I AM A NON SMOKER. I INTEND TO STAY THAT WAY!!!

[minkmama]

Hi girls,

I know it's a little 'in yer face' but i felt we needed a huge reminder everytime we posted each other!

Fresh start for Monday then!!

we are all on about attempt 201...is there any hope for us do you think?????

Yes CC there is, don't you DARE start trying to convince yourself otherwise, go and wash your mouth out with soap or something !!

Twink I need a kick up the arse. I need to reread Allen but I cant bear too. Just one...But I do know I wont get anywhere if I do.mental turmoil.

Poor cc... first your big glowing spot, now the mental turmoil... come on hon, as soon as the lozenges come, quit the fags - you know how much you hate them & how much grief smoking brings you.

Weird patch thing happened yesterday - ran out of nicotinelle, slapped on a niquitin (clear) that was kicking about the medecin box - felt sick & sweaty immediately, peeled it off, bought Nicotinelle & felt okay... then went to a work related party last night in Glasgow and bloody fainted!

Think it was due to the room being hot & standing up for so long - was peed off tho as I'd gone to bother of getting bus/train so I could have a drink, ended up shaking & sipping water!

But back to the patches - anyone noticed weird side effects?

Am on day 10 today, should be brimming with health but all all washed out & achy.

Anyway folks hope you're back on the straight & narrow cc... how's everyone else? mm - enjoying your folks' company before they go home?? (btw you must be one about day 2-something re no fags, is that right?)

I am on the straight and narrow, my mind is talking over the lozenges...GRRRR trying to ignore it.
When I was using the patches and having a fag every now and then and then using patches I was always having hot and cold flushes. Sweating etc, in fact even when I wasnt having an odd fag.
Only time ive fainted is when I was preggers...FG!!!!!!!! Your not are you????
MM hope your having a nice time with your folks before they go. {{{{ hugs}}}}}

God cc you're the second person to suggest preg... I have a test somewhere, still feel v woozy & wiped out but am sure it's just a bug, isn't it? uurrrrr......

Glad to hear you're back on track! Come on hon there is no need to smoke, put A.C. away cos you've overdosed on him and it's no longer having much effect - pls remember these things (& tell me to sod off if am being bossy...)

The doc saying your daughters will probably smoke if you carry on smoking
Your poor mum's awful cough & many many failed attempts to quit
Never wanting to scrabble about the garden in your nightie hunting for butts.
Proving to your dp and anyone else in your life that you're strong and single minded enough to kick this for good...

bossy miss will now get back to her work... xxx

mm I meant to say you must be on about day twenty something, not 2 something!! xx

Thank You FG, please copy and paste that to me every few days.
Are you gonna have another Gibbett??? (Thats what I call me and my fathers offspring as his second name was Gibb) Have you done the test? Well tell you what...it would help keep you off the fags for the next 9 months LMAO.........
Shouldnt laugh, I wouldnt wish a baby on anyone!

Heres another lovely story from where I live, Walking up the street from the train station coming home and can smell something rather pungent. Look up and a few gardens up there is a dirty great big black horse munching the grass...this is a council estate. Small gardens and all that.
Couldnt help but laugh. Felt like saying send him up to mine when your finished!!!!!!!!

cc send that horse up here cos our grass mirrors dh's mental state - it's about 7 inches long at the mo...

feeling all hollow & weird, not remotely fancying a fag, gonna catch up tomorrow girls (is it just you & me today cc??) cos am gonna slink off to bed as soon as kids are all in theirs....
f xx (party pooper)
ps did pg test - negative thank god!!

Congrats on not being pregnant!!!! Just taking dd1 to swimmingxx

Are you guys all daytime posters?
I only get on here once the kids are in bed. Ds managed to break the laptop by pushing the screen back and severing some vital wire, so don't risk it anymore.
Am having that wobbly 3 weeks without fags thing at the moment. Thank god dh is starting a 4 week sabatical tomorrow, I need his moral support during the day. Apparently 3 weeks is a bad time. You're sure you've kicked it, a lot of the reasons for stopping have gone (you feel healthier, don't smell...) so you think just one won't hurt. I am determined not to fall back in the trap.
Hope you lot are all doing okay.Cc especially, its not worth it is it, having to start all over again?

Dwindling on the edge here...it is sooo not worth it though.
Im a any time poster. I flick on first thing in the morning to see if im rich from my selling on ebay and leave a message here normally. Then if im at home the pcs on, even if its on standby, and at night I drift to and fro depending on what needs done in the house and whats on tv.

Anyway, all having a fag would do, and I know coz its tattooed on my head in flourecent pink, is refuel with a vengence your desire for nicotine, you would have one and then instantly have another as the first wasnt quite what you were after.
DONT DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It then leads to one or two that evening and then the next day you have lost confidence in yourself and feel like a twat.

Tommorow if you can go and buy yourself something, or go swimming or run up a hill rejoicing at the cleanliness of your lungs.

You are doing GREAT.

Dont fall in the pitxx

Thanks for that! I think half the time we're trying to keep ourselves convinced in the guise of helping each other.

Stick at Posey, you're sooooo right about it being a tough time, your brain will come up with ANY justification as to why one will be fine.

After all, you've come so far, people say the nictotine addiction is over after 7 days (ha !), you've proved how strong you are & have beaten it so it's fine to have one, it will be just one because you're an ex-smoker now.

