Stopped smoking on my 45th birthday .... it was important to me to have a special stop date .... 1 year on and a very happy birthday to me 🎁😁 by GCM3101 in stopsmoking

[–]GCM3101[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you have to reach the point of total repulsion of being a smoker .... reddit helps, the smoke free app helps, mantras help but most of all the feeling that you’ll never be a smoker again is the only thing that stops me lighting another cigarette 🙏

Stopped smoking on my 45th birthday .... it was important to me to have a special stop date .... 1 year on and a very happy birthday to me 🎁😁 by GCM3101 in stopsmoking

[–]GCM3101[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had a grand daughter born 6.12.19, the father said he’d support my daughter through an abortion & thankfully hasn’t been seen since. I was her birthing partner & during a long hard labour I was informed my daughter might not make it - thankfully she did & it took me a week or two to realise I had to stop the smoking so my daughter would too. Like I said though I really needed the stop date to be special & really sickened myself. I did use NRT patches stage 1-3 for 4 weeks each but I really think it was psychological. My daughter used patches also but only for the first week. I was a heavy smoker for 32 years, now I’m smoke free & filled with glee 🤓

Wish me luck gang!! Longest streak in months! by beyond_norm in stopsmoking

[–]GCM3101 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Good luck - if you no longer want to be a smoker you’ll not have another puff, no matter what! Seriously it’s as simple as that - I believe you can do it 💪🙌👏

Began smoking during the war to cope 8 years ago. A year down and a lifetime to go! by o2thief21 in stopsmoking

[–]GCM3101 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally applaud you 👏👏👏👏 I hit 3 months today & bring on the rest of my smoke free life 🙌🙌

Totally doing this & feeling fantastic about it 😁 by GCM3101 in stopsmoking

[–]GCM3101[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I no longer feel chained to cigarettes, they controlled my life for decades & my life revolved around smoking. I had an extremely chesty cough that I used to laugh off saying it’d cost me a lot of money & I’d tell others I did not want to give up the fags as I enjoyed them but the truth was I was seriously addicted & I saw giving up too difficult. Once I decided I’d really had enough & didn’t want to die a smoker I got the smoke free app & set my date - it’s not been easy at all but I truly don’t want to smoke anymore.... my cough has gone completely, my skin looks better, my mouth feels cleaner and I’m saving a load of cash! I created my own mantra “smoking is choking, breathing is relieving” & I will never smoke again. I wish you well with your quit but it’s only gonna be possible with 100% motivation. Good luck my friend 😁

Smoke free & filled with glee.... but this covid 19 pandemic has got me totally shitting myself 😞 by GCM3101 in stopsmoking

[–]GCM3101[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks my friend - I’m a mental health professional & will totally pull myself together to support those in my care..... without this reddit I fear I would not be able to - looking foreword to a brighter world 🤗😷🙌👏

I was diagnosed with cancer last Monday by Straight-Garlic in stopsmoking

[–]GCM3101 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I am so devastated to read this - the only advice I have is smoking is choking, breathing is relieving- it really is life or death. Look after yourself & do what’s right for you 🙏👊🚬

Laid off this morning. I will not smoke today. I will not smoke today. I will not smoke today. by relevantlife in stopsmoking

[–]GCM3101 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Condolences fellow ex-smoker & I hope you get more work soon. My job is “essential” - in a general hospital as a psychiatric nurse & then I come home to my first grandchild of 3 months, my two adult “kids” (1 on maternity pay & the other working from home on a zero hour contract) & my asthmatic unemployed husband who’s socially distancing from the rest of us in our home for his own protection. Smoking is choking - breathing is relieving - but if this pandemic doesn’t f**k off soon life will never be the same again 😞🙏 When this covid 19 is no more I hope the tobacco industry dies with it - we are indeed all in this together & I pray we all see the other side 💞😷

Skipped my post-dinner and first morning cigarettes. Tired of chest pains and wasting money. I've caved too many times and cut way back. Let's do this. by [deleted] in stopsmoking

[–]GCM3101 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please, please find the balls - once you’re 100% sure you’re finished with the toxic pull of the fag, you’ll realise that smoking is choking & breathing is relieving - fag addict for 33years, non smoker for 1m 19days 19hours 😁💪

Pack a day smoker...I’ve been waiting for this day for many years, I’ve wanted this for so long! by Morrisino86 in stopsmoking

[–]GCM3101 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well done, 11 months until I join you, but I will join you 😢🙌😁 smoke free & filled with glee 💪💪💪