A whole year!!

[Scubee]

This time last year, I was a smoker. we had brought a bunch of cigarettes back from holiday in Kenya and made the decision that when they were gone, we would stop.

We stopped. i had my last cigarette on 10th Jan 2007.

After a few weeks of weird dreams (the 24 hour patches seem to have a hallucinogenic effect) I felt as though I had kicked the habit, weaned myself off the nicotine and evolved into a someone who is not smoking. I can't call myself a non-smoker, because i quit for 8 years once, then took it up again. So I consider myself to be 'not smoking'.

Do I feel healthier? no. not at all. I don't feel any different, really.

Do I suddenly have plenty of money? Don't be daft - I am a diver, so there is always something to spend money on!

Life itself is much easier. I don't have to freeze outside, i don't have to plan my days to build in 'cigarette time' but best of all, i don't have my son nagging at me.

I am glad I have stopped.

[GLOC]

Well done.

[Madfish]

Well done you! It's not easy to stop smoking and it can be quite hard to stay stopped........ and on the benefit side - you don't smell now either!!!

Di

[dry suit diver]

good luck with staying off em.

I am a few weeks in and the patches are still giving me VERY weird dreams, so bad I now take the patch off to sleep as I don't have a craving for em in the mornings till about an hour after I am up.

[Buoyant Babe]

Well done! July 22 2000 was the last one for me

Love Hxxx

[lloydwatkin]

Sweet. Well done.

[frosty the snowman]

Well done. I've never had any vices so I can't really empathise but I'm sure you've worked hard to achieve your smokeless status.

[annatrnr]

Huge Congrats Living with a smoker and having see him trying to give up (twice) I really admire those of you who have managed to beat it.If you smoked 10 cigs a day (at £4.60 per pack) you have saved £839.50 in a year.Well done!x

[Scubee]

Originally Posted by dry suit diver

good luck with staying off em.

I am a few weeks in and the patches are still giving me VERY weird dreams, so bad I now take the patch off to sleep as I don't have a craving for em in the mornings till about an hour after I am up.

After a couple of weeks, i used to wonder where i would end up that night. Try the 18 hour patches - they don't seem to have as bad an effect.
Persevere, though - it is a lot easier than going cold turkey.

Di - After a few weeks, i started really noticing how badly my boss smelt. My colleagues said i didn't smell anywhere near as bad as him, but i do prefer the smell of my perfume, that's for sure. (thankfully, my boss has stopped as well now!).

For anyone thinking of stopping, or who has done it as a new years resolution - all you can do is take it one day at a time. I used to decide each morning that I wouldn't have a ciggy that day.

[Scubee]

Originally Posted by annatrnr

Huge Congrats Living with a smoker and having see him trying to give up (twice) I really admire those of you who have managed to beat it.If you smoked 10 cigs a day (at £4.60 per pack) you have saved £839.50 in a year.Well done!x

I hadn't done those sums!Well... that's food for thought. I doubt it has saved me that much though, because mostly they arrived rather cheaply from foreign destinations.