STOPPED SMOKING - HELP PLEASE

[skint]

Hi Redmaddi

I think that wether you have the patches or go cold turkey you have to want to stop. I am still climbing the walls but I am determined to do it. One of the things that is so nice is that I had a few notes in my purse at the beginning of the week and they are still there now. Come on if I can do it anyone can beleive me We can support each other

[redmaddi]

Thankyou Skint,

I'm already trying to break the habbit of when I'd usually have one in preparation for next week, I'm also going to try and plan a very busy week so I won't have time to think about it too much, all I hope is that any plans I make do not become stressful and make matters worse

Ha,Ha I've just noticed this was my 500th post and now I'm a GOD

[skint]

You see its an omen - Go for it girl !!!!!!

[Socks]

I was very lucky as I was given an ultimatum by my now OH - give up smoking or him. I had acupuncture (a pin in my ear for two weeks) and then he took me away for a week away from my normal smoking routine. I have now been given up for fourteen years BUT I do still have my last cigarette in its box. I always found that if I had no cigarettes I craved them but because I had one it did not matter. Weird I know but it worked. I do still have times when I think I just fancy a f*g but then look at my OH and change my mind.

The only thing I would say is please be very careful you do not eat instead. I made that mistake and put two stone on in about three months and I cannot get rid of it. Find something to do with your hands for the f*gs and a glass of water when you think you need something to eat.

Good luck to you all - you will feel so much better.

[halfpass]

We'll all have to give up smoking if they bring in this £10 License to smoke

[Milliesmum]

What!!!!! haven't heard about that! I'm not a smoker, but I do think the government make quite enough money out of smokers already!

[halfpass]

have just seen it on the front page of AOL apparently they want smokers to pay a annual fee of £10 to smoke to help fund the NHS, but what I want to know is will that money only be used for smokers or for everyone. It is only a short step from putting metre's on our heads and charging us for the air that we breath

[try]

so whats the next step, charging you for a licence to weigh over 8 stone aswell??

[shelleyj]

licensing us to be able to drink?
OMG - bankruptcy looming.....

[halfpass]

OMG I'm an over wieght drinking smoker they might as well put me down now

[try]

You can have my smoking quota Halfpass, it's about the only vice i havent succumbed to yet!!!

[halfpass]

thanks try I will use it with care and consideration if they start taxing us on sex I'll have the full house I will be condemned to poverty for life

[Milliesmum]

That's unbelievable! Oooh I'm climbing on my soapbox now!!!

The millions the government make from smokers, could revolutionise the NHS in one fell swoop, IF it went into the NHS! Instead they take the money and then penalise smokers and treat them like lepers! You can come to England from any country on earth and take advantage of the NHS hospitality, but if you're English you can't have your operation until you quit smoking and lose 4 stone thank you very much!! Even if you've worked and paid NI contributions all your life! Ooohh it makes my blood boil!!!!

Climbs down off soapbox and takes several deep breaths . . . . . and before you ask I've never smoked in my life!

[try]

Just read in the newspaper that the £10 "license" will have to be produced before you can buy cigarettes in any shop. AND they intend making the application forms so long and complicated that it will put people off applying!!

[Milliesmum]

Well they did that with the post office accounts when they went over to direct payment. I still call it 'family allowance' and I was determined I was going to get it from the post office - but the palaver of opening an account was ridiculous. I could arrange to get it paid into my bank account in 5 minutes over the phone! But they want to do away with the little post offices, so we need to use it or lose it! Sorry, off topic I know, but these things wind me up - I must be pre-mental or something!

[try]

Just one more step towards BIG BROTHER!!!!

[halfpass]

but will the money that they get from this tax be used purely for people who smoke or will it just get lost in administration or just get lost as they seem apt to do of late

[stinkpig]

Perhaps they want our money to buy cigs for themselves, lets be honest they don't need to charge a fiver a pack !

[lolly]

Good luck red maddie, think of all the money you will save

How are ya doing skint

[redmaddi]

Thank you Lolly but I have failed, I succumb to the weed at 7.30am this morning, I thought I was all organised for this week, uniforms sorted, dinner money, reading books, clean PE kit etc. the kiddies go back to school today and after a whole week of half term my 7 year old tells me at 7.25am this morning she hadn't done her home work!!!! at 7.30 this morning with weed in hand I'm searching the world wide web for any d**n information I can calibrate on Water transport in the past

I'm all stressed out now and will plan again for next week.

[shelleyj]

Kids - don't you just love them but you couldn't eat a whole one!
Daughter is filling in her options form on the way to school, having spent some time last night doing her welsh homework...If I smoked I'd have no chance of giving up