Post by tasi on Jun 3, 2015 16:36:11 GMT
I started smoking when I was working in the operating theatre. Yes, really. Sometimes it was so busy that we didn't have time to get changed, walk through tunnels to the dining room, queue up etc etc. We'd either bring sandwiches, or just have a coffee or cup of tea and a biscuit. Everyone smoked back in the 60's/70's and soon I was puffing away with the best of them. I gave up when I was pregnant but soon was back on the fags.
By 2005, my husband and I were on 40 a day, more if we got up early. Over the years we had tried everything, including hypnosis... 'you are getting sleepy, your eyelids are getting heavy'... 'Um no they aren't! I'm wide awake'
The joy of giving up for me, was that first fag when I started again.
Anyway, by 2005 we were rolling our own and consequently practically coughing up a lung. We joined the 'Quit Now' group at our doctor's, had individual counseling and by talking over what made us reach for the ciggies... sit at computer, light up, get in the bath, have a fag, after a meal etc etc. it was decided the Nicorette inhalers were the best for us. We had them on prescription and within a month were down to 1 cartridge a day and that was that. We started giving up in September and by Christmas were non smokers. We hung on to an 'emergency pack' of inhalers and cartridges just in case we were ever tempted to smoke, but after getting through the unexpected death of our daughter and not reaching for a fag, we realised we were proper non smokers.
The moral of all this, is that if I can give up, anyone can. I must have tried a dozen times and failed. It's all about finding the right time and the right way for you. No one is a failure, they just started giving up at the wrong time for them.
By 2005, my husband and I were on 40 a day, more if we got up early. Over the years we had tried everything, including hypnosis... 'you are getting sleepy, your eyelids are getting heavy'... 'Um no they aren't! I'm wide awake'
The joy of giving up for me, was that first fag when I started again.Anyway, by 2005 we were rolling our own and consequently practically coughing up a lung. We joined the 'Quit Now' group at our doctor's, had individual counseling and by talking over what made us reach for the ciggies... sit at computer, light up, get in the bath, have a fag, after a meal etc etc. it was decided the Nicorette inhalers were the best for us. We had them on prescription and within a month were down to 1 cartridge a day and that was that. We started giving up in September and by Christmas were non smokers. We hung on to an 'emergency pack' of inhalers and cartridges just in case we were ever tempted to smoke, but after getting through the unexpected death of our daughter and not reaching for a fag, we realised we were proper non smokers.
The moral of all this, is that if I can give up, anyone can. I must have tried a dozen times and failed. It's all about finding the right time and the right way for you. No one is a failure, they just started giving up at the wrong time for them.
. However, I do still miss smoking and fear I will always be a smoker who doesn't smoke rather than a non-smoker. C'est la vie I suppose. I've certainly saved a bucketload of cash...
