F2Q starting month3

[nsd_user663_1733]

Morning so pleased you are still with us well done. also well done on 2 whole months quit. xxxxx

[nsd_user663_3633]

Congrats on 2 months - very good work despite the slip.

Just make sure there are no more slips

[nsd_user663_3712]

Yay - I'm In!

Linda,

First of all thank you very much for welcoming me to the next stage. I told my husband this morning it was a bit of a milestone being two calendar months and he couldn't beleive it. He said I was the last person he thought would give up and I suppose he's right.

It hadn't even crossed my mind before I went in hospital. I'm glad I'm here now though. As I put on onother thread - I think I will always be an addict who just isn't smoking. At least I feel it's me in control that way.

Not had a great day either, on top of the redundancies last week, I found out today that an ex-boss of mine died yesterday of a heart attack at the age of 41 having not been overweight, smoked or drank excessively. He leaves three young children a week before Christmas. If there was a lack of Christmas spirit in the building before, its worse now.....

Really don't feel very Christmasy this year......not dreading anything in particular but not excited either :confused:

At least I'm getting healthier

XX

[nsd_user663_1733]

So Sorry to hear of your bad news. life dont add up some times. make sure you treat yourself tonight you have done very well. xxxx

[nsd_user663_3282]

Hi F2Q,

Sorry to hear of the bad news at work...and the difficulties over the past w/end too. I'm glad that you are sticking with your quit. In someways I think that a quit that has had a blip in it could be much more difficult to manage. For me it would be given that I, like many, have spent countless years trying to stop smoking and failed by an initial blip in the quit. For me it leads to the constant chattering in my head where one part seeks to persuade the rational part to 'have the occasional social smoke'. No such thing, as we all know.

Separately in the forum there's been a thread started concerning blipping and whilst I don't wholly agree with every suggestion I do think that quitters who have encountered a blip should be able to post their concerns in some specific place and that to be treated as a resource. After all it's continuing to support which is very important thing given that it's possibly the most problematic part of a person's quit outside of the initial few days.

Keep well,

C

[nsd_user663_3712]

Hi F2Q,

Separately in the forum there's been a thread started concerning blipping and whilst I don't wholly agree with every suggestion I do think that quitters who have encountered a blip should be able to post their concerns in some specific place and that to be treated as a resource. After all it's continuing to support which is very important thing given that it's possibly the most problematic part of a person's quit outside of the initial few days.

Keep well,

C

Thanks Cav, can you point me in the direction? There is so much chatter on here recently I can't find it...

[nsd_user663_3768]

hiya It hasn't been started yet.

It was suggested, and some were for it and others very against. Maybe if you want to lend your support one may get set up.....

I know what you mean about hard times, i started smoking after 5 years not smoking, due to funding issues in work and working too many hours, in then end i had to leave my job, things got slowly worse, personal tragedy etc etc.

But I still went ahead with my quit, because I though I'm feeling lousy anyway, and I knew I was feeling worse by smoking - not health wise, but with guilt.

So stick with it, smoking doesn't stop bad things from happening, nor does it stop you feeling stressed or depressed - in the clinical sense!

Well done on your quit so far, esp as others didn't have faith in you!!