Given up smoking !!!!!

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Well after an Ambulance ride from the doctors to the hospital last week, then 2 nights and 3 days in hospital I appear to have quit smoking !

It was unrelated but I was not up to getting out of bed and going outside for a fag + I am a snob and it seemed it was the pondlife outside smoking so I have stopped, dead easy, nearly 2 weeks now !

Jeeeeez, am I eating though, I mean eating like I have never done before but I am hungry, not just grazing I seem to have developed some serious stomach capacity and am now worried that I will become a big fat [PLEASE DON'T TRY TO BYPASS THE SWEAR FILTER] !

Who has done it, no patches or anything like that, I was a 30+ a day Marlboro Fright smoker and I am not missing it at all, in fact my mates wife was smoking today and I had to walk away so offensive was the smoke !

So is the hunger going to cease or am I going to go from an unhealthy smoker to an unhealthy fat bloater ?
 
My son gave up 3 months ago... hes still a string bean but then he's just a kid.
A friend in her 40's gave up and is piling on the weight.
You might need to find interest in a gym membership to offset all those pies.

Congrats btw... oh and I hope youre back to health. :thumbs:
 
No need, no craving at all don't feel like I should be holding a cig, not shaking, not flapping that I don't have a lighter - JUST NEED PIES !

Liar

Hope you succeed just think what cool lenses and stuff you can buy

we spend £9 a day on fags (2 packs of 20) thats why we go on hol 3500 a time £200 + baccy 3 kilos, stupid really wish we could do it its not easy :thumbsdown:

we did it for 6 months but were still smokin


I dont want to put you off

The best of luck keep flicki n those lens prices

oh and watch the weight fatty :D

Dave
 
Well done, I packed up 7 years ago after a hissy fit working outside on nights. id tried patches and failed loads of times even wifes hrt ones by not putting light on early morning.
Keep it up the fact you already find smoke repulsive is great. The weight i put 4 stone on over three years but it came off again gradually but im a binge eater and stopped training also. work out what snacks you like and eat these within reason and just walk a little bit faster or further for a while, till body fully adjusts. keep it up and as said think of the goodies
 
Hi

I used to smoke 60 to 70 a day

I gave up the day Dennis Healy put them up to a pound a packet.

Weight piled on 23 stone now and urge to smoke still not completely gone.

Now suffering from OCPD so know not to start again.

Watch the Pies you don't want to swap one addiction for another.
 
2 years ago I worked out how much it was costing me.
Worked out how much photography gear it represented.
Stopped smoking and bought the gear. Haven't smoked since.
Just bought a Canon 70-200mm F2.8L IS lens.
Next year I shall get a 50D,
Don't even miss a smoke any more, but I do have a craving for L glass.

Keith.
 
dseered,

Congratulations on your new strengths :thumbs:, I know it's not easy to quit. My dad was a heavy smoker for over 60 years before he decided to stop. I never believed anyone stopped, people just took a break from smoking but always seemed to return to it; but my dad proved me wrong.

With good will, you will get past the craving desire to eat so much once your body adjusts. The issue, I guess, is to ensure that you don't ever think of a puff as something worth trying anymore. As for the weight gain, I am sure you can work that off, if you've already got the strong will to walk away from smoking :thumbs:

Again, congratulations :clap::clap::clap:
 
Well done dseered, giving up will change your life!

I gave up many years ago in a similar way. Had tried loads of times to give up, without success. Then one day I got a bad dose of the flu with a horrendous chest cough, it also happened to be National No Smoking Day and there was a TV programme showing all these old guys having limbs amputated because they had smoked too much and got vasular disease... that was it for me, it was like seeing the light, I've never had the urge to smoke since.

I too started to get a bit podgy so I went along to a Karate class and was immediately hooked. A great way to keep fit and slim, I train just two to three times a week and my weight has been a nice steady 79Kg for years now. Find a sport to suit you and that you enjoy and it's job done!

Incidentally, anyone needing motivation to give up smoking... Google 'smoking amputation', that should do the trick! ;)
 
My partner and I(both 50+) gave up 19 months ago and have both put on over 3 stone. We are finding it hard to lose the weight despite now walking at least 2-3 miles every night.

However, we are gradually realising how much our general health is improving compared to what it was like whilst we were smoking. We both still get the occasional urge to have a smoke but it only lasts a second or two.
 
Well done, funnily enough it was a similar experience that caused my dad to quit. He was a pretty heavy smoker and was taken into hospital by ambulance and kept in.

