One year off the smokes today

[jaycee]

I quit smoking 3 weeks ago. I am delighted to be honest. I have had a love hate relationship with the dreaded things for a long time.
I have been getting on ok. I have gotten into the habit of just coping with not smoking - after breakfast is the hardest.
But I am putting off meeting up with friends who smoke as I know it will be the ultimate challenge. I have 2 friends in particular who, when I meet with them, we drink, smoke and chat, into the small hours. I miss this element of smoking in a stupid way. I know its the rose tinted glasses that are in action here but they are real - real enough to make me not want to be in that situation in case I fall.
Any advice? How do I conjure up the confidence to be able to meet up with these people and NOT SMOKE?

 

[Smeggle]

I quit smoking 3 weeks ago. I am delighted to be honest. I have had a love hate relationship with the dreaded things for a long time.
I have been getting on ok. I have gotten into the habit of just coping with not smoking - after breakfast is the hardest.
But I am putting off meeting up with friends who smoke as I know it will be the ultimate challenge. I have 2 friends in particular who, when I meet with them, we drink, smoke and chat, into the small hours. I miss this element of smoking in a stupid way. I know its the rose tinted glasses that are in action here but they are real - real enough to make me not want to be in that situation in case I fall.
Any advice? How do I conjure up the confidence to be able to meet up with these people and NOT SMOKE?

Just the knowledge that they smoke and you now don't... the choice then is yours and yours alone...

Been off them nearly 3.5 years myself now and best thing I ever did....

Thing is your going to be in the company of people who smoke - that's there choice.. just accept it and move on...

 

[jaycee]

Just the knowledge that they smoke and you now don't... the choice then is yours and yours alone...

Been off them nearly 3.5 years myself now and best thing I ever did....

Thing is your going to be in the company of people who smoke - that's there choice.. just accept it and move on...

hmm i hear you but these friends I am talking about - we are very close. I love the drinks and chats with them - and that use to involve smokes.
Don't get me wrong - I am loving not smoking. In the short but massive 3 weeks since i stopped, I have not ONCE been tempted to buy a pack or smoke.
U see, very few of my mates smoke - so it makes it that bit easier. I am happy not to have to pop out for a smoke at work with when out with my regular friends/after the cinema etc. These 2 friends in particular do not live near me. Meeting up with them involves a stay over either at theirs or mine. I would have visited one of them this weekend had it not been for the fact that I have quit. And in a way that feel wrong so in a way, I have not really got there yet, with regards to really quitting.
But I guess 3 weeks is not a long time in the big scheme of things. I have been smoking on and off for 15 years - bar the 2 years I was off them.

 

[Patmull]

Beem almost a year and not a day goes by without some temptation. Some days I find myself rationalising having just one, but I know that would be the end of my non smoking days. I smoked 40 cigs a day for 45 yrs. and stopped cold Turkey. Always a challenge though.. Do the people who have given it up for years still get tempted?

 

[Aphex]

hmm i hear you but these friends I am talking about - we are very close. I love the drinks and chats with them - and that use to involve smokes.
Don't get me wrong - I am loving not smoking. In the short but massive 3 weeks since i stopped, I have not ONCE been tempted to buy a pack or smoke.
U see, very few of my mates smoke - so it makes it that bit easier. I am happy not to have to pop out for a smoke at work with when out with my regular friends/after the cinema etc. These 2 friends in particular do not live near me. Meeting up with them involves a stay over either at theirs or mine. I would have visited one of them this weekend had it not been for the fact that I have quit. And in a way that feel wrong so in a way, I have not really got there yet, with regards to really quitting.
But I guess 3 weeks is not a long time in the big scheme of things. I have been smoking on and off for 15 years - bar the 2 years I was off them.

You need to get back on them IMO, you're very frustrated...

 

[Aphex]

I smoked 40 cigs a day for 45 yrs.

Funniest thing I've read tonight...amazing scenes...

 

[jaycee]

You need to get back on them IMO, you're very frustrated...

ha ha ha - i am so chilled actually.. i just have this silly image in my mind of me and my mates sitting around chatting and drinking and them me wanting one of their smokes.

are you a smoker yourself?

 

[jaycee]

hmm i hear you but these friends I am talking about - we are very close. I love the drinks and chats with them - and that use to involve smokes.
Don't get me wrong - I am loving not smoking. In the short but massive 3 weeks since i stopped, I have not ONCE been tempted to buy a pack or smoke.
U see, very few of my mates smoke - so it makes it that bit easier. I am happy not to have to pop out for a smoke at work with when out with my regular friends/after the cinema etc. These 2 friends in particular do not live near me. Meeting up with them involves a stay over either at theirs or mine. I would have visited one of them this weekend had it not been for the fact that I have quit. And in a way that feel wrong so in a way, I have not really got there yet, with regards to really quitting.
But I guess 3 weeks is not a long time in the big scheme of things. I have been smoking on and off for 15 years - bar the 2 years I was off them.

nah I know I could never just have one.. I am a smoker… one and then I would want one in the morning,, the seal would be well broken…
its none or nothing. I am too stubborn in a way to give in.
But I have noticed that smelling smoke from others smoking helps to turn me off when I think i want one… they smell awful..

 

[Patmull]

Funniest thing I've read tonight...amazing scenes...

And why, exactly is that funny??

 

[jaycee]

And why, exactly is that funny??

era never mind him...