Nooooooooooo!

Don't do it. Deep down you probably know that you won't just have 2 a day and will end up on a 20 a day habit. Smoking a cigarette won't make things any easier to deal with.

Children of smokers are more likely to become smokers. What better reason do you need?

HumphreyCobblers is right - unless you've been having the odd one regularly (which is not quite the same as giving up!), you will have to train your body how to smoke all over again and it will be gross.

Why invest all that time, pain and money in something that will enslave you and ruin your health & budget?

Don't do it. The number of people who are in denial about how much damage smoking does to their health is amazing. Read this story about a woman who had a heart attack at 39 and won't believe the consultant who tells her to quit because she 'only smokes 10 a day'. Any weight loss will be massively offset by the other health problems you're inviting. Plus, as others have said, you won't stop at 2 a day and it costs a fortune now! Worst thing possible if your DH is now redundant (sorry about that, hope something comes up)

YABVU
I have just watched my gran die from lung cancer. No mother would want to their children to watch them die like that.
On the last day she was alive she couldn't speak and was blind. She was so frightened.
Whenever I feel like smoking , I think of my Gran.

oh, sorry - i meant to mention Bachs rescue remedy. I suffer from anxiety and alot of that is financial pressures, so you have my sympathy there - bachs rescue remedy is far more calming than smoking.

Think of yourself as a non smoker and not an ex smoker.

I've always believed the way to get a woman to quit is to appeal to her vanity. So, smoking gives you:

1)stinky old man breath. Even if people don't say it they all think it.

2)Premature ageing - you can spot the face of a smoker a mile off. They all like wrinkled old crones with no colour or moisture in their face. 40 year old smokers look 50

3) yellow tomb stone teeth

4)chronic cellulite

5)yellow stained fingers

6) smelly hair and clothes. And stale smoke starts to smell of urine so smokers all end up smelling like they've pissed themselves.

......any help?

emkhana - i am going to play a huge guilt trip on you now.

My dad smoked all his life, he started when he was 21 after he met my mum (she'd drive the pope to drink!). The had a mild heart attack, scared him into stopping smoking. Investigation found it was most likely smoking related. He then developed dementia, again smoking related - we were told that it was vascular dementia - thickening of the arteries. He went from being my lovely dad to someone i didn't recognise, and who didn't recognise me . He spent 3 years in a living hell before he died from lung cancer. He never met his second grand daughter who was born eight weeks when he died. IF MY DAD HAD NOT SMOKED, HE WOULD BE PICKING DD UP FROM NURSERY TODAY AND TAKING HER FOR AN ICE CREAM, i have no doubts in my mind about that!

PLEASE do not start smoking again, for the sake of your children.

It is amazing that you have managed to stop, i applaud you - the chances of developing smoking related illnesses diminish with time, so its not like you're fucked already, but you will be if you go down that slippery slope again.

I am sorry if this sounds harsh, but i feel so strongly about this.

it will taste foul after nine years

Congratulations on your 9 years, that's great.

Now don't be a nobhead.

Don't do it - you'll end up spending money on it, hurting your health, and your DS will see you smoking and be more likely to smoke himself in the future