Quit smoking

[Smithbat]

Well done, if you have gone two weeks then you are over the worse bit. I gave up from 40 a day in 2008 and it is without a doubt the best and hardest thing I have done. The benefits however are amazing. Not hacking half a lung up every morning, food tasting better and being able to breathe when it is frosty without it hurting, and the money, bloody hell the money! within 6 months of giving up I had a new flat and a new car because I was so much richer each month.

Keep at it, you can do it.

 

[Tanis8472]

3 weeks tomorrow. Starting to get better with the breathing

 

[Smithbat]

3 weeks tomorrow. Starting to get better with the breathing

The breathing will get better and better. For me, about three months in, I started hacking up all sorts or crap, but I figured it was my body starting to clear itself. Unpleasant but cathartic at the same time

 

[subaqua]

The breathing will get better and better. For me, about three months in, I started hacking up all sorts or crap, but I figured it was my body starting to clear itself. Unpleasant but cathartic at the same time

And it lasts about 6 months. I felt so much better after the yakking up dockers oysters stopped .
Then I got a chest infection as I pushed myself too hard in work. The doc said its a good job I had packed the cigs in .

Just over 12 months after stopping I bought a bike and started the 3 mile ride to work. That was 2010 and I am still off them , and am still riding but lots more on the distance !

Well done those who have given up

 

[Tanis8472]

Dockers oysters, eugh that's a term I've not heard before

 

[Tanis8472]

6 weeks this coming Wednesday

 

[Tanis8472]

Finding cycling a LOT easier now

 

[ChrisV]

I replaced it with vaping, but want to give that up. Finding there's not such an incentive to give up, which is making it harder to stop.

 

[Lonestar]

I replaced it with a new years resolution on Dec 31st 1999.

Haven't touched one since.Of course I had given up before and failed.The trick is don't think you can get away with smoking the odd one/or cigarillos.

 

[Tanis8472]

Yep, it's been cigarillos that screwed me before.

 

[vickster]

I replaced it with vaping, but want to give that up. Finding there's not such an incentive to give up, which is making it harder to stop.

Costs money (probably comparable to smoking as I understand it), the potential long term ill effects haven't yet come to the fore and it looks ridiculous.

Save money, buy bike stuff, look less daft, job done

 

[Tanis8472]

Popcorn lung seems to be coming up frequently. Like @vickster says, looks stupid and have you seen the clouds of vapour coming out of some of the bigger ones The batteries also seem to be exploding on a regular basis too.

 

[ChrisV]

What's popcorn lung?

 

[slowmotion]

Well done @Tanis8472. There will be a day in the not too distant future when you suddenly realise that you hadn't thought about a cigarette for the last week. An amazing feeling of achievement...and freedom.

 

[Tanis8472]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...-flavouring-chemical-linked-to-deadly-popcor/

I don't actually think about them. Funny thing about hypnosis, I had no withdrawal symptoms or other problems.