no smokes on the water

[mummylonglegs]

hey everyone, come and join the quitting smoking team and chuck your fags away!

Ok, still here!

Renters. Council flat. No hope of moving cos anything else too 'spensive.

snap!

I want to do it again. The same millisecond thing.

Well, the catologue HAVE NOT rang me since it happened. I rang them a couple of days after and the woman confirmed the account was under investigation.
I went to the police, they turned up at 7.30 am one morning after ringing at 7.05.
I got my credit thingy, report and printed it off, it wasnt showing when i did that.
Now it is.
It was an old account of mine, from 99 that they have reactivated, you would have thought they would have asked a few security questions FGS...
and so it stands.
I feel ill when the post comes, in case it happens again, i have wrote about 20 letters to different companys saying I am NOT at that address...bla bl abla...

Snap 2

Do you have to live where you live? not that its any cheaper down here I dont think...no transfer list? I lived in shit hole and now in not such a bad place..6 years of crap though.

I wish I did know what's making dp sad. I think if he reached his current deadline with work he'd be a heck of a lot better. But then I also think the reason he can't do it is because he's unhappy about something else. It's a kind of vicious circle. But hard to live with.

bang your head against the wall shit

Everybody in council flats around here wants to transfer, cb. But there's nowhere to transfer to because each local authority already has its priority list. You don't fall into the category of priority if you're safely housed. It's impossible. These are small flats. There's families with 3 and 4 kids of mixed sexes in our block who've been on the list for a transfer for 7 years and got nothing.

Bollocks about your catalogue stuff. And ridiculous they weren't found out at the beginning. 1999?!?

Yes, cb, except you wouldn't even want to bang your head that hard against our walls as we're half asbestos in this block!

Ok...so do you need to stay in London?
MY old account last used in 99.....they have reactivated it, asked for a catologue to be sent out...Bastards.

if they are half asbesdos anychance of them knocking them down and having to place you elsewhere?

I really am going to shoot off now though, cb.

Sleep well little bat

you too long legs xxxxx tuck those legs up tight

Sorry I was so miserable last night, I hope I haven't put everyone off!

No im still here, didnt want to talk to myself though

You haven't been sitting there all night have you cb?

I'll be back later, just gotta pop dd in the bath!

No! Only just got here

got through a whole 24 hours without a smoke. pat me on the back please!

Pat, pat, helpmestop. Are you someone else on here usually? What's your story?

Cb, are you still there?

thanks. yes I've been on mumsnet a few years, not on this thread before. I started a thread yesterday:

Help encourage me, please.
gave up smoking 4 years ago, had baby 2 years ago. am planning on ttc soon. a couple of months ago I stated smoking again, only a few here and there, but I MUST stop now, very little will power. please keep encouraging me. Have just thrown them in the bin. got to do it.

thought it would help me to post on this thread. hope thats okay. just wanna stop but the cravings are awful.

Course we'll help you, helpme (what a mouthful!)

You're in a brilliant position to stop and very sensible to do it now because if you carried on for sure that few a day would multiply! I was similar, smoked up until pregnancy and afterwards slowly crept up on me until I ended up on about 10 a day again. Then I stopped.

The cravings for you are perhaps largely psychological as you've not been taking in much nicotine / tar on only a few a day. The first 3 days are the WORST. It gradually gets easier after that. I think day 3 is the turning point for you, either way, as it's the toughest day. Be prepared, and we'll be here to back you up!

thankyou. you're right, it was creeping up, one every few days, then everyday, then a few a day, probably 5 a day on a bad day. i really do want to stop, but i want it to be easy too! from what i remember the first few days were terrible. I just need to keep busy and distracted.

Yes, and you have to keep the reasons you're stopping right at the front of your mind. So every time you feel you can't cope you have a list of the important reasons you decided to quit. For me it was the thought of my dying and leaving dd mumless. My brother's partner downloaded all those depressing anti-smoking ads onto his computer and everytime he got overwhelmed with a craving he watched one!

thats what i'm doing, all day long i've told myself how much i love dd, and how i want another. its working so far. hope it lasts.