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Inspirational post. I still smoke, despite years of thinking/considering, but never really DECIDING to give up. Got a whole bundle of excuses as to why I can’t give up just yet (I know, I know – even I don’t believe half of ’em..)

Giving up for the $$ savings alone doesn’t work for me – I’d still buy at twice the price, despite realizing how much extra I’d have to spend on my other filthy habits.. [cigar]

But how that decision led to the other decision/s, etc, etc – good to hear. I’m told, and have no doubt myself, that giving up the gaspers is the hardest thing you’ll ever do. Sincere congrats on the effort. I hope to join the club myself sometime soon. Cheers.

Congrats on giving up

theloanarranger

Just think of your kids every time you light up.
Think of what you’re really doing.
I’ve never understood smoking.
If someone could outline its benefits I would be very interested.

J

Im not a smoker [cigar] Thank goodness but have been struggling wiuth severe upper backpain due to an injury TEN YEARS AGO, unable to sleep all night, unable to bear being on my back, enduring radiotherapy every 18 months, not too mention the incredibale amount of painkillers…

So three months ago I decided this was it. If medical science couldnt help me it was time to take control. So I went back to physio for a carefully worked out plan, hired myself a trainer who is my greatest motivator, changed my diet totally and the $80 a week (sometimes more) has been the best investment I have ever made.

I have had 2 pain free nights, the first in 10 years and the challenge is on to be pain free in 90 more days, and the amazing thing is, I may actually get there. My trainer has seen the tears, depression and frustration and we are breaking through that now.

What use to me, all these properties and my ever growing ‘retirement’ fund if my quality of life has been pretty low, so even though I wont see any money from my ‘investment’, the return is HUGE.[thumbsupanim][thumbsupanim][thumbsupanim]

30 mins a day is all it takes and I will be maintaining this now for the rest of my improved life![strum]

Congratulations RussH on giving up the dreaded gaspers, its great to be able to breath properly again and to be able to taste food again isn’t it.I gave up 11 years ago after smoking for over 20 years. it was hard at first but it was the best thing i ever did.I now ask myself why i ever started,can’t stand the smell of smoke or other smokers, they say reformed smokers are the worst. I put on quite a bit of weight though after. Several years ago i had a work accident and injured my back, part of my rehabilitation process was to lose some weight and do more exercise. I lost 10 kilos and was walking for 30 minutes every day, i felt great. Slowly though i got slack and stopped walking regularly and put the weight back on. I am working on it again and have lost about 6 kilos and am starting to feel better again, have to really push myself though as i have lost the enthusiasm i once had, must be old age creeping in i think.Anyway good luck with it all and just keep telling yourself you do not need cigarettes.
Cheers
Foston

Hi Pisces,
I just had a look at your profile and according to that you’re only 11 years old, and i thought only women lied about their age.
Foston

Well I did the opposite Russ, I went from being real fit (after giving up smoking for 9 years) I would swim between 2-5kms a day, and then spend approx 2 hours at a gym. I would get up at 5am to fit all this in. Since starting smoking again 3 years ago my health has dropped considerably slowly but surely. I have given up smoking many times in the last 3 years and even just after a week I feel a big difference. I will continue to give up till I succeed. Many say im just not a quitter but in this case I will prove them wrong……LOL[cigar]

Regards Bear

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I wish you luck, Chan! And others.
Please try coz “Smoking’s bad, ankay!”

Have you a plan or strategy to quit? (Geez I sound a bit like Steve, hehe).

There are some good books that can help you quit. My brother, who quit over 2 years ago, said a book by an author called Carr helped him a lot.(Don’t know the title {probably something obvious like Quitting smoking, dah}but I saw it in Angus and Robertson a while ago).

I think that Carr’s strategy is to stop without patches, and he uses natural foods and drinks I believe to combat the habit, and heaps more.

There’s also a book by Deeprak Chopra, I may be called: Overcoming Addictions. I gave it to my other brother’s girlfriend.
It’s about all kinds of addictions, from smoking to alcohol abuse to gambling.
I have never read this myself but my brother’s girlfriend said it helped her a lot and she has been ‘clean’ for about a year now since reasing the book and applying it.

All I know about this strategy is that Deeprak goes easy on you, I think he will let you quit in your mind first and taking the steps only when you are ready.

His method allows you to smoke at first, but only if you smoke mindfully. If you smoke, you do nothing else but smoke. No reading while you smoke. No watching TV either.
So that you really take the time out to light up a cigarette, that you feel the smoke enter your lungs consciously, notice your heart rate perhaps increase, all the time when smoking observing what you are really doing to your own body.
It sounds a bit like a smoking-meditation, doesn’t it?

Be aware of the taste, your body, the feeling the smoke causes.
As soon as you lose awareness, you should stop the smoking period and go back to what you were doing before yo lit up.

THis will make you more sensitive to what you are really doing to yourself and you will desire less.

Not sure what else is involved.
You have to read it for yourself if interested, as I said I haven’t even read it myself.

I quit 18 years ago, hadn’t discovered any books and help, but as soon as I found out I was pregnant I decided I didn’t want to poison my own baby, this was a great incentive and have never started again. Cold turkey did it for me! Was very hard, though!

If I smoked now and wanted to quit, I would like to quit this way, I think.
May be I should start smoking heavily for a year just to reap the benefits of applying this method.[cigar] and finding out if it works for me.
Then, on second thought, better not, if it doesn’t work I’ll have to get pregnant again to help me quit! No thanks!

It’s weird how years after you quit (well I should say I, just speaking for myself) you get a real, terrible dislike of the habit, really sensitive to smoke.
I can’t stand it to be in smokey surroundings, really makes my physically unwell, nausious etc.[sick3]
Lucky for me my husband quit too just before I did.

WELL PUT

Regards Bear

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