no smokes on the water

[mummylonglegs]

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

Hello sievehead . I second cb on the feeling glad not to smoke and also looking at whyquit.com. Actually I find I often second cb. She's my leader. One of the great pieces of advice whyquit gives is that you may feel sad about the 'perfect cigarette', i.e. theone with the G& T in the garden, but you have to remember all the ones that accompany it that you'd always rather not have had. IYSWIM?

Would it be sad if I made myself a T-shirt saying I have not smoked 10,000 fags folks?

Deadly serious BTW.

Would be cool-CC! If just one person looked at it and thought they would give up because of it,then wear it with pride,girl!

Lucy-where are you??

Sievehead-I thought for ages that life couldn't possibly be enjyable without fags-especially having a drink-(I'm a G&t Lover too!) and it will take quite a few weeks before it finally dawns on you that you are enjoying life without them! keep going! Illness is a great opportunity to stop, as gets you over the first few days of hell and should make it a little easier to carry on! Good Luck!

Ok done the transfer, just need to iron it on now...so if your walking round tunbridge wells and you see it you'll know its me

Im gonna put it on my back so not to fuel my paranoia..is that how you spell that?

Spellcheck my dear!

Dont have that...well I ballsed that right up....nowhere on the instructions did it say do the writing back wards...I did briefly think about it but dismissed it coz the instuctions didnt mention it

LOL-You've only not smoked one fag! Well done,honey!!Ha!Ha!

cc's T shirt - 'I could have smoked 10,000 fags and I HAVEN'T!' my god cc is it that many already?

sieve - life is so so much better without lurking around smoking guiltily and worrying about smelling so bad that you don't want to kiss your children (that's what i was like - foul stinking smoker with hacking cough, brown fingers and yellow teef, forever prowling in back yard with piles of dog ends at my feet).

drop - don't worry about it or be embarrassed re FF years! Sometimes you've got to be in the mood for reading haven't you - I went through years of barely reading a thing cos life too hectic with kids, only clicked back into it this year. Maybe you need a fast racy novel to zoom through & get you back into it. a sort of 'break the reading barrier' book. I've just read vince & joy by lisa jewell and it was really fab, heartwarming and v funny.

about 500 near to it...FG.
Er Drop can you notice my mention at the front of the FF years please

Will check it out-

"To the woman who has smoked one less fag.....

I thank you!!"

Hello! I loved your t-shirt story, cb. Bloody hell though, how were you supposed to write that on backwards???

Hello to everyone else too.

How are the latest batch of quitters getting on? Lucy? EM? helpmequit? sievehead?

We're diehards now aren't we cb, drop, fg?

I'm still ill so still not smoking. It is clearing up though, so who knows what'll be in store this weekend...

Hoave you had any slip ups recently, mll? Just cos it makes me feel less pants if I'm not the only one .

Haven't smoked since Sunday lunch, though, whatever the reason. So at the mo I'm averaging one week on, one week off. Pretty good, no? [laughs apologetically at her pantsness]

EM you need to change that way of thinking, be pleased that you are 4? days inot a quit and dont think of the day/weekend that you will smoke/can smoke. or you will find yourlsef a smoker for the rest of your life.
At the moment you sound like a smoker remorseful that you cant smoke.
Id be chuffed to bits if id got to day 4 without too much grief

em, I've been a good mummylonglegs, not a puff. I had that chest-type thing you had, plus since it cleared up I've had a horrible headache and been feeling really unwell so haven't had any desire to make myself feel even worse. This is, however, novel for me. Whenever I was ill in the past I used to smoke more. Even if it was a chest infection I still wanted to smoke. Even if it made me vomit I'd still smoke.

Yeah, me too, mll. I used to smoke even being asthmatic!

And cb, I'm surprised you need to point that out. I am a smoker sounding remorseful that she can't smoke. That's the problem. I do and I don't want to. Surely you can understnad that. You've been here too, haven't you??

I understand it totally, em, and cb does too. I think what she means is that you have to break out of that mentality in order to successfully quit. Bloody hard. I still feel I'm 'depriving' myself from time to time ...

I'm also asthmatic. We're prime targets you know to get things like emphysemia...

That my MIL has got and is bloody ill with!

If giving up smoking was easy,do you think there would be many smokers left in the world?

Hello again! Now, I am feeling much better, so this is where the danger begins!! I have now been fag free since midnight on Saturday - nearly 6 days. I have had a capuccino in the garden, and a gin and tonic without too much grief - but am still in mourning!!!!

On the one hand I am thinking, since Sunday I have not smoked 42 fags - great/fantastic/pleased/etc etc. On the other hand I am thinking to myself, "look, you only smoked 5-7 a day, why not carry on?" Obviously the health scare has put me off, and doing more useful things with my time, but I haven't smoked heavily since before kids - and it wasn't fags that bought the asthma attack on, it was feathers, dogs and panic attack.

I think I need some help!!!! I'm going out tonight - where there will be a couple of smokers.......

Sieve, this IS a danger point. You've got through the worst cravings, got a couple of milestones under your belt like cappuccino and g&t. You need some cb cut and pastes!

Leader: got anything up your sleeve to curb seive's sense of 'fag loss'?

DANGER, DANGER, DANGER, SIEVE! You need a plan for resisting because you sound quite excited about the prospect of going out with smoker friends.

Have calmed down a bit now! There is also a lady going who gave up a year ago, she said she'd steer me clear! Am starting to feel proud of myself now - although have been doing a lot of pacing up and down today while drinking my coffee in the garden!!!!

Thanks for your support, keep the help coming!!!

In a rush as usual but cant go away without saying Please dont smoke tonight or tommorow you will wake up reaching for the fags again...If you could pick and take fags we all would.

EM...I know what wanting to smoke is like yep...I understood however that this was an addicition I was facing and thats fags ARENT that pleasurable...ok maybe 1 in 50 but that the risks to my health and my body and my sanity knowing the damage I was doing to myself were not worth it.