notsmokinjo

I'm happy to have a crack at it...no sweet talking needed.

Good night @idontsmoke....almost 2 months is good going.

Omg...I still frickin sing Here Comes the Sun...every morning as I throw the kids door open and flick the light till she moves. I was also big on changing the lyrics to songs I knew....Danny Boy ...became Birdie Girl... and all the Victorian footy teams had a rework of their songs to fit whatever was happening, screaming in the car, screaming all night, not sleeping. She loved my singing...until her 4th birthday where she announced to everyone..."now youse all sing me happy birthday. But not you Jo, cos chicken you sing bad".....so now I just sing out to piss her off.

I like this but then I'll be singin Dr Nicoknocker...all the bloody time. The Nicomeisters Keep the suggestions coming...4 days to go...then we'll shortlist them into a poll.

Drongo....a low level insult meaning someone is an idiot or stupid. Dag...well technically this is the dried bits if shit that hang on the wool around a sheep's arse...but in the great land down under...it means a person who is unfashionable or a little odd. Daggy...(usually cloths) an adjective to describe someone's appearance or behaviour...like dad jokes, they are daggy...

Is it odd that you can be a dag (noun) or you can be daggy (adjective)...But you can't be drongoey, even in Europe? (Translations in the translation thread)

Oh I like that.

Um cos ya breaking your overnight fast...don't they splain that in peimary school where you live? If tea is a drink why do we eat it every night?

The kid eats caviar, butter and vegemite on salada biscuits.

Would ya rather be a drongo or a dag?

Cutting masks....told ya my family forgets u exist until they want stuff.

Bloody oath!, but dontcha reckon you'd be a drongo if ya didn't?

Down here we love the independents...why do you think Starbucks failed?

Well clearly way of the frickin mark. Onya Fluffy for solving that one.

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I quit this time with NRT. My crutch of choice was the gum. For me this was the best decision to ensure my forever quit. I learnt from past quits. For me the psycological/habitual aspect of quitting was the biggest hurdle...I knew I could fight the physical side, no biggy, but for me breaking the rituals/habits and breaking the emotional/psychological dependency were my stumbling blocks. In total honesty i stumbled into this quit, no intention to quit. I bout 1 pack of 30 nrt chewies and 1 pack of 200...when i stopped the nrt i still had over 70 gums left...but i was ready..sure for the next 12 months or so if I was stressin i'd have a normal not nrt chewie to get me over the anxiety line but I remain nicotine free. I previously had a long term quit that was cold turkey. I don't talk about this much, not because of shame but because I don't want to give any newbies or early quitters the wrong idea. So please note: This is just my experience, influenced by the events of my life and essentially who I am...it is in no way indicative of the 100s of people here who have quit cold turkey...cold turkey is brilliant, just not for me. I only count a quit a quit if it lasted more than 2 weeks AND it wasnt because of pregnancy...so in that regards i have had 3 quits, 1 cold turkey, 1 Champix and 1 using NRT gum. Champix - I'm not touching this beyond saying for me it did not work in the worst kind of way. You want details im happy via pm because i know for many this is a kick start that saves their lives but you will notice I tend to avoid discussion on this. So my cold turkey quit lasted well over 6 years, almost lasted 7. This quit (the nrt one) is nearer to 3 years than it is 2. The cold turkey quit (CTQ)... every single day, I wanted a smoke, I analysed everything that happened and I looked for an 'acceptable' reason to smoke until I found one that fitted my twisted logic and breathed a sigh of relief as i took that first drag. Mental right!....the whole time I sought out the chance to pass smoke, to breath deep of others poisonous clouds. I burned with an aching want for any excuse to light up...I carried an emergency smoke every single day...I held it...i put it to my lips....I played with a frickin lighter constantly and then one day I found an excuse I was 'comfortable with (car bingle) and like the idiot I was I lit up. This quit didn't fail because it was cold turkey, it failed because I didn't deal with my emotional or psychological addiction...i romanced the smoke and grieved its absence from my life. I was still drinking...i was still using drugs during this time..i was messed up in so many ways. This quit....the thought of smoking makes we wanna chunder....the smell literally makes me gag and my eyes water...I don't envy smokers, I look at them in their shackles and know that never, ever again will that be me. The NRT didnt do this..didn't make me reach this level of enlightenment, freedom and self respect...but it did help get me there because it took that mental edge off for me to deal with educating myself, creating new patterns and rituals and coping mechanisms without the gnawing, burning ache that was 99% psychological...it allowed me the breathing space to become emotionally strong enough to love myself enough not to need the nicorknw crutch. When I was strong enough to not need it I ditched it...my nicotine legs were still wobbly and newborn...but my mind was strong enough to deal and I had an amazing support network behind me just a few key strokes away. NRT is not what makes this my forever quit, in a way it prolonged the whole experience BUT for me it was a vital aid I needed to get me to where I am....FREE.

See look @Mac#23 we're goin' to the polls! Ok...so a million years ago (Um 2 years 8 mths) I joined a quit forum and needed an Av...then entered a rapid fire few weeks of swapping and changing until I settled o the magnificent boobie..cos im kinda a boob, think @reciprocitywas involved in the suggestion why do I tell you this..well I'm trying to give ya the heads up (on the off chance youse missed the memo) my mind is a bit...well...odd f o r want of a better word. So just throwing some things out there.. The Coquit-20 The Rainbow Warriors (COS after every storm their is a rainbow) The Buttoutskis...cos the butts stop here The Yeah-nahs The Nopesters

THANKS @jillar .... yep, I'm a Smokebuster. @Mac#23 gives us some options, we'll run a poll, might even spring for some democracy snags.

So....I think @jillar or @reciprocity or @Rozuki might have the official list somewhere...but from memory... 2019...The Ashkickers 2018...The Resistance 2017... and you'd think I knew this cos I am one Yeah-nah...lost it...I know there were Smoke Busters...and Butt Kickers in amongst it...come on you mob help a mate out would ya. Quitting in the dying days of November a fair wack of my peers were in the The Resistance so I straddled 2 camps. See I reckon being in a group, with a name and a badge adds something, especially when your a newbie, just finding you quit legs, waiting for your hairy quit balls to grow and drop...in your heart you know you belong but you're so wobbly you don't feel fully integrated into the rest of the pack, being part of a group gives that extra layer of community and protection. Gives you mates at ya back. Gives you an identity amongst all the established personalities. So 2020 has been pretty crap, with the shining lights being our new Tennessee princess (i dont give a fat rat's clacker what @Boo says she's ours) and our shiney newbies and their quits. So c okme on peeps don't let the insanity that us 2020 leave our Newbies nameless and aimless...let's get them an identity so they can fly their flag with pride and have another tool in their arsenal ...not letting their team down.

Time for this thread to be bumped....this is pure gold...throughput your quit you will get those ahh-has moments where something just clicks....this was one of mine. Kudos to the great goat that wrote it.

Don't have a fave, love spring n summer fer the cricket and autumn and winter for the footy.... but other than that there just same-same-different. How can ya not love em all?

Why isn't voting compulsory?

Oh look, the strine is strong in this one.... congrats on passing speak like an aussie 101

And who were you barracking for?

Oh..did any of the inny chicks...did you get a belly nose when preggas? (COS the baby turned your inny into an outy)