Good morning, I hope you havent woken up to too much rain and wind. Pouring down in Yorkshire but not too windy yet.
Well its Monday start of a fresh week. No smoking, healthy eating, and exercise. Lets aim for the first one and work from there.,
Whatever your plans are stay positive and happpy. 
Good Morning Jilly and everyone! 28 DAYS SMOKE FREE! I am so happy I could burst, almost 1 whole month! Good luck to everybody who's starting their quit journey! Have a lovely day. Dawn xxx
Dawn, well done on getting to 4 weeks quit and well and truly over your previous stumbling block. Onwards and upwards!
Good Morning and a Happy Monday to you all 
JillyGirl, I feel confident about having conquered the stopping smoking part, I'm just making all kinds of plans (I should really just focus on one!) to aim for the healthy eating and weight one. As planning and preparation is the key to success with stopping smoking, I'm going to try and apply the same technique
We have had the rain belting it down here this morning and now we have sunshine. It has been forecast that we shouldn't be too affected here in the Northwest For those of you down south, only travel when necessary and stay safe and warm.
Dawn, that is absolutely marvellous, 28 days equals four whole weeks. You are a star Keep on keeping on, we are so, so proud of you
Jonathan, a huge congratulations and a big juicy fat well done to you too for coming so far. You put a huge smile on my face to see how well you have done. Thinking back to the struggle you had during your early days/ Well done!
Sue, I hope you are in good health today and the weather is much kinder up in Dundee. I do believe you are forcast to miss everything
Andi, I hope you've had a nice break and have arrived home safely, as I think you live in the thick of where this weather is hitting most 
Rev21, following the storms that you folks face in Florida you probably think ours is nothing - we're just not prepared for it here though! 2 days to go before you join your smoking cessation class. Let us know how you get on won't you?
Pete, I guess you are at work at the minute, what shift are you on this week? I'll try and make a point of being around online at the same time as you this week. Would be great to catch up
Mrssunnyside, I hope you are okay there in Wales, I know South Wales is right in the middle of everything happening, not sure how it is for you in Flintshire. Hope you are okay though and you don't get to experience any computer problems today
Sin, how did your lozenge free sunday go?
Big waves to everybody else looking in
Hi ya Emjay
I'm working 6am - 6pm, erm, supposedly 
a bit late tonight 
I get home for about 7nish !! have mi shower, get mi tucker down me, kick the cat a few times, and come on here about 8 - 8.30pm
It would be nice to have a chat with you, long time no do gal eh Speak soon, if you get time xx
Hola all & hope you are surviving both the storm today. Have a great smoke free day all : )
Good Morning BeeL, how are you doing? I'm just about to pop the kettle on if you fancy a nice cup of tea or warm drink of some sorts during this bright autumnal day?
Hello again. Emjay I agree I think may have to use a technique for weight my next challenge.
Well here I go again went to see the flat I applied for originally and yep Gypsy Jilly will be moving again. This one is run properly with scheme manager and maintenance and lots included. Shame I wil lose my view but if we stay here it could end up being a bit of a worry, as no maintenance is in place and the building isnt looking any younger.
So save your cardboard boxes again!
Hey JillyGirl, what a palaver! I was also about to say poor you but in comparison with everything that has happened in the past 12 months I think that this is such a good position to be in. Everything happens for a reason and whether or not that reason reveals itself, lets just go with the flow 
Hello & very good afternoon to you all
AND "THANK YOU SO MUCH" for saying that I have done "GOOD" !!! Yes I am heading to the old timers bench with these 3 months under my belt now. SOOOO GLAD to be FREE from all that smoking malarky - what a flipping expensive, dangerous, smelly, waste of time & energy smoking is ........... so to anyone thinking of joining us NON / NOPE lot I have two words of encouragement "HURRY UP" and flippin quit - its miles better.
Dawn - VERY VERY WELL DONE and don't you go thinking you are going to overtake me !!
Pete - got your post and glad you are impressed (so am I .. but this is just between us ... & oh I hope you know you have been a massive help !!)....
