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One week smoke free 
⌠Rest of my life to go 
Boy itâs hard going at times. Iâve started to substitute cups of tea for ciggies.
iâm drinking 20 cups a day !
I started quitting at age 16 and I finally was able to quit quitting in Jan 8, 1991 (IIRC).
However, certain varieties the green weed ease my pain much better than the morphine sulphate does, but much more expensive. The side effects are much easier to withstand than the ones of the morphine sulphate, IMHO.
Donât burden yourself with that idea, itâs not the rest of your life to goâŚitâs just one day at a timeâŚand one simple rule, NEVER take another puff of nicotine.
As for tea, without nicotine your body will metabolise caffeine at only half the rate of a smoker, so by drinking lots of tea or coffee you are making it much harder for yourself. Try drinking only one or two cups of ordinary tea a day and for the rest use decaffeinated tea or coffee. Substitutes donât really work anyway.
At one week you are mostly over the physical withdrawal stage anyway (it takes 72 hours for the body to rid itself of all nicotine and that is when the cravings peak). You should start to feel a hell of a lot better in a week or twoâŚand whatâs that compared to being stuck in a wheel chair, tied to an oxygen cylinder for the last years of a shortened life? Or having a stroke and trying to play pipes with only one arm that works?
I am with Mr. Wardle on the caffiene thing. If you are going to drink tea, look into herbal teas. There are plenty good tasting herbal teas out there, and some of which aid in cutting down the withdrawal symptoms associated with going âsmoke freeâ.
Try looking in a Holistic Remedies shop.
Good luck my friend, I will soon be in your boatâŚthree packs left. 
Ben,
Good on you!
Think of what you would rather do than smoke. Whenever you get the urge for a ciggie just think of living long enough to see your kids or grandkids grow up/spending more time with your friends and loved ones/more time playing the pipes. These are all much better for you and more enjoyable. Iâm (first-hand, at least) nicotine-free for over 6 years now (after smoking 4 times as long) and would never want to go through quitting again. It just gets easier from this point on. At this stage you may even be experiencing an âoxygen buzzâ; do stuff that reinforces that feeling like deep-breathing. Or when the urge hits bury your nose in a full ashtray. That oughtta squelch the urge! 
F**K IT! Lifeâs too short. Whatâs the use of living forever if you canât enjoy it? Ah, go on. Go on, go on, go on, go on. 
djm
Two things that have helped me so farâŚ
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A big part of smoking for me is the fact that itâs a nervous habit. ieâŚI just like having something to fiddle withâŚand rolling a cig and finding a lighter would do something to occupy my hands.
I found that constantly chewing sunflower seeds or toothpicks seems to help relieve some of that nervous energy.. -
Just giving myself a âuntil such and such a dateâ type goal has helped incredibly. When I gave the smokes up for lent last year, I was able to survive by telling myself that it was only until EasterâŚand after that I could smoke if I wanted. By the time Easter rolled aroundâŚI was feeling so good from not smokingâŚthat it was hard for me to re-start.
Cheers
Thanks for all the helpfull hints on giving up.
Ben.hang in there buddyâŚIâm a tea Jenny,I love it I drink gallons o the stuff I would say that is the very least o your problems at the moment.I think ye are at the stage where it is gonna be mind over matterâŚPhil is helpfulâŚwake up and think TODAY I AM NOT GONNA SMOKEand leave it at that.Today makes it much more manageable,thinking this is for the rest of my life is negative thinking as is the idea you are giving something up.Try to be positive about yourself and your decision to stop damaging your health is the most positive thing ye have done this year,donât ye think?? 
If ye want to think o the rest o your life then think of it as a positive thought and look at how much healthier ye will be,how much longer ye will live,how much money ye will save,andâŚheres a good oneâŚ
When the Gvt bans smoking in Pubs,which they will,its gonna happen here in Scotland next year,ye will be sitting there with a big grin on your face as all the poor ol gaspers run outside for a drag⌠
Good on yer I say 
Uilliam
=nicotine
Thanks for the encouragement and wise words Uilliam
In my desperation to stave off the cravings I went running Yesterday. I ran about 3 miles and didnât turn blue and collapse.
And your going to need a lot of energy to play 4 regs.,
Alan
hang in there ben,
i quit 8 years ago and it was really tough for me. i put in a huge vegatable garden the first week, drank mint tea constantly, evrey time it
hit me hard i would do pushups until i could do no more and i took up whistle then pipes. lots of hiking also. it took me 6 months until i felt i had a grip on it and two years until i was free.
now i canât stand to even smell one on the street, and stay away from smokey places.
best of luck, it is very important that you quit.
tansy
Are ye saying that ye canât reed it
Seriously AlanâŚwell done you for being off the smokes too!!I canât wait for the pubs to ban smoking here next yearâŚThey are manic smokers in Scotland(I expect Boydâs workload is kept high because of it!)
Unfortunately my D reed(Alans really) is subjected to it big time and the lips and guts are black with the stuffâŚA warning to all ye youngsters oot thereâŚDonât
SlĂĄn Go Foill
Uilliam
=nicotine
And if all that isnât encouragement enough, hereâs a story - the buzouki player from my band was in a near fatal car accident a few years back where a lady driving the opposite direction had her front tyre blow and she veered across the median strip head on into his car. He was in hospital for nigh on 6 months, had many steel joints put into his bones and all that, but the relevent thing is, his lungs had collapsed and in the first week or so in hospital his lungs expelled nigh on a half a litre or more of brown tar - crap that heâd collected in his lungs from a life-time of smoking.
and did he take that as a clue to quit?