2005: the flare-loving fag-free club

[charliecat]

Here we go girls

Nothing planned...some baileys and some bud and a tv remote
Glad your feeling better, im off to go eat something again!
What are you going to be reading...im reading the 2nd one of the nab end books ...not enjoying as much as i did the first but persevereing or however you spell it!

hi guys, finally had a chance to read up since i've been 'away'! well done all of you, i'm so proud of you esp. given my weird limbo situation here! saffy, i have often been teary for no reason and ended up having a fag thinking it would make me feel better in some way but it really doesn't so well done on chomping instead of chuffing!!

thanks for all the hugs girls, i was so embaressed to pop my head in to tell you my awful news and then to read tonight all that support and kindness, it really has made me feel a whole lot better and dare i say it, motivated.

i'm just in that strange place where nothing is actually 'making' me smoke at the moment - not like those times when the kids are all stressful. as i'm typing i'm actually feeling positive about giving it another go tomorrow and i'm prepared to but i've got this horrible black cloud over my head saying 'what if you have to come back again in a couple of days and tell the girls you've failed AGAIN?!!'

believe it or not i gave up for a whole year and a half just like that when we decided to have ds1...gotta get into that frame of mind again!!!

cc, ds2 is still on hunger strike (part teething, part don't know what) but is v. interested in crawling into dangerous places. he started doing it properly about 2wks ago! was v. proud but forgot to mention!!

we went to Drusilla's Park yesterday (saw the signs for your place and thought of you )and it was packed but ds1 loved having the space and freedom to run around and was an angel! today we went into london to briefly meet up with some old friends who were celebrating a 30th birthday and we were told to leave All Bar One because we had children! (we were only popping in to say 'hi') it's so weird going to a child-friendly environment one day then to central london on another...such different worlds! it reminded me of when i used to work there and how long ago that was!!

anyway off to bed now and am determined to wake up and become a non-smoker again! thanks again everyone, i must try to get on as often as i used to because it's you guys who get me through it {{{big hugs}}} xxx

bloody hell, that post's a bit much isn't it

Nice to see you here again Mink and I hope you have woken up in a good frame of mind this morning....precisely what you explain is exactly whats helping to keep me stopped. You balls up so many times you dont know if you have the strenght to try again let alone succeed. BUT it is PERFECTLY possible....you just need to get on the boat with us and float!!!!!
Drusillas is nice isnt it?(Mind you bet the weather was iffy) Bit expensive if you wanted to go more than once a year(!)...but thats the South East isnt it?
OMG 2 moving babies AAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
DD1 was weaned on chicken super noodles and quavers Honestly she would not eat anything else. Everything else made her gag and throw up...even the smell of things, and I remember walking through the town centre crying because I just thought Shes gonna die if she doesnt eat.
Now she will eat bread, butter, jam, marmalade, red leicester cheese, tomato, cucumber, carrot peas, prawn crackers, potatoes(baked/bolied/mashed), eggs, fruit in any form...sausages...oh and of course crisps and crap but she has to eat something worthy of eating before shes allowed anything else.
Does piss me off any flavour of crisps will be tried without tears...
Anyway......thats quite a list considering she only used to accept noodles and quavers isnt it?
Can you put the food on the highchair tray and let him pick while you tidy up and keep 1 eye on him without him knowing? I used to leave food on plates in wee hiding places so desperate was I for her to eat...grapes and dairylea crackers.
Arent kids fun!!!!!!!!!!!
Good Luck on both counts xxxxxxxxxx

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just a quickie folks, so glad you're back mink, we have really missed you!
dh chain smoked last night and I lozenged like fury - gonna cut down on my little white helpers on thur when I SUBMIT THE BOOK!!
Hope everyone's having a good w'end, am taking kids swimming today, then dh taking the lucky tykes to see a a film, son of the mask, tomorrow is glasgow so I can work.

xxx

Fg..dont know if this is a ridiclulus suggestion, but i used to be able to fool my brain in to thinking i was having a lozenger by having an extra strong mint or one of those posh tinned ones....it would be 40 mins later when id think...oh real one now! It worked for me but then i am quite dappy and have a brain like a fish so easily forget what i have and havent done

v good idea cc, thank you, am sucking so many that am getting little ulcers on tongue, how fetching!

They have def become a habit but will go onto the lower strength ones you kindly sent me and cut down gradually, start running again.... ooh, the virtue flying around this house! Glugging wine, feeling good, lost it in local chinese with dd cos she was being rowdy, realised it was cos I'd forgotten my lozenges...

how many fags not smoked on your counter now cc??

near on 3000

I have done us a new thread here see you there xx

let us know when its up and running

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