I have given up. stopped for nearly a week.
Im Going Out of my mind!!!
Any helpful Suggestions? from ex smokers?
Thank you
Ben,
Good on you!!!
Don’t play the pipes , they’ll probably just wind you up!!! I quit 3 mths ago after 20 yrs of smoking. I was aware of how I was becoming the minority in sessions as a smoker and felt a bit of a sore thumb. After I quit, first time I went to a session, they were all smokers. Retribution eh? Just go easy with the drink, I had a couple of ‘accidents’ replacing smoking with drink…
Play the whistle, cook some nice food, play Halflife 2. Get sexy wit da wife… anything that involves mouth and hands, just …don’t…smoke!!!
Anyway, you’ll be safe next weekend, I’ll apply some counselling 
Alan
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Ben I quit about 10 or eleven years back(frae 60 a day) to nothing.It was Hogmany and my young niece asked me what I was giving up for the New year I didnae have a scooby what, so I said these things screwed… them up and that was that.Mind ye I had to smoke them outside and it was the year we had -20 c and the fags were sticking to my lips…Anyways what I did was for the 1st 3 months( which was the hardest after that it was a stroll)…I put the money I would have spent on fags into a glass jar and watched the pile grow..it was real incentive to carry on and before I knew it I had a neat pile…then ye have to treat yourself with the dosh…something nice…like paying Alan for the re reeding of your new set
Watch out,especially this time o the year to get colds and sniffs and sneezes etc..that is common for newly de addicted nicotine users,its the body cleaning itsel up..
Good Luck..persevere it is well worth it…
Slán Go foill
Uilliam
reef it to the max 
Thanks for your help Chaps! I get the feeling I’m not alone.
Danny… Your a very, very naughty boy 
… Go to your room 
Just for a double whammy, I can’t drink either as I have a condition known as Fatty Liver!
Isn’t life funny 
I find myself giving up for around 8 hours every night. 
“qutting smoking is easy…i’ve quit three times this week alone…”
I didnae want to say in case it worried ye but the condition was obvious in your avatar Ben.
I havnae taken alcohol for 11 years now and I don’t miss it one bit,I rather enjoy watching people get pished at the sessions when they are really smashed they sometimes appreciate my music! 
and throw plastic glasses at me as opposed to the glass ones…
Slán Go Foill
Uilliam
You’ve done the worst bit if you’ve made it a week. Great luck to you in quitting, but please don’t become one of those pink lung, born again breather types. I’ve tried quitting a couple of times. The first day is the worst when I lay there shaking with a stomach ache. Bit by bit it gets better. I made it about two and a half months quitting cold turkey and felt like an absolute ass when I went back to it. Thank God for bellows when I hack my lungs out some day. How much are ciggies a pack in the U.K.?
They are about $5.00 in Michigan. That’s why I roll my own Gauloises.
Marc
Rollies are the only way for an uilleann piper to go.
None of this boring “just open a pack and there the cigs are” crap.
That’s for fiddle players.
Worrying about paper selection, tobacco brands, humidity, etc…it’s right up our alley.
Cheers
I used to roll my own … it was the only way I could afford to smoke.
Shit! It’s hard man… Tomorrow will be end of week 1 
I just gave it up until my recital in February.
Normally I wouldn’t care too much…but me being a music major…and it being my senior recital…I figured any extra lung power I could muster wouldn’t be a bad thing.
Ironically, the day I’m allowed to start smoking again is Feb 9…Ash Wednesday. :roll:
Cheers
Keep it up. Your lungs and wallet will appreciate it. -gary
That’s so right it’s disgusting! 
Years ago, my parents and I decided to give up smoking for lent. By 7:00 p.m., we were sitting there glaring at each other thinking,"There’s not a jury in the world that would convict! 
" I decided God would like me better smoking ciggies than killing people.
Marc
Being an expert quitter (I’ve done it thousands of times ) here’s my advice (and I don’t smoke anymore by the way). Cold turkey is the ONLY way to succeed. Patches and nicotine gum have nearly a 100% failure rate after six months (which the manufacturers know full well).
There is just ONE site on the internet that will allow you to overcome your addiction and maybe give you an extra ten years of life or more as well. Here are two URLs for the site. The first deals with withdrawel symptoms and how to cope, the other is the homepage. These guys are the best in the world at helping people stop smoking and the forum attached to the site is very helpful too…you can share your problems with all sorts of people who have made it.
http://whyquit.com/whyquit/A_Symptoms.html
http://whyquit.com/
Cheers and good luck, Phil.
…whoooooops! I musta strayed into the wrong thread by mistake. I though y’all were talking about…uh…never mind…(heh). 
Thinking of a different weed? Gave that up in 1991.
…did I say that? Naw, I couldn’t have…um, no…what weed? uh…um…not me, I am as ‘clean as a whistle’…OK, that was a wrong anology…uh…ummm…
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