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Just say Christine... you have quit, you have been quit for nearly 3 days.

I was exactly the same... it was my one driving thought and being an insomniac I got at most 3 hours respite a night when i slept. We're not just spinning you a line, it gets better and its like Jillar just said, one morning you wake up and about an hour or so after you've been up it suddenly registered you haven't thought about a smoke. Its all a lot newer and closer for me than it is for Boo and Jillar but let me tell you it really, truely does get easier. I've only been quit for 6 months but sweetie I have had way more good days than horror days... way more and its not that I don't still get the occasional crave, or thought or ah stuff moment where I think I'll just go get a smoke... because i do, but they are fewer and further between and way less demanding. So as Boo says.. short term struggle and drama.... long term benefit. I know in the early days the old phartes would tell me it gets better and I'd think when... when I changed my thinking to be it'll be better tomorrow, it'll be better tomorrow it suddenly was.. each day is better than the last until I'm not sure how much better it can get most days.

^^ proud.... and there is nothing wrong with feeling proud...

A night time cold and flu tablet can take the edge of and help you sleep in the early stages of the quit. Not even 1.... part of the battle is won.... now tell my 5 things about not having one... how will that make you feel... I am tipping one of them needs to start with a P

What she said, but not too pleasant and not involving V for Vendetta or a bowl of icecream yeah?

Get writing chooky, that's what you can do.... 10 and 5..... thats the task.

You are better than that.... just write an entire page of random thoughts.... write a letter to yourself about how you will feel if you give up. HAVE A PIECE OF NRT GUM .... i get the don't want to have too many... but you know what if you need it have it.... I did.... and I kept having them until I knew I was in the head space not to. You so have this. Don't toss it away... writing helps, here is a little writing activity for you.... I want you to write down and post 10 ways buying smokes and having one will help you. The I want you to write down 5, only 5 ways fighting the urge and not having one will help. post both lists....

Only if its wrong that I am impressed also don't ya think? Oh I might post mine in confession later today because don't you think I enjoy sharing the shockage?

I do think jillar has it. Because unless Shane had said "it took a while to 'clean' up cos little shane rather enjoyed the experience and I had to take care of business" there was no way that story, while funny and a little embarassing, was winning. Don't ya think?

yes, yes you should, do you want to be know as a squelcher? I think for pure shock value and spitting of the coffee mine might win but.... I'm not in the competition and for life experience alone Jillar deserves to win.. I have like a gazillion questions?

do you think shane slipped off his chair?

I think you need to get you moves out there because one of you will have a little princess waking them up in about 4 hours expecting to be taken to the pool... so I'm gunna toss a coin, and jillar is going to call head or tails and I tell ya who goes first, yeah? or not?

Do you not think I have any shame? You could go alphabetically? You could go by age? Isn't it ladies before gentlemen?

what watch you two do it???

Nothing shocks me... I would be the worst judge of the shock value.... I'm half tempted to participate, but I'll enjoy watchin you two do it...oh did that come out really wrong?

That is the most Aussie frickin thing I have read in frickin ages.... yay the Aussie road trip... at least ya didn't hit a frickin roo.... an ya showin ya sea legs cos a land luva woulda had a jerry can in the ute with spare juice justin. Glad you could spin the positive.. and don worry mayte, cos she'll be frickin right. (wouldn't it be funny if all the tractor needs is asome petrol or a spark plug...hahaha)

maybe Jillar's trying to level the playing field by having it over there... trying to tame you down. Besides, who will judge it in here??

^^ That's a goody too... and even in Aus the significance of it being on Good Friday was not lost. With Crawf, how fricking broken was he when he finished... I watched that in a lounge room with about 12 others and even the boys had moist eyes.. not sure if it was worse because we all knew him as the crazy lunatic of the show who would do all the silly stuff for a laugh it was really the first time anyone had ever seen him so serious.

Shane Crawford - >300 AFL games, Brownlow Medalist, Grand Final Captain, Hall of Famer ... and Breast Cancer Awareness & Fundraising Superstar So earlier this week someone I know had a rant about footy players not being good for anything and meat heads and never giving back... so amongst the more than a dozen I could rattle off this block stand out from the modern era. He is what's know as a larrikin, not necessarily the smartest cookie in the box, but a bloody good footy player and a bit of a class clown... anyway after he retired Raelene Doyle (Aussie Olympian) came down with breast cancer... so he made a pledge to run from Adelaide to Melbourne (aprox 727km) in the middle of winter to raise money and awareness... what happened you couldn't script... ever country town he ran through people would line the streets, or run with him and not only did he go through a physical challenge but an emotional one.... 3 or 4 years after this... he again gave of himself for this cause... and rode a bike from Melbourne to Perth (3,418km) in just under 3 weeks again in the middle of winter... that is a longer distance than The Tour de France and in much less time.... this man is what a hero is..... and he certainly gave back. The first run nearly broke him as a person, he was so emotionally effected... below is the live footage of him finishing the run, with some snippets of the run itself.

"Queen" Boudicca ... I know she wasn't really a Queen but she was truly heroic.

Ok so lets put a nice positive spin on this... from one junky to another, no negative nancy talk... find the positives and focus on them... repeat after me: "I did not fail at the coffee quit, I realised the the physical, psychological and emotional stress associated with quitting two highly addictive substances at the same time was unhealthy. I chose to focus my energies on fighting the nicotine addiction as the priority. This has the greater negative impact on me. I was smart enough to get my priorities right. AND when i've nailed the nicob1tch's arse to the wall I will deal with the coffee c8ckhead, but until then it can wait".... that's what happened, you didn't fail you made a smart adjustment to you actions to best benefit your quit... what a winner.

well you all don't hate me for my pizza loathing so how can i hate you for you lack of taste in nuts?

Wilfred Owen .... poet who wrote Dulce et Decorum Est. , won the military cross and sadly died a week before armistice day... For those who didn't have a British based English Lit. Education it goes: Dulce et Decorum Est By Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.— Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. Notes: Latin phrase is from the Roman poet Horace: “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.”

I get what you mean, and FW de Klerk gets forgotten in the Nelson hype and he was instrumental in a lot that went down for the positive. Imagine going against everything you were bought up to believe and against everything your people held true to effect change... that's courageous, making the unpopular decision for the right reasons.