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Kick butt - no more fags!

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mummylonglegs · 12/07/2005 15:08

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charliecat · 18/07/2005 10:01

Oh EM....you sound really distraught, but turn it around into the fight against this. Slowly it will dawn on you that the only way out of this shit bleak smoking hell is to not have any more, not one not half of one, not even a puff...you need to know that and tell yourself that, and believe that its a possibility, do anything but smoke.
Thats the reason you tryed to stop in the first place, it really is hard, mainly mental torture id say, but it is soo soooo soo worth it in the end.

I know you feel weak, but every single fag you have till your next quit just kicks your confidence. Pick a day this week and try again.

My mum has so far been lucky, stupid arsed doctors telling her they would never have known she was a smoker after listening to her chest a few years ago, well you would know now, she spends her time trying not to cough big green dung balls up.
She looks 80 instead of 56 wrinkled out big time.

mummylonglegs · 18/07/2005 13:32

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charliecat · 18/07/2005 15:40

I had that on a bus one day, pondering whether I should just go home and smoke as I was going to die anyway..

mummylonglegs · 18/07/2005 15:59

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charliecat · 18/07/2005 16:00

Remember though, most people give up when they are told its too late, because they cannot kids themselves any more and when the shit hits the fan none of us really want to die gasping for breath.
We are getting a head start.

hanginginthere · 18/07/2005 18:58

Three weeks! Yippee!!
Still bloody miserable though!
Charliecat, that five stages you posted is wonderful, I just read it thinking I am at the depression stage and so it can't be much longer!
Still hanging!`

charliecat · 18/07/2005 19:01

Glad to hear it! The sad thing is its almost like an anticlimax...4 weeks ago you would have broke your neck to be 3 weeks away from your last fag and now your depressed about it???? Doesnt make sense does it?!!!!!!!! Kepp going, how are you coping with the mad moments where your nearly walking into shops to buy some?

hanginginthere · 18/07/2005 19:07

Oh thats easy CC, I distract myself by picking a fight with my DH... then bursting into tears and letting him apologise profusely for his sins and pamper me to make it all up to me, even though he has no clear idea of quite what he done wrong (so not only am I better off and healthier, but DH is being kept on his toes too - will the benefits never end!)

He is being soooooo tolerant - I am absolutely off my rocker at the moment! I was on a course today and the woman next to me had some cigarettes in her bag - I avoided her at all breaks just incase she said she was going out for one; I would have run after her begging!!

charliecat · 18/07/2005 19:36

Sounds about right.

mummylonglegs · 18/07/2005 21:39

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charliecat · 19/07/2005 15:44

Dunno, shall we put out a thread shouting them in?

rickman · 19/07/2005 15:49

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charliecat · 19/07/2005 15:50

I have, sent it yesterday...sorry

hanginginthere · 19/07/2005 18:06

Fiona?
Custardo?
Whymummy?
2A?

WHERE ARE YOU?!!!

Day 23 for me
I feel like Big brother "Day 23"

fionagib · 19/07/2005 18:06

hi folks, glad to see success on here!! Sorry haven't managed to read all posts but it's nice to be back... well, kinda, considering scottish weather after sunny france...

have had ZERO FAGS. was tempted occasionally over wine late at night sitting out in garden with dh, but kept thinking, how can I face coming on here & reporting failure? Still lozzie addicted but what the hell. V happy. The thought of this thread kept me going all through the hol, so massive thanks.

hanginginthere · 19/07/2005 18:08

well done fiona! How long now?

fionagib · 19/07/2005 19:15

thanks hang, not sure, about a month I think.

Tortington · 19/07/2005 19:24

i failed sorry!

hanginginthere · 19/07/2005 20:20

how far did you get custardo?
Why don't you try again? I have tried giving up a zillion times but this is the farthest I have ever got

mummylonglegs · 19/07/2005 21:56

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peckarollover · 20/07/2005 10:45

Day 3 for me - please help me girls! I have a smoking friend coming at 12 im every so tempted just to ask for one draw

charliecat · 20/07/2005 10:47

if you have 1 draw when your friend comes round guarenteed you will have half a fag then one later and by 6 oclock tonight you will be back smoking. you stopped because you wanted to stop, you know you need to, you dont want your kids doing the same do you?
Sharing a packet of death sticks with them? No way.
The only way to stop smoking is by not having any more puffs, ever.

rickman · 20/07/2005 10:47

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mummylonglegs · 20/07/2005 10:50

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charliecat · 20/07/2005 10:51

Its ok Rickman, just read it, its only a book, if you dont want to stop at the end of it, dont, just read it, let it sink in.
You can smoke 200 packets whilst reading it if you want.

Oh and pecka...all perfectly normal thought the ones your having, you need to not smoke regardless of what your brains telling you though. Well Done!

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