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holy jeezuz its painful..................but i am going to last the distance and emerge a non-smoker! yayayay!
yay for the type 3 not smelling like an ash tray!
yay for more money to waste on the type 3!
yay for the dog being able to breathe again (6 years as my pet and being crammed in the back of the car with me chain smoking.....he's lungs have got to be feeling it too!!!!)
yay quitting before the end of the year (my new years resolution)
yay for not having smoked from 10 years (but pretty damn close to it!!!!!! but wanted to quit before i was a 10 year addict)
yay for not being a SOCIAL OUTCAST!!!!
yay for not having to listen to my parents crap on to me about smoking!!!!
yay for my hair not smelling like cigarettes!!!!!!!
yay for not having to run out of austudy and still be able to put smokes on my credit card!!!!!!!!!!
yay not living off "extra whitening chewing gum" forever!!!
yay for not tasting bad in my mouth when i wake up!!!
yay for my lungs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yayayayyayayay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh god. why does it feel so bad?????????????
i want a cigarette:cry
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[Edited on 3-9-2004 by lil dub]
keep it up dude.
yay for other people can now talk to you and not have to stand up wind of your breath.
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
Hang in there lil dub. I feel your pain.
My New Years resolution was the same. But 25yrs smoking habit to break. its hard. but stick with it for all the reasons you stated above.
Good Luck!! 🙂
......... and well done!!! 26 hours!!!!! You can do it....😎
I'm like Grey.....tried a few times...but others have done it ...Gotta really want to...Be determined!!!! So they tell me...
Kretek's..if there were no Asian tobaconists in town then I could give up..can't stand normal ciggies ....
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Go for it !
I stopped on Mothers day !
its tough but the wallet loves the rest it gets now.......no more constant opening.
Kids have stopped whinging !
Keep it up ....they say it gets easier
Good luck, i did it about 8 months ago, mainly coz i couldnt be bothered putting up with ryan having a go at me every time i had one.
it will be hard for a few months but if ya stick to it and find distractions it weill be easier i found i kept craving for months and someone told me that it wont stop till after a year. but here i am now and i have pretty much stopped craving and hardly think about it anymore.
As i said good luck, you will feel better for it in the end.
BTW has anyone here who has quit really noticed a difference in there budget, i seem to have transfered what i was saving onto other things and not sure what
my beetle maybe :P
Danielle
1968 pearl white beetle:kiss
1600 engine😉
soon to be supercharged 🤘🤘
1970 and 72 Squarebacks 70 soon to be rotor powered
being a reformed smoker for nearly14yrs its hard ,still sometimes would like a puff, mainly when drinking alcoholic beverages,but going cold turkey is the hardest part keep up with it and kick the nicotine habit🙂
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https://www.facebook.com/FlatFourGood luck lil dub. I quit 8months, 3 weeks , 2 days, 17hours, 43 minutes ago. Best thing I ever did. One thing I have noticed is how bad smokers smell. Never believed the non-smokers while I was smoking, but smokers do smell really bad.
Are you using any nicotine replacements like patches or gum? The patches were a big help to me, but the bottom line is will power, you've got to want to quit.
No difference in budget, bought a new computer. Figured the repayments were equal to what tobacco cost and if I was paying off the computer I couldn't afford to take it up again.
Ain't nothin' like the wind in your hair.
go man.... your doing yourself and the world a favour, more people should have the attitude you do.
Moonlite... 54 and 66 beetle
My ex is a smoker,one day when i was leaving to go i gave her a kiss and vomited luckily it was outside :thumb
go girl, you can make it,! your lungs and arterys will love you longer for it, he he and you'll have more money to spend on the important things in life, like VWs!!!!!!lol
heard the patches are great help,
from Stef, Blue Bus (Ricks) better half, ha ha 😉:P:P:P:P
I reckon we should have a separate forum for support of pple giving up the demon weed. It was the hardest thing i ever did; but probably the most satisfying. 7 years now. At about $??? god knows how much a packet that means my lo red vice out there in the driveway is paid for several times over... and it doesn't fuck up my lungs , heart, vision, yadda yadda ...
keep it up lil dub it is beatable...
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Good onya and the best of luck !!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s been a little over twelve months for me!
I used nb patches 2weeks big, 2week medium and 1week small. Not a lot has changed apart from the cash in my pocket the fact that I will live to spend it and how much people that smoke stink........lol
:P
Just remember you are not giving up,
You are gaining!
Keeping it real !
You go girl...In the words of the water boy "you can do it"
My uncle died of lung cancer on Wednesday, 53...left behind a wife and 3 kids, if only he'd given up smoking 10 years ago, he would have lived at least another 10 years...and he had a VW, what a waste...
Don't be like those people who start stuffing food in their mouths as a replacement, and then go back to the ciggies as a dietary measure.
You can do it! Thor for PM!
http://www.quit.org.au/index2.html
have a look here if you need any help dude.
Keep it up and stay strong, it will be the best thing that you will do for you and your body.
