Still winning

Massive congrats to you my lovely on a wonderfully strong 4 month quit!! Really happy for you. xx

Nancy, I hope you're having a fantastic weekend on the boat. 1 year is quite amazing, as are you! Thanks for all you do. xx

Massive congrats RWW, 5 months is fabulous news. xx

Massive congrats chick, 10 is fabulous!! x

I nodded all the way through lol. It's monkeys is definately a well known saying. Pants and underwear... I tend to call the make underwear boxers and girls underwear knickers...

That's so crucial isn't it, that attitude. Really pleased you have it to guide you through. Ultimately it's just a phase of the quit, and real uncomfortable, but passable. Actually not sure passable is a word lol, think I made it up :) Good on you treating yourself too. Why not :) We all love a treat and those Kiwi cigs were really expensive so it must be nice to see some funds, plus all the savings from the quit of NRT to come. So happy for you Gabby, hold on because you're doing great.

Thank you, nicest compliment I've had in ages :)

No I'm not there yet, this date is in my future! But someone I care for is almost upon this date and will have a nope to sign for!! ((Gabby)) day 3, no nicotine!!! This site and you rock!! Smoking takes too much, I can't abide it anymore!! Health, finances and who we are are all impacted! NOPE!! Absolutely nope, we are better and stronger than this.

11 months is utterly fabulous and inspirational. Thank you for sharing and congrats for your quit. x

brilliant. love it.

http://twentytwowords.com/11-awesome-british-phrases-that-americans-should-start-using-asap/ Please let this link work lol.

In my defence I didn't drown them.... Lessons must be learnt and I do like to teach :)

My Mum gave her last cigarettes away today!! I'm going to have a burn up of these last ones next weekend :) Having thought it through and seen some of you guys also held on, it feels overdue and ok. There's a significance to next saturdays date, so I think I will run with that. Thanks for all your answers!! x

Boom and by the gods, got another one sucked in!! My Giles quits tomorrow with a brilliant mindset of - Mart, if you've got it, then so can I! I LOVE this inspiring stuff!! Even if this doesn't take, he is thinking, and seeing it's do-able and I am somehow managing to enable that, simply by quitting!! And his twin brother is part of my soul group, so if I can suck Giles in, maybe I can suck my Elliott into quitting. By the way some people think soul mates are the bird/bloke they happen to marry or be with etc. I don't buy that although good for you/each to their own etc. I think we pick a group of people that we will re-incarnate with and they will bring something to our life, or us to them. Yes the fella I'm currently with is in my gang but we were powerful to each other as friends too. Numbers wise I think this is in the 5 - 10 ish people realm, in case you wonder what I'm rambling about :) Spiritual ya know :) So I am so pleased I hung tough for all those days I wondered if I was being dim trying to quit. All the times I quit and failed and quit and failed :( Made me sad but each quit/failure taught me something and brought me to this place I am today where I will not smoke, would be the dumbest thing I had done for a long time - pretty much since I last started smoking. I quit though and NOW, here and now, I am a non smoker and I accept that. For months I have been a quitting smoker, or a reformed smoker (lol, real bad) or someone who wasn't smoking....now I just don't smoke. It's like someone gave me the last hidden puzzle pieces but I couldn't tell you which bits were missing, it was a time thing I guess. I typed a line on the voldemort site that hit me like a freight train, it was this: ""I answered questions honestly, like sometimes I would love a cig, but mostly I am just really relieved all those craves are over - no not the withdrawal...the all day every day craves of being a smoker...that was exhausting! "". That is how I feel. It makes me so happy I can use this to help others though, that is who I am :) This emotional outburst is sponsered by white wine :) But still true lol and I am so happy I quit and that others will quit by my example well beyond my two man expectations. 5th quit I've inspired?! Man, I must of looked like some real commited smoker before I became a happy non smoker :)

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Rainy bbq my end too. Better than a storm without pool option tho Jenny, bad times :(

Wow, really? And they stayed. Well that's kinda silly in my opinion, I'm with you shouting outtahere lol. And that's with being spiritual. I always wonder if these people are really exagerating though?

Ava it's not the first time someone has said I should try and turn it into a comedy show lol. Two ex boyfriends of mine actually came looking for me at varying points as they were fair sure I would have lost the plot and ended up in a funny farm or just killed the lot or something haha. You know the funny thing, I would love to live in a bubble and just be a happy hippy but all this nuts shit always seems to happen lol. Family of fuckwits?! Anyway happy cussing time Inspired a cousin to quit at crazy family party today!! Man I am the dogs bollocks at sucking people into quitting and I am so excited for him and his new life. Dad was not at party, thank fu*k ... mum was super bored with no one to insult haha.

Legit my friend and sounds unny - off to hunt it down :) Nothing should be based on my bat shit crazy existence lol.

Constant cravings all day every day are all gone, they were so much worse when we were smokers as they happened every 20 minutes! Can I hear a hell NOPE for saturday :) Getting ready or a family party, bring on the drama, still nope! Have a wonderful smoke free and happy to be free now day everyone!

This really is fabulous news!! It may temporarily make the craves worse but you've already proved you can deal with those. Hang tough to whatever got you through. Within 72 hours the nicotine is completely out of your system, how amazing is that!! Also are you taking sips of fruit juice every few hours? Over those first 3 days without nicotine our blood sugar levels can dip as our body adjusts. It can make you feel tired and that in turn makes you think it's a crave when it's not always. You are really owning this quit Gabby and I am so pleased for you. How are you feeling at the end of the day 2 without the nrt (should be your eve now I think)? xx

yeah see Bonnie's 11 post is sticking with me. I do like a "big finish" lol. Then Tracey, I hear ya, get er done an all. babs of course was uber organised and just smoked em em all lol. You can't all come up with different options on me though! Holski, proper tempted to give them to one of two mums I really like down the school. They are both hard up for cash. But then I feel like an ars*hole :( One of the same mums also asked to borrow allen carr - could I give her the cigs and the book....no, it's just weird. If it were still my hubby then that's weirdly ok, I actually did that too, but now he's quit and everyone around me has caved and quit lol. Brilliant problem to have I guess so hang tough holski cause who knows right. x

hey hey Jen, was wondering how hell week was shaping up for you? Not heard much and hope you are ok. x

Pippa too?! This is going to be an utterly amazing week!! Got any plans "7 Pippa"?? :) x

ooo bad times, I'm singing I got 5 on it by a dreadful boy band - but I'm still mega excited for you petra!! x