notsmokinjo

Hey @Walker ... you are not alone, and you are most definately not abnormal for this reaction. Nicotine addiction cause the nicotine receptors in our brains it pushing any button they can to get fed, ergo a hit. Remember, when you were a smokers, if you hot stressed and had a smoke the stress eased? Yeah well here's a news flash to help you stray quit....it wasn't the nicotine easing your stress, it was the nicotine receptors amplifying it...bad thing happens, your brain stresses, the nicotine receptors go 'ooh we ain't had a hit for a while, lets just turn th ius up to 11', you have a smoke, nico receptors turn off, stress level drops....and you think, ahh the smoke made it better...yeah nah it just turned of the nicotine receptors which amplifying and exploiting you. For 30 years you have conditioned yourself that smoking eases the stress, the nicotine receptors in your brain are starting to realise you are serious about this quit business and are amping everything that has worked in the past to 111 to try and get a hit. So, during the first month particularly you need to keep you fluids up and you need to keep your blood sugar levels managed. Drink lots of juice, eat some fruit, suck on a hard lolly. This really helps with craves. I'm not trying to minimise your experience, I remember clearly think i was having a heart attack during my quit and it b eeing a panic attack. Its scary shit. Another helpful thing is to have a placebo, when you start to feel anxious, stick a hard lolly (candy, sweet) in ya mouth and suck on it. Still, nearly 3 years later, if i get stressed i will grab a chewie (gum, and no not nrt) and the act of chewing is calming and centering. I'm not doing this avoid going f our a smoke, don't even consider that, but because I reprogrammed my brain that chewing gum eased stress. Your nicotine receptors will exploit anything and everything to get a hit. But it gets easier every day. You just have to hang in and let your brain unlearn 30 years of programming. 10 days is sensational.

My phone just makes up it's own shit, I don't know why, I've had it for over 3 months and it's not broken yet. I think it just hates me. Do you think it hates me?

4. Get chewie (gum) outa ya hair.

I don't think it's the s pulling the s as it that's the problem, it's not then he o wing some over your shoulder. But do you the o w it o her your left shoulder our your right shoulder? (Translation: I don't think it's the spilling the salt that's the problem, it's not then throwing some over your shoulder. But do you throw it over your left shoulder or your right shoulder? .......cos you know when you spill salt you have to throw some over your shoulder so you don't get bad luck)

The number 13, wearing matching socks, not picking up a coin if I see it on the ground, touching my cards before all the other players do, not turning my cuppa clockwise 3 times send anti clockwise once before taking a sip. Isn't it bad luck to be superstitious?

Make it sleeveless and call it a vest. Confession: I can't wait for menopause.

810 minutes, dontcha think that works a charm?

Do you think it would be better to say you worked 782 minutes cos there is no 13 in that?

Wouldn't it still be 13 hrs though?

Is 13 bad luck? (I'd have to work an extra hour...fair dinkum!)

10. Use it to marinate meat strips (or tofu) for a stir fry. Things you can do with eucalyptus oil.

Probably because youtube and google are grumpy with the Aussie government because they want to make a law which means they have to pay for certain content... a few things have vanished lately.

Oh... Confession: I resorted to using a bulldog clip to control my shaggy dog hair today.

9. Decorate with permos (sharpies)

Confession: I came in to post a confession but got side tracked. Confession: I've been wondering all day if @Cbdave knew it was the 50th anniversary of the Westgate Bridge collapse. Confession: I cried on the way to work and the way home from work when I drove over the bridge.

My dad's either "goin to shake hands with the unmployed" (wiz) or "drop some pollies off at the pool". Pollies are politicians.

@WeegieWoman ...that bloody traffic cone on the kings head cracks me up, especially as i know whenever the authorities remove it it's straight back up there....gotta love a river people with that sense of humour.

I'm around...just circling the self pity drain. So need a haircut....tempted to just take the scissors to it meself.

Omg Steve ...love that a Yank posted one of my fave Aussie bands ever.

7. Melt chocolate in it then snip the corner and pipe chocolate decorations.

^ Um... yeah, no shit sherlock because guess what from the second ya born ya dying. Life is the most prolific, terminal, sexually transmitted disease. Over isolating. Over lockdown. except for those of us who don't cope.

Oh...The Very Hungry Catapillar

With @Boo's new reading list thought this thread could have a rehash... Any of the Lynley Dodd books...especially...Hairy McLary from Donaldson's Dairy....Slinky Malinky ...and Caterwaul Capers. Bamboozled....this is brilliant. Goodnight Me We're Going On A Bear Hunt

7. Make a car costume