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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: hercules on 10 March 2012, 22:02:09
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plus a diet and cycling to work,my pants wont stay up and i feel great :y
smoking is such a drain on life i couldnt believe how much until this,i have a spring in my step and everything feels better :-*
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Keep it up mate. I have tried and failed and tried and failed. Ill get there but hope you stick with it ;)
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Keep it up matey - it's well worth it!
My wife and I quit on Dec 31st 2010 so about 15 months ago.
Last September we took our two youngest kids to Turkey on the proceeds. 8)
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Tidy! Haven't you done this on here before Herc, or am I thinking of someone else?
Whatever, keep it up mate, good luck :)
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spot on :y :y
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Tidy! Haven't you done this on here before Herc, or am I thinking of someone else?
Whatever, keep it up mate, good luck :)
no you right :-[
but this time its the one :y
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Well done!! It'll be one the hardest things you've ever done! :y :y :y
and I do know how difficult it is to stop! ;) ;)
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Keep it up :y :y
I smoked for 40 years and gave up five years ago never felt better :y :y :y
Wish I'd never started, don't even think about it now just hate the smell.
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As an ex 40 a day man, until 16 years ago, I know what you are going through.... but it is do-able, and you will never regret stopping .... although you will regret ever starting !!
You'll also come to hate the smell more than you can imagine !!!
Congrats on your progress so far ... :y :y :y :y :y
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Good on ya bud. You've got young'ns that will need you to grow old so stick with it!! :y
Me, i'll continue to smoke away. Most of my family are dying of cancer whether they smoke or not so i might as well enjoy it, it's gonna get me either way!
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I take my hat of to all those that have managed what I have tried 5 times & failed miserably.
:-[ :-[ >:(
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I take my hat of to all those that have managed what I have tried 5 times & failed miserably.
:-[ :-[ >:(
I tried and failed many times ... but then REALLY decided to do it ... and succeeded ... this was in the days before pills and patches ... it just took that weird thing "will power" .... not easy .. but it required FULL commitment .. no messing ... but got there in the end ... now the worlds worst "reformed smoker" ..... :)
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As an ex 40 a day man, until 16 years ago, I know what you are going through.... but it is do-able, and you will never regret stopping .... although you will regret ever starting !!
You'll also come to hate the smell more than you can imagine !!!
Congrats on your progress so far ... :y :y :y :y :y
Not quite so sure, stale smoke yes but fresh smoke is something I can cope with at a distance, ie a wiff.... :y now a 10 survivor of the big LC............. :) :)
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Good on you m8!
Sixteen years ago I stopped smoking over 60 a day Senior Service simply by telling my other half that I would stop for her sake because she was asthmatic.
I had made my mind up and that was it, I did exactly that and never gave it another thought, not even when out for drinkies and the usual offer of one from m8's was made, then refused. They took the 'iss as expected but I stood my ground.
sadly it is though that even after that amount of time I am still no better off financially but the home looks great and the ability to afford better quality food has made my waist larger than it ought to be. I am now 'built for comfort, not speed'. Medication saw the end of loads of bevvy (up to 18 or so a day in my youthful body abusing days) and I am now shrinking slowly but surely.
Smoking! It should be banned outright and immediately in cars while in motion.
Just waiting for the moaners now............ ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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plus a diet and cycling to work,my pants wont stay up and i feel great :y
smoking is such a drain on life i couldnt believe how much until this,i have a spring in my step and everything feels better :-*
Keep it up Daz. Four years for me now. You'll notice that you seem to have more cash as well. :y
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Good work mate. You're starting to see rewards all round and hopefully that will see you through.
Good luck :y
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I've managed roughly the same amount of time as you Herc, but I'm using the NiQuitin lozenges (1.5mg) as an aid.
This is my 4th attempt at stopping, although I feel slightly different from a mental viewpoint this time and I'm determined it's gonna be the one.
Like you I also feel a lot healthier, and I can now smell a smoker from a good 3 metres away without a problem.
Food also tastes a hell of a lot better, and the money we are saving is quite surprising (circa £160 per month).
Keep it up bud :y :y
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now a 10 survivor of the big LC............. :) :)
Now that's what I like to read :y
I was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer (started in bowel & spread to liver) in Dec 2010 and I fully expected the doc to lay it on me regarding the smoking, but he never blamed my predicament on that in the slightest. He did advise me to knock it on the head (as well as moderating the drinking), but he also said it was my choice and that it was unlikely that continuing to smoke would have any impact on my recovery.
I did smoke copious amounts of weed throughout my treatment, but that was because the chemo was seriously screwing with my sleeping & eating patterns. The doc knew I was doing this (told him beforehand in case it was going to have a negative effect) and his response was "Officially speaking I can't condone it, but unofficially speaking if it makes you sleep, eat, and put on weight then smoke as much as you can between now & surgery".
After 2 lots of surgery I'm on another round of chemo, but this is being done more as a "belt & braces" kind of thing.
Oddly enough this second round hasn't impacted my sleeping or eating that much at all, although I now have a new side effect of being incredibly sensitive to cold (so sensitive that I can't even get a pint of milk out of the fridge without going in to spasm)
My current chemo regime will finish around June time this year and then I'm due for the scans which will officially determine whether all traces of the cancer are gone. If the scan results come back clear then that's the start of my 5 year road to remission, if they don't then I guess I'll be starting over again.
If it is the latter then I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, but at this moment in time all the info from the surgeons and various blood tests indicate it's good news for me.