Still winning

The dog only does weekdays :) Busy busy when not working. AAA? Wrongun!

Really...oohhh farenheit....yum yum!

Nah Frez, no way in really real life would you!! I sat chillin wiv a bunch of smokers today at a kids party - so outside obviously. And wow, self obessed, didn't notice anything and jeez they stank!! Like I really wanted to be ok but I did this whole turned up nose thing, then tried to cover it but wow, grim! Gonna put it down to delayed not being able to run properly cause wow, you SOOO don't wanna join that pity party again!

Hey hey Paul, Just checking in how you're doing? x

They think it's all over....it is now!! Party party complete!! The frozen theme with a hormonal 9 year old who made her own cake... Matched with Hermione Granger and Minnie mouse that have naf all to do with frozen but you gotta pick your battles as a mama... and I even thought of Bakon...(I think this place is getting to me?!?) so ensured flip flops were big in the photo game for his roll call Romeo done!! :)

Save yourself now, apples all the way. xx

I've never been to Adelaide Dors...one day :) x

I read this earlier, I wanted to say something super profound, that would totally inspire and ignite a passion to be smoke free....but I had to make sausage rolls and party food. I'm just that rock an roll!! You remember how exciting weeks 1 and 2 are. You're all 80s music, like flashdance "what a feeling, beats believing, you can have it all when you're dancin for your life"....you know that gut grrrr, "have it". So you do that great. Then you kinda get to the spandau ballet stage. Gold, always believe in your soul, you have the power to know, you're indestructible....", maybe a bit of destiny child "I'm a survivor" thrown in, cause ya know...can't live in the 80s right :) Then you hit no mans land and sink into Celine dion "all by myself, don wanna beeeee".... No mans land is tough chick. It's the "rinse and repeat" of the quitting time. No one gives a flying... anymore but you're still there, trudging, this foot, that foot, this foot that foot.... and you throw yourself off in frenzy of fear! But at what? You've had tough times and survived right? I mean life goes on, even when it totally sucked balls. You need to man up my beauty...or woman up...you know what I mean. You know when it's sunny and then suddenly it pours with rain and you got your flip flops and a blouse that's about to go see through and you think wtf...and then you see a rainbow a couple of minutes after... yeah that!! Nothing to fear but fear itself lady!! You will always be afraid if you let your mind take you there. Mental battle?? Why are you even questioning this...YES - MENTAL BATTLE...you gonna let some addiction conrtol you, does it even know who you are Susana!! Get a mental baseball bat and lets do this thing!! Walking beside you every day, YOU CAN DO IT - JUST TRUST THAT. xx

This makes me smile. Some people are just put there as guardian angel types...right place, right time. All saved and moving along with nothing to see here :) x

Wine!! Wine has made me happy today :) Ah, and the kid party thing that went well...but the wine helped that too....

I know right, you're transfixed by the silver painted toenails...nice gels do that apparently. I have learnt so much here!

Awesome with prawn cocktails! Brilliant in salads. Can't see myself eating one alone tho? Or seasoning it? Think this maybe a continent thing. Prezzo resturant does a tricolour salad, it's mozzarella cheese, tomatoes, avocado and rocket...it's lush with black pepper and a bit of balsamic vinegar!

Hmmm, your post made me think. Associating smoking with fun, yeah I think I did that, wonder why? But when I think, well it's because I smoked from an obscenely early age! My whole life has been done with smoking. My few non smoker friends seemed to have the same fun? Yeah, they were there, not smoking and partying with us. That kinda partying is no longer really fun tho. Not at dinner party stage yet either! Fun now is good company and good conversation. Or walking in nature, or by the sea..man I love the water, any water really. Hanging with my girls and chatting nonsense or my kids. I think fun changes but I don't think smoking does. You see, I think we smoked for so long that we can't work out whether it helped the fun...but I have to think of those non smoker friends...they had as much fun...it was an age thing. Wish I liked Jazz now :( Don't be sad about what has passed my friend. Life is to be lived and there is a lot to be said of the wisdom that years give us. We were slaves both physically and financially....now we can get joy from physical exercise and financial liberty that simply weren't available to us before. Age is but a number :) You did good my lovely, be happy. xx