Next day he told us to throw out all his cigarettes and ashtrays from the house and never touched one again. Hope it`s the same for you.
 
Congrats Dseered, i gave up smoking over 3 years ago now, i was also a 20-30 a day smoker for 14 years, one day i had 3 ciggies left and said to myself, after these, that's it, and i did it with the help of nothing but lots of fruit :D That was after a few failed attempts with using patches or gum.

Out of interest though, what did you go to hossie for, hope nothing too serious?
 
Out of interest though, what did you go to hossie for, hope nothing too serious?

Right here we go, may be a bit personal, lol !

Been a bit flu like all last week, had a very busy week and was running round like an idiot at work, Friday came, I got my work done and had a beer and cracked on off, thats when it began, just as I came it began, you still with me.........
Ok bad pain in the upper neck, back of head, when I say bad pain I mean pain, real pain, bad mutha pain, crying pain, screaming pain, fairly short lived pain though. Well that pain continued in a diluted way all weekend.

I went camping Saturday night / Sunday and still felt a bit rough with the fluey stuff but had a dull headache where I had had the pain on Friday. Also noticed that overnight the pain was worse when throbbing occured elswhere in my body

Sunday night flueyness really hit me and I rang in sick Monday, bunged up, sniffling and shivery. I was sat doing not alot really, a little bit of admin, bit of forums, then decided as I was on my own a quick look at Redtube would liven things up, did it ever, jeeeeeezzzz.........

Rang the Doctors at 3, had an appointment for 3.50, got there 3.25, in for 3.30, on way to hospital by 4pm !

When I went in to see the doc, I was as honest as possible, told him what I was upto and he got the Blood Pressure thing out, wrapped it round my arm, laughed, deflated it, tapped it, inflated it again and had a look of horror on his face, temp taken, pulse etc.......told to stay still, while he got a second opinion, he came back in, rang the hospital to tell them I was coming and that was that !

It seems that the pain is not uncommon and can happen to men of middle age at anytime during orgasm, in extreme cases it can blow a vessel in the brain and really **** the job up, so my blood pressure, mixed with everything else sent him into safe mode.

CT scan was pretty cool, didn't get to see the pics though, which is a shame, I was delighted when the CT came back clear, it was a big relief until it became clear that as it was then I would have to have Lumbar Puncture' now I am glad I didn't know what that was, I knew it wouldn't be nice.
It was done under a local but even the needles giving me the local terrify me so all in all not a nice experience !

LP also came back clear this afternoon and I was free to go, BP and temp back to normal, I do feel battered and bruised after one particular doctors attempts and getting my blood, 5 times, [PLEASE DON'T TRY TO BYPASS THE SWEAR FILTER].

CT scan was to look for a blown vein or blood vessel type thing, LP was to look for any blood traces in my brain juice if CT came back negative !

Royal Lancaster was great, staff all superb, food outstanding, cleanliness verging on insane but most of all craic was brilliant !

Patientline is the biggest pile of crap ever, yes it is great to have a unit at the bedside, why provide the internet if only works 1 in 300 times though, I have had 3 different beds and they are all crap, TV ok and didn't give anyone my number so no big bills for folk !

Many thanks to my doc for recognising that something potentially life threatening was happening to me and I urge any of you gentlemen out there if you do feel something like this, get it checked out, sharpish, as my doc says, it is a killer !

Still got a bad headache but steering well clear of Porn for the foreseeable future It was my first ever stay in hospital and I was heading for insanity this afternoon after only 2 nights. Slept alot today so may struggle tonight...

Anyway, thats the story that landed me in hospital, heehee, you all always knew I was a ****er !
 
Come on mods... surely he deserves something witty under his username after that confession! :D

Scarey time for you, feller... glad it all turned out well for you. :)
 
Agreed - I just googled that site and... wow - it all makes sense now! Glad you're OK :lol:

I gave up smoking about 8 years ago (I was on 30 a day) and haven't had a craving for a smoke for most of those 8 years... most people find it really difficult to quit, but I think it's really about attitude - you actually must want to quit, not convince yourself you should quit.
 
i gave up too, just stopped. I tried planning it, but just stopping worked a treat, as as the folk who came to the cat day will tell you, im a slim, lean mean frikkin sex machine, well i was until i stopped smoking anyway...
 
To stop smoking is easy :shrug: I've done it loads of times :D
 
Just a quick comment - you do not "give up" smoking - you stop smoking.

Pick up this book, I stopped with its help and so did many of my friends.

very true, and a good book too, though i never got right through it before stopping.
 
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