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Looks lush!! Hopefully worth all the pain now it's done :) x

Don't forget to take some mindful breaths when those weird feelings hit. Breath in, breath out, and repeat until it passes. It's all about getting used to the new you and your new healthier habits. No need to over think it, just start putting in new habits. Breathing is a good one ause you're kinda having to do some of it anyway :) x

I might have to cook pancakes now lol. Great name, go big or go home I say :) The sleep thing calms down. Some basics for natural rememdies though. Lavender is said to be relaxing, maybe scented bath things before bed. Hot chocolate, never underestimate warm milk. Chamomile or Peppermint tea are great (they never tell you peppermint which is technically for stomach but really works well for sleep). xx

Pancakes are a pudding surely?? lol Hi and welcome :) It sounds like you are exactly on schedule to have a beautiful quit, great job! x

Awww gorgeous. x

No plans for our next holiday as yet :( Can't believe you're planning more holidays already. Do you guys actually work or are you proper bums and just pretending to have jobs lol.

What, of Alex??

BOOM!! Lovin the 1 year Rowly. Hope it's all a bit better for you now. xx

It's tough to open up, I hear you. But listen, even if you are the queen of repression, you don't know anyone here who matters right?! And we REALLY want to support you cause who else could you turn to with this stuff other than other ex smokers who knew they needed to get support?! Pleased you've got this Kendra. x

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Way to go Evelyn. I really sometimes think you are the strongest person I know, I mean that straight up! I literally don't have the strength you do to re group and I know when you've got a handle on all the life experience you have to face that you will be a true force to be reconed with. For now, not smoking is an excellent choice in the self worth and health game, good job!

How does she not look like a house at 33 weeks, I'm guessing you guys are having a boy based on my own bitter experience of being a heffer with girls haha. I'm with Leanna, my OCD salutes Tasha's co ordination in socks and top :) It's just so exciting!!! I LOVE babies. ooooh, we could start a "top tips" thread so we can post all our well meaning "help" and you can ignore it cause doesn't everyone have some advice for you?! Have you been getting lodas of "advice". I love that Tasha has bonded with a group in the same position, it's a powerful thing that sort of support :) Yay!!! 6 weeks and counting!!

I'm so pleased you quit too Doreen. It's nice to think we are healing now rather than adding to the ticking time bomb! The numbers are utterly horrifying aren't they, think mine's around 17 thousand :wacko: x

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Quit ya whinging ;) I have lots of very important stuff to say. I'm kind of a big deal.... :D

We do have the same sort of look don't we lol, they say owners get dogs who are like them hee hee. So anyway. Batman arrived Tuesday. Poor little dude was poorly as ya like, kennel cough and so thin with a terrible upset stomach. He was a Bosnian street dog, rescued at 3 months and thrown in a halfway house for two months and then shipped to Romania where they issue dog passports to travel here and go to a foster carer. Who I'm being nice to but good grief (that's abridged) who gives a puppy such rubbish food and keeps him poorly sick! Grrrr. Anyway, it's Sunday night now. Puppy's stomach is all fixed and kennel cough is well on the way, although it takes as long as it takes. He's getting regular reiki healing sessions, he's so cute he falls asleep. he follows me around and his energy levels are building really well. he was tired and lethargic upon arrival, now he's a happy tearaway and training has commenced :) He is utterly awesome. Love me, love my dog :wub: . He's super cute!!

Awww sweetheart, this is just not the time. Get a restraining order!! Also, I'm gonna say this mum (mom?) to mum - if you are anything like me and your daughter is anything like mine - they know enough, they just want their mother to be ok. Do what makes you feel the most ok and Alex will be solid. No over thinking. It's ok to take a day or two to wallow, a "why me" moment and then bootstraps time girl! If what you need is her gone, get her gone. Much love. x

Hey Jess, absolutely, let us have your back. Get that meter reset and let's "get er done"! You absolutely can do this. x

Welcome to the best decision of your life and the board :) xx

Happy birthday to my favourite Libra :) Much love dog. xx

No you don't, stay and talk a while. Let's talk about the 3's! Some say they are nothing. Some say they are something. For sure 3 months or there abouts led me down a path of recommiting, almost daily, that I did not want to smoke. Thoughts of my own brain trying to sabotage me! Sounds bad right? But it wasn't actually. When I thought about it, just thoughts, dumb ideas...we all have lots of dumb thoughts if we stop and think about it. So here's my question. If you plod through this, do you think there might be a little peace at the end of the tunnel? If we accept that quitting is a journey and not an event, could it be a learning phase? My answer (from where I sit which I appreciate is so different) is yes it is. Sometimes the way through the fog is just through it, a bit directionless but trusting those ahead calling you home! Don't smoke Kendra. it's a lie, it was always a lie and worse, it hurts us. If I thought it would make you feel better I would shout out to go right ahead, but the truth of it is you honestly don't need it...just to embrace this stage to move onto the next. I hope this makes sense! Much love. xx

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Cheri, Baby you can follow in my swearing footsteps...... When the mood takes me I can make a sailor blush...nah seriously! I make up whole new words using a collection of swears and string them together. Some I have co joined part and part to make an entire new word. I like to show my creative side in all endeavors :) So I get swearing. Absolutely, bought up around it, doesn't cause me any grief to say it or hear it. So imagine my surprise when my (now ex, but still lovely) mother in law ABHORED swearing. In an effort to conform, I stuttered over half my sentences lol. Then I had girls, daughters...and actually, I think I would be taken aback to hear them swear how I do. I mean it is debateable whether my 1st borns first word actually was "stuck"... Yikes! Made me think about it you know, like some people are having their space invaded by me (I'm not known for talking quietly) and it really does get on my tits when people invade my personal space with their smoke etc. Hmm, food for thought I said to myself. So now I like that we have a section devoted to swearing. cause what if some proper holier then thou smoker comes to the board and I turned them off getting support cause I swear like a navvy? I would actually be gutted, I hang here to help people who find themselves where I was. And yes, I too have been known to get a little bit batshizzle, especially early quit as everything was settling and I was having to adjust to some harsh realities without hiding under the fog of "taking 5 minutes" which really was code for "complete avoidance"! Talk to me anytime chick, swears an all :) But take from my thoughts what you will. No offence intended, cause I promise there's no doubt if I try and offend someone haha. I think you're doing great by the way. Good job on having a circle around you, standing strong and embracing every part of who you are to do this journey :) Much love. xx

Nice friends...do they travel :D Says a lot about you! Good job. xx

So... aren't you having a time of it. Inbetween thoughts of being batshit and thoughts of smoking...are you doing anything to acknowledge and manage these moods? Any natural endorphin lifts, looking at guided meditation (sounds like a croc, an actual brain saver!), walking in nature, practising gratitude (not the fake shiz, the wake and pick one good thing and hold it for the day). I don't often bring my weird to this non smoking forum but it sounds an awful lot like I go through when I'm ascending spiritually...if it's nonsense to you then all good but maybe have a google of spiritual awakening type symptoms? Aside from that, addiction baby - it's a bitch! It see's a milestone coming and makes a real last grab for you I think! Many off us got talked down off the ceiling around 9 months and 1 year...pissed as hell at ourself for getting back here...but it's just a phase...this too really does pass!! Oh and don't smoke...cause that would make you a dumb ass and you're not a dumb ass! Much love. x