turkey again.
Does it work when your pissed aswell? |
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Barry Scott
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« Reply #26 on: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 11:25:03 » |
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Yeah, it's easy. The only time's when drunk, that I get tempted, are when I'm on my own and hammered, like when I've just arrived home or something, but when in a pub it's fine and even when out having a fag with my mates it's easy.
I simply don't require it now and can often be a bit preachy when drunk! (Not because I no longer like smokers or being around them, but I sort of feel my friends need to understand the advertising brainwash that's caused them to believe many incorrect positives about fags.)
The book isn't about "giving up*" it's about understanding how you've been taught to think a certain way about cigarettes. It's about coming to realise all the lies you've been fed and then freeing yourself from the stranglehold it has on you.
In a way the book made me feel a bit of a mug. It made me feel like the industry was fucking me up the arse, getting rich in the process and I was letting them and paying for it. Giving up was a way of saying fuck you, you aren't getting one over on me anymore.
*He says in the book (and I'm paraphrasing a bit here) you're not giving up anything by not smoking - giving up implies sacrifice. By being a smoker you're giving up life - you're slowly sacrificing yourself. By not smoking you're choosing freedom from cigarettes.
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« Reply #27 on: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 11:29:44 » |
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Nice, think i'll give that a bash.
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« Reply #28 on: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 11:36:28 » |
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All this self help shit is making me want a fag.
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« Reply #29 on: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 13:49:46 » |
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Alan Carr`s has helped me to stop for over a year now. I previously tried patches, cold turkey. Unfortunately once you are a smoker you will always be one and I could easily start again any minute. I hate people who can just smoke at weekends or occasionally...how can they do that? all or nothing me...
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