('Scuse my language) BOLLOCKS, IT IS STILL THE NICOTINE TALKING, you obviously know that really, but it still sneaks up when you're feeling vulnerable, be strong.

Stick your tongue out, put your hands over your ears and walk round the living room chanting 'I'm not listening' you'll find the moment passes or your partner will have you committed and you won't be able to smoke there anyway.

Sorry, not trying to be flippant, I really, really remember how tough it was but if you break now, you've got the whole starting to stop thing to do again, DON'T GIVE IN !!

This includes you CC and FG, MM and anyone I've missed, it's not just for Posey cos you will ALL get to feeling like her.

If you don't and carry on with little accidents (FFS you're not potty training !) I think we'll have to organise a 'Mumsnet anti nicotine Christmas do' where I will lecture you before collapsing into my pint of red wine Actually, I've cut back so make it a half...

agree with all your sentiments twink & hope you're managing to be strong posey!!!!

am still on the patches here, am gonna do the whole 12 week or whatever programme - it's tempting to think I DON'T NEED THESE! but have done this many times in the past and waltzed right out to buy real fags.

Still think: yeah, it would be great to have a fag right now! esp on work days when I've come home from school to a quiet house, ready to work... and usually get the brain going with a quick chuff out the back.

Still it IS nice not to stink, to be able to breathe more easily, and - most of all - not to be constantly plotting & scheming how to sneak away from the kids and puff my next fag...

speak later girls xxxx yeah twink I do post in the day cos I work part time from home (have p/t child care) and it's v tempting - but try to keep it to reasonable limits (do rely heavily on this thread tho on desperate days!)

DAY 11 - MY NAME IS FIONAGIB AND I AM A NON SMOKER

Even better I am a non-pregnant non-smoker

Going to de-nit Tasha...ew found an egg this morning and the rest of the family so cant stop. Have not smoked, craved or anything, have just devoured 2 large apples in a way I wouldnt normally if I was smoking but 2 apples wont kill me...fags will!

My mums just rang to say woohoo...shes got us tickets to go and see the auction when David Dickingsons there for Bargain Hunt...WOO HOOO...love it...cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Drop the g in Dickinson I think!

OMG DD1 has been, since she got in from school irritating dd2 whenever im not in the room then laughing about it. Ive had 3 hours of it and ive just lost the plot, not shouting but loudly telling her if she keeps doing it and then looking at me with such a smug look on her face im going to cut the head off her favorite cuddly monkey...the thing is, when she was about 4.9 I cut its leg off. I warned her if she didnt stop getting up in the middle of the night and screaming, literally opening her mouth and screaming just to get the rest of the house up, I would cut its leg off. Well she didnt stop, so I cut its leg off and it worked. Shes slept through ever since.
Anyway one of those towel battering moments FG...I wonder if she will stop taking the piss out of Tanya now . I hope so.

To redeem myself I will have to say that she was a screamy baby a nightmare toddler and this was a habit she had got into and had been doing for a good couple of years...so I was at the end of my tether well and truely, had social services banged on the door to see what the noise was all about I would have thrown her at them and slammed the door behind her!
Anyway, my evil mother threat worked and we had a pleasant hour playing Top Trumps and reading.
Am CCRRAAAVVVIIINNGG

Haven't had chance to think about it much today; busy with ds most of day, then too dd and friend to their dance class, home for teas, baths and hairwashes, bed... then planning dh's sabbatical.
Got a full day ahead tomorrow so should be okay. At least this time my cravings are quite brief and I doon't have a feeling of doom and gloom, nor the monstrous moods. Just think ooh I'd like a fag now and then but do something else.

Thanks as ever for the continued support. Funny, we all really appreciate the same suport although we're all otherwise using different methods for quitting.

hi guys, thanks for thinking of me whilst i was away! you lot KEEP AT IT, YOU'RE DOING SOOO WELL!!

fg, congrats on non-pregnancy

only had time to READ all the posts, you lot have been busy bees!! posey, as the others know, i'm usually on first at lunch and then not till the evening usually till v. late i.e. 1am these days. this week been absent for parental reasons but will be back on form from saturday. oh, had v. emotional moment when dad was in the garage telling me where he had re-arranged everything and realised that he won't be here anymore (sniff)

gotta go, miss you all xxx

Oh charliecat. Absolutely pmsl at you turning innocent monkeys into amputees.

Have been following this thread lurker stylee for a while- am a smoker who has cut down to 0 when on best behaviour but still goes nuts for nicotine on nights out when quaffing alcohol. Unfortunately I'm still able to fool myself that social smoking is possible and acceptable, even though I know in rational moments that it isn't, so I can't join this thread officially. Rest assured you guys have my total admiration and sympathy though... Listen to the Twinkster if you want to succeeed. She definitely tells it like it is.

Ok girls, this is totally irrelevant really but I just have to share this with you.

Driving home from school yesterday with dd who has just been 5, I overtook a lorry:

DD 'I think I know why you could overtake that lorry mummy'

Why's that darling ?

The driver was holding 1 of those things that old people have

What sort of things ?

Those things which they throw on the ground which makes you cross

Truly mystified by this, 'can you describe them ?'

You know, those things that old people blow into

Can you tell me anything about them ?

They are white and have ends the same colour as wheat.

Penny finally drops but I'm still at a loss as to why she thinks we were able to overtake a smoking driver !

Is it because she thinks they must be slow because they are old or was it because the driver was a bloke and she's well aware that men can't do more than one thing at once ??