giving up smoking...

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:16 pm

YAPPA wrote:Ahh Neka....from 1 extreme to the other

thats me..farkin extreme....nah ,itll last a week..lol..

tape · Post by **tape** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:28 pm

Mick lights smoke... mmmmmmm Drinks Jimmy and waits for T... hehehe

Tried stoppin smokin... (tho short lived) then, work, kids and life intervene and stress evovles into searching for the ciggies and then the circle continues....

EXCUSES EXCUSES... I know....

I used to exercise once or twice .... but I then walked out to the car from gym a lit up a smoke....

I will say one thing tho... I won't smoke unless I drink. But the prob is I smoke when I drink coffee, Jimmy and cordigal or whatever...lol

cough cough

cheers

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:15 am

haha mate u shoulda seen it wen i did my gym instructor course..sitting outside having a ciggie, being harrassed by all...lol..id go bust my ass at gym & light up outside...or go play soccer, run silly for 45min, then spark one up at half time...go back out & nail 45min hard work again, then light up..i use to even come to the sideline for a breather & ciggie half way thru, then go back out...lol..

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:31 am

neka79 wrote:haha mate u shoulda seen it wen i did my gym instructor course..sitting outside having a ciggie, being harrassed by all...lol..id go bust my ass at gym & light up outside...or go play soccer, run silly for 45min, then spark one up at half time...go back out & nail 45min hard work again, then light up..i use to even come to the sideline for a breather & ciggie half way thru, then go back out...lol..

well try this.....
during the years I puffed away
I ran Marathons...lots (and usual time in around 3 hours)
and
to calm the nerves, I used to light up just before

(most go and have a pee)

I got some pretty amazing looks
and the same at the end, when I lit up when I finished....!

cheers

Barrabob · Post by **Barrabob** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:01 am

Yeh well i didnt want to post the wrong thing early in the peice but i used to do simaler, smoke a packet a day and play soccer which involved running for 2 hours at least 3 nights a week and i was as quick as any out there i can asure you.

Of course if i contract empyseema or some other shitty lung diesese before i expire i wont be able to blame it on asbestose or too many caltex vortex fumes will I.

should stop again last time it was because of daughters coughs and colds but she still got them well after i stoped the gaspers.

So hows it going neka feeling better and can smell now, you know your nearly cured when you can throw a full packet in the bin.

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:40 am

yea mate goin good...throw away a full deck?? mate i wouldnt waste the money on buying them..im a tight ass....
i was out sat nite..even rolled a few rollies up...but didnt smoke one....
im done...

mike-s · Post by **mike-s** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:34 am

well done Neka

It's been what, two weeks now?

Are you going to bother keeping a pouch around as a reminder or something? or
ditch it? The only baccy smell i love in unburned tobacco, burnt tobacco just smells rancid
to me now.

the kid · Post by **the kid** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:14 am

Well done Mate . Top effort cold turkey . Keep it up

photomike666 · Post by **photomike666** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:42 am

I used to smoke a pack a day, work out 6 days a week, play rugger on Sat afternoon and race motocross on Sundays. I was on the piss most nights and ate what I wanted. Oh to be young again.

Now I've been off the smokes for 18 months, drink some weekends and in moderation (most of the time

). I wish I could get up the motivation to work out again. All I manage at the moment is 30 push ups before my daily shower and chasing my boys round the BMX track once a week.

Keep up the good work Neka, it gets easier.

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:53 pm

yea its goin ok...got licence back today...funnily enough now im not stressing abt licence i feel like a smoke..im fighting the urge- yea its been abt 2 week-ish so im over the hardest part (i reckon)...the funny thing is i really didnt want to quit, i only did it to please sum1 else...sum1 i hardly speak to...but i guess while im off em...
oh, and i kno wot u mean abt drinking bulk piss & eating woteva u like..i reckon ive put on abt 3kg since i quit!!
gotta get back into gym...

plane · Post by **plane** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:01 pm

You're doing good Neka.
I found that my problem was lack of motivation to give up. So I went out and bought a bike and paid it of in two years with the money I saved from not smoking. I gave up 4 years ago and every once and a while I feel like a smoke, but the urge passes in a second.
I quit cold turkey and haven't looked back.
Well done bloke!
Pete