Quit Smoking - Status Progress Update

[OwlHoot]

Remember, my earlier thread just after New Year when I said I was 2 days into quitting?

Well it's now just over three weeks and not a puff has exited my mouth since.

Be thankful you're not at the client where I started last week. They have things called smoke tests, run by a smoke server, and every other word seems to be about smoking, in connection with these tests!

Apparently the term comes from hardware testing, when the tester plugs a board in a PC and checks it doesn't start overheating and smoking. (Also printers test new fonts by holding them in a candle and manually pressing them on a sheet and checking the impression left by the soot.)

The guys at the client also use a system called agile programming, with two week sprints and a "scrum" meeting every morning where we all stand around like a privy council meeting.

They're are a good bunch, but perl hackers whose hobby seems to be finding the latest and greatest new module and shoehorning it into the code. You wouldn't believe how complex the system is, and today I heard them talking excitedly about a new object oriented module called Moose - groan - yet another thing I'll have to learn

[snaw]

5 year battle, don't smoke at all now apart from occasionally if I'm a bit pished. Takes a long time and personally I hitnk the dangerous tie is a few months down the track, when you get complacent and think you've beat it, so one won't hurt and wham you're back in (Had that a few times in previous non-smoking periods).

keep it up, all the crap you go through initially as your body readjusts to life without smoking wears off and when you do start feeling good you feel really good. I can't believe now how crap I feel the day after if I have even one cigarette, I can still taste it days later if I'm playing footy or something.

[darmstadt]

I actually did stop a few years ago and it lasted for a couple of years but on the lads holiday where most of them smoked, it kind of started up again. Hopefully this year it won't.

[wc2]

I have it sorted

I only smoke when I'm having a pint

I'm now down to 20 pints a day

[Joe Black]

Exactly the same as me except I think I've put a couple of pounds on, can't sleep and have a tulipe cough. Maybe starting again will cure them

Stopped for a bit a few years back and my throat was killing me (no pun intended) for a few weeks, because apparently, quite often, you end up with all the various bacteria having a free for all as they're no longer being killed off by the cigarette smoke.

In anycase well done Denny, and hopefully it goes well for the future.

[darmstadt]

Remember, my earlier thread just after New Year when I said I was 2 days into quitting?

Well it's now just over three weeks and not a puff has exited my mouth since. The physical pangs have all gone (and went after about 4 days of quitting) and I'm thinking about fags less and less as each day passes. I've probably saved over £100 already. Friends have commented on how much better I look already - my skin looks brighter and healthier and glows more. I also feel a lot fitter.

The bad news is that I'm hooked on shopping. Instead of saving the fag money I've been spending it on some wine and other treats which I probably wouldn't have bought if I'd spent the money on fags.

Is there such a thing as retail cancer or passive shopping?

Exactly the same as me except I think I've put a couple of pounds on, can't sleep and have a tulipe cough. Maybe starting again will cure them

[sasguru]

It's over. Stop fecking posting about it. You're either a smoker or not. Full stop.

[hattra]

Better start going to the gymn - the pounds will start piling on! Thought you'd escaped lung disease and heart problems? Here comes obesity.

God, I'm in such a positive mood today ......

[Toad]

Well done ! Now sit down, relax, put your feet up, and have a nice glass of wine and a fag to celebrate.

[zamzummim]

well done for your success re smoking, its such an achievement
keep the good work

[Denny]

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