Quittin' Smoking

[prison break fan]

I gave up 35 years ago, after my husband died and I had no money, one day it was a choice between buying cigarettes or buying the children lunch, and I chose the cigs! I shocked myself so much that I never smoked again! pbf

[JulieSherris]

Looby, tis ok, we've not got hay in our hayshed - it's where we store our peat turfs & chop & store our wood.... oh, but maybe that's just as bad.....

[hoomin_erra]

Had my last cigarette at 5 minutes to midnight on new Years eve. Nothing since then. Yes i get the odd craving. Doesn't help that the OH still smokes.

I just decided i was tired of being out of breath at the top of a flight of stairs. Plus, in our current financial climate, the £££ was a big factor too.

A lot of it is down to the person. I'm lucky. I can just stop, and that's it. No patches gum etc. The OH is another story. She's tried, but after 2 hours, she's like a bear woken from hibernation. Not safe!!

[Andy Hamilton]

Well I am now mostly a non smoker I have gone from around 30-40 a day to about 20 a month. I only smoke when I drink and others are smoking and even then not all the time. When I notice it is getting out of hand I reel it in again. This is what works for me and I don't suggest it would work for everyone.

This did not work for me at first after reading the Alan Carr book, in fact I ended up smoking again BECAUSE OF ALAN CARR. All the way through it I kept thinking what is this easyway and even on the last page I was thinking that. I finished my packet of tobacco and gave up for a while. Then I had one or two cigs whilst drinking, Alan Carr states that social smokers are the worst type of smokers as they kid themselves that they don't smoke. It was this line that made me decide to smoke again. Now three years after reading that sanctimonious nonsense I smoke 20 a month and not 30-40 a day.

Ok so the Easyway (whatever that is) works for some people I am not disputing that but the people who have just read it or are selling it act like born again smokers I know I did so no offense to anyone spouting the word of Mr Carr. But really the ONLY WAY TO GIVE UP IS WILL POWER and the best advice I have ever been given is the three day advice, if you can get past the first three days you have cracked it. If you want to start to smoke again then remember the three days.

[TheGoodEarth]

Now three years after reading that sanctimonious nonsense I smoke 20 a month and not 30-40 a day.

Fantastic work Andy - so by reading the book you have reduced the amount you smoke by about 1000 fags a month! Thats 50 packets = £300pm or £3,600 per year. Well done.

if you can get past the first three days you have cracked it.

I haven't heard that one before! Why therefore is pumpy's wife really struggling on Day 4 as mentioned in the original post?

I know what you mean about acting like a born again! I can't help it because I know that anyone who smokes would rather not (just like how I felt) and this method has REALLY worked for me and many others. I never have any desire to have a fag and its not because I am using my willpower. If my willpower was any good I would be able to cut down my wine consumption.

pumpy and his wife sound desparate and this is one method that might just work for her. She should try everything to be free and hopefully this one might help.

[TheGoodEarth]

Also in terms of willpower, don't believe that smokers are weak willed cretins with no will power to stop smoking. It is the exact opposite; it is because they have incredible will power that they continue to poison their bodies day after day when they know they shouldn't be. Now THAT is willpower!

Don't use patches either! All you are doing is putting nicotine into your bloodstream by patch rather than inhaling, what is the point in that? What kind of treatment for drug addiction involves taking the drug you are trying to be free from??

[Annpan]

Now three years after reading that sanctimonious nonsense I smoke 20 a month and not 30-40 a day.

Fantastic work Andy - so by reading the book you have reduced the amount you smoke by about 1000 fags a month! Thats 50 packets = £300pm or £3,600 per year. Well done.

Are you trying somekind of subliminal advertising here?

MMM and Andy and My Friend have all said the book DID NOT WORK FOR THEM..... It can't work for everyone, the world would be a very dull place if our brains all worked identically.

I have also heard, from many smokers who successfully gave up before this book came along that the first 3 days are the worst.

[Andy Hamilton]

Yep this was the point I was trying to make about that book, if you are reading it then you are already halfway to giving up. Like any addiction the hardest part is the decision to give up. I still think that people give up despite Alan Carr and not because of, I won't deny that book can help but only because it helps reinforce the ideas that you already want to quit.

So how long have you given up for "The good Earth"?

Also can anyone explain what they Easyway actually is rather than a self perpetuating sales gimmick? I love the way that it says "don't give this book away, always keep a copy". I wish I could get people to do that with my book!

[TheGoodEarth]

No connection with Allen Carr at all. Just hoping to help pumpy and his wife.

You are right Anne, it won't work for everybody but is worth a try surely? Smokers are desparate to quit which is why there is a multi billion pound industry for stop smoking aids.

[TheGoodEarth]

So how long have you given up for "The good Earth"?

Its just over a year now but I feel as if I have never smoked.

The book makes you question why you smoke. After searching for the benefits you realise there are none and that makes it easy to stop (hence easyway). It is easy because you don't feel you are giving something up! You know it does you no good so your brain gets conditioned to think 'what is there to give up?'

As an example, can anyone give me a benefit you get from smoking?

[Andy Hamilton]

As an example, can anyone give me a benefit you get from smoking?

A friend of mine met his now wife outside a pub when he nipped out for a fag just after the smoking ban came in. She is now pregnant with their first child. He is still thinks he would never have met her had he been a non smoker.

[TheGoodEarth]

[quote="Andy Hamilton]A friend of mine met his now wife outside a pub when he nipped out for a fag.[/quote]

Very good

Lets hope its a long term beneift.

[Shirley]

As an example, can anyone give me a benefit you get from smoking?

A friend of mine met his now wife outside a pub when he nipped out for a fag just after the smoking ban came in. She is now pregnant with their first child. He is still thinks he would never have met her had he been a non smoker.

ROFL - that's a definite benefit - hope he's stopped now that there is a bairn on the way

[TheGoodEarth]

What does ROFL mean?

[Annpan]

ROFL= Rolling On the Floor Laughing

Took me ages to figure out all the acronyms (is that what they are called... there must be a special word for the 'text' speak ones)