Here and present...with flip flop porn for you. I treat you too well ;)

YOU BEAUTY!!! Lovin it, always had a spot next to me... Massive congrats!! Marching forwards my friend. Loves xx

I'm in Sandy...it's a brilliant and NOPE kinda day :) xx

That would be awesome!! We can play stalk the bakons, we've seen a pic now :)

This is what I posted for how I felt and feel, copied and pasted to my blog for once. - Don't put anything in your mouth and set it on fire! Actually, when someone put it like that it sounded like a pretty stupid plan anyway :) - Smoking is not on the table. Shortened to SNOT, thank goodness, my memory is shot from kids, I can remember short words! - NOPE - yep, like SNOT. Going with the KISS philosophy (keep it simple stupid) - One puff away from a pack a day There were so many reasons it took me till 38 (now 39) to get to this point. A genuine belief for so many years that smoking relieved my stress and it's not like I have a lot for me. My Dad had tried to bribe me. My Mum would make a lot of quitting noise but no actual results, just a cut down that never lasted. A lot of other people said if I can do it anyone can do it too, but no actual advice other then that? I really feel someone should have told me this. It won't hurt at all! It won't "feel" hard most of the time, it's just a series of thoughts that you can dismiss if you choose too. Because the bottom line, that is how I quit. I faced each thought, that lasted moments to minutes depending on how I acted. I was (mostly) in control and made the no choice and the thought simply passed by. Jeez, I think about downing a tub of ice cream most nights but I know this will equal a huge butt so I choose no to that too haha. So I am quite secure that I have the "tools" I need and needed now. A support network, :wub: you guys were crucial to my quit. A list of why I quit. Coping techniques (deep breathing, water etc). Healthy education into nicotine as an addiction. A number of key phrases as above and also "be eternally vigilant", nope shuffles, some bad dancin moves :) I wish I could have arrived at this point feeling a little more dignified and elegant. However I have secured a great group of buddies, a couple of really special people and a new Mum (thanks Nancy, I think we have the same eating habits judging by your junk food plan?) - so I figure I did very well out of this deal! My one piece of really real advice - When it feels hard hold on, it's through the tougher parts of our journey that our quit grows more solid. There is always sunshine after the rain and in the case of giving up smoking there really will be a rainbow. A quit chops and changes, as does life and we just need to grab the equivalent of a life surfboard and ride the waves!!

Good work, I love a celebration :)

Hey Laura, I bet you are still thinking. Early days although brilliant work that's a 5 day quit you're rocking there :) Have you considered starting a blog or a post on the main page, these guys would defo love to support you properly. Whyquit is a powerful tool, I cried rivers reading those stories! I think we learn from a relapse, we learn we don't want to be smokers and we keep coming back to that. The thoughts are just thoughts, they can't do anything to us, we can absolutely control them - we only have to face forward and go "no more" Nope. Hopefully doll can help with the photo's, someone had to hunt me down on facebook and do mine for me as I was a technophobe lol. xx

Action did a celebration thread for your 1 month, awesome work chick. x

Looked for the nope today, not yet... Agreed Doreen, ready and waiting her Iam. xx

Our england reunion is on the backburner as our fearless leader went to the big place?! Haha. I shall be in Florida from 25th October to 6th Nov if anyone fancies a meet up. Of course I will be utterly clueless on places etc, to be fair I get lost in england and that looks like the size of the state or something! Nay pleased you're ok. Pleased your buddy heard we're alright too, when she's ready we will be here. How's the beautiful meditation room? Any joy using it yet?

No probs, they post some interesting stuff up actually but it doesn't always come through on my newsfeed. How's it going now Laura? You gonna amend your quit date, did you quit already or work in progress? I had wondered how you were when you went offline.

Awww cuties, lovin the real pic too haha.