Giving up smoking

Raf

It felt, it didn’t feel odd or weird as such, it was just a case of not knowing how to smoke, but just lighting up and just trying it for that first time. And I enjoyed it, if I be honest with you.  And after that basically it just led on from there and there.

Andy

I suddenly found myself three or four years later, still smoking, and obviously completely addicted by that stage, as I probably was after about two weeks. And it was, I don’t know, it actually became quite a big part of our group ethic. A lot of what we did when we were teenagers.

Sue

and I think a lot of the time as well you smoke and you don’t want to, you actually get to the stage where you will smoke and you’re thinking why am I doing this?  This is going to be the last one, and then five minutes later you find that you’ve lit another one.

Laura

It wasn’t a big deal thing. People, no I didn’t walk around going I’ve given up smoking. I didn’t do any of that. No symbolic thing, thing with people watching. It was just literally a case of, “Aren’t you smoking Laura?” “No, I’ve stopped.”

Munir

So, she gave me some medicine, some tablets. And she gave me, I think it was, a 14 day course I think. Within about the 5^th or 6^th day I just couldn’t smoke. I just couldn’t smoke and went back to her, “I feel sick, I feel, you know, I can’t sleep at night. I’m having all these problems”. And she says, “Just hang on in there. Just hang on.”  She, she supported me a lot.

Caroline

Its, I’ve got grandchildren, so it’s quite nice. I haven’t got to worry about having a full load of mints before they come, and I can cuddle then knowing that I’m not making them smell of smoke. Which is actually quite important to me, although I didn’t realise how much I smelt until I stopped smoking, and I now smell it on other people.

Carol

You can’t have that first cigarette, and as long as you understand that, that you must never have that first cigarette, I think you’ll always stop smoking.

And I now know that, as much as I sometimes thing, oh I’d love a cigarette, I know I must never have that first cigarette, because I’ll be straight back, because the little, the little goblins that go all through your head will say, you know, let’s go.