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So many booms today! No matter I will list them then dance it out... 6p off each liter of petrol Full weeks food shop done Paint all present and correct for tomorrow's painting project Managed to walk past a gondual end adverting half price coffee machines , yet walked on past- no impulse purchase made! Going to check out Marti's kiss channel So many booms!....time to dance

Aww it won't load for me Annael :( Try again. I love a musical mood, my family are not as keen mind you, say I'm having one of my Mary Poppins turns...rofl

Same age as me Amy, how on earth did we get away with it? I imagine you have no memory of being a non smoker? I didn't and that, looking back, was a lot of my mental problem with it all. It can be a 'fear' of who the hell am I as a non smoker, how the hell do I go about day to day as a non smoker. I couldn't imagine it, hence the fear, hence kept on puffing away. Please just trust me that you will soon adjust to going about day-to-day, to just getting on with living as a non smoker. There are so many benefits but I won't list them, you have no doubt read them a million times anyway. If it's fear Amy just face the ruddy fear, you have my word that you soon adjust to the new improved you. So if it's that you 'can't imagine' just plant new thoughts that you 'can imagine' see yourself happy and free- cause if you keep to NOPE you soon will be- you have my word. Of course the physical and mental detox doesn't make folk feel 'happy' but it really doesn't last forever- I promise.

Loving the musical theme Annael... Love this....what fistycuffs?...lol

Will help me through my housework today...full blast. Young folk having the time of their lives...love it!

Brilliant news Colleen, congratulations....hope you treat yourself to some cheddar cheese to celebrate :)

He has got taste Annael, I like him ;) Love a bit of Danny Kaye. I used to work in a primary school and would play this, all the time, the tots loved it...awww, lovely days http://youtu.be/8KzY4EEjmyg

No matter what, that really is the only way Evelyn. Have a great day and keep yourself busy xx

Love a bit of Elvis! Used to love singing this one, as a kid http://youtu.be/9f_MWG4ToJs

Evelyn Tomorrow please commit to Nope, no matter how you are feeling. I just added a thread on motivation v commitment as that might help you, hopefully.

Sad to see you go :(, you remind me of Mr Miyagi (karake kid) of the stop smoking world. Good for you though, things to do...things to see...life to live. Hope you have a wonderful time and have many projects to keep you happy xx

Just read this and thought it might help those on day 1, or early in their quit. Motivation is a feeling based on emotion. Motivation generally happens when there is a great reward to gain or when you are suffering so bably that you want things to change. Motivation is helpful to drive us on but it is not essential to success. It is unrealistic to expect to 'feel motivated' every day, no matter what you are doing. The problem with motivation is that it works on feelings and emotions, and these can shift very quickly. Commitment, on the other hand, comes from logic and truth and does not depend on feelings. Commitment means following a plan even if you don't feel like it everyday. For example, a surgeon can't say halfway through an operation, ' Do you know I just don't feel motivated to finish this, so I'll stop now!' Motivation doesn't matter, it is commitment that will finish the operation. So commit yourself to NOPE , finish operation non smoker :)

Aww Annael, your wedding? How wonderful. I do hope you both practice this, for your wedding guests ;) Nobody puts our Annael in a corner ;)

Soozie....is it because you have 'bad imput/gremlins' in your mind? That you, Soozie, will just buckle under the busy period and the fact the world and his wife will be smoking around you? That was me....once upon a time....pop some new imput in your mind Soozie. Plan, that when it all feels like it's getting too much you will NOPE and ? ( insert your own plan) write the plan down Soozie, read it every hour from now, make it second nature that you are solid on the plan of action. Soozie, did you know that when you have a positive thought the blood rushes to that side of the brain? Positive plans, and thinking, are nature's own medicine in times when we need it. Make your plan, write it down, make it something that you accept as true and reasonable (don't try and trick yourself) Please just trust that you 'Soozie' can NOPE.

I remember that Soozie! Babs sent you mine...rofl...yes I remember ;)

Soozie, maybe write yourself a 'are you kidding me!' Letter here, on this thread. So when it seems to be mentally a bit 'how's yer father ;)' you have it here, something you wrote when of sound, unstressed mind.

Make lists of the things you 'must' do Soozie. Keep busy, keep very busy. Ask yourself if you would get a million pound to do the task ahead would you do it? If yes then crack on and do it...please don't let the fact your detoxing put your life on hold, will make it worse. No matter what Soozie don't smoke!. The only reason you feel like this is because of the damage cigarettes do, not because you can't have one. Keep busy, don't allow the dread to take over. Get planning that fabulous seventies party ;)

Would love to be 20 again dancing to this in a nightclub, my living room will have to do ;)

Amy....am gutted that you are back to day one. You must just crack on Amy, no matter what, and remove smoking as an option to end the physical and mental craving. I swear, you have my word, that if you crack on with it that it really does become normal not to want to smoke...I swear. Vent...cry...cheer...dance....whatever you need to do but just don't smoke xx

It wasn't me nana! http://youtu.be/di-10upaFok

Oh I remember searching the garage floor for dockers....well it wasn't a real full cig was it?, didn't count....oh the things I would do and tell myself ;)

My arms ached for about 3 months Aine, stopped just before Autumn. It felt like flu type aches but I didn't have a virus. Noticed it more late afternoon....just stopped aching one day, never to return.

I don't parallel park, will park 6 streets (blocks) away and walk before I put myself through sweaty betty worry of that lark! ;) Today....put £50 away towards the 1D concert (treat the girls to merchandise) so it was lovely to put it away, the old me would waste it on cigs...boom!

Hope you have a wonderful time Tracey...enjoy London ;)