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Have fun beauty but a note from the wise... If you can't be good be careful ;) x

Loving this celebration RF, great work!! Massive congrats on 2 months free and love reading what you write. x

Massivecongrats Mason. Hope the quits are going well :) x

Aw Laura, horrid to hear, what an awful day. Sorry you thought smoking might help too. It's never the answer. Sugary tea helps shock far better and less harmful love. Pleased you're back on. Massive hugs, truly does sound very hard. x

You have some 2% stuff, that's our semi skimmed milk. I think in certain shops you get PG Tips black ...that's our middle of the road tea. Earl Grey and English breakfast etc have a bitter ish after taste I always think, it's not comforting like tea should be :)

Naf = Rubbish. Don't worry mate, you'll learn the language in no time I promise :) Builders tea = the tea for the workmen, surely you're not so warm and cosy in your nee naw car you don't see the chaps outside toiling away, building stuff... Earl Grey, really, it's for the posh pretenders who have cute little cup and saucers...move away from the ponce tea. Think you better just stick to coffee really, it sounds like it's all going horribly wrong! You brought 50 shades into a tea conversation, really? Wrongun lol.

Some people just make themselves feel better by making others feel bad and he really sounds like one of those. You have two choices, stick with it and see if it gets easier or punch him in the nose :) I don't think it makes you unfit, every type of exercise required different muscles to be stronger, so it will add to your strength for sure, if you want to carry on. Enjoy!!

Oh excitement, tea is my thing :) It's all in the quality. So naf quality tea bag will take way longer to infuse. Also do you want "builders tea" which is strong, or normal, which has a shorter time span. For a cup, bag in, hot water in stir and add your milk. Stir until it turns the desired colour. Builders tea, perfectly ok to put the teabag, milk and a whackload of sugar in, add hot water, go away, go talk to ya buddy forgetting you were making a brew...come back, looks like the teabag has lost the will to live and voila :) Teapot, 2 or 3 teabags, depending on how quick you'll drink it.

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Oh pringles are yummy ...I buy them for the kids... yes, yes I do :)

Sheesh, I got nothin for 9 but I do adore Aine 9!! Much love :) x

Long ol practise quit twinny, sorry you threw yourself off. Would have been well in an SOS for you, so you know. Sending strength for tomorrow cause you know what...weren't most of our "firsts" either! No chickening out Mrs, you absolutely can do this. Much love. x

Hey One, Good job on the breaking of associations. Might help you to think of them as "triggers" rather than "cravings". A trigger is simply a thought process that occurs when you repeat a situation you hvae faced before. Whereas a craving felt like a calling to something I didn't want! It's easier to keep perspective with a triggers I think. The biggest win in a quit is splitting all the associations with when we smoked so you did a great job with that dentist thought! It took a while to understand so I want to share with you, the quicker you replace where you would have smoked with a new pattern..the quicker your triggers will go.

Did you notice how annoyed youwere to have a cough? It always made me chuckle, as smokers the cough was often and constant...once you quit, first cough cold thing and the cough really drives you mad :) We have that cough cold here, nasty one. Thing is you are so right. While the rest of us are a bit whiny and drugged up (tixylix and sudafed lol) the mother's has converted to a COPD flare up...difference between smoke free and smoker of only 5 a day now..... glaringly obvious! You are doing so great!! Berocca is pricey but great as a morning tonic alongside whatever you are taking. Don't forget paracetamol if you get a temp, you can take that with most cold meds. Also a cheats chicken noodle soup is two knorr chicken stock cubes in a 1/2 saucepan of water. Precook a chicken breast or piece. Sharwoods medium or fine egg noodles and add your cubed pre cooked bit of chicken and bobs ya uncle! feel better soon. x

haha, I used to go to a baptist church, they loved a tambourine there!! Vicar played a sax! That freaked a lot of the oap crew right out :)

Awesome work on day 40!!! You are doing amazing Laura, great job :) I think it's the time of year Laura, we're struggling here too, at least it's not freezing or pouring but this weather doesn't do a lot to life your mood nor do the dark months. What about getting some berocca? What about the gratitude thing in the morning to try and shake it off, you could try that. When you wake think of 3 things you are grateful of before you get up and then smile. Apparently it puts you in a better frame of mind for the day. I always forget lol.

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Agree with all of the above. Sometimes when we're swimming along with our quit we forget how powerful those triggers are! We know them well week 1 and week 2, day in day out sometimes but I truly believe later a trigger is a bit more of a surprise! This is because the triggers are less frequent, so we're not really watching out for them. For some reason you think you're dumb that when triggered you followed an impulse and then snatched yourself back from it thinking "ah hell no, not again". You absolutely won over that trigger, so yes rockstar :) I will say it until everyone hears it, the tough bits like that, where you wonder can you hold on...then do...are the absolutely biggest wins in the quit. It's you literally smacking down the triggers and with each one of those hurdles jumped, it gets easier. You just passed the friend re-started trigger, but there will have been working in the garden trigger, holiday trigger, massive arguement trigger etc etc. All of these slightly more different and unusual triggers faced actually reinforce your quit, if you don't smoke! We all get them Gabby so please don't worry it's something about you. xx. Are you financially able to treat yourself to something nice, last time I faced down a tough trigger I bought a rug for the lounge so I could look at it and "see" i was winning, it helped and it could with you too. I think sometimes we assume we won't be addicts forever, but we will. What changes is not that we could smoke...but that we choose not too because that life is better! With each trigger point we pass the process becomes easier. Some go into easy peasy, some have to trudge a little more, probably a personality thing although I honestly don't know...still, end game is the same... So you know I want to say sometimes, I look at a cig and think "could I?", still. The difference now is it doesn't pain me to say no, I won't. Only 3 months ahead of you Gabby, better times are coming and protect your quit, no smokers around may help. That line from Markus always stuck with me, it's not the strong person who quits, it's the vigilant person! Loves beauty. x

great work on 7 months DF!! Lol at forgetting :) Now time to remember to treat yourself!! x

brilliant work jac!! well done. xx

great stuff rob!! x

Wish I never had of started!! Wish someone could have talked me out of feeling invincible for years and years.... Savvy post and realisation Jackie. There have always been points in every smokers life where they wanted to pull of the quit. My only different point is we created a ton of timeline related excuses why we couldn't. x

Hey my friend. It can be a bit disconcerting can't it but please rest assured this is all in the "normal reaction time" camp. How long, well it really is different for everyone and that's the truth of it so it's pretty hard to say. For me on month 4 I started to level out, before that I had good days and bad days and I did still...but more became good at that point. I had a wobble month later but that was situational (stress related). So as you asked, that's mine...but truly the next person will say week 3, or month 8 so it's tough. Maybe start blogging or tracking your journey so you can start to see your own progress...that really helped me. You are doing amazing though!! This can be a tough time in the journey. The quit has somehow lost it's sparkle and trudging gets old and it's just meh! Now is the perfect time to line up some treats for yourself! Start writing down things to spend your quit money on, big and small. Buy tissues every week, it will pass, good and bad, it always passes and so do the tears. Every moment you go through is your body fighting out the crap, embrace that...feeling emotional...boom, another chemical must be leaving my body, good riddance!! Virtual hugs too, it can be un nerving but you gave yourself the best gift ever here and you need to trust that. Give the time some time ey. x

Happy birthday beautiful pippa. Hope the day is as amazing as you. xx

Rob you've made it past actually (sorry a day late) the 1 month mark!! With the move around too!! Really pleased for you and your quit that it' so solid and strong :) Massive congrats on 1 month free!!