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mummylonglegs · 16/05/2005 22:24

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charliecat · 27/05/2005 16:13

Its worse in a way because theres nothing I can do. If I had never smoked I would like to say right quit the fags or else but I know just how selfish they make you.
If my mum would just make a wee effort, even a failed one. But she hides round the corner chuffing away..gawd.

charliecat · 27/05/2005 16:13

6 months 5 hours 28 mins and 41 seconds free I am having a wee party with the kids tonight to celebrate

mummylonglegs · 27/05/2005 17:00

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hub2dee · 27/05/2005 17:01

Do you think, cc, it would maybe work better coming from someone else ?

(I'm not meaning me, BTW, but someone she goes to see at a smoking clinic).

hub2dee · 27/05/2005 17:03

mll - was that an evil grin ?

LOL.

charliecat · 27/05/2005 17:29

Thanks for the support guys...my mum would never set foot in the doctors surgery to ask for help. Shes one of the generation that cant get her head round the fact that smoking really is that bad. Shes 56.
Shes also in denial, im sure if stopping smoking was a breeze she would have done it years ago, she, like me, finds it excruciating

Oh and now she says...im just going out for one of those. Like speaking the word will make it real.
She smokes one of those 2.34 packets of amber leaf every 1.5 days. She USED to smoke Old Holburn, a big pouch every 5 days or so.
She did stop...for 100 days...till she picked up a dogend outside the supermarket...next day back to fullfledgedconfidenceknockedwontbedoingthatagaininahurry smoker.

I say to them that im not trying to convert them...if they want to choke thier lungs out its thier choice...however and not going to quietly watch them do it...im going to noisily object till its easier to stop smoking than to listen to me prattling on all day

Dp...used to be a good 40-60 a day as a lorry driver...not sure how many hes smoking in the smoking office now but only 2-3 in the evenings.

Another Day achieved folks...nearly anyway!

hub2dee · 27/05/2005 17:31

That must be hard for you cc.

I think in one of your threads you mentioned a smoking clinic. Did you / do you attend one as a client, or do you work in one ?

charliecat · 27/05/2005 17:33

LOL...gawd no!...someone else was going to one but it wasnt me!!!

hub2dee · 27/05/2005 17:38

Oh OK, wrong end of stick. Sorry.

If your ma is in denial maybe you could arrange for her to get 'hands on' / first hand contact with diseased lungs (images, video, visits to hospital, speaking to someone who has suffered as a result of cigarettes through an illness or other incapacity, going to that Bodyworks exhibition etc. etc.) - would that help maybe ?

charliecat · 27/05/2005 17:51

she knows someone whos dying and now she wont go and see her

mummylonglegs · 27/05/2005 20:46

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mummylonglegs · 27/05/2005 20:47

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mummylonglegs · 28/05/2005 14:39

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evansmummy · 28/05/2005 18:47

Hi mll. Had a stressful couple of days. Ds is teething and crying loads and loads and loads. Poor thing has a lot of trouble sleeping when his teeth come so it's not been an easy couple of days. Hence, the cravings are stronger than earlier this week. Which is strange also cos I thought they were supposed to get weaker with the time... Had a lovely glass of wine after we finally managed to get him off to sleep last night, and couldn't stop thinking about ahveing a fag too. It frustrates me...

Also, this sunny weather does my head in! I just so associate it with beers and fags in the pub garden. Bl**dy summer...

mummylonglegs · 28/05/2005 22:02

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charliecat · 29/05/2005 10:05

Its the weekend. Mn is always quiet...so pleased to hear that your still on the straight and narrow, was wondering when someone was going to mention the weather. i remember feeling left out when all my friends were sitting in a big puff of smoke with a beer and there I was the leper sitting to the side with a beer but no fag. I managed to get my head round the fact, I was the lucky one, but still you do feel its the weather for it!
I found something Allen Carr said rather amusing also, that you talk to people you would never usually talk to because you share the same addiction, and that people in a non smoking area, you can see them itching, unsettled, waiting for the right moment to sneak outside...and then the relief to see a fellow addict already at it and you rest at ease in the fact your not the only smoker/edjit

charliecat · 29/05/2005 10:06

Revel in that good feeling BTW ...rememeber that even on the worst day you are still on top by not smoking.

evansmummy · 29/05/2005 18:16

That's hard though,cc when you've got that horrible urge, and you know you only ned to smoke and it'll go away.

Also, I'm compensating by eating. I hate it and I can't stop myself. I'm gonna end up a fat cow, who doesn't smoke...

charliecat · 29/05/2005 19:17

a fat cow who doesnt smoke is better than a skinny cow that does

mummylonglegs · 29/05/2005 19:18

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charliecat · 29/05/2005 19:21

Yeah...after a while you do need to cut down the intake but I do feel its well worth it!

evansmummy · 29/05/2005 21:22

Still haven't smoked, even though I seem to be thinking about it constantly. Funnily enough, I can't even remember which day I stopped.

charliecat · 29/05/2005 21:42

Have a look on the thread? I am pissed and have had a quick scroll through but cant find it.
Must add that I had a mate who had stopped smoking for 3 months this was at a time when i was trying every few days and failing) and I was so so so so so in awe of her...until she had a fag in her hand one day and I was like OMG what are you doing...and she said she had put on half a stone so she was going beack to smoking so totally couldnt believe it. DONT even go there.

evansmummy · 29/05/2005 21:45

I've already put on lpads of weight since getting pregnant, couldn't bear to get any fatter. I waddle, as if I were still preggers!

evansmummy · 29/05/2005 21:47

Oh, btw, it was Tuesday 9am the last fag. Might even make a week