I am still here and excited!!

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Hello everyone

I have just logged on after a really busy few days and can't believe I have won the prize!! This has made it worthwhile even more because I never win anything!! Yippee

Good job to everyone else though and I will stay on this forum because it has been a Godsend

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[nsd_user663_1704]

Phew

Worried you might of run away hehe

Glad to see you're happy Didn't realise you hadn't seen the fact that you had one yet! lol Surprised it didn't turn up in the post first, that would of really confused you hehe!

Good to see you back x x Well Done!

[nsd_user663_1629]

Thanks Buffy, yes I am definitely still here, let's all carry on the good work we have done

[nsd_user663_1655]

glad to see you still on your quit Ruby, congrats!

Woot woot, you are doing great, and congratulations on winning the prize!

Vike

[nsd_user663_1629]

I most definitely am still on the quit. When I am busy I am fine, when I am lounging around I want a fag still but am fighting the cravings like crazy! My daughter got a book for my for mothers day called You Can Stay Stopped by Jennifer Percival who is a nurse - very good but needed it at beginning really not 2 months after quitting. Am still eating a lot but am not worried about this until 6 month deadline then will tackle weight gain. I am worried about the summer, for some reason smoking was better in summer (glass of wine on patio) - I wish I didn't still have these thoughts, does anyone else??

On 9th week!!

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[nsd_user663_1704]

Summertime

yes i still get those thoughts, I totally agree with you about summer, it's such a buzz everyones out and about sipping drinks smoking laughing.

But then i rethink the thought omitting the smoking bit and realise there's no real difference.

and this summer is way different! because I will be non smoker and can relax without having to go out for cigs and losing my seat everyhalf hour because the ban will be in place! also i will be able to taste my pimms and my wine.

Besides I'll probably be too busy trying to shift this excess belly blubber! lol

I don't think the thoughts ever totally go, people go back to smoking after years of giving up so they must still have those thoughts. It's just they get less frequent and less powerful.

I just thought last night (when i had a flash of a cig and then remembered i don't smoke and my heart sank momentarily) how annoying it is to still get those thoughts. But then i compared the thought to how i used to feel when i couldn't get to the shops and was waiting for him to leave the pub and bring me in some cigs, or when i would wake up and there was no cigs in the house! my how those thoughts have eased in comparison to those days!

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I totally agree Buffy. I read a post on here yesterday about a new member whose child now gets a full bedtime story because she is not trying to force the bedtime routine so she can go out and have a fag when they are all in bed. It made me really think because that's exactly what I used to be like and not just with the kids. I would plan my day around ciggies completely, I'll just do this then have a fag etc etc - it seems so ridiculous. Nearly every single fag I had I felt guilty because I knew deep down that I shouldn't be doing it, I'm so relieved not to have that guilty feeling anymore. It is surprising how much more time you have in the day when you stop smoking.

My health has improved 100% because my asthma was getting worse and I had developed a smokers cough, I cannot and will not go back to this terrible and addictive habit.

[nsd_user663_1704]

I read a post on here yesterday about a new member whose child now gets a full bedtime story because she is not trying to force the bedtime routine so she can go out and have a fag when they are all in bed.

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I used to do that exact thing! my kids now get two stories at night as i enjoy it so much more too!

Funnily enough, when writing the above post i wrote something then scrubbed it. It said that in the summer I am also looking forward to not rushing out of the swimming pool with the kids because i want a smoke ><

Shamefull, thats why i scrubbed it out again.