Fag Free Few................New Fresh Thread

[charliebat]

Hello

Dp, who stopped last december, has just riffled his pockets looking for a lighter for some sparklers
He doesnt smoke anymore

Today I spent the day with a buddy who used to be my smoking buddy. She still smokes and I really noticed the smell on her when she went off for one. I never noticed it at all before. She's the secret smoker who wears a glove, carries polos and perfume everywhere so she doesn't get caught out. Her dd has just gone full time to school and she's not working so she's gone from smoking around 5 a day to nearly 20. I didn't look at her with any envy whatsoever. I remember all too well her situation. She keeps talking about quitting (her father died of lung cancer ), but her mum smokes too and I think she's very far from making any kind of decision.

It's very strange being on the outside watching someone else smoking.

Did you mention allen carr or whyquit? What did she say about your success?
You sort of find yourself looking and thinking all these thoughts in amazement dont you?

Fucking marvellous by the way....keep it up everyone
And SEA, come visit us, we will talk you round to the right decision

blimey cc i need a severe kick up the ass!

Well if a kick in the ass is what you want...
Have you got an alen carr kicking about? Read it, a page a day.

I gave my mate my copy of Allen Carr and she's read some of it but not got very far. It's strange how things have turned out because I was always much more of a 'hardened' smoker than she was. She's been round while I've been going through this quit and had a mix of emotions I think from sadness that I won't be her smoking partner to gladness I'm doing it healthwise to feeling guilty that she's still smoking. She's such a secret smoker though that I'm just glad she hasn't started hiding it from me! I'm amazed she's got away with it so long now I've realised how strong it smells to a non-smoker.

(me, that is, the non-smoker)

YYYYYYYIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Hi SEA, by the way. Hey, you really don't need a kick up the arse, you just need to get your head in the right place.

Think cancer.

Months of chemotherapy and uncertainty.

Or your kids crying over your death.

Or your dp / dh trying to raise kids alone knowing you needn't have died.

Those are the thoughts that got to me anyhow.

... you can tell I used to be a goth can't you? ...

night all, off to do some t.v.ing with dp who's just in from work!!

Cor, I thought you had got into something new there TVing Then it dawned on me.
The thought that one day I might find myself flicking a fag into the same ashtray as my eldest dd got to me.
Fuck That.

What could t.v.ing sound like cc?!

I also got totally fed up with the secrecy of it. Hiding it from dd, hiding it from my mum who thought I'd quit a year before, hiding from dp just how much I was smoking, etc. etc. And the looks from my boss when I came in from a coffee break reeking of smoke. Just the general 'yuck' of it. And the madness of putting a little stick in your mouth, burning it, breathing in the smoke, and killing yourself for the sake of it. Madness!

A mate of dps has been having a go at him to give up
This mate is fab and says cigarettes are the devils penis!!!!!!!!!

smoking girlfriend here for 3 nights and i am not tempted at all

Hello - can I be a Johnny Come Lately and join you? I gave up a week before I became pregnant with dd in Jan 05, then stayed off them completely until dd was about 6 months in April 06, then started again. Just the odd one here and there, always in the evening when dd was in bed, then ended up smoking every day

Just stopped again last Tuesday. Filthy disgusting habit. Feel free - hurrah!

But also want a cigarette. boo.

Stick with it, notasheep. Are you feeling pleased with yourself?

PinkyRed. Well done, think IF must have been typing and missed your post, you know you can do it, and you know that having just One soon builds up to more so keep it up

9 weeks! is that all ? feels like forever. i think i was a week behind I.F.

You doing ok then custy?

yes thanks. i do smoke socially but thats not often and not many. day to day if i am at work or at home i dont smoke -if out with beer then i do - but thats not often.

i've definatley cracked the haqbits of home and work.

am getting mortgage soon ( crossed fingers) so social smoking will be completely off the cards! as will the social life

A social smoker...sigh..id eat the packet

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Well done Rickman

Sorry PR, I totally missed your post last night . Well done, you're over the worst few days at least. Keep posting.

I'm two months and 1 week - I stopped on 18 August, so I guess you're two months custy? My dp's always been a social, occasional smoker. I've always envied him that. I don't seem capable of it, I want them too much in the day and when I'm alone for it to work. Plus of course not much of a social life these days!!

Pinkyred-hope its a week for you now,remember one day at a time

Rickman and ifriend you are neck and neck! and i am chasing you!!!!!!
dont you just hate walking along the street and a smoker passes you-ugh that stinky trail

my smoking girlfriend stayed for 3 nights and i didnt have a single puff,infact she stood out in the yard alone,another smug moment for me

Smug smug smug
I remember through the summer I got quite sad about dp and my friends sitting outside puffing and chatting away with a drink.
I had to give myself a right kick, knowing they would love to be the one fagless

do you remember that horrible feeling when you've been socialising and you've smoked way too much but you wake up the next morning with a mouth like a dried out old ashtray but you still have another one and you feel really dire?

Glad that's gone.