South East beers - Tuesdays @ The Roebuck, SE1 4YG

Dammit, when I quit smoking I had a good incentive as well. I lost my voice a couple of times after going for club nights with 10 pints and 3 packs of the cancer-torpedoes. Always ended up having a bad bad cold and infected tonsils.

After that, when I quit, it was seriously easy. I just didn't want to smoke ever again.
With it came a change of lifestyle, that made me the boring piece of shit I am today.

So maybe that's what you need to do? Smoke 3 packs in a row and get really sick from it?

Dammit: I am giving up smoking. Using patches.

On the Carbon Monoxide test I got "moderate smoker" which is apparently very good considering how much I smoke. Must be all the cycling and swimming :D!

My blood pressure is perfect. My motivation for giving up is cost. I live on a bit of a knife edge with money, and since I'm not going abroad this year, I can't afford to smoke with paying UK tax on it. It costs a bloody fortune to smoke here.

Today is the first day of giving up smoking, so I shall see you all later with my fingers chewed down to bloody stumps and a nasty temper- any and all advice on how to succeed with this new challenge welcomed.

Do you want me to bring you some sweets? Jelly beans, wine gums?

Where is Souf Easties these days?

^Roebuck

Where is Souf Easties these days?

SE drinks in thread title is accurate shocker!

Do you want me to bring you some sweets? Jelly beans, wine gums?

The answer is yes, I do want sweets.

However I also want to lose approx 5kgs and giving up smoking and eating like I should have a little curly tail is not going to help in this I fear.

As long as you burn more calories than you put in :-) Goji berries, dried cranberries (they're sweet - sometimes I'd fool my daughter with them).

Good to know you're coming Sakky, me and ed will be there too.

Whhhaaayyyyy! Excellent, what time are people getting there tonight?

i'll be there just before 8 - selling bike apparel to iambetty, who will also be there, presumably

Still avoiding the roebuck so who's up for some splitter drinks?

WTF http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/audio/2009/nov/03/cycling-london-tribes-bikes

Sorry if its pearoast.

Whhhaaayyyyy! Excellent, what time are people getting there tonight?

I'm arriving at 6:30 (with Ed- suprise suprise).
We're meeting up with D.Generate at about that time, but the plan is only to stay till about 8 - maybe 8:30 if my arm's twisted.

Hope you're gonna be there by then.

On the Smoking front two points

1. As reeen said don't worry if you have the odd one, or a drunk night where you smoke, don't use it as an excuses to start again be relaxed about it. Better to have the odd relapse and slowly become comfortable not smoking and get there in the end.

2. Always refer to cigarettes with a negative name. I know it sounds like physiology mumbo jumbo but if every time you say I'm off for a fag you always say I'm off for a death stick or I'm off to make sure my teeth implants fall out or I'm off to through money away e.t.c it's the equivalent of continuously nagging yourself and not hiding form the reasons you want to give up.

Still avoiding the roebuck so who's up for some splitter drinks?

I thought you were a fan, what happened?

Nope anti the robuck.

On the Smoking front two points

1. As reeen said don't worry if you have the odd one, or a drunk night where you smoke, don't use it as an excuses to start again be relaxed about it. Better to have the odd relapse and slowly become comfortable not smoking and get there in the end.
   

Maybe you will have more will power, but this was my downfall.
It started with:
"well i'm pissed, and it's better to have a couple of drags on a mate's fag than buying some..."
And ended in the inevitable.

Been ok today, acid test will be tonight I suppose.

If my implants don't take then that'll be 5K down the drain plus I'll always be missing two teeth, so I've got motivation for it.

Thanks for the advice everyone, esp Tommy's!

Anyone going early???

17.40ish?

I'll be down early-ish leaving work soon.

I'll drop in for an early one ... but won't hang around for more than one or two pints.
Hope no one noticed how I wobbled through the barriers last time ...

I'm leaving work now.

I'll be around 6.30PM. Need to buy some fags on my way and a packet of Haribos for a quitter boy :-)

Do they still do chocolate cigarettes in this country, or is that banned as un-PC?