Giving up smoking was "What I did today"

[hils]

I gave up five years ago and so did my other half (2 days after me). We now have a top of the range greenhouse, wide screen LCD television, new computer, constructed 50 meters of Garden fence, power tools for the garden and best of all more money in our pockets.
I used the Alan Carr book, which has a permanent success rate of 97%. The good thing about using his books method is that it does not take any willpower to succeed.
Jax

jaxom,

Any more info re: this Alan Carr book on giving up smoking?

Many thanks

[Jaxom]

Synopsis
Allen Carr's hundred-cigarettes-a-day addiction drove him to despair, but after countless attempts to quit he discovered what the world had been waiting for - the easy way to stop smoking. Now recognised as the world's leading expert on helping smokers to quit, Allen Carr's informative, no scare tactics methods and techniques are a revelation for those desperate to kick the habit.
The book can be found at http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...951932-7027063
It will cost no more than two packets of cigarettes but save your life and a fortune in future money.
May you have Wide Screen TV and the biggest Greenhouse you can fit in your garden. Jax

[sewer rat]

Still off the fags but hitting the sweeties hard !
Rat

[Nicos]

SR ...good for you!!! (which sweets in particular???)

[hils]

Many thanks Jax, I'll order said book PDQ.

Already looking forward to spending my x-fag money.

Hils

[sewer rat]

Nicos
Any kind of sweetie - or bicuit - or cake.............but if I had to choose one sweetie, I would have to say Tablet - if you're unfamiliar withthis traditional scottish sweetie, it's a sort of fudgey mix of condensed milk, sugar, butter and vanilla essence - rot's your teeth as you eat it but the sugar rush means you don't care.
Rat

[JennieAtkinson]

Ooooooh tablet! Life starts after tablet

Re earlier quotes: my husband and I were thinking of starting smoking so we could give up and have lots of saved money to spend on things which we don't have to justify

[Jaxom]

Before I gave up smoking I would hum and har about buying things in the supermarket until one day I started comparing the price of the items to packets of cigarettes. This soon stopped my thinking twice about buying healthy items and more about giving up smoking.
At £5 per day for an average packet it is a rather silly person who thinks twice about buying fruit and veg out of season but does not blink an eye handing over £50 a time for cartons of cigarettes.
Jax

[hils]

Nicos
Any kind of sweetie - or bicuit - or cake.............but if I had to choose one sweetie, I would have to say Tablet - if you're unfamiliar withthis traditional scottish sweetie, it's a sort of fudgey mix of condensed milk, sugar, butter and vanilla essence - rot's your teeth as you eat it but the sugar rush means you don't care.
Rat

Rat,

The mere mention of tablet makes me go weak at the knees.
My best pal is a 'Wegie' and always brings me some back when she goes home.
Keep it a secret, the southerners may discover it and corner the market.
Do you have a good receipe? Lost my original, remember lots of boiling involved.

Hils

[Lesley Jay]

For Scottish recipes I always use www.rampantscotland.com There are some lovely recipes there including Tablet.

[nick the grief]

Tablet

My wife used to make this .....then she discovered slimming world

[Geordie]

I have smoked since I was 13, have never tried to give up or quit. Consumption peaked when I joined the dark side and worked for a cigarette company (hint american, cowboy) when my consumption peaked at a horrendus rate per day...well they were free!

On 28 June 2005 (and for those who do not smoke you will not undestand) I woke up and just did not fancy a cigarette....so I did not have one! I have only had 2 cigarettes since then (drunken night out!).

It has been hard but now, bar the odd occasion, it never enters my mind. No gum or patches I just quit. Again if you dont smoke you wont get it but, i dont miss smoking but i do miss (on occasion) the 'group' element.

All I can offer in the way of advice is...you will only quit when the time is right for you.....dont force it.

[sewer rat]

Geordie
Have tried before but was sort of co-erced into it and you're right, you'll only stop when you want to. Find I miss three fags the most - first thing in the morning (used to kick start my lungs), after my tea in the evening and last thing at night - don't really give much thought to the other twenty seven or so !
Rat

[Berr]

Anybody who kicks the weed has my unstinted admiration. I know I couldn't have done it, stopped my 40-a-day, without seeing that picture of the state of main arteries in my heart, that is. Now three nicotine-free years plus down the line it's no more heart attacks and I feel better than I did 20 years ago. I'm sure Geordie is right...BUT hey, you've just GOTTA quit that! How's about going over to dried comfrey, SR? (unavailable toothy smiley). Seriously, every good wish for your success!
Berr

[andrewo]

I smoked throughout my teens, and when I was 21 I just stopped, I don't know why - I just did, I think it was when I was running for the bus and I couldn't breathe or just the fact that one day I realised I could no longer taste anything (I was a chain smoker). Sometimes you just smoke yourself out of the addiction, I didn't want another fag, not to say I didn't crave, I did have relapses but I didn't want the fag, I didn't like it. I suppose I was a social smoker who tokk it one step too far. Not smoked in 10 years.