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Fluffy are you one of those? ? Exit me, heading into hiding with flak jacket and helmet for protection. Too soon after today's conversation with your colleague?

Fantastic job Ren, really proud of the work you are putting in to this. Congratulations and onwards!

Novokezdet awesome job on that first month quit. Congratulations!

Huge congratulations on 3 years quit Rajaj. That's an awesome quit.

Club sandwich

Enjoy a fantastic weekend.

^^^ is that the one that goes you won't get me I'm part of a union? The Village People - come on everyone on the dance floor. YMCA.

Murbe, welcome on board. Hope you're settling in well and getting comfortable. When you've relaxed and made yourself at home, pop across the intros section to say hi, there's a load of great folk here to help you. Catch you around.

All The Small Things - Blink 182 Does your height help?

^^^ evolution sucks bad, loving the classic.

@lml you're right, it's the common thing that binds us here, we are all addicts. Grandad, lost both legs to smoking related illness before it took him. Nan, didn't smoke and lived a long life. She seemed spiteful though and I couldn't relate to her. I never wanted to be like her. Grandad smoked all his life, died unrelated to smoking. Nan, smoked all her life, died young in her early 60s of smoking related illness. Dad, smoked all his life, massive heart attack in his early 50s, died. Mum, still around but suffering from the after effects of smoking for around 30 odd years before quitting about 20 years ago. She is thankfully in reasonable shape. I know the physical ramifications, if you smoke it is likely to get the better of you in the end. My addict self let me ignore the evidence right in front of my face for the longest time.

At the moment it seems quite simple. It boils down to mentally it is healthier for me. Strangely for someone who has smoked for all of my adult life, I picture the non smoking version of me as who I am meant to be. It's stupid it has taken 35 years of smoking for my actions to catch up. I'm not close to being out of the woods yet and there's battles ahead, particularly as oddly the physical cost of smoking has never been a motivation. So really it's because I don't like some of my behaviour in the grip of my addiction to nicotine.

Okay then culture it is don't you know 1. I've been to exactly one piano evening in my life. 2. I've seen exactly one ballet in my life. 3. I've listened to exactly one opera in my life.

So many Ts, so little time. Okay so this one will probably be obvious to nobody but me, but it's one of my earliest music memories. Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, I present Tina Charles - Callin callin Dr Love

I'm going to say 2 is the lie. Have a fun night out with your pals tonight, you regular little Miss Cilla Black. And enjoy your birthday whenever it is in the next few weeks.

Nope from me on POETS day! @Kate18 good to see you here. Stay strong and post often. Use the Nope (your promise to you in front of all of us) daily to start your day. We're here to help.

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False - it would have to be pretty bad at sea TNP has been on a ship in the last year?

Love Changes Everything - Climie Fisher It's A Fine Day - Opus III What should we get up to today?

if you've done it right Shaking All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates What do you want for your breakfast?

Zotz I'm sure this isn't the first time we've used these and probably won't be the last. Leave the apple ones out please!

The Prisoner

Okay, so it's been a little while I've been quit now, but the last few weeks had been the first time I'd actually been feeling like a non-smoker at times. Last night, I'd had the best of nights out with the kids, but once home a bitch of a crave hit me. The intensity was something I'd not felt in around 3 months and caught me totally by surprise. Fortunately I have enough invested that it did not threaten my quit, but the discomfort was horrible, I had nothing to answer it other than just heading to bed. Not sure where it came from or why it was so bad, but it was a salient reminder if it was needed that I can't afford to be complacent. Vigilence is the watch word. I hope I'm not going to experience that too often. Just a reminder to me and others, ups and downs, on to better things tomorrow.

^^^ I was expecting you were thinking of The Kinks when you were chatting with Fluffy. Are you not meant to be posting an O though?