Stopping smoking

Schnackie2 and others.
I'm not a smoker but wishing you all success.
Some of you have done amazingly well!
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Hi Schnackie2. Hello fellow giver upper. Well done, you are doing brilliantly.

I am at around week 8 of not smoking after over 40 years. I am using the tablets - Varenicline. They are horrible, but have worked for me, so far. I am also sipping water all day and instead of mint imperials i have the low sugar polo's - as my sugar levels crept up!

I said to the pharmacist a week or two ago that my cravings now are worse than in the first couple of days/weeks, she said that was entirely common between weeks 7 - 10 so i am buckling up and hoping to get through these weeks.

Keep going, i know how hard it really is xxx

keep at it you can do it ..

Dogsmum2 thanks for the tips about sugar free polos. I will buy some today. I had previously had great (?) success with Champix (stopped for 4 months) and was pleased to hear that they had developed Varenicline as a replacement when Champix got discontinued. Sorry to hear you are having difficulty, but stick with it. Maybe read some of Allen Carr's book. It just makes sense. I am perservering and read every response and have gone back to all the previous threads and read them in great detail. You are all like my personal support group!

Schnackie2

Dogsmum2 thanks for the tips about sugar free polos. I will buy some today. I had previously had great (?) success with Champix (stopped for 4 months) and was pleased to hear that they had developed Varenicline as a replacement when Champix got discontinued. Sorry to hear you are having difficulty, but stick with it. Maybe read some of Allen Carr's book. It just makes sense. I am perservering and read every response and have gone back to all the previous threads and read them in great detail. You are all like my personal support group!

Be careful of sugar free polo's - they can have a laxative effect if you eat too many..........

xxxxxx

How can people afford to smoke these days? I think a pack of 20 costs around £15!
Well done to all those who have given up.

Just looked this up Oreo
You are right - I think the cheapest are about that and it seems most are £17+.

If you are a Dunhill smoker their Dunhill International seem to be around the £20 a pack mark.

I hope everyone stopping smoking can save lots of money - and it's clearly worth doing financially as well as health wise (even if you roll-your-own as tobacco prices are still high).

Good luck everyone. I hope you do get to treat yourselves a little with the savings.

Good gosh, £17 per pack is incredible. They just keep going up, but that surely fuels the black market.

I smoked 10 a day and that was quite enough but people often smoked 20 a day. That would be £17 a day, £517 a month, or £6,205 per year. In my case £258 per month, wow! I couldn't afford that. It's totally bonkers. I don't know how anyone can smoke in the current cost of living crisis. 💰💰💰

About 25 years ago the very cheap brands I smoked went just over the £2 mark for 20! I think they were Red Band and Gold Mark. I commented to the girl in our local shop and she joked that I should turn to roll ups. She sorted me out with tobacco, papers and a rolling machine! 🤣 I had never rolled a cigarette in my life and rolled it so tight that I couldn’t draw on it. My family thought it was hilarious. I smoked them for a few years and packed up completely 21 years ago.

Nearly £20 a packet is staggering.