Kick butt - no more fags!

[mummylonglegs]

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[charliecat]

link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=138&threadid=32349\and here my humiliatiojn thread} for evansmummy...

[charliecat]

er ruined that! here?

[hanginginthere]

Hi charliecat and mummylonglegs
Can I come and play? Just on to week 3 and still hanging on!
Think I weigh a stone more and I must stop sniffing smokers in the street!

[charliecat]

Hiya I weight a bit more too but better to be fat and not smoking than chuffing away and being thin.....
week 3 is GREAT!
have you read up on whyquit.com?

[hanginginthere]

Hi,
yes, you mentioned it last week - I started a help quick thread cos I was about to run down the garage!!!
I've had a bit of a mooch round - theres a lot on it isn't there! They were fully subscribed so I couldn't join, but I can still nosey around when I feel a bit manic
Don't like to be on it too long, cos it makes me think about cigarettes
I soooooo miss it, didn't think I would

[mummylonglegs]

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[charliecat]

Hye Hey, i found a wee tiny pouch of baccy with just enough baccy for one roll up in it. My heart started to beat faster and I laughed outloud at the addicts response that came perfectly naturally. 7 months on it doesnt follow throough with the Go On then, Just one thought..youll all be pleased to know.

[charliecat]

Where IS everyone, whats your plan Em?
Mll how you getting on? Hanging in there is that your usual name or just for here?
Byathread could have been mine at the beginning..

[evansmummy]

I don't have a plan, that's the problem. I know I SHOULD and HAVE TO stop smoking. But I have zero motivation. The last week of not smoking was relatively easy, no really huge cravings like the last time, but a horribly constant nagging feeling of wanting to smoke.

I feel normal when I smoke, and not myself when I don't. I ca,'t afford to smoke, it's not fair on my baby, I've been smoking for too long and i'm scared of dying of it young.

But still, I can't seem to help myself. It sucks.

[charliecat]

Have you read that thread...ill point out another one or two for you. I know just what you mean. I really really do especially here

i hate smoking for the fact it turns perfectly sane rational people into self doubting nervous unconfident shadows of the people they were before. You will do this one day you know.

[charliecat]

Heres to show who has and how for inspiration other quitters

[mummylonglegs]

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[HappyHuggy]

I really ought to quit smoking.........

[evansmummy]

mll, you should be proud of yourself for being the only who's properly sticking it out. And you are an inspiration! Don't desist too much from posting, I'd feel guilty and lost

My dh, who stops and starts smoking when I do, is insisting that the packet we have at the mo will be our last. The idea fills me with dread, although I know he's right.

Thanks, cc, for the links. I've not read it all, there's so much, but the bits I did read show how difficult it is for everyone. Thanks for sticking it out and for being here for us lot now. What I noticed most though, was how you seemed always to have a lot of energy and certainty that you wanted to stop. I don't. I just feel that I should, but without the beans you need to do it. That's just the oldest addict's excuse in the book, but it's true.

I so want a day where I'm convinced and that I do it and never look back. Will it ever happen?

[mummylonglegs]

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[Mosschops30]

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[mummylonglegs]

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[charliecat]

Hey no buying fags down the shop mosschops!
MLL, I post something instead of nothing when its lonely here and probably dont answer anyones questions but its only through lack of time to post/think.
Happy Huggy go look at whyquit.com

EM, I knew I had to stop, I was hating myself with every puff and it was consuming me, eating me up that I COULDNT DO IT kept having just one.
Its only now im 98% confident within myself that i dont/wont smoke.

Thats lazy feelign when you have stopped that it would be easy to have a fag, thats evil, thats AWFUL....you start thinking youve got this far its not so hard lets try one...see what its like...aw man

[Mosschops30]

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[evansmummy]

Mosschops, i used to think i really enjoyed it, too, til I read Allen Carr's book. And while it didn't help me to stop, it did totally change the way I looked at my smoking habit. It might be worth a look?

mll, I like the thread title, btw. It's the sort of joke my mum would crack, lol!!

[mummylonglegs]

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[charliecat]

Round of applause MLL.
Its evil the whole addiction thing isnt it?]

On a tv programme tonight a man took his wife and his step son to a cancer ward to make them see what the future might hold.

[mummylonglegs]

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[charliecat]

Goodness me its quiet here, what has everyone got planned for summer? I have 6 long weeks ahead with not a thing planned, no cash because im not working and 2 lovely kids who had better not fight all summer

[hanginginthere]

Nearly 3 weeks here - and found someone at work who gave up the week after me so I am encouraging her along too! Daren't tell her that it gets worse in week 3
I feel ambivalent at the mo, I am arguing with myself. I feel overwhelmed at the amount of things I need to get done that I usually have a cigarette with, and I am so lethargic anyway, my devil head is saying, well just have a pack of 10 for tomorrow to get all your jobs done... But I know I can't
But I feel so bloody cross and miserable, like life is never going to be enjoyable without my little puff
sorry to moan, am so miserable though - and humiliated at being so weak