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HUGE CONGRATULATIONS, NANCY!!!!!!!! XOX XOX XOX XOX 2 years!!!! XOX XOX XOX XOX XOX :wub: :give_heart:

LURVE that colour, Action! As Nancy said, very relaxing! Errrr.... do you have another w/c somewhere?? :blink: ;)

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! xox

(((NI))) xox sympathies for SURE! :(

oh WOW, Nancy!!!! that is some renovation!! Will be SO worth it in the end! and meanwhile, a good excuse for eating out, or take-away???? :P Looking forward to the completed kitchen!

Here is another example of how HARD it is for me... or should I say WAS! Physically, I didn't feel in the LEAST BIT 'unhealthy'! No cough, no shortage of breath, just a bit of phlegm now and again, if my friend and I had had a "bash" and smoked excessively the night before... No one ever complained of the smell, as I only smoked outside on the balc... (spent a LOT of time there, I can tell you!) Mentally, I felt like a "cripple"... I knew I shouldn't be but couldn't stop for long.... Only a few knew that I'd started again.... and there WERE times I DID quit, for a few days, a week or two, (never longer), so apart from the FREEDOM of not having to hide it, or worry that someone will 'find out', it's the MONEY that I quit for! I don't NOW, but in the beginning of my Quit, I'd think "if I could afford it, I'd smoke"... which in retrospect, I can see didn't help my resolve... :( and it IS gettting better by the day... "one day at a time".... This is the 1st morning the craving for the 'coffee cigi' didn't "hurt", per se!!! and I'm OVER THE MOON! I want to add, that although I don't post much, EACH and EVERY day since joining this OUTSTANDING group, I've read, liked, and got such inspiration and help from Y'ALL, even when I was busting!!! Knowing I wasn't 'alone'.... reading such similar stories, has helped more than words can describe!! Me either, CPK... but how else do I reply? A very emotional time isn't it Tyme? GOOD FOR YOU!!!!! :wub: so many 'thoughts' muching around...

N.O.P.E!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOPE NOPE NOPE !!!

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Just wanted to "bump" this and see how you're doing, Tiffany! xox SO much of what you posted are in my thoughts now! and I'm into the 4th week of my quit!!???? Not often, but when they come, they come with a vengeance! ??? Not sure, but IMO, it's worse for those who have experienced 'long quits' and started again... or even lots of smaller quits..? Sort of like "how long will I last this time?".... that NAUGHTY evil little monster at it again! LOL!

N.O.P.E!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

N.O.P.E!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(((Jess))) :wub:

N.O.P.E!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOPE NOPE NOPE and HAPPY AI day to all in the US of A!!! (that's America, not Australia :D ) For us, it's just another Saturday! but for ME it's an official "3 weeks holiday"..... :angel: )

It HAS to be the mental addiction at this stage, surely? I STILL crave!??? what's with that?? I'm pathetic!! GOOD FOR YOU, MICHELLE!!! it's almost been a MONTH!!! hang on.... your "quit date" says April 20th? but the pic says 27 days?? I'm confused... also, how CHEAP are smokes in the US!! if those figures are accurate, that works out to $3.50 a day!!?? I also smoked a pack every other day, but 25 in each... give/take, and was costing me $12.50 a day!!! That's CRAZY! I can see why it's so difficult for y'all in the US!

N.O.P.E!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!!!!

Teary, that's a great post!!! LURVE the expression "the flip and the flop"! I'm the same, but, after my big quit, I never smoked INside, or IN the car, or anywhere enclosed actually... just on my balcony.. PRIOR to my that, I'd smoke IN the shower!!! Yes! sounds absurd! it was! So, I HEAR YOU!!! I'm dreading my friend coming, she's a 60+ a day smoker, :help: and sits outside CONTINUOUSLY! My advice is not to allow anyone to smoke inside your car, (nothing you can do about theirs) or your home!!! Paid for my car battery yesterday, so there's the "flip"... :P

OMG!!! how uncanny is that!???? Just YESTERDAY on the way home, heard "I don't believe you" (for the 1st time!! can you believe that???) and LURVED it so much have been humming it!!! PLUS (while on youtube) checked out Megan Trainor's new 'album' Title, and also LURVE "Dear Future Husband"!!!!! OMG!! THAT is some coincidence, Bakon!!!

N.O.P.E!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!!!!!

BAKON, it was Bakon who posted that list!!! ;)

Awww... DD xox that sounds GORGEOUS!! One of the 'rules' on that list from ...? oh dear... can't remember now... anyway, I saved it... was...... "have you hugged a living being".... and I'm sure THAT's what's missing from my life atm... GOOD FOR YOU! :wub:

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS, DD! XOX Strange you should mention about losing track of time, as I do too!!! I FEEL as if I haven't puffed in months and months... Lovely opening post, Joe! :)

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS!!!! 9 months!!! WONDERFUL!!! :)

..........yesterday, my car battery died.. well.... as long as my car was started and run daily, or every other day at the worst, it would JUST hold a charge... Given it was 4.5 years old, I wasn't disappointed, BUT as today is P day, informed the mechanic that he'd have to come back today, to which he offered a 10 day account!!!! So, not only did I get my battery yesterday, but the BEST part is that today, I can actually PAY for it!!!!! and still have money left over!!!! As a smoker, my fortnightly 'cigi money' was MORE than the cost of a new battery, ($160) so it's put EVERYTHING in better perspective for me!!! (My pension is $898 p/ft) NO MORE STRUGGLING and going without the bare NECESSITIES of life, just to feel ashamed and angry with myself!!!!! WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!

N.O.P.E!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!!! OMG!!! July already!!!! so I quit "last month"!!!! yeeeehaaaaa!