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At work we're getting a new canteen which won't have a smoking room. I don't fancy 12 hour shifts without a smoke but I don't fancy standing in the cold and rain as the yobs empty out of the pubs and clubs so it would probably be a good time to give up but will I?

yes. i think you should
we'll all be here as your support group if you need us. and i really like you alot, i'd hate to see you die of lung cancer....

its really up to you, but i'd encourage you to do it if you can...

for the thought
no doubt you're right and I should

BC

I gave up smoking at 11.45pm on the 31st Jan 2004.. and using patches I was discharged from the clinic 10 weeks later.... I have not touched one since..

Congrats lil
Were the patches a help then?
I have given up before but the staying quit was beyond me

Willpower is the key.

Fall out of love with the weed and start to hate it.
Hate what it does to your lungs (and throat, voice, urinary tract, etc.etc.)

I also like you, and wouldn't want you to have the hacking cough my ex-neighbour has. She used to wake me every morning, lighting up her first of the day.

I started to hate it after I restarted after the birth of my last baby, in 1993. I could have kicked myself for starting again, when I'd been stopped about 7 months. So I counted down to New Year (a good time to stop)
by Christmas week, I was down to 2 a day as I didn't want to buy a new packet, and have to throw some away after New Year.

Haven't smoked since New Year's Eve 1994.

I did it with willpower alone, no patches, no hypnosis, no needles.

I had to change my lifestyle, stop seeing friends who smoked, cut down on ate more (I put 3 stone on) then dieted one stone off - the other two I can't shift but I'd rather be "a few extra lbs" and a non-smoker, thank you very much.

My lungs will be clear & clean by now.



If you need any more encouragement, the cravings *do* go away and eventually you will hate smokers.

And you will laugh at the silly beggers stood outside in the cold and/or rain, dragging on their puffs & clogging up their lungs.

Cast off the and freedom beckons!

honey (you'll be nicer to too)

"Haven't smoked since New Year's Eve 1994"

that should be:

Haven't smoked since New Year's Eve 1993. Dec 31st, 1993. Coming up to 11 years freedom.

I should have said I started smoking at the age of 17, stopping only when pregnant, always starting again after the births. Smoked for 21 years, 20 a day.

I'm a for doing it, and you will be too.

No smoking room? Are they deliberately making it difficult to smoke there, do you think? Or trying to save on making an extra room? Just wondering. I don't smoke myself, nor have I ever so I've been fortunate not to have to quit. It's a good thing too cause I'm not good at quitting things like that. I used to be a rabid anti-smoker but I'm less so now. I've given up trying to pressure people I know to quit. So what am I trying to say? Yes quit if that is what you want to do. I'm all for it! Have you visited Ivan's smoking quitting thread? Maybe someone could start a guide entry for those who want to quit smoking. There are a couple other people on his thread who are trying to quit too. I'd do it but I don't smoke and there for can't quit.

Yes the patches helped a lot.. and you can get them for the price of a prescription if you join your doctors smoking clinic...


I kept forgetting to change the patches

I also chose the shortest month to begin... That first month passes ever so quickly then!!

"I also chose the shortest month to begin"

Great idea!

The Doctor thought is was funny!!

Willpower has never been my strong point
It was good news about the lungs ability to recover from smoking

HBFJ
I think the building owners have been planning to make the building non-smoking so theres not much point in our company including a smoking room in the new canteen. Also the government is probably going to ban smoking in most workplaces after the next election anyway.

hmm... if they're going to ban smoking in most places soon i'd reccomend it.
..i dont smoke, never have quite fuortunately.

if you do decide to

You could always give up and transfer to alcohol like lil

The best move by far is to drop all addictions, especially smoking. Smoking is the worst thing you can do to yourself repeatedly and legally, and often ends up in an untimely and nasty death. I don't intend to be nasty, it's just the blunt truth...

I won't deny that smoking is bad for you but alcohol is also a pretty nasty drug both for what it does to people and what it makes them do to other people. If either were a new product they'd be made illegal.

Having said that mines a

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That's been the case in NZ since about 1989... I am so used to it now, but I am not quitting and haven't quit as a result - it just means I look forward to breaks more than ever!
In schools and hospitals (the places I tend to work) it's a lot harder - cos those places have their whole grounds 'smokefree' so it's out into the street, or across the road in most schools, as their grounds go on forever. There's a neuro rehab hospital across some grassland from us, and the workers have to go at least a street away, which really stinks in the high wind and rain we've had for the last two weeks...

BC- should you quit?

YES!!!

There are too many health problems linked to smoking for you not to! It hit pretty close to me, when my great aunt who smoked for years passed away of metastatic lung cancer.

By the way- I was just listening to that TMBG song!

ok, I sorta know I should quit, just got to find some reason immediate enough to make myself do it, which is why standing outside in the rain might do it when health and cost haven't for the last quarter century

superb band ,think I shall play 'Istanbul, not Constantinople' when I get home today

an imidate reason... hmmm...

*trys to think of one*

er... well how about the fact that alot of people care about you enough to care if you live or die.... and so perhaps you could do it for them if not for yourself? ...just an idea... i dont know.... hope it strikes some chord deep within you, and you decide to quit....

not immediate enough, as I've no reason to think I'm going to die anytime soon, but thanks for the thought