Well done @Mno 
55 days for me 
. I know I’ve got it this time. 
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I’m on it, I don’t want to show any numbers yet because it is early but I’m doing it! 
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Thanks! I’m trying. Alcohol has been easier for me to avoid. I’ve had quite a few resets but I’m on my way! I want to quit this stinking habit and I will. I appreciate the support.
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Woohooo that’s an awesome number!
I’m coming up on three months. Had some pretty big temptations over the weekend. At a wedding where lots of people were smoking (and my partner was drunk and I was feeling tired and sad) but managed to keep my shit together. And after a yoga festival, feeling sad to be coming back to reality and also feeling snubbed by some friends. Actually drove to the shop but did not get out of the car!
I have told myself that if I don’t keep this quit then I am going to have to just be a smoker. And while sometimes in the moment I feel like I don’t care, I am managing to tap in to my true feeling and the reality that it is really not what I want.
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You did really well at the wedding @siand not smoking.
For me it was mainly cost £10.40 for my B&H blue, one day they only had the gold ones £15.10 I bought them and that was the last packet I ever bought. I should have £603,20 saved somewhere but that hasn’t happened.
It has made me so unbelievably happy knowing I’ve stopped smoking I was a 20 a day smoker and used to smoke during the night as well .
I’ll be 2 months cigarette free in a couple of days. Well done you on 3 months.
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There is a 3 
No going back, there are cravings, emotions and some grumpinesses but manageable… breathing goes so much easier already. Yet more than a hour free time ditching this nasty habit.
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Great share, must be an awesome feeling to be connected to your authentic self like this. Reminds me of my meditation and yoga teacher during my first treatment in 2012. He was really good and everybody admired his skill. When I went back in 2016 for my second treatment I had a chat with him. Seemed he was just an addict as his clients. He blowed the shit out of him after a workday. A don’t judge the book by it’s cover example…
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Over 3 days rob. That’s great. Stay at it. It’s the single best thing I ever did.stop smoking start living.
Feeling great over 2 months now.
Absolutely zero negatives through stopping. Only positives good on you mate. 
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Thank you! I’m managing so far on just having a little cry or a scream and getting the emotions out of my system that way 
definitely need to pick the right time and place for those coping mechanisms though!
Congrats on your 2 months 
Hi @siand how are you quitting smoking? And hows it going? I did it the “easy way” Allen Carr 4 day boot camp on audiobook. 95% mental 5 % physical. Over 2 months now and feeling fine. No grumpness may have had for the first week or so, I’d have to ask the family. 
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Out of all the things I’ve given up I do miss a quick ciggie, mainly bc smokers get more breaks at work and think it’s OK.
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Pretty sure that will change pretty soon Paul. It already has in my line of work, where they can’t smoke on the premises no more and have to take a long walk to go and smoke some place else which they really can’t do eight times a day, only during a break really. Most of their break time is lost going to and fro their smoking spot somewhere far away.
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This time I quit cold turkey. Honestly I don’t think my mood swings were too bad. I’ve had pretty bad depression and anxiety in general at times though and also hormone stuff so my emotions are pretty wild as standard. I really sympathise for the people who live with me 
I read Allen Carr’s book a while ago, I think the first time I tried to quit. The main thing that stuck with me is that a cigarette doesn’t ease a craving, it just causes the next craving. That was a lightbulb moment for me.
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And if there’s one thing I don’t miss anymore it’s that stupid cigarette that stole my breath, my money, my health, my clothes, my furniture, my cat, and twenty other things I’m forgetting here. Took me a good three years to get here true.
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I’m desperate to quit. I’ve ripped up, flushed away, soaked and binned cigarettes 4 x in the last 2 weeks. I’m struggling to get past the early morning craving. Give me strength 
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I can relate to that! The early morning walk to the shops arguing with myself the whole way… It is mad isn’t it how much power nicotine has.
I don’t think you can get around that craving. Just got to go through it. Let it be there and let it fuck off. Because it will fuck off. Eventually.
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I’m a grown man and I cried and cried and cried a bit more, I didn’t have the strength so had to accept my weakness. Stop fighting, start crying 
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So glad to see someone else with crying as part of their smoke free strategy!
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Seriously, that walk to the shop every morning though…
I’m sick of it all, it’s making me miserable. I’m gonna try stay in bed for a bit tomorrow, not got work, so I’ll see if that works 
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