Giving up smoking - Tales of the Big Quitter

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by Richard McTighe

Ever given up smoking? Ever given up anything? Beer, sex, chocolate, hamsters? Then you�ll sympathise with the trials and torment detailed here. Follow our regular instalments of The Quitter and we guarantee you�ll give up giving up � forever. It�ll make you laugh, it�ll make you cry and it�ll make you smoke 40 a day!

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Day 3 Day Three in my big attempt to give up smoking. Actually, so far it�s been no great shakes. By now I�d expected to be climbing the walls and biting anyone who spoke to me on the nose. Not so. There�s been the odd moment when the pangs have come back. After lunch and dinner I�ve experienced a couple of withdrawal twitches.

Day 10 One thing you notice when you�ve given up The Snouts is that everybody else in the entire world is a smoker. Doesn�t matter where you are, there�ll always be a puff of someone else�s expunged fun wafting over you. Now I understand why it�s ex-smokers...

Day 11 The craving has got worse. I wasn�t expecting this. I thought I�d be dying for a fag for the first week or so, and then it would get better. But no; the first week was fine. It took seven days for the real discomfort to creep up on me and smack me round the back of the head with a rolled-up copy of...

Day 12 And it all started so well. Having met Mark in an atmosphere-deprived pub called The Porter & Sorter in East Croydon, we sank a jar and decided to move on. That�s where the trouble started.

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