I wasn’t a heavy smoker I just had a few at weekends and maybe a couple a day but a found out when I got MS even having one I couldn’t even stand let alone walk for about 10 minutes I said to myself these can’t be doing me any good so I stopped throw the packet and what was left in it in the fire and never had one in over 5 years or would never touch them again I know it doesn’t affect everyone like that but they just don’t agree with me plus the cost of them now I don’t have that money to spend.
Hi, I stopped smoking 11yrs ago aged 42, I was DX with MS 6.5yrs ago aged 46, 18mths after this I was told I was SPMS, I started smoking when I was very young, I ashamed to say 11, and smoked pretty much none stop for 32yrs apart from the occassional break, after hearing this I wished I’d never started, but there’s nothing I can do now, Jean x
tricky subject…I smoked allot in my early 20s…have tried to give up several times…but have cut down to minimum…we all know it’s not good for us…but hope one day I can be totally smoke free…I havea healthy life style…exercise…eat well…so it would make sense to me to try to quit again…never stop giving up they say…but for those who have tried and conquered or not as the case may be…it’s a challenge …I start off really well when I have but then 4 th week in its hell…longest I have quite for is 3 months…and although I felt many benefits …and saw myself as a non smoker it take allot of mental stamina to stay away from them…it’s addictive after all as much as heroine…patches help…and all the aids that are out there. ut you have to want to quit 100% and will power has to be at an all time high…to stay as a non smoker…for life…lol x
I recently took part in a study about environmental factors that could determine whether someone developed ms or not. I have not seen the results of the study yet but if i get any info back from it - i will post it on here for you all to read.
I am not a smoker myself and never have been but was exposed to passive smoking as a child growing up.
My hubby is into his third month without a single slip up. He is using 24 hour patches and an electronic cigarette that is so life-like it really does look like he’s smoking. The patches take care of the nicotene cravings. The fake fag takes care of the other things that your brain links to smoking (fingers, inhaling, etc).
Another friend has replaced real fags for fake fags completely. The cartridge at the end of the fake one contains a liquid that he is gradually diluting so he’s getting less nicotene with each drag. He’s been off real ones for ages now and is on a really low dose.
Did you know that you can get nicotene patches on prescription now?
The key thing is really wanting to stop. Doing it for someone else doesn’t work. You have to do it for yourself. I finally gave up when I wanted to have a baby. Started when I was 12 and failed miserably at quitting until I really wanted to rather than thought I should.
[/quote] Just don’t have the next one. That has worked for me so far. Now I think of myself as a non-smoker, but for years the thought that I would never be allowed another would have had me reaching for the rothman’s in a hurry. As long as it was only the next one I was denying myself, it was doable. Good luck. Alison x
I’m with Alison on this (and like Karen says: you have to do this for yourself).
Quit now! Put the fags, tobacco, matches, lighter etc out of sight. DO IT NOW!
Do not have the next cigarette. Keep on not having the next one. Tell your friends and family that you have quit - that is a good way of stopping the back-sliding. Count the hours that you have resisted the urge to have that next one. After 24 dours start counting the days. After 7 and a bit weeks, start counting the months. After 23 months, start counting the years.
All it takes is the willpower not to have that next cigarette. Just the next one.