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Happy Sundee one an all in the land of the NOPE. Nothing spesh going on below the equator in Aus but the Yanky Doodles are giving us not only the 102nd Indianapolis 500 but they also celebrate Sun Screen Day... so slip slop slap boys and girls... don't make me show you my dad's skin cancer pictures... the post surgery scar pics... they not pretty. So listen to uncle Baz... and wear Sun Screen.. So to a future with skin cancer and a future with lung cancer I say NOPE Topic of the day: Sundee Slang Fest

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So answer this... are the good memories the smoking or are the good memories other things that happened at the same time and the people they happened with... see the smoking was just incidental, it was like sharing a meal of having a drink, sure it is part of the memory but when you think about what went on, what made it good it wasn't the drink, or the food, OR the smokes... it was the things your said or the things you did and the things you felt.... thinking it was the smokes, that's just the nicob1tch in ya ear... smoking had nothing to do with making those memories good, it was as significant as the clothes you wore and the shoes on your feet... don't give the nicobitch the power to hold any significance in your special treasured memories cos she has none, that's just bullshit that she was so significant to those memories... sorry for the tough love but don't give smoking any special place in your memory because thats crap.... ... I quit in the middle of my softball season, most of my team mates and friends at softball smoke... (even behind the dugout during the game when we bat)... so anyway... I associated heaps of stuff with smoking and on my first Saturday at softball post my mid week quit I nearly worked myself into a panic attack because how would I be able to be at softball and not smoke... ok so there were moments where I would normally smoke and I would really want one... but I told my mates I was quit and they had my back... just like your bro sounds like he has yours. It was hard, there were triggers, but I knew they would be there. I knew I would have temptation week in and week out but each interaction was easier to deal with than the last... So I made sure I had lots of chewies (gum) and hard lollies and would just pop one of those and either chew may way through the situation or suck the lolly (candy)... most of all I had faith in myself to fight the urge because it was just a programmed action, not what I loved about softball or hanging at the rooms with my mates.

G'day NOPE for me as well C

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I, too, have every confidence in you, Iml. You will, no doubt, be touching many emotions during this visit with your brother. Sure, you may still connect your closeness with smoking, it's a body memory. Don't worry about it. You may well want a smoke with him. That is OK. You Won't smoke with him. Let the urges and thoughts pass without action or judgement and show yourself kindness. We usually make it a big deal when we future trip about potential temptations. Reality is often much kinder because we trust ourselves. It will be inspiring to him when/if you share your quitting experience and he sees how you have returned to yourself, how empowered you are.

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Oh you don't need me sweetheart..you already know this is stinkin thinkin... You are a beautiful non smoker now...something your lovely brother wants desperately to be..hence wanted to quit after the coming wedding.. Of course you have memories...but you are about to make new ones... I found in my early quit ..I over thought stuff...worry about this,worry about that,and it turned out ..it was just fine...and nothing to worry about at all Keep regular gum handy... And we will be here ...any time you need us..x

lml, what Jo said is right. It's the people, the things you did together that the wonderful memories are built on. The fact that you both smoked is just incidental to it all but, because of that connection to smoking, you are right to anticipate the issue in advance and plan for it - not worry about it but just know in advance you may face some challenges because of the situation. You have done that so in your mind, you will be prepared. That's most of the battle right there .... being prepared. You'll be fine! Just wait and see.

Do we know how amazing we are having quit successfully? A smoking work colleague used to hack up a lung for years. Was finally diagnosed with lung cancer. It was a miracle recovery. 6 weeks off work and back she came cough free and having given up smoking finally! Only 6 months later and she's back smoking in the courtyard at work. In the middle of winter. Hell, she hasn't even bothered to cut down as a gift to herself and her angels seeing as she was blessed with having survived lung cancer. So yeah, it makes me furious. I haven't mentioned the elephant in the room. She'd bite my head off so I keep quiet. But she did happen to mention that lately she's been feeling really tired. Do you want a CT scan with that tiredness? Hmmmm? So ... I think we are amazing to have kept our quit.