Emjay - "yes" from being that "mad" space cadet it has all been something of a miracle !!!
okay enough about me and Sinfree how are those lines coming on ????
MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE & BEST WISHES
Jonathan
NOPE
Hi Jonathan, That made me laugh space cadet, I remember you felt off the planet at one time. Look at you now. Normal non smoker. BIG well done. You telling Dawn not to overtake you made me think this quitting is like traffic lights, but in reverse
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It should be go , nearly ready, STOPPED. smoking.
Hi Jilly
Yeah.... I am really happy about all this and I will NOT be overtaken unless the driver is over 3 months already.... think you are in a different race altogether though !!
Only joking I know this is NOT a race it is just that I have now for the first time got passed 3 months and I am on my way at last and living a NON SMOKERS life - hurray !!!
Best wishes
Jonathan
NOPE
Hi everyone, I've had a lozenge free Saturday, Sunday and Monday and since I don't have any in my possession, it's very likely tomorrow will be lozenge free too. Still with the e-cig but down from 24mg to 18. I think I may have finally beat the lozenge addiction.
So pleased that your on a winning streak with your lozenge battle. Stay positive your doing great.
Yay, must admit I didn't think it was possible. I missed them badly on Saturday, but despite actually going in Home Bargains which is my source of supply I didn't buy any more. Yesterday was slightly less difficult and today I've been fine really.
Excellent Sinfree - this is GREAT NEWS .... dare I ask if you are feeling more umm pos.....posit..... ... what is that word ? Actually re-reading your post I think you are taking control, maybe it's time to run for cover ??
Best wishes
Jonathan
Naah. I've come to the conclusion I just don't do positive. I don't think I ever have either as a smoker or an ex-smoker. But.........I did make a conscious decision to just not buy any more lozenges. Which is all fine and dandy til Thursday when I will have go sit in work from 9.00 - 1.30pm drumming my fingers on the desk waiting til I can go and use my e-cig. But I'll cross that bridge on Thursday.
Sin, you'll be fine. All you have to do is re-programme your mind and change your mindset You didn't think going without lozenges was possible. Look at how well your doing
But what do I do when the phone won't stop ringing, am trying to open the post, people want drinks, and normally I would reach for a lozenge, and go ahhhhh. Instead I'll be going YAAAAGH. It bothers me, I might snap. I need to tell myself from now up til Thursday, I am a calm, cool and in charge person, it will all get done.....and breathe. What do you reckon? Am doubtful
Good evening everyone.
We managed to drive home in the daylight yesterday before all that "end of the world is nigh!" hit us in the south. It actually really started during the evening and subsided about 6 this morning. I woke up a couple of times in the night (like I usually do) and heard the wind blowing around and the rain hammering down but on inspection this morning only found a few lids lying around the garden and new trees still firmly in the ground.
It was a lovely wedding and sometimes I went outside for a breath of fresh air. I usually found a smoker outside and told them how I used to do that for over forty years and how nice it is to now have the freedom of not having to go and fight the weather all the time. Btw, I had a wind-proof lighter which I used on the beach or when I went skiing when I thought it was going to be windy - it was brilliant, and saved burning your jacket or hat!
Jonathan, 3 months, wow! Just brilliant! I'm sure you'll go all the way now - you know it makes sense.
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Hi Andi
I sure do... & MANY THANKS .... good to see my old friends in that pic you sent, they are all NON smokers although Pooh and I do share one or two of the same issues !!!
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.”
― A.A. Milne
Thanks again
Jonathan
NOPE
Jilly, I'm trying to follow your heading from today, especially the healthy eating one. I've had a weekend of eating cr*p and now need to try and shift a couple more of those pounds before I go away again. Finished my box of chocs last night but went shopping today and bought some Hula Hoops cos they were on offer. I'll have to make that packet of 6 or 7 last me a month.
Hey Andi a Welcome home
Sin, would you normally smoke when the phone in work rings... Or when you open the post....? Just take each thing that happens all in your stride, don't think of your day at work as a whole day... Deal with everything half an hour at a time and as long as you make it through each one then you'll feel better. Whether you don't or do smoke/use a lozenge/or your e-cig the same things at work will always happen, it's just how you think and how you deal with them that needs to change. You really can do this, just give the things that haven't happened a break
JillyGirl, you'll have to hurry and get that flat on the market now and get moved as soon as
Jonathan, Pooh has some great little quotes
I'm just out on a date night with myself at Liverpool Philharmonic watching Magic of Motown. It's all very energetic We're just on the halfway break so thought I'd pop my head round the door
Hi Emjay, that sounds like a brill concert - wish I was there with you, sounds right up my street. Enjoy!
Aup Emjay, its lovely to see you gal
Just had a quick look at Magic of Motown, looks and sounds great gal you flippin ENJOYYYYY it eh
That's very conscientious EmJay coming on here in the interval
What did I do prior to this coming week at work when things got tough? Had a lozenge, when I still smoked I used to use Nicotine chewing gum. If things got really stressy, I'd say help, I really need to go out for a cig, I don't care if its a sackable offence, so sack me! (It wasn't sackable, but its frowned upon, with all those non smokers moaning about smokers getting extra breaks, tsk) I think what I will do is nip into the loo with my e-cig, it doesn't set off the smoke alarms cos someone else uses his e-cig in the loos.
Hope you're enjoying your night out.
Good evening everybody sorry, flippin late tonight
Just off to have a catch up on whats bin happening today
Good evening Pete, are you on those 12 hour days again this week? Isn't it illegal to make you work a 60 hour week? I don't know what the Tolpuddle Martyrs struggled for all those years ago, do you? 
It's not illegal andi. What they do is get you to sign something to say you agree to work over so many hours a week. It was a European directive to only work 40 hours a week, so the good old UK, wrote their own bit into it to say employers could ask their employees to work over 40 hours a week if the employee has signed a prior agreement. Or something like that anyway. I worked at an employment agency a few years ago.
Hi Sin, I'm so glad I'm out of that working thing these days. I am sooooo lucky cos all I hear is how people are sh erm, dumped on from a great height all the time and I keep getting told that I don't live in the real world any more. I can live with that.
I know, its really bad now. Its like last week with those people at that oil refinery in Grangemouth. It was reported that had they striked they would have all lost their jobs and the place would have closed down, so instead they agreed to no pay rise for the next three years, and an end to the company pension scheme and something else, can't remember what. I just wonder whether the shareholders and the CEO's took a paycut for the next three years too. Our place was taken over at the end of last month. Everyone is just being moved to the centre of Manchester adding travelling time, travelling costs etc and probably a longer working day too. We have had a 1% pay rise in 5 years.
Hey Sinfree have you actually worked then
Jillygirl, just love your opening again
Erm yes Jillygirl, I'm with you on moving gal views arnt everything, but piece of mind is cos not knowing whats going to happen next You and Hubby have made the right choice
Hey you know what you got to tell hubby now dont you !! '' get them new tiles off that bathroom wall ''
Anyone watching the program about OCD? haha, I have the opposite problem. I seriously struggle to actually do anything to do with cleaning, huh? what's that then. My shiny sink is looking a little murky of late. It's not funny really, it must be awful to suffer something like that.
Nope, I'm watching Martin Clunes in the Scottish Islands.
Ooer, we seem to be on telly. I went for a walk on the prom earlier - it was covered in sand. I bet the sea looked really good yesterday. The surfers were enjoying it though.
Rite young Ladies, I will have to go, cos am up early in the Morning
Sweet dreams to you, and get a lovely nights sleep, watch them bed buggs dont bite eh xxxx
Nite nite Pete, sleep well. xxx
Sin, I'll say nite nite to you and everyone else too before I start snoring on the sofa. See you tomorrow.
Night andi, Pete, Jonathan if you're still around and everyone else. See you tomorrow.
DAILY CHAT MONDAY 20/05/2013
