notsmokinjo

Yes its Sunday... well in Australia so lets start our SUNDEE SLANG SLAM SPECTACULAR start on my time and end on yours.... Hard yakka - (pronounced Hard yak-ah) ... hard work.

My kid doesn't eat anything that didn't have a face, do you follow the same life rule?

yes I could have no meat... that would be worse don't you think?

You can just read my post in the health and fitness thread if you want?

My job ends at the end of June... do you need a pa?

The endocrinologist is making me do a low iodine diet, don't you think he's mean?

Do you think the daily blood test would show if I cheated?

Oh... that's hard... if my Grandma can come back and make me her one the Victoria Sponge, real cream and home made jam. (oh and @Wee fluffy me if you make it yourself you can have toffee on your popcorn.... mmm.... time to make some stickjaws.. Toffee: hard or chewy

Well all my nope mates its time to do the pledge here in Aus... let me just say the future is looking good, dark and starry but looks fine out my window. So lets get down to business, cos when it comes to smoking even the magic eight ball knows the answer is That's right kidlets.... today, tomorrow, and every day hereafter it is a big fat NOPE ain't gunna happen no more. Topic of the day: Its Sundee Slang Spectacular

No social life at all for me now softball season is over.... watch our boards I'm about to have even more free time... mwahahahaha

@Octain & @Cbdave did you know the voice to text software on the kids pc doesn't translate Strayan... (note my accent is different to Cbdave.. he's probably from NSW or SA.... Victorian Bogans are way better... oh and yes little Bird I know you spy on me)... but, Octain, cos ya a bit of a funny dude and give me a chuckle I will avail you of my free translation service: I'll give you a nope anyhow. It's bad luck to start 2 and not let them run. I don't know why (its bad luck), my f'ed up brain just made it up and told me... it (my brain) said "Don't ignore Whispers' NOPE thread" ... or maybe it was because I just did not feel like following order. (in reference to Whispers saying IGNORE DUP NOPE) (I have no idea why I was talking in the 3rd person about myself) Jo was asleep for a change because she took a sleeping tablet because she couldn't stand her own psycho company (I was driving myself crazy and opted to sleep it off instead of inflicting it on myself and others)... Anyway, I woke up in a much better state of mind, well at least a mood I could tolerate and because the dogs hadn't been walked last night when I went to bed early by my kid, her dad or her brother I thought I'd walk the poor pooches before starting a Nope thread. I'm always happy to provide a translation.

I have been NRT gum free since week 9, so I have been nicotine free since then. So I have now been quit longer without it than I have with it. I have also thrown away a really long quit with one puff so I have history of not being too good at this. That said this quit is already different than the other one. I don't miss it, most of the time I don't even thing about it anymore. I am already in psychologically more stable place than I ever was that other time. I don't have any issues taking advice about addiction from someone who has never had a puff in his life. I take advice about my physio therapy from someone who has never had the injuries I have. I take advice about my girl bits and their plumbing from a male gyno and I can guarantee he's never been where I have. Why should addiction advice from someone who has never smoked be any different. Some of his videos don't resonate and some do I take what I need. This was just a case of the wrong info at the wrong time with the wrong outlook on things combining to make my quit shaky. Surprisingly once a purged my vent and let it out not so shaky now, back to confident, just a tad less cocky.

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"doing" house work as long as the definition of doing is sitting here wondering why the fruck house elves aren't a real thing. Also contemplating running a book to see if @Boo can really go a full weekend without a work out... and well, laughing me arse off at Fluffy.

So I've been watching a lot of Joel's videos lately and I watched the one about NRT gum... here's the thing, it actually made me feel pretty cruddy about my quit, I have even had a few why bother moments since watching... because the video tells me statistics say only 1% of people who quit using NRT gum are successful. Watched the video more than once. Still felt like I was riding a race on a dead horse. I have been pretty down with myself and my quit since watching it... and then you know what, I had a chat with a 'mate' about being on a rebound quit and I had a chat with another mate that made me think about things and my attitude and you know what... stuff what the percentages say.. if they say that its 1% of people that use gum who have a successful quit then I'm going to be part of that 1%. Stuff what the statistics say, I am not going to toss away my quit because some statistic says the probability is it wont work because I used NRT gum. No bit of mathematical manipulation is going to influence me to toss away this quit. This quit is the one. So as Mark Twain said, "Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable". Well here's a fact for you, I'm one stubborn arse cow and I'm not scarred of a statistic. So the statistic said 1% of quitters who use NRT have a successful quit... I call bull shit ... and even if it is true, you know what I'm going to be part of that 1%. And now, not only am I going to do it to say FU to a statistic and prove it wrong BUT I have to do it because I just made this public declaration. So my fellow travelers let the record state this is my last quit because I am not tossing it away for anything. Edit: You know what, I haven't just used NRT gum on this quit, I've used research, and knowledge, and the support of a pretty amazing group of fellow travellers through the journey to or in freedom. And here's a statistic for you, 100% of people who take up eating die. Or to quote Scotty Bowman "Statistics are for losers". Edit #2: This post isn't a stab at Joel as I get a lot out of his videos, this one just didn't help me.. might have been different if I had seen it before the quit... and coupled with some other things it was a trigger.

Don't wanna jinx us but the Cubbies bats are on fire.

Is this where I confess there is a Yankees hat in my house???... ironically I spent more on it than any of my Cub's caps and it has only ever been worn once, by the kid, for a book week costume.

House work album of the day...

Failure isn’t falling. It’s refusing to get back up. – Unknown and because its by unknown I'm doing a known one too... Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. – Joseph Conrad

normally either or... but now cos its on the band list... PASTA... Snack: Popcorn(without salt or butter) or Strawberries

we probably do too... but i'm just a numpty... lol OK....will do another.. Tourist attraction: Museum or Zoo

@MrTitwank he'll be back really soon, until then....

hmmm... if Reci whinges that the frickin potplants died let the record state I tried...

Congratulations @Grund on being 8 months smoke free!!! Eight months is a nice strong quit you have going there. Well done on all your hard work. You are 2/3 of the way to the Lido Deck. Keep strong and take time to celebrate your achievements.

@johnny5 remeber this???..... I only had to wait 22 years for it unlike many, many others...