Mina where are you

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I need you buddy., wher are you?

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What's up hun? Anything i can help with?

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Struggling but hanging in . So difficulty, but hoping to get through tobday

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Struggling but hanging in . So difficulty, but hoping to get through tobday

Hang in there hun, have a big glass of water first off 'cos it helps

You are doing really well, it doesn't feel like it at the mo but you are!!

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Gosh so difficult to day, i donr know why! M I abnormal?

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Oooooooh

Thanks al I will not smoke today, but feel lke it's the fight f my life, does any one feel that too .

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Gosh so difficult to day, i donr know why! M I abnormal?

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You're perfectly normal, it's very tricky at times and it can suddenly pop up like that - happened to me last week - but you can get out the other side!!

For now do anything that feels good, except smoking, and be nice to yourself

Smoking won't make it go away, it'll make you angry with yourself for smoking and set you right back

Big (((hugs)))

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Thanks al I will not smoke today, but feel lke it's the fight f my life, does any one feel that too .

Hold onto that thought

Yes hun, I felt like it last week, like it was too big to take on *but* that's what this place is for!!

If it helps, go and have a look at Sarah Lou's early posts and her later ones - she's a star example of someone who had a rough start but finished in style!!

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Gosh so difficult to day, i donr know why! M I abnormal?

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NO you aren't I haven't posted that I have been having some really really difficult days. I haven't sailed through so far but I have managed - and now it has really got hard and thrown me.

We have to keep struggling - it is a struggle too - because as I keep telling myself this will pass, and I'll be glad I did it.

Hang on Tracey, you aren't alone. I'm trying to keep busy in the garden, but am exhausted now. Also I used to garden and then have a break with a fag :eek: So suddenly it's another old habit returning. :mad:

Tracey, we are going to get through today, and we are going to get through tomorrow as well. Sending you masses of positive thoughts and love. Stay strong. bb x

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Oh gosh

Thank you,am hanging in by the tread. Thak you won't smoke today, THANKYOU all

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Thank you,am hanging in by the tread. Thak you won't smoke today, THANKYOU all

It's what we're here for We want to stop smoking and help other quitters

And you *can* definitely do it - if I can then anyone can!!

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Tracey chicken - I got ya, pulling you back up hun!

So..... me and you, we aint gonna smoke today, we quit.

Just remember, we end up in the same place if we smoke or not, we end up wanting a ciggie, all we do by giving in is buy half an hour before we're back where we are now, wanting to smoke :mad::mad: We also get a shed load of grief and guilt - it's a bummer but having that one will put you right back where you (and me!!) are right now, thinking smoking would make it better, its a big fat LIE - smoking is what makes it like this to start with!

So we're just going stay put, me and you, and we aren't gonna smoke

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PS - forget that thread - I got you this big fat rope, now just hang on and I'll pull you through xx

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My other alternative is laughing in the face of the enemy:

Two old ladies were outside their nursing home, having a smoke when it started to rain.

One of the ladies pulled out a condom, cut off the end, put it over her cigarette and continued smoking.

Lady 1: What's that?

Lady 2: A condom. This way my cigarette doesn't get wet.

Lady 1: Where did you get it?

Lady 2: You can get them at any drugstore.

The next day...Lady 1 hobbles herself into the local drugstore and announces to the pharmacist that she wants a box of condoms.

The guy looks at her kind of strangely (she is, after all, over 80 years of age), but politely asks what brand she prefers.

Lady 1: It doesn't matter as long as it fits a Camel. :D

Cheesy, old but makes me smile

Stick with it Tracey, better days are coming

M

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Sooo mad me smile

How funny . Made me smile I know I'm terrible with my moaning, but. Hope tomorrow is better.

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Max

What a wis man you are, I think I'm just week, but you have such wise words,thank you :mad:

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Max, I don't want to hijack Tracey's post (actually trying to give support).

But this blinking drug has such an evil way of trying to convince us that we'd be happier if we just lit up. :eek:

I'm struggling. Why?? A good two months, ups and downs, but coped. Suddenly it seems so easy to light up and get rid of these sudden (last few days) craves. Help.

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I'm struggling. Why?? A good two months, ups and downs, but coped. Suddenly it seems so easy to light up and get rid of these sudden (last few days) craves. Help.

Aww I'm sorry you're struggling too, it's tough and some people do get the odd wobble along the way - that's when you have to dig in and be tough. It's not easy, and it's not fun but going back to smoking after 3 months would be awful!!

The fag would taste disgusting - don't know about you but when I was preparing to quit they tasted foul when I was used to them - especially after so long without smoking, when your taste and smell is loads better.

