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ran/walked for 20 minutes 30 sit ups 30 squats kettle bell exercise (not really worth mentioning lol) more later today

OK this is a little morbid and deep but I was thinking about it: Yesterday I spent a lovey day with my niece who pretty much is as close as a daughter can get to me and I was thinking what would her life be like without me in it? I lost my dad to lung cancer when he was 49 he has never met 2 of his grand daughters, a grandson a great grand daughter and more to come I am sure ;) he never gave my sisters away at their weddings I know this has affected these people sure life goes on but there is always something missing - a piece of the puzzle This just re- affirmed my quit as I will never leave her intentionally I will not throw myself under that smoking bus The ugly truth is smoking will eventually make you ill or kill you maybe not today maybe not tomorrow but it will eventually catch up with you WHO WOULD YOU LEAVE BEHIND?

keep pushing it rowly you are doing it as with evelyn one step at a time you can do this xx

I stayed away from smokers for the first 3 weeks I think it helped alot as I was more in control by then - you are doing it Evelyn one step at a time xx moodswings

Our lovely Lace - our cookie baker is an awesome 3 months quit today Lace we are so proud of you you have kept your quit through some tough times of late way to go girl - keep climbing

happy 6 squeaks awesome job sarah :)

just woke up and feel like crap ;)

dangler and heels best of both worlds :)

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paying it forward sarah will help you more than you know and yes feel good be proud and pat yourself on the back - why not you earned it hun x

never doubted her for a minute it was worth every second to get them cookies and gloopy ginger bread :)

great post action :) I will be anyones quit buddy just send me a PM if I can help i will try I have many quit buddies who all bring something different to the table and have helped me in my quit no end and I also have some very close people who I class as dear close friends its a win win situation

very happy to have spent a lovely day with my niece who used to live with me, we did lunch, shopping, putting tv together and setting it up (its wonky but who cares it was a together project lol) also met her new man who I approve of very much - woooo hooo I did something right so happy :)

wit woo look at you what a beauty :) I love vegetarian food I went veggie for a year but then turned back vegetarian food is full of flavour this will be a good thread :)

sharks like fish ;)

yep brought some for my mum the other week dont feel good doing it :(

sorry to hear about your boy thank goodness it was just cuts and bruises and maybe a little shock for him to be more careful next time ;) - hopefully great job super mum and super non smoker :) see non smokers have less stress :)

The other week staying in a hotel the hotel was huge as a smoker I would have had to get coat on go in lift down 8 floors walk half a mile through the Lobby stand shamefully out side in wind and rain have tourists stare at me walk half mile stinking back through lobby lift up 8 floors coat and boots off repeat all of above every 40 minutes or less if drinking wine OMG how pathetic it looks and sounds when you type it out - but as a smoker that is what I would have done :dash2:

Its Ironic how we used to use smoking as a stress buster Life in general can be pretty stressful and still will be as a non-smoker smoking in reality just used to cause more stress in an already stressful situation (recognising now that in truth we only got a nicotine fix) but what did we have to put ourselves through to get that FIX?? its only further down the line in your quit you realize this for me it was about the 2 months point when I noticed it or noticed lack of it for some hopefully it was a lot sooner Lets see if we can list the times when you realized smoking caused or could have caused more stress for you and uncover some truths and bust some more myths about smoking Remember if you cannot relate to this topic yet - you soon will :)

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I dont cook with salt either but I do add it after (coarse sea salt) I Love soup and found it was too salty if you added it whilst cooking but afterwards was just enough I could not eat any soup without salt that I had made from scratch can you get those low substitutes over there - like lo salt? or you could try dried herbs instead of salt? will be interesting to see the replies here sorry colleen - not much help

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way to go Evelyn nothing can stop you now congratulations on week 1

I am happy my niece is coming over to visit today - I have a feeling its going to cost me a fortune in girlie shopping and lunch - but she is worth it :)