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Giving Up Smoking – 4 Months Smoke Free

September 20th, 2009

Trish

Blimey I never thought I would get this far so easily with stopping smoking and without murdering everybody around me. If I was a TV star I would say that I’ve had quite a journey, but the only time I’ve ever been on TV was as a 15 year old waving a hockey stick at Edward Heath when he came to open the local Conservative club so I won’t say that.

What I will say is that I’ve found giving up smoking this time round far easier than ever before. The reasons? Probably because I knew that I had to stop this time or my health would really begin to suffer from all of those years of smoking.

Also writing this blog has helped tremendously. I was determined that I would be honest on Smokers Stop and I would have hated to admit that I’d failed online where millions of people can see what I’ve written. No way was I going to do that so the blog became part of my discipline.

The last reason was as I’ve stated several times on this blog – electronic cigarettes . They weren’t available on my many previous failed stop smoking attempts but now I think that they are blooming marvelous.

Yes I still have one around and some purists would say that I haven’t completely given up, but because of e cigs I haven’t smoked or been tempted to smoke tobacco products packed with killer chemicals for 4 months now.

A lot of days I don’t touch my electric cigarette but it’s there to stop me from being tempted to go back to health destroying tobacco products. I’m happy with that and so is everybody around me – except perhaps for my cat! I got one of those new mini e cigarettes a couple of months back and although it’s not as good as my original e cig it does the trick.

Unfortunately Sparky the cat thought it was a plaything. The battery charger plugs into my lap top and she thinks this new dangly thing is a toy. I got up one morning and the glowy end bit had disappeared and I can only assume that she knocked it off while playing. My mini e cig still works but I’m getting an awful lot of rude comments about it!

My total savings now taking into account the cast of patches and e-cigs is now at least £350. I’ve already used the savings to put towards a new Sony Viao laptop, it looks a lot better than a stack of 150+ cigarette packets that I would have gone through doesn’t it?

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Giving Up Smoking 4 Months Smoke Free

Do You Know How to Choose the Right Quit Smoking Product?

September 19th, 2009

Trish

It can be quite difficult to decide on what Quit Smoking Product is going to be right for you as there are just so many out there to choose from. Some of the books may offer a few helpful tips, but mostly fluff. Others might offer nothing BUT fluff, but there are a select few out there that are quite useful. The bottom line is you must be selective when looking for a Stop Smoking EBook, do your due diligence and you may stumble upon one of the good ones. Read more »

Nicorette 15mg Nicotine Patch – Step 1- box of 7 patches.

August 20th, 2009

Trish

Helps overcome your urge to smoke.Use: Nicorette 15mg Patch is for the relief of withdrawal symptoms associated with giving up smoking.You are more likely to quit smoking when using this product with help from your pharmacist, doctor, a trained counsellor or a support programme.Ingredients: This pack contains seven 30cm2 transdermal patches, each containing nicotine 0.83mg/cm2 (once daily patch for application to the skin, releasing 15mg over 16 hours). Other ingredients are: Mediu (more…)

Nicotinell Nicotine Patch TTS30 21mg- Step 1 – 21 Days Supply

August 20th, 2009

Trish

NICOTINE.Helps you stop smoking.24 HOUR SUPPORT.SMOKERS OF 20 OR MORE A DAY START HERE.You are more likely to quit smoking when using this product with help from your pharmacist, doctor, a trained counsellor, or a support programme.
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Giving Up Smoking – 3 Months Tobacco Free

August 20th, 2009

Trish

If anybody would have asked me 3 months ago if I thought that I could last so long without caving in and buying some cigarettes I would have said that it was very doubtful. I know myself all too well so I think that it is blooming amazing that even the temptation hasn’t been there.

That’s down to having electronic cigarettes at hand. They have done the trick for me and my use of them is now minimal. I actually have one with a no nicotine cartidge in it and another with nicotine. I said in my last months diary that I was going to go for complete days without even e cigs and I have done without feeling needy. Some days I don’t use them at all and others I just have a couple of drags late in the evening more as a treat.

Electronic cigarettes do not contain the health harming chemicals that you find in tobacco products and can be used either as a substitute or as I have to wean myself off harmful cigarettes. The cartridges for electric cigarettes can be bought in varying strengths of nicotine as with nicotine patches.

It is nicotine that causes the addiction to tobacco products so until I am completely off the e-cigs with nicotine I can’t consider myself totally stopped but definitely over the worst.

My skin looks great upt to previously I feel fitter and healthier. I said last month that I was worried about my checkup at the dentist this month, well I need not have been.

My teeth have been quite painful and gums bleeding a bit, I was convinced that I would be getting several teeth pulled but I was wrong. My dentist had previously told me that smoking over many years has caused problems with my teeth and gums but nicotine masks the symptoms and narrows the blood vessels.

He was delighted that I had stopped smoking and told me that now the nicotine has stopped masking the symptoms and the blood vessels are opening up I can expect to feel varying amounts of symptoms and pain for up to a year. That’s horrible isn’t it?

However, my dentist tells me that as long as I keep up a good dental care regime and don’t smoke there is actually healing going on in my mouth so that is good news.

The electronic cigarettes using nicotine cartridges are a shady area, but as my nicotine intake has been massively reduced I expect that’s why the healing has started.

My total savings now taking into account the cast of patches and e-cigs is £250. I’ve already used the savings to put towards a new Sony Viao laptop, it looks a lot better than a stack of 130+ cigarette packets that I would have gone through doesn’t it?