@crikey*mate wrote:yep, gave up the smokes and was able tio give myself a $150 a week payrise!
thanks,
Great work, giving up the smokes ($150 a week - OMG)
I gave up 7 years ago and gained 20 kilos, so keep runnin' baby
@lind9650 wrote:Crikey congratulations for achieving both goals.
I have been smoking for 55years, am not a heavy smoker, but find it extreemely hard to give it up.
I have tried champix. It gave me nightmares, heart palpitations and sleepless nights, Nicorette burns my mouth and makes me feel sick, besides giving me a stronger urge for a cigarette.
I am trying to cut down gradually. Am down to five smokes a day and will cut another one next week.
Erica
best of luck with it, you're doing well.
Try the little tablets, umm mini nicorettes? is that what youb tried? they're like tic tacs, but jeez they pack a punch, not the bigger asprin size ones, these ones come in a little blue tube these are 2mg ones but you can get different strengths.
But you're doing very well, you'll get there.... (go join a gym and when youre PT makes you run 5klm that first time, you'll soon quit LOLOLOL - Crikey! Built up to the 5klm over about 6 months LOL, I didn't start there. But now I can run up 14 flights of steps without stiopping - couldna done that on the smokes)
@imastawka wrote:
@crikey*mate wrote:yep, gave up the smokes and was able tio give myself a $150 a week payrise!
thanks,
Great work, giving up the smokes ($150 a week - OMG)
I gave up 7 years ago and gained 20 kilos, so keep runnin' baby
It coincided with a health craze LOL, so I do heaps of exercize now.. (plus my business is kind of related too) I do 6 sessions a week with the PT (well I had about a month off over Christmas) 3 x 30 min cardio and 3 x 45 min weight sessions a week (one a day) and the 2 little crikeys share the PT with me for the weights sessions. and he makes me run to gym 2 times a week (which is 5 klm each way LOL) will build up to 3 (maybe)
plus eat really healthy stuff most of the time (I have to cos I sell it LOL)
OH does the gym too, but he dioesn't go as much as me, maybe 2 or 3 times - he swims a lot
Holy snapping duck's beak! I got tired just reading all that!
But then, you are lots younger than me. Keep on keepin' on,
cos I'm knackered and hitting the sack (oh, and going to bed too)
@lind9650 wrote:Crikey congratulations for achieving both goals.
I have been smoking for 55years, am not a heavy smoker, but find it extreemely hard to give it up.
I have tried champix. It gave me nightmares, heart palpitations and sleepless nights, Nicorette burns my mouth and makes me feel sick, besides giving me a stronger urge for a cigarette.
I am trying to cut down gradually. Am down to five smokes a day and will cut another one next week.
Erica
I agree, Erica. Those Nicorette Lozengers and their spray are both poisonous, and as you rightly say, the first thing you want after partaking of them due to the evil taste, is a cigarette.
After reading the list of side effects with the Champix, one of which was a tendency to suicide, I ditched them.
Crikey, it's wonderful that you can do all those excercises.
I am 77y old and if I had to run 5Km sstraight, I'll be dead. I do go swimming and walk about 1Km when weather permits.
bright ton, my OH was a 40+ a day smoker. After a health scare he quit cold turkey. I tried that, but got very irritable and argumentative. So now I am slowly cutting down, it helps me to feel that I am achieving something.
I don't smoke inside the house or in our car, even though OH said that he does not mind. And I never smoke when we go visiting family or friends. I can go for many hours without a smoke, but as soon as we get home, I am out the back with a **bleep**.
Erica