And trust me! others will love you for it too. :thumb
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
I gave up last Monday and started running with a club the same day.. 5:15am runs three times a week. Some gym work. Diet. No Alcohol for 8 weeks.. I sneaked a couple of fags at the rugby yesterday and had two ciders.. I feel totally pissed with myself this morning.. Willpower is vital.. can't do it without it.. My motivation is bloody strong.. (Two sons).. But that freakin will power!.. One drink and I give up!.. Christ I'm pissed off
Stick with it Sten!
no grog for 8 weeks is pretty tough.
but at least you are doing exercise and that is going to be one of the greatest benifits to you.
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
I still smoke and have gone from 20 a day down to 1-2 on the evening . I have made my unit a non smoking place and also do not go to smokey pubs anymore. I also keep myself as busy as possible which helps.I still wish i could knock the odd few i do have on the head though. They stink , are anti-social , are killing me and wasting my money.
It's crazy as i exercise , gym , go mountainbiking , watch what i eat etc but still can't let go! Maybe a few years ago it may have been cool to smoke but times change and smokers are waking up to themselves.
You stick with it and to support you i'm going to get some patches and try and shake my dirty filthy habit!
Apart from the health reasons etc etc just look at the money side of it! Say $8 a day for a packet x 7 =$56 x 4 = $124 x 12 = $1488 a year!!!!!!!!! Thats alot towards rego , parts , holidays , clothes whatever!
It's hard to do but stick with it!!
Dan
🙂🙂🙂
"If i had to explain you wouldnt understand"
The Lower Class
good for you.
Im a smoker and i want to give up but its the first day that i dread. Im usually grumpy and non talkative.
Good luck 😀
A VOLKSWAGEN IS NOT JUST A CAR, ITS AN OBSESSION.
:cry ok so now I am a smelly stinky povvo outcast, as well as a gibberish talking looser! Go thorun, u can do it! I had stopped for nearly a yr, then picked it up again. But after reading this,combined with driving thru a big healthy cycling convention, or watever they were all doing at laidley this morning.... cyclists everywhere.... I felt bad as i know I get puffed just changing gears in my car.lol....and realising I really do stink.... i think tis about time I get myself back on track... only cold turkey did not work for me last time, so I will prob start the gum next week...(costs just as much as ciggies..lol..)...I also found that like a big fat cigar smokin whiskey drinking bum, I really do enjoy one whilst drinking... so will have to cut back on that.... mannnnn... foods bad...drinkings bad....smokings bad......what's left?....lol.. but go thorun go! (is ur bf a non smoker?).......
c'mon homebrand join the revolution. Go guys and gals you will be a much happier person for giving it up
Baby Loves to Mumbo
😉 switched from rollies to 1mg ciggies, I am starting the process... but hooray for thorun, I am relying on you for inspiration, therfore u must succeed! 😎
a step in the right direction.
Baby Loves to Mumbo
holy shit!!!!!!!!!!
its nearly been a week!!!!!!!
AND NOT A MOMENT HAS GONE BY WITHOUT ME THINKING OF CIGARETTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahah.
sad, but true. you know how they say guys think about sex every 5 seconds or something - or 10 billion times a day or something like that?
well. that is me --- but only i think about CIGARETTES!!!!!!!!
argh! everything reminds me of cigarettes.....and at any given moment........ i would be up for a smoke!!!
sigh. but i have been strong (only have had 2 half smokes....late at night.....out in the cold....while the household was sleeping ----- and yes it made me feel dirty...!!!!)
but - wow ---- thanks for the support guys ---- i only checked this post today................!
and yeah --- i have the PATCHES.....the patches sent to me from HEAVAN!!!!! if you are trying to quit......go the nicotine replacement! it is sooooo much better ( i have tried and failed before - but with the patches life is a lot easier...and you get kooky dreams too!)
so thanks for the support.....thanks heaps...................it is still really painful...........and i have been weirdly "emotional" (not cranky though thankgod.....just really teary....weird)
iin the words of my best mate Erin (also a new non-smoker, so kinda my support buddy even though she is in melbourne)
"I MISS IT WITH EVERY FIBRE OF MY BEING!!!!!"
hehehe.
but they reckon it gets better.....................eventually..............!
thanks again --- and heather --- if you need me to kick your arse into gear i am more than happy to oblige.............!!!!!!
thor xx
yay thor!!!! keep it up!:thumb
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keep up the good work it will pass
Baby Loves to Mumbo
keep it up
You will enjoy it.
If you really want to be encouraged - go and kiss a smoker now!
Amazing how much you can taste the difference (sorry smokers - but fact!)
Sad part is - i gave up 20 years ago. Still think about it. Especially sitting round a camp fire late at night.
Every couple years i give in when i have had 15 too many.
Yeah - HATE myself in the morning
Kepp it up. It does get easier
Futue te ipsum!!!
Hey Thor, me stopped today after a lot of pushing and shoving from the other half, got patches on and have a nicotine inhaler, works ok but still not like a SMOKE, i have carfully read the post and had some inspired thoughts form others, byron bus, so sorry to here about your uncle, my step father died 6 years ago from the dreaded LC, but i still smoked and loved it, but this time is different, may need some support over the next week or so, so good on ya for keeping it up, maybe take up fisting for a hobbie, thanks for listenin
Andy
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