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nicotime is a monster that will die if don't feed it!

280 replies

fionagib · 05/09/2004 23:40

Hi Folks - this thread continues from a v long previous thread... a few of us are desperately trying to kick the evil weed and will do it this time! A new thread, a new start! Let's help and support each other, splurge out those frustrations here.

Personally I feel like if I don't do it this time I am gonna take charliecat' suggestion and knock myself out with a hammer.

Come on girls - we know it' crap, and we feel so awful sneaking back in and our kids being near us and having honkng breath (us, that is...)
Let's do it this time, am am committed to this...

OP posts:
charliecat · 19/09/2004 10:22

Hi lipsty you sound just like me! Busy so back later but welcome!

Original poster
fionagib · 19/09/2004 18:56

Hi girls, have missed you, wondered how you were all doing - well done for shoving aside those terrible cravings... and welcome lipsty! What you're describing - binning fags, vowing to quite ever day - sounds like me... so maddening isn;t it. good luck!

are we starting a new thread with nicotine schpelled correctly & not drunkenly by p**head here?!

Well girls had a lovely time, worked like a loon, emerging only to get snacks (and fags). Smokes madly. Have sickened myself. Am ready & raring to quit tomorrow (with patches this time!)

xx

OP posts:
minkmama · 19/09/2004 21:47

hi everyone,

i have taken the liberty of creating a new thread..will be VERY easy to find if you haven't seen it already

hope you are all rearing to go tomorrow morning come rain or shine! i have had a decent day, came to check in a few times, but again no-one was home!!!

why so silent?!!!!

are we taking it in turns to have monologue days as therapy well, cc and i have done our bit, the rest of you can find the new thread and feel inspired!

night night all, sweet dreams and will see you all tomorrow x

charliecat · 19/09/2004 22:12

MM, I was here too but i always seem to be the last to post for hours and feel like a right twit talking to my self...going to look for new thrad now, but im sure I can still talk to myeslf here if needbe?!
MM somewhere sometime you mentioned me posting back my old bottle for a refill, can I do that, I will pay of course, BUT being a dohnut I have deleted your address, BUT if you send it again, sorry, to Gmail It will be there forever...Thats if its ok of course...how are you with oils FG?
Glad you had a productive weekend still though!

charliecat · 19/09/2004 22:14

YES MM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just found the new thead. i will post on that one at 12 noon tommorow providing I am nicotine free. See you there. Im not going to taint it with my smellyuncleanself till im free!!!!!!!!!

charliecat · 19/09/2004 22:14

Bloody hellhere i go with the multiple posting to myself

charliecat · 19/09/2004 22:17

Just one more thing...Twink, Pleas ekeep up your postings to us, just rerad the other thread, even if you just copy and paste then from ages ago. YOU ARE WHERE WE WANT TO BE!!!!!!!!!!!!
And thanks!

minkmama · 19/09/2004 22:40

CC, sorry, was surfing since no-one seemed to be around!!

Did you want the angry oil again? I will mail you my address now...

How was your day anyway?!!!

charliecat · 20/09/2004 07:46

Hi MM spent yesterday bulldozing the kids room...wrecked everywhere else doing it as you do!
Dont feel bad about being smug by the way, you deserve to be as smug and as neh neh neh as you like...I am jawclanching already, having a coffee, all selfinflicted nightmare sysmptoms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gonna give it a bash, a big one, wheres MY MALLET!!!

lipsty · 20/09/2004 08:35

Have just binned fags again as had an early morning one and felt positively ill with it. Realise that I really don't need nicotine in my system - "my body is a wonderful machine" - those Allen Carr quotes just keep on coming... Looked at my beautiful baby and see innocence and health - remember that I used to have that once upon a time before I started on fags. Am preparing myself for withdrawal and will probably retire to my bed for much of the day in between drinking gallons of water to flush it all out. Am fed up on standing outside in the rain trying to relight a wet cig. Am fed up with the smell, the inconvenience, the guilt, the panic that I might become really, really ill. Want to watch anti-smoking adverts with a clear conscience, am only in my thirties but feel TOO old already, have yellow fingers, tight chest, all my friends have stopped smoking, dh is a ns, want to stride over open hills and feel fresh air in my lungs for a change.

woodpops · 20/09/2004 08:36

Morning, how are you all going?? I was so close to breaking this weekend. Had the weekend from hell. But managed to avoid the fags, exactly how I don't know!!! Dh went away Thurs til sun. So I was left with ds and dd. Fine not a problem. Mum and dad away so keeping an eye on their house. Phone call from mums neighbour Fri night mums kitchen had flooded. And boy had it flooded. Rushed round, turned water off dried what I could, spent an hour on the phone to insurance company. Nightmare. Sat morn woke up took 45 mins to get out of bed had awful neck and head pain. Went to pick dd up to change nappy got horrific shooting pains from my neck into my head that brought me to my knees crying in pain. Took me 20 minutes to get back up. Went downstairs battleing against these shooting pains. Rang NHS direct who imediately dialed 999 an ambulance had appeared before I'd even finished talking to the lady at nhs direct. Very scared at this point thinking what the hell was wrong with me. Had a very scared ds as well. DD a bit young and didn't quite realise what was going on. Rang mil who raced round to look after kids. Was back home by 11 with some very strong pain killers. Apparently my muscles keep going into spasm. I now have a very stiff neck and probably shouldn't have driven in this morning!!!!!

