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Looking forward to a fag-free 2007? Join us here.

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imaginaryfriend · 27/12/2006 23:04

New thread for old friends and for new quitters ...

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imaginaryfriend · 07/04/2007 22:18

Hi cc and all.

Custy - how are you doing now?

Drop - have you disappeared again?

I'm going strong at 1 week exactly since my last puff. I would have been almost 8 months clear if I hadn't had a slip up in January ... sigh ...

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custy · 08/04/2007 22:59

doing good. bothers me momentarily - today we went out for pub lunch.

people were smoking in the beer garden.

i so wanted a fag.

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imaginaryfriend · 08/04/2007 23:03

How long now custy?

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lou33 · 08/04/2007 23:06

19 weeks and 2 days

WOO BLOODY HOO!

custy · 08/04/2007 23:07

3 weeks not counting social smoking - dont tell charlie.

however i stillt ake pride in my smoke free ness - i dont negate my achievement becuase i had some fags with a beer at weekend.

i dontsmoke at the back door any more - not even pissed.

i dont smoke at work
i dont smoke in the car - that was a BIGGEE

i hope i can keep it up

well done you IF - you were vez determined when we net at xmas.

lou33 · 08/04/2007 23:07

wait.........

imagfriend

lung problems?!

custy · 08/04/2007 23:08

wd lou xxx

lung problems IF?

lou33 · 08/04/2007 23:09

well done too custy

i can do pubs and being pissed without wanting one no probs, its stress that gets me

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imaginaryfriend · 08/04/2007 23:30

Yes, lou, lung problems, big time.

Remember our pneumonia discussions a few months ago? I got the dreaded lurgy again a month ago and have been so ill. I'm still not better. Am very depressed about it and now under the chest clinic at St. Thomas'.

Custy, when we met, I remember you coolly 'social smoking'. I can see you as a smoker. I see me as a smoker too. But I think we can go against the grain of ourselves. if that makes sense.

I think you've gotta quit that social smoking business though ...

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lou33 · 08/04/2007 23:34

omg why havent you said?

or have you and i have been so wrapped up in poor me syndrome i havent noticed?

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imaginaryfriend · 08/04/2007 23:36

I've been happy escaping into sillinesses elsewhere. I'm a great escape artist.

I did have a pneumonia thread somewhere but it wasn't a great hit!

I'm worried though. 5 courses of antibiotics and I still can't breathe. I feel as though all those years of heavy smoking have finally caught up with me.

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lou33 · 08/04/2007 23:37

i didnt see it i am sorry

i am escaping tonight as well i dont know if you noticed lol

i'm so sorry, can i give you any e help?

or rl help if you are local to me?

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imaginaryfriend · 08/04/2007 23:40

You're being the best help already.

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lou33 · 08/04/2007 23:42

i've had a bottle of wine

heh

you arent the netter who revealed herself to be living in my village are you?

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imaginaryfriend · 09/04/2007 00:19

No, not me. Far far from a village I'm in pretty much central London. SE-ish. A village sounds rather romantic ...

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lou33 · 09/04/2007 00:27

no i searched afterwards and realised it wasnt you

i'm not a village girl, city life is far more appealing to me, i miss london

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imaginaryfriend · 09/04/2007 00:31

Have you lived in London at some point then?

I'm not a village person either, I can't imagine it at all. But I do get tired of city life.

Especially when I can't breathe!

Any news from Thailand?

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lou33 · 09/04/2007 00:36

i see countryside as something motorways were built for viewing it from

my mother was frm east london so i spent my childhood back and forth to it, then i lived in london for 10 yrs, until we moved out for dd1's asthma

never went back

i love going back to visit but dont get much chance

was last there in august i think with bf , who was then just a booty call

no news ...

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imaginaryfriend · 09/04/2007 15:54

And did dd1's asthma improve when you left London? I often wonder ... My dd's asthma seems mostly triggered by allergies. She's fine in between coughs and colds so long as she doesn't come into contact with dogs, cats, dust, feathers etc. So I've never known if leaving London would make a difference ...

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lou33 · 09/04/2007 15:55

yes it did

she had a big attack about a month after, when we had to get her to hospital, and she has been fine since

how are you today?

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imaginaryfriend · 09/04/2007 15:57

I'm better than this time last week. Fever is gone, still coughing. But it's now just generally feeling all over crapness. Head achey, very nauseous, especially in the morning, and sweaty all night. Maybe it's to be expected? Dd is very unwell, she's had a fever for the last 5 nights and coughed on and off constantly. The GP says it's not pneumonia but I'm worried just the same.

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imaginaryfriend · 09/04/2007 15:59

Talking of dd's coughing ... she sounds like she's just about to cough her lungs inside out ... will be back later

Where's your village, lou? Roughly?

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lou33 · 09/04/2007 16:04

near godlaming if

let me know if you need help that i can give ok?

charliecat · 09/04/2007 16:09

This slid off my active convos again. No social smoking custy
Seriously. How did you get into this mess in the first place

lou33 · 09/04/2007 16:17

mess, who?