The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

Adzha

· Looked at feedback and found it was all 1p e-books
· Saw there was no picture (maybe it’s not even real)
· The shipping seemed too cheap for a laptop
· The specs I’m not sure are right.

TOBRUK

Thank goodness you didn't pay up!

Adzha

yeah

Anyway hows your quit going?

Moral: Read ebay auctions before you bid hundreds of pounds

TOBRUK

Well, I just spoke to my mother on the phone and I have just told her that I was back smoking!! She told me how well I was doing when I was home using the patches to which I agreed and told me to try again! So now, as I speak to her everyday (my parents live 100 miles away) she will be asking me every day whether I've stopped again!:rolleyes:
Perhaps that is a good thing as she will encourage me.

Adzha

Glad to hear

I hope my parents never knew I smoked.

TOBRUK

Well, my father doesn't know I smoke! My mother used to smoke years ago but she never smoked in the house unless she had a visitor who smoked. My father has never smoked and I think he would be so disappointed if he found out I did! When I go home it's a matter of going in the car somewhere just to have a smoke!!

Adzha

Well I live at home so it's been hard hiding it.

TOBRUK

This is it, but I now live 100 miles from my family - moved away because of work although now in a situation where I had to leave work because of my health. I had bought a house prior to ill health and so I stayed in the area hoping that one day I would be well enough to go back to work! 7 years on and I am living alone away from family, no job, no social life and at home 24/7 pretty much. Oh my goodness it sounds absolutely terrible ! I'm not down about it, that's life!;) However, I do think if I admitted it that a lot of not giving up smoking is down to isolation/loneliness if that makes sense??!

Adzha

Aww

I know what you mean, I don't see people put of school, and while I had msn there's still boredom, and fags took up that time.

TOBRUK

Well back home there are no job prospects, it is very rural - West Wales. I now live about 8 miles from Cardiff and used to work there at the BBC. Even if I wanted to go back home, I don't think I could live with my parents long term (well at my age I would want my own place!!) and the houses there are too expensive even if I sold my house here. Hey ho!