Jenjam

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Let me get this right, u have stopped smoking, your hubby is still smoking and u are cycling like a mad woman. My God u don't belive in doing it the easy way do u?:eek:

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Hi Bev

Ohh, if you know an easy way to stop smoking let me know. if anyone said to me "I have a pill you can take and after you've taken this you will never, ever have one single craving for a smoke ever again" I'd bite their hand off!

It's the cycling that's keeping me on the straight and narrow. It's 5 weeks to the London to Eastbourne, I know I will need my lungs for that ride, so it's helping me stay stopped, Once I do that ride I will have been stopped for 8 weeks. I'm hoping the cravings will get less so that I don't have to keep doing long bike rides.

Last night I nearly caved. The mere sight of a packet of Golden Virginia or Rizla papers sends me spazzy. I smelt the tobacco last night, in the packet. it smelt of urine, but then I noticed the smell of it on my fingers, so had to go and wash my hands.

I'm working on hubby, he is building up to giving up. But like me, he can't set a quit date, he has to just wake up and say "that's IT!". In both times I've quit properly I've just picked a day at random, the planning and building up to it just freaks me out. He's certainly smoking less and more than that he's getting used to doing things without a smoke. He had siad he would give up this month, last night I told him I wasn't expecting him to give up this month, that I wanted him to give up ASAP but I was hoping for sometime this year. He said that too a bit of pressure off him and he had been feeling anxious about this month. I know what it's like to be a smoker ... the pressure can be too much Thankfully don't have that problem now.

Phew ... sorry for a big ramble. Hope everyone's doing fine. I slept 10 hours last night, but then I did go through a lot of lager last night

take care all

JJ

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Ramble on

God it is great to be able to ramble, i think i drive my poor hubby mad by just obsessing about cigs. he has never smoked (he is a doctor) so though he is really understanding and all that he has no idea how hard it can be. i must admit i don't have a problem with the lager bitch but i have met her friend the white wine bitch and trust me i have to be v careful around her. i have not been out and drinking yet, just in the house but i must admit i am really nervous about going out and getting Pi**ed and then just saying "oh i'll just have 1 cig tonight" and i know that it can't be just 1.

I am glad the cycling is helping take ur mind off smoking maybe i should take up a hobby, something like a chocolate eating hobby sounds good.

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it IS good to ramble, I know what you mean, I like to talk about not smoking but worry I'm putting pressure on hubby to not smoke. At work, none of my colleagues have ever smoked .... you know my boss joked about being addicted to chocolate? I asked him if he'd ever raked through a dustbin to get chocolate and he said no (of course), so I pointed out to him that if he were truly addicted to chocolate he would do just that, as many times I've raked through old ashtrays to get fag ends (YUK)

Your hubby is a doctor? Wow ... it's good he's being supportive and not lecturing. I suppose he knows all about the damage it does, and what the symptoms of stopping are (you know, that the coughin up lumps is normal, the bloody nose, the bleeding gums etc).

Well, today is a lovely bright hot sunny day. Hubby and I are off work at the moment on leave, we're just finishing off de-jungleing part of the garden, then don't know what. Got to go back to work on Thursday (boo, hiss) so want to make the most of it. I got up at 11am today (mmmmm 10 hours sleep, needed it) (I used to think it was bad to have a lie in, these days I just let my body tell me what it wants and if it wants a lie in it will have one), just waking myself up with stong coffee then I'll get going. I'll likely jump on here as I do if I get a craving.

Gosh - another waffle post! Will I ever do a short one

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Sunshine?

so where in the world are u? i am in Halifax (near Leeds and Bradford) and the sun is not shining here, really cloudy and they have said rain later, oh good.

i do get to sleep in once a week (if hubby not on call) but with 3 small kids (10,6 and 3) relaxing is quite difficult, but that is a good thing when u don't want to think about certain things!

Hubby is great, but a big part of my problem is that i never suffered as a smoker, i never had the bad chest or the coughing, or the yellow fingers, now i know that might sound like rubbish but its not and therefore right now i don't feel any better, because i didn't feel bad before.

All that said i do know that it was only a matter of time before smoking caught up with me, so i am doing the right thing.

as for the size of your posts, lets face it there is something to be said for length.

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Once the craves aren't so bad I think we'll all be writing shorter ones. I'm ashamed at how much I tick a tick on this bloody thing but can't help myself Sleep is good

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It's real hot daaahn saaarf

Hi Bev

I'm in Caterham in Surrey. Basically, if you look at London on a map, then trace a narrow straight line from London to the M25 that's where I live.

It's really hot and sunny here today, sorry to rub it in!

You're right that smoking will catch up with you. I started sporadically from the age of 12, full time at 16, then gave up at age 34, started again age 35, now at 38 and a half am stopping again. it's only been really this year I started to notice the coughing ... every time I laughed it would end up in a coughin fit, sometimes hard to catch my breath. I've probaly knocked a few years off my life but not as many as I would have if I'd carried on!

It's good you're giving up as your kids can see you not smoking. My Dad smoked for a bit when I was small, it was hard watching him smoke, I was really scared for him.

Ohhh I've just realised you're near Bradford. I have a friend lives up that way, I'm planning to go see her this summer, have to go to Kipling's curry house mmmmmmmm. And now I'm not smoking I can taste it all a lot better!

OK, i am now going to ditch lazy b1tch and actually get dressed. Still got some gardening to do today, then don't know what, but it won't involve smoking! Take care and keep posting, it's lovely to chat and I'll likely pop back later

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Yay!!! my chocolate bitch has company!!! hurrah!

aren't friends reactions telling?.... I have had a couple today who were fab, really movingly fantastic, and one, who shall remain nameless who was a total prat. Really dismissive and belittling. As this is the first time I have ever tried to quit I was rather suprised by it tbh!

rambling is good - I have waffled my way through today!