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Kudos to you too Snod!!! I'd have given up once they were all gone. I don't have a single one in the house. I don't mind people smoking here, I just spray like a demon after they leave I guess I just feel guilty if I ask them not to smoke here

Its strange, when I stopped, I used to hate people smoking round me, now it doesnt bother me anymore, and just reminds me of how glad I am that I stopped, and the smell it leaves.

I put perfume on my sleeves now because if someone sits next to me on the bus or a train and they've been smoking, it makes me gip so I sniff the perfume instead.

It just makes me feel bad because I used to smell like that

Its cool to hear other ppls stories of how they gave up. I had a carton of cigarettes for ages and i still have a lighter in the car lol and just keep forgetting to chuck it out. I think i thought about how many times i had failed so i kept all the stuff around because of the amount of times in the past i had thrown out all my lighters etc lol. I do feel a bit miffed now if someone lights up in my airspace lol but it doesnt make me want a smoke. I was so desperate to give up i would have done anything, within reason lol. But spent many hours crying and wondering why it was so hard to give up when the answer was within me all along.

I think I may get a few funny looks if I did that

Seriously I know what you mean. The smell of stale smoke on other people is now a real off-put and I would go out of my way to avoid having to put up with it. My son used to moan (justifiably) about the "stinky" customers he had to serve at the supermarket checkout.

Snod

Were you robbing the fags from a corner shop before you smoked them?

You usually find that reformed smokers are the worst when it comes to telling others that they shouldn't smoke. Bit hypocritical.

Well done to those that have. I gave up on the 1st of August and suck on those lozenge thingys. Trouble is I am addicted to them now. I see a nice lady at my GP's who encourages me but can only give me prescriptions for twelve weeks. Given the price of those things over the counter, if the Government really wanted you to give up they would let you have prescriptions until you no longer needed them.

Forty something years of smoking, wonder how much money I spent in that time? Don't try and work it out as in the latter part I was on the contraband stuff and rolled my own.

I personally don't care if someone smokes or not - it's their choice.

Well done with giving up Morseman - it's not easy by any stretch of the imagination.

I dread to think of how much money I've spent over the years, and what I could have done with that money. Hindsight is such a wonderful thing

even the big man gave up!

I have a cousin that's spending more on the lozenge thingys than she ever did on ciggies lol. . .

I packed in over well almost 2 years ago now.
And i don't mind smokers at all
Mainly because i was one.

As i have said I gave up 2 years ago and dont mind smokers at all
all my family and most of my friends smoke

i was a 40 a day man for more years than i care to remember, quit 18 months ago using the patches. best thing i've ever done. if i can do it, anyone can!

I got my Champix pills just before Christmas and have now not smoked for 17days!

I used my champix pills 8 months ago, been 'clean' 'dry' since. Best things ever, I dont know why the NHS isnt ramming them down smokers throats !!!!!

They're great aren't they!!!
I brought loads of ciggies back from my holiday in November so I'm trying to find someone still smoking that will buy them off me