charliecat · 20/09/2004 09:47

OMG wp...how are you now? You have dont so well to get to this point there should be no turning back. Lipsty I know JUST how you feel... theres a new thread by the way..look up health and youll find it!

charliecat · 20/09/2004 10:34

rIGHT IM ONE HOUR IN AFTER MY SHITTY START OF 2 FAGS THIS MORNING...cant even type properly. Now ladies....as im permanently surrounded byt fags what nuggett would you suggest I tell myself when mum/neighbours/dp/the postman had baccy right there and its soooo easy to smoke?
Aha, answered this one myself I think, If i do have one then im no nearer to stopping am i???
Ditzy mare.
Duh duh duh....

woodpops · 20/09/2004 10:52

Very stiff now cc. And tired. Dh very unsympathetic when he got home last night. I think it would have hurt too much to have a drag on a fag as well. Of all flaming weekends for this to happen. Just off to sort my mums insurance out.

Come on cc you can do it, make that 1 hr 2 and 2 hr 3. and so on.

charliecat · 20/09/2004 10:53

I know im talking to myself but im seriously considering getting my white t-shirt out and writing on it:
Serial Quitter. Do Not Help Feed This Mad Womans Addiction. She will Be OK Tommorow

minkmama · 20/09/2004 11:46

you will be okay today cc...like wp says, just take each hour at a time. i know what it's like when they are like shining beacons...ones you don't actually want as well! ask yourself why you want to smoke that particular cig at that time. is it just because you can?

stop being a smoker on this thread and rush your arse down to the other one! that goes for you two as well wp and lipsty!

POOR YOU wp!!! i have had a similar kind of spasm before and oddly enough it happened because i sneezed and kept it in LOL! i don't think work believed me when i told them i couldn't move my neck at all. how is your's now?!! have a bath when you get home and it might help to relax the muscles or else soak a small towel in HOT water and wrap that around your neck. WHAT A WEEKEND and you didn't even break. Gold star for you! (that sounded gay didn't it?! v. Miss Hooley)

Lipsty, are those fags well binned? make sure you douse them with crappy mess so that you cannot go through the shame of fishing around for a clean one!! poor some oil on them or something!

well done girls, a good morning an hour at a time, or 10 mins or whatever works for each of you! see you on the other thread!

p.s cc, i don't know how to do thread links, so could you do it for me here please?

charliecat · 20/09/2004 12:15

Heres the new thread!

I will write there when I feel in control and I am free of nicotine. I am locked in my house lol and I feel safe here as theres no baccy, my mum will be here soon and then we will see what happens...sorry for not being more positive but my hand just grabs it and rolls. I will be well chuffed if I dont though.
I shouldnt FFS all my rattles have gone and I am fine...its just I havent got the strenght to fight my head

I found the card FG sent with her book and it seemed like a million years ago..

charliecat · 20/09/2004 12:19

WP I have a broken foot and my other half hasnt made any effort at all to be more helpful or even sympathetic....In fact id say hes been a bigger lazyier bastard than usual So MUCH sympathy, I have had the neck thing too...OMG It is sooooooooooo sore and it never eases, but then when it goes its like you didnt ever have it...hope it gets better soon..xxxxxx

charliecat · 20/09/2004 15:58

Right, I am banning myself from these threads till I have got the nicotine out of my system.
I keep ballsing it up, somewhere in my head I have reawoke the demon that says they are pleasurable, I need to reread A.C till I relearn they are not.
MM I smashed the blooming lid on the bottle taking it upstairs you dont have a spare lid do you and ill still send the bottle?

minkmama · 20/09/2004 18:18

LOL CC, how did you manage to smash the lid and not the bottle itself?!! are we talking about the blue bottle? anyway, i have lids for both, don't worry

btw, sorry to hear about the lack of sympathy going on at your home!! the shame!!!

charliecat · 20/09/2004 18:31

I have no idea MM it just happened! I will send it back then and wait in anticipation for my refill, if its ok with you I will wait till you have the thingy set up to pay? Saying no more coz im banned.

minkmama · 20/09/2004 21:23

it is the angry oil right?!!

charliecat · 20/09/2004 21:24

yep!

charliecat · 20/09/2004 21:25

Sweet Almond Oil, Bergamont, Chamomile Roman, Lavender, Linden Blossom, Patchouli, Petitgrain, Rose Otto..

charliecat · 20/09/2004 22:10

Hey Twink im over on this one, im banning myself till im nicotine free...