sherry

Happy Birthday!!!!

I'll happily join you Evelyn! N.O.P.E.

a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY wish to you!! :yahoo:

WOW, 10months, thats awesome, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

So true El B! A very happy congratulations to you Tracey on your 6 months free!

Super congrats on your wonderful 6 months hon!!!! Thanks for all you do/have done for me and so many others.

Congrats on your 6 months Joe, sooo very happy for you!!

Good morning Gabby, Welcome!!!! :D

Happy Birthday George!!... hope yer have'n a blast!! :P

Happy Birthday Sue, I hope you have a wonderful day!!!

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Oh, sooo sorry ((Pip)) But great for you that your quit is strong enough that you didn't crave when those a$$ h#$* took your cards.

Hi Amy, how ya feel'n ?? You've already gotten some great advice and wonderful support from the good folks here,.... don't really have much that can be added, but i will say, (re-say whats been said), we are here for you hon,...anything we can do to help you know we will.... we've all had our "bad" times with our quit... we all know first hand how hard it can be some days... BUT we also all know ( you know this too) that wonderful feeling of accomplishment we get from staring down a crave- holding on- fighting past and coming out the other side still smoke free... you can do this sweetie...remember, beating an addiction is not a "smash it like a bug" and you're done with it forever.... it's more like, a job, you don't want... but you have to do to live... so you "go to work" each and every day...as you know- most new jobs are hard... but as the day's pass you start to get the hang of things.. and it get's easier...you just have to get past the first (hard) part of this "new job"... it's a matter of putting in the time.... and understanding as time pass's you get stronger and better at your "job"..... some one told me once, "you can't stop time Lace- you can only move with it- what you do today will be the begaining of who you are tomorrow - those todays that become tomorrows become the new you - TIME doesn't care if you are a better you 6 months from now,... but you will."

Good to have you back on the board...... Um.... did ya .... just by chance mind you, happen to bring us any cookies from London ?? :tender:

I'm up for the ride too EL B, it's NOPE for me today!

Thanks for being so encouraging and supportive for all of us Action!

So happy for you Sharon!

Oh, Faye, thanks for be'n so sweet and supportive, congrats on your year of freedom {hugs}

YAY gooooooo YOU!!!!!! :D

Our lovely Pip has 10 months, so happy for you sweetie,

Well'p T-storm season is here, and it's come'n in hard ain't it Lace?... and yep, have'n been thru a few tornadoes in yer life, what with live'n in Tex,Ga,Fla,Va, and now NC, you know first hand what they can do... what they HAVE done... they scare the shit out of ya huh?.. not just for you, but for your girls and now your folks who moved down here..... when that last round of storms moved thru last week, you gave yer self an "out" didn't you?... what'd you say Lace?.. "if things get bad you'd protect your 16 month sobriety over your 2 month quit"..... what was your "Reasoning" Lace? The damage from bad storms are your "Achilles' heal".. after all.. 1) if others lose their house or their loved ones lose their homes in a storm they can have a good stiff drink to calm their nerves - i CAN'T... 2) other folks can get the dr to give them an RX to help them deal with the loss of everything, i CAN'T. 3) they can go to the dr and get pills to help them sleep till the nightmares go away, i CAN'T. 4) but i can start smoking again... who could blame me? "Who could blame you???" YOU - Lace, YOU would blame yourself, you've come to far in all your "fights" in life to get where you are now,..to be the person you are now... yeah you're a bit scared up, and some bruise's will never heal, but you're a good person today- and you can't go back to being the "you" your addiction's made you.... so listen up and listen good.... shit happens girl- you know this fist hand,.... and if your fears come true and the worst happens this storm season - or next - or the one after that, you do what you've done before- what everyone does- (you AIN'T special) - ....you rebuild,.... you know the nightmares will go away eventually - till they do- they are just dreams.. make yer self wake up like with any nightmare...you just have to do it without drugs this time or booze... or cigg's Look, Lace, there's an old say'n.. "God don't give us more then we can handle" ... now weather you belive that at the time or not - IF the worst happens this storm season, and you can't take RX from the dr, and/or drink "like normal people",after something like that... and you have to face EVERYTHING 100% clean and sober,... then you remember this... If "God don't give us more then we can handle" then it must mean that He thinks you're one BIG BAD ASS when it comes to fighting addiction(s)... and who are you to say He is wrong??????? So.........be the bad ass He thinks you are,....... and DON'T smoke....

morn'n Tiff, i'm sorry you had a bad time of it, an i sure hope you're feelin' better now hon...{{HUG}} i don't know what "it" really is... but for me it's as if the crave decided it was gonna save up all it's strength an just beat the crap out of me- for what seems like hours at a time(really isn't that long just seems like it)...and here's what i've figured out .... the crave (we know at this point can't be physical) it's in our head now... and after fighting so hard in the beginning, then it getting easier... we kind of let our guard down a bit...the addiction "play's 'possum" and then after a bit.. the additive part of our brain says "they think i'm gone, but if i push really hard right NOW i can get that high i used to get- i just have to push hard"...... you/we have to push hard right back.... it's almost as if the addiction is in some kind of death through's... i know that might sound weird,but it's how i see it...how many more death through's "it" will have- i don't know ... but we have to know, for every time it comes at us "out of no where- full force-omg when will it let up"..it's close to death....now is NOT the time to give up.. NOW is the time to stand our ground "it" will die, if we don't give up our fight.... let us know how you are today, we're here for you sweetie.

Happy mothers day to all the non smoking moms!!! :wub: and a big NOPE for me today! :good3: