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Fag Free for 2005....Join us..We are doing GREAT!!!!!!!!!

536 replies

charliecat · 19/02/2005 21:57

Hello girls....

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whymummy · 22/02/2005 21:05

the thread that is,lol

almost40 · 22/02/2005 21:06

Hi fee77, Of course cigarettes have a laxative effect! Isn't that why any of us smoked? Or was it just me? I did know that, and used to 'take a dump' as my DH calls it right after the 1st fag in the morning. Now, who knows what time of day I will be moved. . .

Coughing - I've never done. Not to be gross, yet again, but all the thick stuff I was talking about came out of my NOSE! Am I the only one?

whymummy · 22/02/2005 21:15

bleurgh i think you are
yes,i knew about the laxative effect too and i also knew when i went to the loo,now it's usually when i'm in a shop or waiting for the school bell to go,grrrrrrrrrr

fionagib · 22/02/2005 21:19

I just felt gaspy all the time whymummy and yes, I hated the patches too - am convinced they triggerd a panic attic when I was doing 70 on the blimmin motorway - sweating, shaking, awful. And horrible raised red rashes.

btw cc - am sluping through those 1mg lozzies you v kindly sent me - but where did you get em? Chemist says they can't find a supplier, that maybe they're discontinued. Just wondered cos am not read to cold turkey it - but don't wanna go up to 2 mg again. Maybe I'll try ebay.

WELL DONE MINK YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!!

This thread has a v successful ring to it. (yeah I swear loads too, but then I did as a smoker as well). Great to hear everyone so perky on here!

almost40 · 22/02/2005 21:21

I also used to smoke Marlboro lights. . . Where are you whymummy?

whymummy · 22/02/2005 21:23

i'm still here

almost40 · 22/02/2005 21:23

FG, I also had similar response to the patch. The reason why we're all so perky here is: too much coffee. At least, that's my excuse. . . Again, I'd rather be a fat coffee-drinking-non-smoker than a skinny-caffeine-free-smoker any day. Ok, I'm just trying to justify my obesity. . .

almost40 · 22/02/2005 21:24

I have to go now to pick up my DDs. Will chat with you all later. Go MInk! You can do it!

fee77 · 22/02/2005 21:28

I can't drink coffe at night - i prefer wine!!! I didn't know fags made you poo! God i am going to put sooo much weight on now. Or start eating liquorissch.
I found the patches ok - once i realised i could take them off at night - i had some really bizzare dreams! Mind you i dreamt i was up thw duff again last night!!!

whymummy · 22/02/2005 21:28

oh yes the patch,it was awful fiona,i've never felt so unwell in my life,dh said i went all white,heart racing,cold sweat everything spinning and the rash,i took the damn thing off and had a fag to get me over the shock,lol

whymummy · 22/02/2005 21:30

hi fee,i read about your spots,sounds awful

Willow2 · 22/02/2005 21:34

And there was I thinking I was all alone in my inability to have a decent poo! May go and buy some of that slimmer tea as apparently it has the same effect. Either that or a gram of coke. Now that would be ironic, gave up fags but became a crack addict in a desperate attempt to have a good poo.

FionaG - The GI diet is supposedly the healthy way to shift weight and keep it off - another one of those not a diet more a way of life type thing. Too complicated to explain here - go to The Times online and do a search, they've been running a series on it in the Style section.

whymummy · 22/02/2005 21:35

do you think is another bloody side effect?cos i have a very painful spot on my cheek that looks horrible

Willow2 · 22/02/2005 21:35

Re patches - I wish I had written down the dreams I had as they were so bizarre and would have made hysterical reading... but I'm buggered if I can remember any of them now.

whymummy · 22/02/2005 21:37

hi willow
glad you can't poo too

fee77 · 22/02/2005 21:49

We may have to start a new thread about constipation!!
May be my spots are a side effect but they are about to drive me back to the fags!!! Feel very down about them - i never have a great compexion but these are just NASTY. And we have just put sealant round the bath so i can't wash my hair and it is really yuk after swimming. I am staying in tomorrow and locking the door - hopefully i will emerge a beautiful swan on thursday!!

whymummy · 22/02/2005 21:52

i read somewhere about a celebrity that used nail varnish remover to get rid of spots

fee77 · 22/02/2005 22:03

ohh that sounds painful!! I heard toothpaste is good too, but i will stick with clean and clear.
Better sign off now - DH is "making noises"!!!

charliecat · 22/02/2005 22:30

I love squeezing spots..can someone direct me to the thread till i fantasise?
Dp had another stray puff today and then got all narky when i was halfway through saying Well after seeing me fail so many times I would have thought you knew better...so ? But at least he hasnt had 30, but as we all know its not the way to go.
I think I am having a dump every couple of days btw not every mornig after a fag so im thinking thats an improvement if theres ever a meetup of us non smokers lets NOT mention this..ok!!!

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whymummy · 23/02/2005 07:16

LOL charliecat , lets not meet just yet,you'll be chasing fee and me to squeeze our spots
i'm sitting here waiting for my first senokot to act,lol

whymummy · 23/02/2005 13:00

where's everybody?did i kill this thread talking about constipation,lol??? ok,i won't tell you what the senokot did to me but come back pleeeease

fee77 · 23/02/2005 15:00

Afternoon! Is the constipation that bad? Try some fruit juice.
One of my spots is going down so i don't look quite so freaky today. DH has told me to seek professional help as i am always getting spots!!! I think he meant it in a nice way, but it didn't quite come across that way!!
I am soo glad i don't smoke - i would be freezing my brass monkeys off out there, and the snow would have turned a nicotine brown where all my fag butts lay!!!

whymummy · 23/02/2005 16:45

glad one spot is gone fee,mine's bigger today,grrr
i wasn't going to talk about this anymore but the senokot did wonders,lol,and i do drink a lot of juice and eat lots of fruit and veg i'm sure is just a side effect and i will soon be back to normal.
how is everyone doing today?and your partners?

fionagib · 23/02/2005 23:20

all this poo talk girls! Am gonna emigrate to a more sophisticated thread, lol.

I think the rear end department settles down in a few weeks. Have found that giving up white bread helped, a real gunker-upper.

Have been really craving lately. Hang around dh in kitchen at night inhaling fumes but am not gonna crack. Can't bear to go back to fags. I'd be so gutted now.

mm, thinking of you and wondering how you're doing..... look at cc, 3000 plus fags unsmoked and feels so much better. have to admit I find cc a total inspiration so there charliecat!!

cc - where did you get 1mg lozenges?? And I hope your dp stays on straight and narrow - we all know what a few puffs leads to...

Aren't we fragrant and lovely and fag free girls!

charliecat · 24/02/2005 07:45

Cant stop but got them from ebay...shall i buy some if i see any?

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