Giving up smoking - Tales of the Big Quitter
by Richard McTighe
Ever given up smoking? Ever given up anything? Beer, sex, chocolate, hamsters? Then youll sympathise with the trials and torment detailed here. Follow our regular instalments of The Quitter and we guarantee youll give up giving up forever. Itll make you laugh, itll make you cry and itll make you smoke 40 a day!
Giving up smoking - Tales of the Big Quitter
Day 3
Day Three in my big attempt to give up smoking. Actually, so far its been no great shakes. By now Id expected to be climbing the walls and biting anyone who spoke to me on the nose. Not so. Theres been the odd moment when the pangs have come back. After lunch and dinner Ive experienced a couple of withdrawal twitches.
Day 10
One thing you notice when youve given up The Snouts is that everybody else in the entire world is a smoker. Doesnt matter where you are, therell always be a puff of someone elses expunged fun wafting over you. Now I understand why its ex-smokers...
Day 11
The craving has got worse. I wasnt expecting this. I thought Id 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. Thats where the trouble started.