And you'd be kicking yourself for chucking away a good quit.

Smoking is one big fat lie, a persuasive one, but still a lie. Kat nailed it when she said about how we install a new set of thoughts when we started smoking (else like Max said, why would we inhale that muck 10, 20, 30 times a day?) to convince ourselves we "need" and "enjoy" smoking. Now is the time you have to renew the proper thinking, that we don't benefit in the least from cigarettes.

It's a mental batle now, a tough one but it is beatable!!

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Thanks Max. I know, I know. But I thought I had it covered. I was getting there, not easy but getting there and managing.

WHY, suddenly these last few days has it suddenly become in the front of my mind all the time, I thought I'd got past that. :mad:

I get so angry with myself. What a pathetic whimp. I even think about those poor people who give up heroin- can you believe that !! :eek:

I apologise, so sorry everyone here. Not a good thing to post I do realise. Just going through a really bad few days but I will get through them. bb xx

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Think we need a 'Struggling' thread don't we

I wonder if we set one up and when someone is struggling they just go on there,would that do any good..:rolleyes:

It's a good idea, but maybe a subforum? Just wondered if a thread would get a bit confusing at times, like now when there's a lot of people having a bad patch!!

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I wonder how full a "Struggling" social group would get :eek::eek:

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Hang on in there guys..there's no good advice I can give you that hasn't been said but sending all my positive thoughts and hugs your way. Remember, you are in control of your life, you have a choice whether to smoke or not..if you smoke you will prob smoke for the rest of your life..if you choose not to smoke, well you know how you will feel....keep going keep strong..you can do it xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Really I don't want to make this public and put people off.

When it gets bad, it gets really bad :mad: With No Smoking Day soon I feel awful to admit personally I'm having probs.

I think this is ME, it is PERSONAL. Other people cope and I certainly don't want anyone put off quitting. Don't take me as an example :eek:

I will cope. In a few days it will be OK. bb x

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Really I don't want to make this public and put people off.

When it gets bad, it gets really bad :mad: With No Smoking Day soon I feel awful to admit personally I'm having probs.

I think this is ME, it is PERSONAL. Other people cope and I certainly don't want anyone put off quitting. Don't take me as an example :eek:

I will cope. In a few days it will be OK. bb x

You won't put people off - actually as I've been struggling recently, it's a lot more helpful to see other people in the same boat than for everyone to be saying how everything's buttercups and rainbows because then it would feel like it was only me having a bad time.

And heck, it's not like you complain much (everyone's entitled to a rant) or nearly cave when your cat gives you a funny look. Don't ever feel you can't say how you're feeling on here

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Think we need a 'Struggling' thread don't we

Lol it would be the most posted on thread Max

Tracy...hang on in there,today may be tough but tomorrow could be completely different.

It seems you never know what mood you will wake up in on these quits:confused: I find exercise is good as is screaming:eek: doing the two at once out in an open field in this glorious sunshine is even better

Ps it's not you Hun,we have all had days like the one you are having,just stay strong....it's all you can do x

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Max

Well said am hanging on, and I do really hope I can post a positive post some day .

In the last twelve months my sister had terrible accident lost a massiv part of skull. ( but doing ok.) My mum passed away on my birthday, I have had surgery twice on a squint ( not been out in over a yer) one of my boys broke both his arms so not great but hanging on, sorry for the self pity,

Hope better day tomorrow, on the plus side I have control over this, and may be just what I need.

Sorry for the moan, just needed to put it out there ,

Will be better tomorrow I promis x

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I think having an 'emergency' room is an excellent idea Max. I've seen the same thing on other quit-smoking forums.

Girls, just want you both to know that I'm thinking of you and sending positive vibes your way. If it is any consolation, I had a 'moment' earlier which took me by surprise as I thought I was more or less done with them- I think it was because it was the first time I had sat in the garden in the sun since quitting and hadn't expected it to be such a trigger so possibly it is the same with you? However, those moments (and those rough days) pass (as you both know) and they will pass for you.

Sorry you're having it rough though. It isn't very fair is it? (Tracey- you've been having it rough for a long time now which is even more unfair. I will cross my fingers that life has loads of lovely things in store for you from now on).

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No,it's not, sorry just feeling p..s.ec of better day tomorrow won't moan any more I promos

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LOL- yes, that was it exactly!!

Somehow, sugar-free gum just wasn't doing it for me. I had to give myself a good talking to and go for 3 fast laps of the local park followed by some energetic weeding. That did the trick!!