Let smoking go..

[Lottelou]

News of Allen Carr has jolted a few people!! Anyone out there wish to form a "Let smoking Go" club?

Have read your thread Panboy, my dd was like that. Wouldnt wave at friends etc either.."DD1 WAVE" would have to be instructed or she would ignore close friends. Now at 8 she does a little wave at thigh height that is as good as she goes, just stands grinning with her friends at school and they all divulge gossip and seem lightyears ahead of her in social skills.
I have my fingers crossed thats with the friends she has that do accept her as the weird thing she is she will make her way through school quite well.
No worries at the moment and shes heading into year 4.
Just so you know, and i think you will find inainaryfriends dd is similar too

Tee hee cc! You're still my hero y'know.

Shall we mosey over to panboy's behaviour thread?

link to pan boys thread

oops ... you're already there, cc, I'm going to nose now ...

You may get more replys in the morning BTW, most mumsnetters are at least half a bottle of wine worst for wear ATM

I'm only 1 can of lager worse for wear so I've posted on your thread.

Now, back to business, why oh why is it that I smoke very little at the moment, I smoke 2-3 a day and can't quitt???

If you were cramming 30 in your mouth a day they would be vile....they are only precious when you arent having many of them/none of them.

Oh and panboy...purely based on me/my dd....give her a pound of her own in a poundshop and shes there looking and choosing for herself.
My We Have No Money has got into her brain and she feels guilty for spending, especially in toyshops, i was the same at that age.
I remember crying becasue my mum was going to waste money on some cakes from a bakery, such a treat that casued me no end of stress...lol
And maybe its not toys she wants, stickers, cards, a kite...kids are so damn hard to please these days.

Cc, that's right, your dd1 and mine are remarkably similar aren't they?

Yep...and panboys too it seems

I gotta crash. Glad to stroke your fur again my purring friend

night night.

panboy, I'll respond to your other thread more tomorrow. My dd's only coming up to 4 but is definitely an oddment and already I worry about her at school. her social skills are really almost nonexistent.

purrrrrr

I had my dd assessed at 4 as i thought she had aspergers, but they said she was selectively mute. BTW. and i remember then asking if she daydreamed, she didnt.
I can sense your worried
grim...do you have any contact with doctors/school? see what they think?

hi you two - CC were you asking me?? IF so, no as that would mean doing it via mum andthat is a no no.

Drunk mums on MN? On A Saturday??!! Perish!! From one VERY sober daddy.

Night night.

Morning

Feeling I have not been fussing round imaginaryfriend enough...

hello you...really curious about why the last ones are a real struggle..at least it indicates that your physical attachment to fags is modest on the basis there is a low level of nicotine in your body...I remember you saying it was the one in the morning that was a real pain.....I found getting and keeping distractions useful - is it worthwhile to leap out of bed as soon as you awake and keep a sort of momentum going until you are out the door??
Also the value in keep reading off whyquit is immense..but from your reunion with CC, you are a long term quitter, so you know this???
Are there other things in your life that you know aren't good for you, but you keep hold of - things, people, thoughts, emotions....to have to manage these things in the here-and-now can be attractive to some people at some of the time.
btw, what was your phd in??

Morning Heading for a coffee now.

... gulp ... tomorrow ... not at ALL prepared. Where's my fighting spirit???

I guess it doesn't help that we spent the day in Barnet trying to convince ourselves that we could afford to live there! Actually I really liked it there and if we can work out if the cheaper places are in an ok-ish location it IS a possibility.

I've smoked 1 fag only today. I could just as easily have not had it. But I didn't. WHY!!!?????

just beat me to it imaginaryfriend..was concerned your silence was a scream at having cold feet....if it helps at all, don't see it as a fight - that will get you going mentally - try to see it as a passive letting something go that wants to go, and it will go of it's own accord tomorrow unless you fight it to stay.

I'm trying very hard to find a strategy. If I start well that'll help, I mean if I skip the first of the day. But if I have that one I'm sunk. I usually get a kind of 'fighting spirit' but I feel quite lethargic about it, like I'm not seriously facing it at all ... I'm heading over to whyquit right now to scare some sense into myself!

Drown the fags, lock yourself in the flat and suffer LOL...no get your head round it and aim for it.
Can i remind you its been ...nearly...bar a few months 2 years free for me now...
Just dont have another...thats easy....har de har har...is it feck...but its the only way to stay off the fags.
Never have another.
Ever.

I know cc, you are the non-smoking star. And do you know if I'd stuck to that quit I did last year I'd have been off them for a whole year by now??? I quit for about 6 or 7 months I think didn't I? What a bloody idiot to have gone through all that and then start again ...

Ok, really am off to whyquit now, got distracted then, will report back later. Hopefully with more resolve!

Go, girl!!

Yep, you have to keep it with you why you stopped and why Just One wouldnt be a very good idea, it will just be the ladder to ohhhhhhhh just one more......

imaginaryfriend - you are under strict orders to post news of your progress as it happens, or..or..'doesn't, if you see what I mean....

are you still scaring yourself sh*tless on whyquit??? Best wishes to you.

Good morning everyone hows it going?