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Quite right silverlining48. My mother was a very heavy smoker. We used to wear old clothes when we visited and had showers and clean clothes when we got home to wash away the lingering smell.
The walls and ceilings of her flat had to be replastered after she died and all switches and sockets changed as the nicotine had penetrated everywhere.

It’s only when you stop smoking you realise quite how smelly everything and everyone gets.

Gave up many years ago, suffering chest infection, had a ciggie, hurt so much,threw the rest in the bin. Never smoked since, and can't stand the smell,cl8ngs to your clothes etc. Best thing I ever did. Didnt really have withdrawal symptoms either, just so pleased to be rid of the cost and stress of having a fag.

I gave up smoking 2011 I was ill and woke up one February morning and just decided that was it! never smoked again. Banned it from the house even Mr. S had to go outside.
But I really noticed it after going over to mother in laws
I would stink of cigarette smoke hair and clothing.
Plus I couldn't afford it now. And happy to say hubby has also stopped. Honestly wished I'd never started.

I was a smoker when I lived in England….as was my mother and my father - on and off! When my mother was diagnosed with emphysema she was told to stop smoking - but she didn’t listen because she couldn’t give it up. She died a year later at 64 and it was a miserable death. As I travelled home for her funeral I told myself .’smoking is not going to take my life’ and from that day on I have never smoked again…….and that decision was made nearly over 48 years ago.

I have COPD caused by smoking from age 18 till 73.I finally gave up after my second hospital admission when I struggled to breathe.I came home and never wanted to smoke again.
My father died of COPD at age 72, a heavy smoker from leaving school at 14.Even in his last years he refused to I've up.He was on permanent oxygen or the last 2 years of his life and would turn it off so he could have a smoke.I remember him smoking the cigarette down to the end, then blue in the face and coughing and spluttering he would slam the mask back on.
I had no desire to be like that.
I had a lucky escape st year when I suddenly developed a large pulmonary embolism and was in hospital for 4 days.This had caused the sudden death of one of my sisters and also a relative through marriage.Both of whom were heavy smokers.
I also think of the money I have saved.I do not know how anyone can afford to smoke these days

Well done. I struggled for years trying to give up smoking because I hated the withdrawal symptoms. Strangely though, I managed to stop with no trouble when I was trying for a baby but would start smoking again when I finished feeding. In between my last two babies I did try to stop but was nearly suicidal every time I tried and only gave up when we started IVF. It was hard but I had something to concentrate on. After we had our baby, I went to start again and it was absolutely vile. That was the last cigarette I ever had and that was 23 years ago. I don't think I would ever start again.

Keep it up. I gave up 35 years ago after being a heavy smoker. I read the Alan Carr book and it really helped me to deal with the withdrawal. I'd tried to stop on numerous occasions but I am so pleased that I stopped for good. tbh I couldn't imagine lighting a cigarette now. Every day will get easier.

Thank you Soozekay. It is not easy that is for sure, I seem to have had all the horrid withdrawal symptoms in buckets and then some. For some odd reason very strong tea seems to be helping a bit. One of my big problems is the 🐶 he loves rolling in badger poo and where I live is like badger central; while I knew the badger poo stank being a smoker I hadn't realised quite how bad the smell is😤

Well done Sunny! 🌞 it is a huge thing you are doing, be massively proud of yourself.
I'm now 16 months ex smoker having smoked for 45 years. I went from regular cigs to rollies to vaping slowly over a year reducing nicotine to zero then stopped. I used the NHS stop smoking service and found it really helpful and used an app to keep tabs on money saved and number of days not smoking.
I'll be honest, I do sometimes miss smoking and still get the occasional craving (lasts seconds) and if I walk past someone smoking I take in a deep breath like a cartoon dog smelling sausages lol but I am so pleased I don't have to fear the money being spent anymore or how much smoking dictated my life.
Keep going, be very very proud of yourself 😘

I gave up 49 years ago. I nearly had a cigarette some months later at a party after a few drinks. Someone gave me one not realising I'd given up and I was about to light it when I remembered I'd stopped! I only struggled in social situations when other people were smoking so I guess it would be easier now that you have to go outside to indulge. Good luck!

Madmeg, so sorry. 😔 good luck with treatment.

Hi Sunny.
If you want to do this you can. Two weeks by Boxing Day.? Well done.
What a wonderful gift to your self/ health.

*friend's funeral

Thank you everybody, can't tell you all what a boost reading your comments is, so thank you again. Today is day 11, goodness it is tough but hanging in there so far.

Well done✔ I gave up almost 13 yrs ago, after smoking heavily for 45 years. The impetus for me was my friend, with children & grandchildren same age was mine. They were all destroyed I decided when I go I want them to be saying "About time she finally fecked off" . The years of smoking have left me with COPD. No fun at all . You can do this, & it will be worth it. The first week is tough. Another blip after a month, then it gets easy. I literally never even miss them now. Good luck ! 😊

MadMeg wishing you all the best.

My mother gave up smoking in the 60's, as soon as the link with lung disease was revealed. She lived for another 40 years and always said that she still fancied a cigarette after a good meal. My father never did manage to give up though he tried many things, and he died relatively young.

Good for you Sunny.

I gave up 4 years ago at the umpteenth try. It was hard but I eventually cracked it. Keep it up, you'll feel better for it.

As an incentive, what I would have spent on smoking I put into a savings account and let it build up. I've lost track of the things I've been able to do with the money.

Madmeg wishing you all the best for your treatment xx

I gave up smoking many moons ago. I was at the doctor’s as I had a bad cough. Sitting waiting I read a notice about stopping smoking on the wall. It said that after ten days of not smoking your body was nicotine free and you were just left with a craving. Since my cough had stopped me smoking, I thought well I had done ten days already, so I just continued to not smoke. I haven’t had a cigarette since, though to be honest on a rebellious day I do think about it. But I haven’t weakened yet.

I smoked for many years, and gave up several years ago.

Vaping helped quite a lot, and I won't smoke again.

Good luck, wishing you every success.

I stopped smoking in my 20s and started again in my late 40s during a traumatic period in my life. Now nearly 72 and last week was diagnosed with oral cancer. Apparently caught early, treatable and "curable" but am now learning how horrific the treatment is going to be. Even if cured I could be left unable to swallow, have trouble breathing, even having to be fed via a tube, lose my teeth and some of the jawbone and other dreadful things.

How I wish I had not had that "just one" in my forties.

To anyone who smokes - STOP NOW. The cravings are nothing compared to what I now face.

well done for making the decision to stop.