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Smokers needing to convert please come ere

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charlietherednosedpussy · 10/12/2005 16:20

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notasheep · 07/01/2006 22:10

kleist-can your man give you a massage?-or is it too painful

Not smoking feels like it is becoming normal at times,thank goodness it isnt the first thought i have in the morning.
What you said about your friend out shopping,I so hated that feeling of having my LIFE totally controlled by NICOTINE.
Feel like i am getting out of prison,but those odd pangs are so powerful!!!!!!!!!!

flutterbee · 08/01/2006 01:55

OK it's stupid O'clock and I am still here, tomorrow is my quit day and for some reason in my stupid little head if I don't go to bed tomorrow will never come

I have finally decided that enough is enough and I am going to go and get into bed, obviously before I do that I am going to go downstairs and have my last ciggie

I have 2 left (I gave my brother the rest to give to his gf jsut so that I had none left over) I am going to smoke 1 and then ceremoniously (sp) screw the other one up kind of like a symbol of my giving up...........or I may just smoke it straight after the first one

I really am poohing my pants, I have felt fine for over 2 weeks knowing that tomorrow id quit day but all day today I have felt axious about it, I think I may be on here quite a bit from now on.

Right I'm really going now, wish me luck but

charliecat · 08/01/2006 10:07

Morning everyone, Hope you have got few the few few hours of this morning flutterbee
The thing that we ALL have to rememebr is that we really really really did want to give up smoking in the first place...and that when you had that first fag years ago, you did not sign a contract to smoke between 10 and 30 every day for the rest of your life.
When you are having a bad moment and somethings stressing you out, you MUST get it in your head that if you did go and have a fag, not only would you still have the problem that was stressing you out in the first place, you would also be back on the fags again.
And dont kid yourself that you can have just 1, you cant. Your a smoker or a nonsmoker.
There is no inbetween.
I know someone who apparently only has a fag at night with her glass of wine. Well not only is 1 glass of wine 2 bottles of wine, she also kicks the arse off a twenty deck in an evening after not smoking all day...
Good Luck

charliecat · 08/01/2006 10:09

P.S 1 year, 1 month and a few days Flutterbee...
having one of these helps

jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 08/01/2006 10:24

I HAVE STARTED ALLEN CARR!!!

Sorry to shout, but AT LAST i have started it.... will keep you posted!

flutterbee · 08/01/2006 12:56

Well it's 12.55 I didn't get up till 10am but DH slapped my patch straight on.

I feel OK had a few thoughts of fags but just missing the habit more than withdrawing (the patches are working) plus I have kept myself busy loading my MP3 player up with new tunes.

Thinking positive.

notasheep · 08/01/2006 13:22

Flutterbee- Thinking of you,it really DOES get easier,and you know how quickly time passes.

Its all in the brain-kill that Nicotine Monster,I have a craving as i write this but having a fag will NOT help one bit.

Im on this thread alot,we are all here to support you and CC is a fantastic motivator and masses of links to read

flutterbee · 08/01/2006 17:16

Thanks Notasheep

I went out to Sainsbury this afternoon with DH ans DS to buy some comfort food (I don't care about my weight as long as I kick the habit). I was really worried as smoking in the car is really normal for me as soon as DH starts the engine I light up and the thought of walking past the ciggie counter well don't even go there. Anyway I made it smoke free and even joked to DH that he should pay for the shopping whilst I popped and got some fags

He has been really great and even suggested that I take my MP3 player with me and have it on in the car so that it gives me something to concentrate on, he told me how prud he was of me this afternoon and has just left me to eat junk and play on the computer, he has washed all the clothes and looked after 8 week old DS all day. Mind you I do have an ear infection as well so double pampering is to be expected.

notasheep · 08/01/2006 20:09

Flutter-Fantastic that your dh is supporting you,long may it continue.

Things are sometimes tough here as my dp smokes-but i cant use that as an excuse to have a sly one!!!

Anyway he STINKS and i tell him so every day!

kleist · 08/01/2006 22:03

Hurray for you flutterbee! How many were you smoking pre-quit? And for how long? Sorry if you've already said ... I have short-term memory loss due to excessive beer drinking I fear ...

How's your chest, cc?

