The end of a 40 year relationship.

Well done you! ??

Excellent phoenix, you are doing so well, keep up the good work. I hope that you are treating yourself to little buys along the way, to help keep your spirits up. Not food treats though, that doesn't help really, just creats a new thing to give up. I bought myself scalves, little ornaments, jigsaws, anything of small value but that would give me pleasure. Anyway, pat yourself on the back, you are wonderful.

Well done, phoenix.

Yes, rubylady, thanks for asking, still going strong, have also reduced the strength of my vape liquid and am using it less!

How is it going Phoenix? Are you still smoke free?

Hello Bridges and welcome, I understand your post, and feel for you, but this thread was actually about giving up smoking, so you might want to try again, perhaps starting your own thread? I think I might be one that contributes to it.

All good wishes to you.

Bridges try the health forum , you have just posted in someone`s smoking thread .

I´m 71, my wife 69, we are both retired and living confortably. Our sex life is declining since I developed ED since some 4/5 year ago. At first we tried to go around the problem developing our own method as my wife has allways been very intense , but as the time passed she seems to be uninterested in sex. I´m not sure that this is the right place to discuss is the matter. This is my first post and I ask any advice or redirection. Thanks

Well done Phoenix! It was on the News this morning that The Royal College of Physicians has given its full approval to vaping as a safe way of quitting smoking. I am nearly at the 3 months mark over switching to vaping overnight. I have not craved a cig at all during that time, and find vaping really satisfying and would recommend it to anyone trying to give up smoking! Such lovely flavours, and no horrible taste or smell. As a side effect, I have, almost without realising, stopped my packet a day of sugar free mints, which I always sucked after a cig, and which contain the dreaded aspartame.

Haven't caught up on bowel thread yet. . . . .

Only just read this thread-many congratulations Phoenix. I am thrilled for you. I have seen many folks give up and how hard it is-I understand it's as difficult to give up as heroin. So well done you.
DH and I have seen first hand the damage it does; all our parents suffered in different ways because of it, absolutely awful. So good for you.
If I see youngsters smoking-and I can speak to them-I always tell them to give it up while they have an easy choice and how I held my dear Mum's hand as she drowned to death in her own bed.
But we have a dear BIL and SIL who cannot/will not give up; BIL now very ill and on oxygen and SIL so broke it's not true yet let's all this money go up in smoke.
SO pleased for you Phoenix-go and smell the fresh air and watch your complexion improve??

Excellent phoenix so pleased for you. It may be the answer to your problem though concerning going to the loo. I used to have a cigarette and go easier so maybe you stopping has altered your bowels. Just a thought.

I was so breathless that I was smoking and thought "if I take another drag I'm not going to be able to breath at all" so it went out and I've not had one for over 18 months. A woman asked me for a light the other day and I could say to her "no, sorry, I don't smoke" it felt fantastic. I do now hate the smell of smoke, and stand away from any smokers.

You keep going, both of you, you are doing so well.

I've just made the connection with the bowels thread as well. That explains why my dad always boasted he was as regular as clockwork.....He smoked a pipe!!

Well done, phoenix

Puff, puff..... no that's not me having a smoke, that's me out of breath from rushing from your bowel movement thread to say CONGRATULATIONS! Well done, 4 weeks is a major milestone. You won't go back to it now, will you

Thank you all. I am very happy to say that I have NO desire to have a cigarette!

This was especially tested last week, a social event, part of which was outdoors with other people smoking. It smelled awful!
I was quite happy to use my vape, which at the time was filled with a mixture of Columbian Coffee and chocolate cream!

Well done Phoenix. It gets easier.

Phoenix Well done! Keep yourself a note of how much a day you are saving that should keep you focussed.

You can buy lots of prunes!

Well done pheonix, keep it up xx

A bit of an update!

4 weeks last Friday, still abstaining (although using the vape thing) and apart from the other benefits, it would seem that I have "saved" about £200!

Please be careful with vaping, though - it can be just as addictive - and harmful - as cigarettes [shock]

Congrats phoenix! And continued good luck!

Well done phoenix - 2 weeks now! [applause emoticon].

Still abstaining, although do get the odd "fancy" but just refuse to go into a shop and pay that amount of money.

Bumped into my semi-retired GP & his wife in Morrisons today, he too has had an ongoing battle with the dreaded weed plus he also struggles with his weight! (So lovely to have a "human" GP!) He was really chuffed for both Mr P & I, and confessed that he too is on the vape thing!

Getting ridiculously excited about trying my new caramel flavour liquid!

I know someone who went through the Argos catalogue and priced everything she fancied in its equivalent in packets of fags!
Whenever she had a notion ( a much less scary word than craving) for a cig, she'd just leaf through the book.

They tell me grapefruit juice helps take away notions, as does mouthwash kept in the fridge.

Well done!