I would like to apologise in advance...

[Wee Jack]

16th January 1981 at approx 4:35 PM. Thats when I quit.

A tool salesman , came to visit me in work and I commented that I hadn't seen him for a while. He told me he had been in hospital with a chest problem and went on to describe the ward he had been nursed in. !!!!!!
A specialist chest ward in the old Kilmarnock Imfirmary, and how 95% of people in there were in for smoking related issues. He described lying in the middle of the night behind his wee curtain , listening to the wheezing and laboured breathing going on round about him and how often the sound would suddenly stop and the next sound was the sound of a trolley being wheeled in !!!!!!

I pulled a packet of Dunhill out of my overall pocket and crushed it into a bin there and then , and went home and got my old bicycle out the shed !! Never looked back.

You just need the right moment and the right trigger to make it an effective quit for ever.

Hang in there Tom.

[alpslapper]

Today was NOT a good day. BUT, Ive dipped into this thread a few times to reread how some of you quit and just read the banter and the messages of encouragement and I just want to say thanks. Seriously. Ive held out to the end of day three. But only just. I'm now going to bed, and about two hours ago emptied my wallet and gave the cards and cash to the wife to hide for the next few days as I KNOW I'm going to do something stupid.

Oh wait, I just did - the wife and kids have all my money and cards now.

[Snaphappy]

Stick with it Tom

[Mervinh]

Stick with it Tom please do
and come back and read wee Jacks story when you are tempted, if that is not enough encouragement I am sure there are others to tell ya similar stories
merv

[alpslapper]

1 full week over

The family are slowly comming out of their hiding holes and back in from the garden shed

I still subconsciously reach for a cigarette and it jarrs a bit when I think s**T I dont have any - I don't smoke

Ok - boldly marching into week 2

Thanks for all the words of encouragement. It helps. A lot.

[StumpyFingers]

Keep it up
it should start to get easier after this week

[Steve C]

Brilliant - first week over with. Brilliant!

Decided

[Steve C]

Brilliant - first week over with. Brilliant!

Decided what you're going to spend all that saved money on?






(no idea what happened on that previous post - Gremlins I reckons!)

[Mervinh]

Great stuff Tom
Keep it up and read wee Jacks post again if yuo start to weaken


merv

[alpslapper]

Great stuff Tom
Keep it up and read wee Jacks post again if yuo start to weaken


merv

I think Wee Jacks story should be on the back of cigarette packets to be honest.

Warning signs that Smoking Kills are not effective in my view. There isnt a single smoker that doesnt know that.

But Wee Jacks story - *shudder*

You can just picture it can't you. Dingy ward, dim lighting, yellow curtain around the bed, wheezing and rasping breathing noises, and then, silence.

*shudder*

Yep, the picture he painted in a few lines is 100 times more effective than the whole plethera of statements of the obvious.