Still winning

Doesn't connect but they do have a facebook page... https://www.facebook.com/pages/Quit-Smoking-Quit-Train/550498668401231?fref=ts x

I'm so soppy, these celebration threads always make my eyes water!! Thank you for your kind and beautiful thoughts and support, today and always. I've been having a rough life ride of late and it feels kinda nice to get to 6 months quit and see something real and worthwhile that I've achieved :) Also it genuinely means a lot as I take a lot of grief within my life, to find people who quite like me here makes this a lovely safe haven. Today hasn't even felt stressful despite planning the party from hell (no lie - frozen party, then the themed enetertainer cancelled - so frozen theme with a magician entertainer. Then the costume meltdown of a 9 year old - So now frozen theme, with an entertainer, a 9 year old dressed as Hermione Granger and a 4 year old maybe snow white/maybe minnie mouse). The cooker packed up too just as a how's ya luck! So celebrate, I'llsave it till tomorrow but defo happy to be here with you fellow crazies and some normal folk thrown in for balance :) Loves and thanks.

Wow! NO! Brave? Wow!

HI and welcome :) xx

You are inspirational Ross, both in your quit and your support!! I wish for all good things for you and for your beautiful Tasha of course. I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your help with my journey first. Always there, always answering both my sad posts and my crazy ones. Been nice to have a laugh with you on some threads too. OK, Meanwhile back at you ....... :) BOOM!! 11 months is epic Action, no matter what happened you held fast to this quit and I'm sure the lido deck is alerted to impending partying :) Proper chuffed for you hun, brilliant! Congrats to you.

Massive congrats on 11 months Robert. Hope free life is treating you well. x

I am really chuffed to pieces for you chick. You are always so lovely and supportive and I for one, am thankful you quit for you and us! Thank you for all you do and for showing us newer ones that there is another side to this. Mostly congrats for 500 long days of freedom... and cookies, always gotta be greatful for cookies too :)

massive congrats on your 10 months :) x

- 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!!

Denial was strong in this dumbass too :mellow: Great info Beacon. xx

This was my original list, it very quickly changed to include a whole wealth of benefits I hadn't considered. -Broke my word to Milly TWICE saying I would quit and didn't -I want to sing along to my songs I like -My cough -Mums health scares me -Want to go out sometimes (money) -Can't afford clothes and shoes which I need. -Florida trip, going nowhere! -£300 a month?!? -Outside smoking -2nd hand smoke for children -We all smell, everything smells! -To prove I can give up Every time I hear or read this I start to well up or cry for you. I am so very pleased you still have your dancing feet my friend. xx

About quitting. Baffled told me it's perfectly acceptable to feel batshit crazy, especially against your partner, however don't kill em in case you like em after the non smoking dust has settled :) Of course she said it more eloquently haha. You're doing great Holski. I feel for you as I've been where you are but you are letting it make you stronger! The wobble was only a wobble, you righted yourself and these are the times that make our quit more solid, more real and I am happy you are through that. Happy to see you almost at a quarter of a year. xx

Poor you Ross :( Defo NOPE!! I will happily keep my whole body healthier.

haha, this is brilliant. Good luck!! xx

Got held up but really pleased to see this!! Not because I doubted your quit, just was worried I hadn't heard. x

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-4 Even left the game alone and the guys are still not doin that great.

Go sammie, go sammie :) 2 weeks is amazing as is your way of ploughing on, blo*dy good show love :) Massive congrats for 2 weeks! x

Join me with the NOPE pledge, just for today. Smoking is not for us anymore! We know too much of it's poisonous and insidious ways of dragging us down into nicotine addiction and we choose NOPE and freedom!! We are worth more then that life :)

Hope all is well now Holski and when you wake it will be a new and stronger day. x

totally housework kills me too lol. Added a power walk and some exercise bike in (to combat food intake, shhhh).

Hi Laura, I'm so pleased to see you back!!! Short on time for now but post up. xx

Day 6 level 1 shred dvd. 1 hour walk.

Delighted to see this first week celebration, the first of many :) Massive congrats on your first week of freedom. This is a huge milestone and one which doesn't feel possible week 1 hour 1 so be really proud of yourself!! Really well done. x