After 10 years of smoking.......finally I am quitting today

I started my love affair with the gold B&H.......then when i moved here to Switzerland i switched to Marlboro lights.

I normally smoke 10-15 per day.........when i go out drinking this can rise to 40-50 in a night!!!


If i survive the the first 3 days, then i think i will be okay.


I am currently on a fitness crusade:

- no booze
- low carbs, high protein diet
- 4 x two hour weights and cardio training per week.


My next hurdle will be when the rugby season starts again at the end of March. After each home match we have a BBQ and normally drink till we drop......this will be my biggest test.

I plan to binge more on protein when my hunger increases.

Also i have downloaded a few 'quit smoking' apps on my iphone........should be good to chart my progress in terms of how long i have been smoke free and also how much money i have saved so far.


I have one ciggarette left......i will smoke that till the filter!!


cheers
SC

Very brave man you are!!! Good luck and hopefully I can follow in your footsteps soon...First some kilo's gone and then I have to put down the cigarets...

Edit: what kind of proteins do you have? I want to get rid of that hungry feeling....

Thats 7 mins gone, no urges?

A couple of my colleagues have quit recently: they spoke about Allen Carr's "The Easy Way".

Good luck.

Quitter...

I have that book! I never smoked but got it for a friend but she never used it. You want it its yours

I think there's this girl from Stockholm that's been looking for you....

My daily diet.............


When i get up:
A spoon full of cod liver oil followed by a large glass of water with a vitamin tablet.

Breakfast:
4 egg omlete and oatmeal/porridge with either banana or strawberries with a large glass of water.

Lunch:
2 x tins of tuna (sardines/mackrel) and either potatoes or rice

Just before work out:
Banana/energy bar

Just After Work out:
Protein Shake from 100% whey protein (with low fat milk)

Dinner:
Half a plate of either chicken or lean red meat with half a plate of brocolli

Just before bed:
Protein Shake from 100% whey protein (with half water & half with low fat milk)



If i am ever hungry, i normally just have a protein shake.

cheers
SC

Mmmmm, my tastebuds are positively tingling

Stopped smoking 20 years ago by means of cold turkey.
My diet varies a bit however I know that I am on the right track as I am now down to a cozy fluffy bouncy 152 kilos.
Especially now that I have declared anybody under 140 kilos to be grossly underweight or for want of a better name an Asparagus tarzan, anybody wasting away with under 100 kilos is practically an embryo.
Breakfast is usually a Semmel with jam or honey and a coffee
Lunch fluctuates between a Currywurst or a Braten or Leberkässemmel
Cups of tea punctuate the day.
At the moment I am on a stir fry tick for evening but no carbs and a lot of salad.
A few beers and occasionally a bag of salt and vinegar crisps round the evening off.
Eat your hearts out slimmers.

I didn't know you wore a brasier.

To OP: That's awesome, and good luck!

I think it's great idea too that you are tracking money saved to notice some immediate benefits...wish you well.

Best of luck, never smoked but have suffered with a few girlfriends who tried to quit and I saw that it wasn't easy. Hope your close ones won't suffer to much

I'm sure they'll be fine

Well done! I used to be a heavy smoker and managed to stop about 15 years ago. It isn't easy, but you are a rugby player and we don't give up do we?

If you need any help, and before you buy any more cigarettes, take a good look at these images,

BUT ONLY WHEN YOU FEEL WEAK!!
http://www.google.ch/search?tbm=isch...424l0.4.8l12l0

Congrats! I stopped on the 27th of December. If I can do it you can.

You can do it! You can do it!

Congratulations to all who have succeeded in giving up. However, this is, regretably... you all know what I am going to do, don't you?

Good luck SC. You can do it! I know people who weaned off by switching to a pipe. If you need a fix get yourself a pipe- you'll definitely make an impression on your opposing team on game day showing up with a Peterson dangling from your teeth!

Brilliant - our youngest has stopped about 5 months ago, much to our admiring amazement. She'd been smoking heavily for nearly 20 years.
I gave up a very long time ago, like her, by going cold turkey- but I still have one every blue moon after a good meal- then not again for weeks or months.

BRAVO!

Interesting.

On a side note, what kinda shape are you in at the moment? Were you previously in a shape which you'd like to regain? or overall new level improvement.

Are you planning on slimming down, bulking up, or a combination of the two?