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Oh my goodness, you guys are awesome!! I had the pleasure to meet Mrs Bakon and I know she will be touched by the gesture but sure our very own Mr B will be along shortly to say that :) Made me cry, I'm so proud of you guys!! xx

Go on then, I shall be here with my vino collapso today.

I did rum friday as they only served pinot grigio in the pub I was in, yak! So I am joining you on the delay... 8pm here, nice sauvignon blanc on the go and I am a happy chappie :) Hope there's no hangover wino frez lol. Tyme, afternoon wine, why not, it is the weekend :) Tracey, shhhh, hope the driving went ok. x

I love the picture :) Hello beautiful lady. I'm 39, (38 when I quit), it was terrible and wonderful in equal measure, I made sure I acknowledged the good and the bad. The good to help me carry on and the bad to say I don't ever want to be at this stage again and if I move forward I don't have to...it worked. Some feel pretty focused and easy about there new place in the world though, part of me envied them. Nicotine is a demon drug no matter when you stop it. I won't bore with my side effects but I had many, I didn't even believe myself they were all quit related as they were extreme! But they were and I'm so pleased to be where I am today. The quit is worth everything, I promise!! Much love beautiful Tyme. xx

It's so easy here. The quit is a wonderful thing still. It never gets old for me, perhaps because I assumed my family were "smokers" and it's what we did. Today I joined a gym again, and I do exercise classes, a few of them and I still look like a ribena berry at the end lol, but I'm so much fitter. I take deep breaths all the time. I'm even wondering if I learn a new breathing technique to help and teach others...from an ex smoker!! Of 40 a day, who tried to quit and relapsed at a rapid rate for over a year but those days are more than done now. it's pretty magical where I am today. As I walked past a smoker in my local shopping centre I felt a huge level of sympathy. I knew he smoked, I could smell it. I could see the extra lines around his mouth and hear the quick breaths he took. I chose to NOPE through that. My poor mama, as much as we have dramas, she smokes again because of stress. She's terrified of dying and bringing it ever closer. Today I am very grateful for my freedom and I genuinely thought that. Thank goodness I don't stand in that supermarket queue to buy smokes today, I can buy my new exercise gear and leave. My new t shirt says I don't sweat, I sparkle :) I love it, it's bright pink!! Everything is so full of life now I don't have to work around smoking anymore. The triggers or craves are pretty non existant. I'm just grateful that time is done and folk helped me hold on. I have joined a group to provide support and meet ups to healers and spiritual people like me, I start later this year. After my reiki masters in August. And my 2nd computer course. and I signed up for short sewing and gardening courses. I would not have done ANY of this a year ago. I needed the time to be free to smoke. My life may be far from perfect but I love it today! Free to choose whatever I like :) 13 months last week, lucky for me. Love and light to all! x

To not have that constraint on my thoughts and movements really is an indescribable euphoria. It's finding inner freedom, shaking off a dependency that gave me nothing. All the things I thought I couldn't do if I stopped smoking, I can, and better: Socialise, be creative, and concentrate. THIS!! 110% this statement!! Oh you won't believe the freedom that is around the corner if you just hold on. It is so lovely to be free of it all. I would really love it if you would share this on the quit smoking discussions. You just never know who is reading behind the scenes and where they will look and this inspires me 13 months quit, you could inspire someone new even if they never join the site. x

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What's this train wreck you speak of? Even in what you considered to be weak times, I have only seen a strong woman taking control back of her life. We all wobble sweetheart, all, but it's ok as long as we're moving forward and you have consistently done that. Men are great, but only the right ones for you...there's time. Enjoy who you are first and find your feet. Your quit is as beautiful as your soul, welcome to the lido deck!! I knew you would make it from your very first post :) I love your fun side and I adore you pretty lady. Wonderful!! Are you celebrating? x

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Aww late to this, sorry my lovely. I want to echo some of this. Some of us, me included, quit the slightly harder way. In that we have other stuff that needs dealing with at the same time as the quit. I too was going through mind bendingly painful scenarios as I quit...my quit actually highlighted them. It brought existing issues that I had ignored to light in a very real way. I suffered behind the scenes. I say this as I found yoga really helped me (once I stopped giggling and tilting sideways a lot). I actually started it at around month 3,exactly where you are. I want to say that some parts of the quit were more emotional than others and it kinda seemed frightening with the physical concerns and mental concerns. Yoga helped and my buddy telling me over and over that smoking was done, we were quit already...what joy!! Damn if it sounds like you need some of that joy right now. Try this yoga unless you have a prefered one...she is spiritual and natural It's perfectly fine to feel like a fool, stick with it for a few days or a couple of times a week. Introduce some time in a day to release the emotions if you need to. In the shower, you need to cry, do it! You need to scream, do it. Punch a pillow if you're angry. Run. But stop letting it all well up inside you, get it out of you. Spiritually there is power in your thoughts, some call it positive thinking, I call it manifesting but same end goal. Don't want something, give it less head room. Want more of something, start thinking of it favourably. The quit is not to blame. It's tough to hear. The quit is a good and beautiful thing. that said the quit really does take some real time to bed in. Month 4 was so lovely and peaceful for me, a real respite from what felt like a bit of a battering from the quit before that. Others felt easy sooner. Doesn't really matter I promise, I'm still as happy quit today as the easy peasy crew were, it all ends in the same place. And that's what I want to add, it ends! It really really does. So that a smoking thought is a weird thing, not a normal thing. So that you stop the snotfest or the banshee wails, it all takes it time to teach you about that part of the quit and once the lesson is learnt, like in life, the problem passes naturally. Don't be scared by what's happening. It's easy to fear this, but there is nothing to fear. Your brain is so busy processing multiple things that it flits. So you over think. Stop gooling illnesses!! You are not ill, you're healing :) I promise. x

One more sleep!!! Oh my gods, beyond excited. Can't wait to see the poll lol. You look like a cocktails and frock kinda chick, will warm up a spot in the party section !!!

Oh my goodness, I'm so late but only two more sleeps till our very own blond beauty Sarah has a year!! I hope you have some plans lined up for thursday (or the weekend) my lovely :) xx

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Tracey I am so sorry my love, that is incredibly young. He would be so proud of you and all the support you've shown to other quitters now and relief, bet he's taken a big sigh of relief to see you quit and happier. Those that have lost someone to smoking don't always connect the dots :( Time and access is teaching us though, and it warms my heart to see new younger quitters too. So sorry for your sadness though. xx

Pub closed now Bakon?

I have shoe envy for sure :) xx

Flying is much easier when you don't have to hunt down a smoke area :) "Jersey in da house"!! It sounds fabulous. x

Your pictures always make me smile Joe. All your beautiful ladies :) Pleased you could all get together and that the sun shone for you. xx

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