the daydream fund challenge thread

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

I am so glad to me a non smoker now.

Yes, one of my biggest regrets is ever starting smoking.

It's horrible.

rozeepozee

I'll never be a non-smoker, always an ex-smoker with the risk that I could start again, although I haven't smoked since I started to try to get pregnant with our first child (so over 6 years now). I still crave a cigarette if I'm stressed or have a drink or two and the only thing that has stopped me really is the children: I've either been trying to get pregnant, pregnant or breastfeeding in the last 7 years. I wouldn't inflict my chemical abuse on my children.

It is incredibly hard to give up the faags though, so don't beat yourself up about it. Just keep getting back on the wagon whenever you fall off. My OH is in relapse at the moment, well, I think he's moving into contemplation as he's talking about starting running again. For him, if he makes a behaviour change elsewhere (in this case, restarting exercise), this motivates him to stop smoking too. Sometimes indirect changes can have just as much of an impact....

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I am so glad to me a non smoker now.

Me too, but quitting requires lifestyle changes in many cases. Now, it seems inconceivable that I was ever a 150 a week man, but then, I'm not the same person.

When I stopped, it was the result of a health scare, which taught me to be generally less competitive and controlling. I also had the distinct advantage of being wedded to a heart monitor in a ward full of emphysema cases for 72 hours! :eek:

Getting off the peanuts isn't so simple though! :rotfl:

Rummer

I have never been a smoker as I lost two grandparent to smoking related illnesses. They tried for years to stop and never managed.

rozeepozee

Dave and Rummer, those are the sorts of things that tip your Decisional Balance Sheet in favour of stopping or never starting in the first place - in my case it was wanting to have kids and then, not wanting to do any harm to them.

http://www.recoveryschools.org/pdf/MIDecisionalBalance072210.pdf

I've always maintained my ambivalence about quitting alcohol! I like red wine too much.

rozeepozee

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I keep meaning to do that, it's a bit crazy, I'm now eating lettuce from the shops, which is bonkers when I could be easily eating it from the garden, had I got round to sowing winter lettuce.
But tbh, I think that normal summer lettuces would have been fine this winter.

I literally eat buckets of salad in the summer. In the Winter, I just don't have the stomach for it - too cold

ukmaggie45

Just went out for a quick cig before heading off for Counselling session...

Heard twigs breaking and some rustling off to the right from the bottom of the garden, so expected fox to appear from next door. Then the most awful shrieking, screaming, it stopped and then started up again almost immediately. :eek: Was really quite scary! I'm wondering if the fox had caught a squirrel maybe?

Thanks for all the smoking related help. It's really since my parents died and then all the stress of dealing with a useless and unhelpful solicitor that boosted me from about 20 a day to about 40 a day. :eek: (I have a thread about it on the over 50s forum, Solicitor Slow over Probate if you want to have a nosey, but be warned it's an extremely long thread! Though maybe not as long as this one! :rotfl: ) I don't think I'm quite ready to cut it out completely just yet, am considering... It looks as if we may get final accounts from parental Estates soonish, maybe I'll feel a bit less stressed then!

Gotta go!

Davesnave

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

:eek: Was really quite scary! I'm wondering if the fox had caught a squirrel maybe?

Bearing in mind the time of year, probably mating!

Discreet, they ain't! :rotfl:

RAS

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Heard twigs breaking and some rustling off to the right from the bottom of the garden, so expected fox to appear from next door. Then the most awful shrieking, screaming, it stopped and then started up again almost immediately. :eek: Was really quite scary! I'm wondering if the fox had caught a squirrel maybe?

If it sounded like someone being murdered, it was probably the vixen having "fun".

lostinrates

Rofl. Its a horrendous noise isn't it?