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

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Hmm what?

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Lol stop with me go on it makes sense.

You should stop smoking melloma, its not doing you any favours is it??!! Come on you know you want to!

Hi IF when dd starting school FT then?
Custy has confessed to be back on the fags on another thread Im going to stalk her She says she will be back in Feb.

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Hello. I'm on Third fag free day - though before ayone rushes to congratulate me, I am suffering from terrible cough and cold (which I get Every year at this time)

I am an addict. I may not smoke first fag til 4pm in the afternoon, but I can feel the irritation build up if anything prevents me from having one...and then I smoke loads in the evenings.
I'm going to be vile to live with aren't I?

I managed to give up for 18 months a couple of years ago and oit was the first time I'd ever given up without being pregnant (funnily enough that's never been a problem)

(roll ups here too)
And yes, it's the assocatiations I will struggle with most.

FMF, onwards and upwards, I would have smoked through a stomnking cold and even managed to stuff in a few fags with plurisy You know you can do it!!

am finding it very hard right now, as I usually 'reward' myself with one once while the children are having tea...

oops forgot about my name change

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FMF, you could stick a mad in there and still be FMF

The problem is, i have hidden the fact that I smoke from my kids and lied to (some of) my friends for years. So how can I explain why I'm going to be a grumpy aul bitch to them?
Especially my eldest son, who is vehemently anti-smoking and was devasted when he caught daddy smoking once....I need to stop smoking before he ever finds out that I did IFKWIM.
But I just know i'm going to be bad-temepered.

Ok, So, bad tempered is that what I would call a self-imposed tantrum induced because if your bad tempered enough for long enough you can treat yourself to a fag and relax???!!!!
Manic I get going cold turkey. A sort of mad desperate look in my eye, constant figgetting and a need to Mooovveeee...coz if I stand still for too long I might smoke lol
Could you pretend to be ill? And blame your out of self behaviour on headachy flu?

watch this get stoned down lol Hope not!

can I join. Really have to stop as asthma has started playing up badly and I can't afford to smoke.

Have just finished last packet and have to go to shop (for something else). Am terrified.

My parents don't know I smoke (they would be furious) and I worry about when ds is old enough to tell them. But I don't want to have to tell them why I'm in such a bad mood.

Dp is furious that I have been carrying on, understandably.

I'm just terrified about quitting - how stupid is that. Telling myself its ok cos its my weakness, like dp drinks beer (I don't really drink see). BUt its not the same really is it - I mean he's not an alcoholic.

Never joined these threads before cos knew I was going to fail and didn't want anyone knowing.

Kick up the bum required.

Ok, swift kick up bum coming....Cant belive your parents dont know...do they smoke themselves? Its whiffy you know!!!!
If youve got asthma you really MUST stop smoking. This is your one chance at life in the only body youll ever have. Dont destroy it quicker than you need to.
Think into the future ...sharing a packet of fags with your ds No way, you want to be a non smoker who can lecture him without crawling back to the ashtray to smoke your sorrow away.
whyquit.com is fantastic reading, although a bit heavy
You wont fail, and even if you do we will scrape you back off the floor and help you stop again. Buy some chewing gum at the shop.

My dad smokes and has quit on and off since me and my sister were born.

I'm sure my mum suspects, but believe me I take every precaution that she won't find out.

HAve been to shopa nd avoided buying fags and have started to look at website.

I would hate it if my ds smoked

Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Thank-you.

No trouble, come back here and rant and rant again and again and again till one of us pops up!
Your dps mad because he loves you and its infuriating watching someone you love smoke, as im sure you know yourself!
Distract yourself and remind yourself that nomatter what happens, a fags not going to cure it.

Evening cc and all the newer quitters.

How's everyone getting on tonight?

... cc, I'm knocking on 5 months now! Then it'll be half a year. It's the best thing I've ever done. I still can't believe how wonderful it is to not have this to worry about on top of everything else. Dd starts full time school on Monday btw. I'm really nervous. Her only real friend there is off into Reception so she'll be totally friendless and you know how socially clumsy she is. It's such a shame because she's a really lovely little girl, she's intensely shy.

Its friggin awful isnt it?
I used to HATE sending dd1 to school. She was so delicate I had to drop her off at 9 and pick her up at 11, then 11.30, then 12.00...then 12-30, home for lunch to avoid the playground noise and back for an hour after lunch....till we all the way to 3.30...then eventually....She stayed for lunch.(I had a half hour walk there and back...oh it was fun)
9 years old now, stiff group of mates and shes fine, not the life and soul, but she copes. And thats ok.
My best mate had a crack at stopping smoking on New Year Day, was ok ...then went to shop next morning and got some
I was raving about how nice it is not to have to think about then first thing, and not have to pinpoint hours in the day where you know you wil get one. Or having to leave the shopping centre to stand in the pissing rain etc[etc]

Wow, cc, your dd sounds worse than mine re. school! Mine has managed the 9-11.30 part reasonably well but she's had this little mate there who's really kept her going. It's her only ever friend! I think if she got a couple of other friends there she'd be fine, she tends to attach herself very firmly to a friend and then she's fine. She doesn't do groups at all and she's hopeless facing up to all that girly competitive stuff, it always has her in tears. I'm worried about how she'll cope. And I'm going to miss her big time.