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You've been given great advice already lml, just remember it's not that you can't smoke it's that you choose not to smoke. Also it might help if you don't go outside with your bro when he goes to smoke. Kinda the out of sight out of mind thing. And lastly if worse came to worse and I really felt a bad crave I would pretend I was holding an invisible cigarette and then go through the motions of "smoking" it. Some people use straws, pens, etc. Doing that really tricked my brain into thinking it was getting what it wanted. And the deep breathing I was doing by doing that helped calm my crave. Oh and of course we'll be here if you need us

Weyhey I did it..?

Nnnnooooppppeeee! Well it is a long weekend

Congratulations @clarosa for being 1 months smoke free. Please make sure to celebrate your first month.. the hardest work has now been done so you should feel very proud of your achievement. Well done.

Thx jo. You are so right. I dont know why i am giving the nicob1tch a fond place in those memories; it really does not add anything to how precious they are. Must be my addict thinking. I need to reprogram my brain on that one. You gave me a lot to start with. I have 5 days to complete the reprogramming, so give me all the tough love you can think of. That just brought the picture of doreen hitting me over the head with her frying pan...lol.

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Not sad that you get the 2nd Jan, sad that we don't, although a couple more summer time wouldn't go amiss.

I went fishing once and 15 mins after we stopped the boat to fish I found myself hogtied in the dingy with gaffa tape over my mouth tied to the back of the boat...

@Sslip how many long weekends do you lot get?

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I should have thought like this before I stuck something in my butt & lit it on fire. That wasn't good ........................ NOPE!

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Why in the world would I stick something in my mouth and then light it on fire?? That is crazy. NOPE

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Gday NOPE for today C

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My dear brother, whom I am very close, to is coming to visit and will be staying with me for a week. His wife who was my best friend died several months ago. We grew up together; he is 3 years older than me and he took me on so many adventures as a young one. In our earlier years before we moved and had kids, His wife and my husband and my brother and I would hang out together and do lots of fun things - and relxed and smoked. He still smokes. Hence, my concern. So many wonderful emotional connections. He knows i quit smoking and says he wont smoke around me and will not smoke a lot while he is here. He also is thinking of quitting in August - after his daughter's wedding, which he is very involved in planning. Will I want to smoke with him? Bring back so much closeness and times spent together? I am thinking of ways to prepare and things to tell myself when the urges come. Any ideas ?

Happy Satdee me lovely NOPEy mates. Ok so what is happening on this fine day, down below in Aus its our National Sorry Day where we reflect and discuss the Stolen Generations But on lighter note.... it is also Paper Airplane Day... are you planes trick fliers or do you go for maximum distance over loops... all I know is with all the extra time I have because of the NOPE I could set up this awesome paper plan installation: So without further ado.... NOPE... cos nothing rules my life but me Topic of the day: In the Britski morning o'clockski

Horney Toad is Missing Her Boo Boo Baby !!!

I did have a spinach and ricotta pizza and can you guess how rank it was? Never again

NOPE not today.

I think your Star Player just injured himself? It's a Blood-Sport that footie

Well done Jenny. solid

Laughing.. I love laughing and I love here cos we do so much of it.??

Knickers..... Very useful!

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found this footage of @Octain's impressive plane making skills... so Octain is bigger really better?

Nope. Unfortunately I have too much experience with the art of paper folding, airplanes. Spent too much time on doing that instead of studying. Had I studied harder perhaps I might not be working on this fine Saturday morning. shoulda, woulda, coulda....

Saturday NOPE loooooonnnnnnggggg weekend here too.. @Sslippy, we kept the original holiday at the begining of the month even though all the banks are shut at end of month..!! We also have the 2nd Jan as a bank hol too???

beak (its someone who wants to know all the goss)

In terms of guaranteed long weekends we get Easter, two in May and the only other one is late August. So they're just congested on this period.

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