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Nope....and happy birthday to Johnny5....guess your parental's saw the new year in with a bang

Nah-yeah I'm here... If I go quiet between today and fridee don't freak, my mobile is on death's door and the screen is slowly going black and I can't get to the shop to get a new one before fridee night.

Big hugs to @catlover.....I'm sure she is resting pain free.

Oh and look @Boo's quality control has improved, no tan lines, no uneven socks, no twisted bra straps...oh wait no bra... Carry on.

Confession: I look in the bowl after I drop the pollies off at the pool.

Nope... @BAT happy birthday you flying rodent... Missed out on 1 day by being born in the best month of the year.

True. TNP has had a public rant at a stranger.

Sitting on a train that somehow at 7:58am can manage to smell like stale bo and an Indian spice market.hygene people, please!

Confession: I know for a fact if you eat a whole packet of beetroot chips your poo turns purple.

Half a decade is a pretty awesome achievement Sonic. Well done

Well done Jack.

My work here is done...you're both frickin welcome as

@Sazerac ... The kid did a competition dance to the Byrd's song....

This one is for @jillar .... A new posting deserves a celebration song so here's your favourite rapper singing my favourite rap song...

Welcome @Birch...oh you are so in the right place. 1 smoke a week...a pack a day we come in all shapes and sizes but the one thing we all have in common is we are nicotine addicts and we want to be free of this addiction. Dunno about up north (I live down under) but down here post extractions we are supposed to be smoke free for at least 2 weeks to avoid dry socket (omg the pain, the pain ,...yep I didn't wait)...so keep that as extra motivation. As for the happy weed...there are those here who do and those who don't ...some just eat it...some are really against it...most are indifferent but I say cross one bridge at a time. Biggest tips I have for newbies...join the daily NOPE thread...Not One Puff Ever...even if like me in the beginning it was a NOPE for today which brings me to my second biggest tip....just take it one day at a time, only worry about today...tomorrow will get here eventually but just focus on today. Other tips...keep your fluids up. And your blood sugar levels...2 birds, 1 stone...drink lots of juice I don't wish the newbies good luck because a successful quit has nothing to do with luck, just respecting yourself enough not to put something in your mouth and setting it in fire.

You bloody ripper. Well done Jill...excellent choice @MarylandQuitter.. Although I a little bit concerned about you giving others the jack...there are creams and pills for that these days you know

Oh you know it's all the shitty stuff accounts type people have to do at then of the month so you can do statements...of cause every man and his dog wants something released or pushed through.

Month end, I'm doing month end...argh!

Bloody hell....this is too damned hard....what a frickin awful question....but I'm running on the assumption H2O is bountiful.....so I'll be havin Roast lamb (leg) with roast tayters, pumpkin, carrots, parsnip and then peas with gravy and mint sauce or jelly....for the side I'll be having a piece of Vegemite toast.

@Boo and @Linda Thomas I just slowly make my eyes go cross eyed and when it starts the pop out I then focus on it.

Was it hard to walk with flippers on your feet? Or are you good to go cos it's like ya snow shoes

Of course yesterday was a nope....2nd smoke free birthday for me.

Nope....not today.

Well I did have a lovely birthday if some what odd....it went like this...woke up to well wishes on here, had no work because it was a public holiday....had brunch with the kid bought myself some DVDs, at 6pm get a call from me little brother who has just driven 6.5 hours because his daughter has a dance comp this weekend and they left her costume at home....so fly around to the fabric shop before it closes at 7pm, grab stuff, fly to me parental's and make her a costume...at midnight me brother comes out (cos they are all in bed) and says "happy birthday" and I say thanks it was yesterday.

Post what you want as often as you want....now cos you're knew and I've been awol you may not know that I had a big quit that I threw away years ago.....and then I have this quit, heading into 2 years ... This is what I know.... 1. Big quit, I craved all day every day and spent over 6 years trying to find "an acceptable" reason to smoke....I never got passed the craving...but that's because I never stopped romancing the ciggies and giving them power. 2. I got educated about how nicotine addiction works.... But most importantly I stopped looking for justifications to smoke...and the cravings went away...not over night or in a few weeks but I don't get those cravings anymore, sure sometimes I'll get these whispered ghosts of a memory flicker through that hey wouldn't a smoke now be nice and immediately I laugh because nope I don't want one. I've got decades of programming to re-write but glitch by glitch it's getting there. Sure some day 30 years down the track a whisper might race across my mind and my gut response is Gunna be "yeah-NAH, I'm the one in control not some remnant nicotine receptor".