Goodbye Tobacco!

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Sinbad.............Im really rootin' for ya gal!!  And moaning?.....to us?.....thats what we're all here for, you have given everyone so much in the way of support and encouragement, you can have a go too ;) We're all here for ya hunny ;)

I have read all the posts now........and that was one helluva shock hun, I understand why you feel you need to stop. I'm the same really, once ya start feelin' better from not smoking you think about having a f*g again.

Trouble is........it never gets better doing it that way. I have done that over the last 2 years.....give up, start again. I think the blog is a good idea if it works for you. I'm better just bumblin' along. Sometimes I find its hard  to say what I want in posts :-\

Just remember the lovely Valentine's poem Barry sent you ;)


Ollie.....nice one! :D I found when I had a drink it made me smoke more. I dont indulge at all these days.  Well I packed alcohol in a few months ago, it didnt do me any favours.....and I never drank much ::)

You are keepin' busy....all that work and study. Ya can always sing int showa chuck ;D


Hows it going Tony??

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[tonybloke]

DAY 50 !! well, I never thought I'd get this far!!  :o
another hectic day, up 'til 4 a.m, being a student's support / coffee maker, then up early this a.m. to crack on with some allotment stuff on the pooter, whilst tracie is finishinf her dissertation ready for binding and handing in 2 morra ( bloody quotes, footnotes, appendices, bibliographies, list of illustrations, etc)
Abstract is now being worked on!!  ;)
Me? I ain't had time to think about a f*g, been 2 busy again! cooked some cajun chicken  for tea, with a jacket spud and home - made coleslaw (wiv a little cream in it) yummy! ;)
Glad you still with us , Star!
OllieC, here's how to light a grape!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSBoN1OKXUE

[Sinbad7]

Thank you Shirl for those words and honest I would luv to please you.  I haven't smoked but after the feelings of today I can't see me making it.

And thank you  Star for all your support.  I really am pleased you're doing so well, I think for sure this time you are going to make it for good.  After my offer and your refusal there has to be more than hope for you  ;D  ;D  ;D

Well done Ollie and also for cutting down on the grog.  I found the seedless grapes burnt better  ;D.

Hope tony  is doing well today too.

[betula]

Simbad,you have got to keep going now.

You have been an inspiration to me,a walking chimney pot and I am seriously getting myself into a mind set now to try to stop.

You read this thread back,you are having a bad day,Buy something lovely with the money you have saved.You deserve a reward. :

[betula]

Just don't ask me to give up grog,a girl has got to have something ;D

[star]

Simbad,you have got to keep going now.

You have been an inspiration to me,a walking chimney pot and I am seriously getting myself into a mind set now to try to stop.

You read this thread back,you are having a bad day,Buy something lovely with the money you have saved.You deserve a reward. :

Betula is right Sinbad, you have been a tower of strength to everyone else.  ;)

In other words please dont give in......... coz then I'll have to..........then we'll have to elope........then will have to try and explain that one........that'll be your job!!!! 8)

And.......and.......we'll both smell.......... :-X

I still have faith in ya gal..........new day tomorrow, the first of the rest of our lives ;) :-*

[Sinbad7]

betula I'll hang on in there then if you are going to try but hurry up and make up your mind, I could have another bad day tomorrow  ;D  ;D  ;D  Of course you can carry on drinking seeing everyone seems to have given it up I could do with some company.

Star had you proposed earlier in the day we could have been making plans now  ;D  ;D

You really are brilliant and I do thank you all for helping me through today.

[shirlton]

Do hope that you are all still off the weed. Remember if you do fall of yer horse and have one well you can always get back on and start again.

[Sinbad7]

Hi Shirl,

Nope didn't fall off my horse yesterday and have to say although I do want to smoke today it hasn't been as bad as yesterday.

I think yesterday I behaved like a spoilt brat so I am probably one anyway.  The woman in the chemist told me to stop using the inhalator and that was making me want a cigarette, I thought s** you I like it.  Then she said I would have to start the lower nicotine patches next week as it is an 8 week course, so by then I had the hump and said I wanted the lower dose now, which of course I didn't but wouldn't back down.  Honest I could have thrown the lot at her and walked out, SHE smokes and is telling me what to do  ;D  ;D  ;D

So today on one of my walks I met an ex-plot holder with her oxygen cylinder strapped to her back, so she reinforced the reason I have stopped, so that did me a bit of good, another day under my belt.

Plus I was reminded, last night, that a cigarette is a bit of paper with a few dry leaves in it.  That has to make you wonder about yourself and the fuss you are making  ;D  ;D  ;D

[Sinbad7]

Mind, forgot to add that bit of paper and few dried leaves do taste flipping good, well when you're feeling naughty  ;D  ;D  ;D

[saddad]

Fight the good fight, keep it up, it would be much harder to do the lottie lugging that oxygen cylinder around!  :-X

[shirlton]

I had a bad day today with my breathing so I don't know what I would be like if I still smoked. So pleased that you are still on the wagon.

[valmarg]

Well, I've just taken a lot of time and trouble to encourage you sufferers to give up the evil weed, and it's another message that has buggered off into the ether.

Anyway, don't believe that 'one won't hurt'.  It will.  One will lead to two, and before you know it you will be back where you started from, and all that pain will have been for nothing.

I know it's hard, but hang on in there.

valmarg

[Borlotti]

I really, really must give it up, don't smoke indoors or on the computer.  Everynight I think I don't want to smoke in the morning but do.  Might go to the doctor and get patches but would rather do it without.  The only time I couldn't smoke was when I was pregnant as felt so sick.  I think I am a bit too old to get pregnant again but it was a wonderful cure, no will power just felt sick all the time, couldn't smoke and couldn't bear the smell of leather handbag or soap.  So spent 9 months dirty from not washing with soap but didn't smell of ciggie smoke.  The doctors in those days, had baby at home, and asked me what I wanted and had a ciggie immediately after the birth.  Big mistake.

[Sinbad7]

Sorry your breathing was bad today Shirl, I hope it's a lot easier for you tomorrow.

Sinbad

[Sinbad7]

Thanks Val for your encouragement.  Great when all that typing disappears  ;D

Borlotti, maybe if you went and got the patches for free, they could start you off then stop using them.  It would be lovely if you came and joined us even if it was just for one day to start with.

Thanks saddad , I know it would.  I'd probably have to keep lying down knowing me :)  ;D

[tonybloke]

Well, I've just taken a lot of time and trouble to encourage you sufferers to give up the evil weed, and it's another message that has buggered off into the ether
valmarg

Yep , me too!!
Any way>> Day 51, been another hectic one, the O.H. claims it's diversion therapy, or something!!
Come on Sinbad, you can do it!! Had to see the nurse today, to get next set of batches, after 8 weeks, next week start on lower (10mg) ones.
Sinbad, get rid of the inhilator, my nurse reckons it's too much akin to having a drag on  a ciggie, and doesn't help to break the habit?
How's Ollie and Star getting on today?
Betula, Go On, you can do it!! howabout if  I DARE YOU !! ;)

[OllieC]

I'm hanging in there... not going out for a pint tonight so as to avoid temptation... and I am having a bottle or two of red at home instead :)

Keep it up guys!

Ollie

[Hyacinth]

Don't you DARE give into temptation Ol :o..temptation leads to concussion cos I'll whack you with this very heavy hardback of Steinbeck I've got, right on yer bonce ;D

[Sinbad7]

Nooooooooooooooo, I like my inhalator  ;D  ;D  As another pharmacist said to me it's better you puffing on that than a cigarette.

Congratulations Tony on reaching day 51, that's brilliant.

Well done OllieC.