Stay on your guard

[pedro68]

​I ve just spent the day on a canal boat,in the sunshine with good friends drinking loads of beer and generally laughing and acting like kids.For the first time in ages i felt like smoking.I didnt but i felt like it for a lot of the day.It wasn t a craving as such, just a thought about smoking again. Just goes to show it doesnt have to be something stressful or bad to make you think about smoking again. I couldn t have been happier yesterday but it still entered my mind. Just got to stay strong on days like that.

[Doreensfree]

Ya ..Alcohol can do that..we always have to be on our guard when drinking...

As addicts we will have thoughts now and again..but that's all they are thoughts...

It what you do with them ,that important...you let it pass by..so good for you...and kept your fabulous quit..

[Boo]

Eternal vigilance and relentless forward progress.  Those two tenets will make you damn near unstoppable in any endeavor.

 

Proceed Pedro.

[Still winning]

New triggers as well I think...the times that we haven't yet faced where we remember we smoke. Always stay vigilant. x

[bakon]

Pedro- post more. This group is sadly mostly islanders and idiots we need more meat. And guess your a stick.

Boat beer and boobs. Awesome

[Still winning]

Pedro- post more. This group is sadly mostly islanders and idiots we need more meat. And guess your a stick.

Boat beer and boobs. Awesome

He's literally from the same town as me lol

[bakon]

Wtf

[pedro68]

​the aylesbury non smoking gang has leapt up in size to a massive 2 now.We are very slowly taking over.

[ChRiSpY]

I saw a movie this past weekend (Atomic Blonde) and in the movie Charlize Theron basically smokes a continual cig through the whole movie.  Haven't seen that much smoking since Casino.  Anyhows...I did catch myself thinking that it sure did look good and I almost wished I could have one.  Weird after 4 years I still get that urge.  I would never smoke a cig ...cause I am not stupid... but the force was strong.

[Jewel]

That's great that you didn't smoke! Way to go! Defeat of the nicotine monster!

[Reciprocity]

That really becomes "the long game" right? Just making sure you don't do something stupid like thinking you can handle just one or two cigs then carry on with your smoke-free life.

[PeaceTrain]

I saw a movie this past weekend (Atomic Blonde) and in the movie Charlize Theron basically smokes a continual cig through the whole movie.  Haven't seen that much smoking since Casino.  Anyhows...I did catch myself thinking that it sure did look good and I almost wished I could have one.  Weird after 4 years I still get that urge.  I would never smoke a cig ...cause I am not stupid... but the force was strong.

I have the same reaction to seeing people smoking in a movie and no such reaction to seeing people smoke in real life. Like you, I would never act (stupid) on an impulse like that but I find it kind of fascinating that this happens. I wonder if it has to do with my unconscious identification with a character in a movie. That kind of identification doesn't happen between myself and another real person and so therefore that feeling doesn't come up. Just thinking it through... Don't mind me....

[pedro68]

​I forgot to mention a friend on the boat trip the other day that has given up smoking...............apart from when she goes out drinking at weekends, when her friends are over,when she s on holiday,on boat trips,at bbq s, at parties, anyones birthday,christmas,new year, evenings,daytimes etc. Apart from that she seems to have cracked it !

[Doreensfree]

 

Sounds like all my quits in the past..

[Boo]

​I forgot to mention a friend on the boat trip the other day that has given up smoking...............apart from when she goes out drinking at weekends, when her friends are over,when she s on holiday,on boat trips,at bbq s, at parties, anyones birthday,christmas,new year, evenings,daytimes etc. Apart from that she seems to have cracked it !

 

She's a non-smoker except when she's not.

[PeaceTrain]

She's a non-smoker except when she's not.

Indeed. She isn't not a smoker, isn't she? No matter how you look at it, she's got that nicoedemon right where she wants him.