charlietherednosedpussy and the Christmas angels

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here's a new thread everyone! Come and join us for a smokeless Christmas.

Hello Lucy-not on for long as have the olds here-will talk soon hopefuly!

get your teeth into this...

Where have you BEEN cc?

Busy earning a bean
See your thread about name writing....some of the 4 year olds at nursery who regularly do worksheets for practice...going over the dots etc still cant write thier names..theres a HUGE variation on what each child can do.
As you know my dd has just started school. Apparently only her and 2 others can write their own name

Oh at night ive been in bed..its freeeeezing

I've been working too, cc. But not freezing here. Council tower blocks are notoriously stuffy. We rarely have to even have the heating on!

This house is FREEZING. We used to live in what we thought was a stupidly designed house...the bedrooms were downstairs and the living area/kitchen were upstairs...meant you were nice and warm upstairs and went down to a cool bedroom. Here you have to go up to bed to be warm. [grrrr]

Sounds awful, cc.

I'm off across the room to bed now! We do everything in this room - eat, t.v., sleep, dd plays, etc. etc. etc. Dd thinks it's cosy but I find it rather claustrophobic.

Night night xxx

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Yay cc!!!

Can't believe you've managed one whole year cc. That's superb.

Also, met lovely drop at the meet and neither of us smoked (iirc!) but forgot she was on this thread as haven't visited it for ages so didn't say wotcha fellow quitmeister as I should have done. Nearly cracked at 4 am when Custardo was smoking on my balcony but luckily she refused point blank to give me a fag so am still smoke-free and don't have to re-set my quitmeter (which currently says 18 weeks, 3 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes, 20 seconds). I was too pissed to notice that custardo was pissed!

Scrounging fags at 4am...you filthy bugger Bet your glad you didnt now.
I cannot beleive im now in the position myself to say..Oh yeah...I stopped smoking a year ago.
Its unbeliveable. I have not lost the memory of how it was to wake up in a panic wondering where I was going to scrounge a fag from.
I am eternally grateful to have had this thread as a constant in my life to come to and garble rubbish

Cc you never garble rubbish. You always garble pure sense! I'll be feeling very proud of myself if / when I make it to a year!

When I looked at your link to whyquit I re-read those stories of people who died. Awful. Those aggressive cancers are very scary , no?

Very, and ive contemplated the fact that i may have done myslef some serious damage...well having not smoked 13000 in one year...Hmmm anyway. Even if I have I will be able to hold my head up and say...well you know I did try.

And if you got ill further down the line and WERE smoking then you'd totally blame yourself ...

The thing that gets me about cancer is that it can happen to anyone, any age, and within a matter of months after being diagnosed you can be dead. It doesn't discriminate does it? I was talking to a mum at dd's playgroup who said her husband died of lung cancer. He had a tickly cough, got it checked, 3 months later he was dead! She said the shock had affected her so badly she couldn't leave the house for 2 years and had to rely on family to raise her ds. She still has never returned to work.

Thats awful
Once you have had your eyes opened to the fact that fags REALLY do kill you cannot close them again.
Its gorgeous to be on the other side of the fence though isnt it?
Bloody fantastic
check this out Type in a name of music you like...bros or whatever and it pops up more of the same you might like}

Bros????!!!!!!

Well, cc, I don't feel on the other side of the fence just yet. I feel always very precarious. I know there'll come a point where I can relax a little but I'm not there yet. I still have mad urges to nip into a corner shop or scrounge a smoke from someone at a bus stop. It feels that close. BUT it is easier. I really do have moments when I don't think about it.

I dont have corner shop moments. I do have stressed moments where I know a fag that moment would make life seem that little bit pleasanter. HOWEVER...I also have the knowledge that one puff in I would feel the world crashing round my ears and the word you stupid screaming in my head at myself.
We are all, at any given point, only 1 puff away. I think after this amount of time though i can trust myself. Even pissed. You too will get there

Cc, to be honest, after a year a fag in a moment of stress wouldn't do a thing for you. It would make your head spin. It would taste like the bottom of the oldest stinkiest pub ashtray. And it might even make you throw up.

I remember the first one I had after having quit for 2 years. It was revolting. I only took about 3 drags and I didn't have another one for a couple of months after. BUT the next one wasn't so bad. and after about 5 I was back thinking it was great.

AGH!!!

To think if I'd stayed quitted then I'd have been fagless for nearly 10 years now.

ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH but its that knowledge that would stop you ...I have just been watching dome grim movies on whyquit.com..

Hello all! Have not been posting much recently as have been too busy-how is everyone?

Im fine and you? Ready for xmas?

Am really looking forward to Xmas-can't say I'm ready for it but adore the spirit!

Hi guys. I'm a bit indifferent about Christmas. We didn't bother much with it when I was growing up (Jewish so just went through the motions to 'fit in') so it's never been a big deal for me. I was more excited about dd's birthday. Plus I'm so damned broke this year it's dire. I've got a tiny budget for dd's stuff and haven't bought a thing yet for her! Dp and I don't usually get each other anything until New Year pay checks come in!

What you guys doing? Staying at home or visiting family? We're home this year. Taking dd to see The Snowman at Peacock Theatre on Christmas Eve which I'm so looking forward to! She is snowman crazy

Dont we all "fit in" to Xmas? Its all a massive money spending spree nowadays isnt it?
I cannot stnad the needless buying for adults and relatives you never see and all that. What I do like is being Santa and decorating my house with tinsel
This year I have done the 3 for 2 boots thing/sell2 on ebay keep 1 therefore all dd2s pressies have been freebies so far so have saved a mint.
Now to see what dd1 wants. She needs to tell me...quick so I can get buying Credit Card will be bashed for about 150 for both of them and will probably borrow the money from my mum to pay it and then slowly pay it back interest free.