You're doing so well notasheep! I started this quit back in May. Since then I've had 3 slip-ups, 3 fags in other words. But I've been clean for a good few months in a run now. And I STILL get those odd cravings which feel really overwhelming. But it's so infequent. I always have a vague craving in the morning. And today I'd taken dd to a birthday party, had a few beers, was on way home tired, stressed in pouring rain and I though 'geez I need a fag!!!' The trick is just not to. And then an hour later you realise you didn't need it. And thank goodness you didn't have it.

charliecat · 08/01/2006 22:05

Dp says HUGE

charliecat · 08/01/2006 22:07

Sorry back to seriousness now..LOL ...its getting better, the doctor said what he said because I have had numerous severe dodgy chest thingys in the past 2-3 years. So ive made myself more suseptable(sp?) to chest problems.
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH
Trying not to have a mental OMG ive killed myself already fit. Nowt I can do now is there?!

kleist · 08/01/2006 22:24

CC! You cheeky thing ...

Well, if you HADN'T stopped smoking NOW you'd be in real problems in a few years, no?

charliecat · 09/01/2006 11:46

He said it honest!

yep, think id be dead by now actually or one of those coughing spluttering sad cases that just ...oh...no...lets not go there.

notasheep · 09/01/2006 14:48

OMG- I know for a fact that i am becoming one of those dreadful people that use to smoke!!!!

dp stinks and i tell him so every day!

Kleist-things are good BUT remember those set backs i had in December,I must stay on top of stuff and keep my brain in the right space!

CHARLIE! We have RATS too-but they are in the loft!!!!!!!!!

prettyfly1 · 09/01/2006 16:10

TWO WEEKS SMOKE FREE- TWO WEEKS SMOKE FREE!!!! CHECK ME OUT!!! sorry tad excited- not gone that long since i started!!!!

charliecat · 09/01/2006 16:10

Get a nice wee cage for them They are nice and cuddly and like a stroke in the evening curled up in the duvet

kleist · 09/01/2006 16:50

Well done Prettyfly!!

Oh yes, nota, I know it's early days. You may even have a few more cock-ups. I just meant rather that you've got a really good attitude about it.

cc, you are rat-mad ... Cuddle one of those things with their snaky tails ... shudder ...

flutterbee · 09/01/2006 19:34

Hi Kliest - I was smoking about 20 a day and had been smoking for over 10 years, I quit last year but obviuosly that didn't last.

Well I seem to have got through day 2 OK DH went to work this morning and I was feeling particually shitty so I decided not to go out to the shops as I probably would buy some ciggies so I just stayed in all day keeping myself really really busy and I have to say apart from the odd craving I haven't really missed it

Everyone else on here seems to be doing really really well its very encouraging, even people who have had slip ups seem to have jumped straight back on the straight and narrow.

Well done to everyone regardless of whether it ahs been 1 day or 1 year

notasheep · 09/01/2006 20:11

We are the smoke free girls,We are the smoke free girls!

Flutterbee and Prettyfly-what gentle girls names rather than mine!!

Well Done-One day at a time remember,this evening i am stood in the kitchen and dp is rolling a fag and i am chanting;give us a fag,give us a fag!!!!
But he knows and i know that the craving passes by.

Here we are,another day of freedom from Nicotine

charliecat · 09/01/2006 22:09

Yep, bloody marvelous...wrong spelling I know. I announced today that I actually feel now like id never smoked This is from the fag addict who at 3am or thereabouts was outside in her nighty with a torch searching for dogends
Stay off them girls

kleist · 09/01/2006 22:31

Gosh we're rather a successful thread aren't we. Well ... apart from me ... I chuffed through 20 today ...

nah

Dropinthe · 09/01/2006 23:00

IVE MISSED SO MUCH!!!!

AM SORRY!!

Have lost my Mumsnurt addiction recently due to all sorts of Christmassy ,New yearry thangs!!!

Doesn't mean I am still thinking of my non-smoking buddies who got me through..... whymummy....I miss you!!!!!! Where are you my Spanish lovely---I never see you around these parts any more....sniff, sniff,snovel, sniff,,, emoticon with sad Crimbo bells on......
Kleist and Charlie-HAPPY NEW YEAR!

kleist · 09/01/2006 23:12

dropinthe! I thought you'd forsaken us for some smoking buddies!

Dropinthe · 09/01/2006 23:23

ASIF !!!!???

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