An Enrolled Nurse. - smoking_

Still not smoking.

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:46:00 +0100

Tomorrow night, maybe about 11.45 pm I will have not smoked for 17 months. Nearly a year and a half.
Ok, I am getting to be a bore now. Always was really. But if you met me you wouldn't know I had given up the cigs unless you had asked me or it came up in conversation. I am not a born again non smoker. lol
However, I do think it has been one of my better ideas. I quit late in life and now wish I had done it earlier. But no use in looking back is there? I didn't do it for the cost of cigs although if I went back to the amount I used to smoke I don't think I could afford it. Strange how I managed before.

It's the last day of February tomorrow and my last day of being 64.
The daffs have now got buds on them. I am sure that they were actually out this time last year. Yes, this pic was taken on the 3rd March 2008.

The other pic is a chap in Blackpool summer 2007.

Take care, have a good weekend.
Lots of luv from me. X X X X

No cigs.

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:57:00 +0100

Hello, I haven't been on here for ages.
It's over 16 months now since I last had a cig. Not even had a drag.
Yes, I still act like a Bisto Kid when walking past a fresh lit cig. Strange though, although in a funny way I would still lke a cig but I know I won't, not now. Oh, at least I hope I won't anyway. It would be a very silly thing to do.
So, if you made stopping smoking or I suppose any other New Year's Resolution, you are doing so well if you have kept it going.

I have mentioned in my other Blog and maybe this one that I have now retired from work. I do miss it and especially my old work mates. But now I don't miss the phone calls asking me if I could go into work. The phone can ring now without me muttering under my breath and hoping it's not work calling. lol

But all the things I was going to do when I didn't work, well, I still haven't done them. I keep saying that I will, after Christmas, when the lighter nights are here, warmer weather and so on and so on.

I think I have rabbited on about my half brother before now. I will have told you about his half sister, (maternal) not wanting me to phone or write to her.
Well, the good news is, I don't want to get in touch any more. Still a bit of me wishes that I could get to talk to half brother over in the USA. But have found out some "things." These "things" have got my imagination going so would now rather keep out of it. Might have been a close call. But maybe I have got it all wrong. If so, apologies.

The daffodils are poking through the grass, just the leaves. Snowdrops been spotted too.

I hope you are all keeping well my chucks. X X X X

No cigs for...and work, oh, and Morecambe.

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:30:00 +0200

Just to keep whoever may be interested up to date. lol
Tomorrow, 27th July 2008, I will not have had a cig for 10 months. Yes, ten months, me..............

I have bought a mp3 player to treat myself. It's not my first but it does take more mp3s than my other two. I am impressed with it already. 4Gb. I know I could have got more Gbs but do I know that many songs??? Also it was in a sale and had £15 off. Double whammy.

Yesterday I went to work. Ahhhh. It was work too. I am working next Saturday and I think after that I will give up. Properly retire. I know I keep saying it but one day I will have to so it might as well be soon.
Not only was it hard work but I was told to P*** off by one lady. I know it wasn't personal, (I think it wasn't anyway.)

Morecambe is having a 50's weekend. Today we saw old cars, Teddy boys and girls and some super young dancers. They were just outside the old railway station! Where is my camera when I need it???
I think there is a kind of show at the Carleton tonight. Lovely weather for it too.

No Smoking.......

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:00:00 +0200

Seven months without a cig.
It's Sunday, it's damp and the sky is grey. April is nearly over.

My niece went with her friend to London last week. Including a pic she took.

Have a good week. X

Stopped Smoking.

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:50:00 +0100

Today it was 6 months ago yesterday that I gave up smoking. Yes, six long months.
So today I have been ciggie-less for half a year.
It's been easy and it's been hard. I think it was me that made it hard. Seemed to make heavy going of it.
Still, I just hope that I never have another cig. Yes, I would like one in a way but that one would creep up to more than one wouldn't it?

I may have said all this before but now I am at this stage I would be so silly to have another cig again.
Please keep going if you too are quitting.
Save money, smell fresher and feel healthier in the end.
Good luck and please don't give up trying.
I am not preaching, it is hard and to tell the truth I wouldn't have given up if............

A/ They were good for my health.
B/ They were cheaper.
C/ They were sociably acceptable. lol

Well.................

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:45:00 +0100

In about 7 days I will have been off the cigs for 6 months.
I can't really believe it. Seems really strange.
I mean, here I am, 64 years old. Gone through 2 birthday parties, Christmas and New Year, the Budget and soon Easter without a cig.
Oh and also my birthday.
Oh, and a No Smoking Day.
I honestly never thought I would make it.

With what I have saved, should I?
Buy a laptop?
Keep saving for a holiday?
Buy a load of new clothes?
Save it for a rainy day?
I just don't know.

I don't know if I will keep it up. I hope so, it would be very silly to start again. One will lead to two and they will lead to a packet a day in time.

I still thank http://www.stayquit.co.uk and all the support on there. It's free too.

Still not smoking.

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:15:00 +0100

I am still not smoking. I wish I was more comfortable with it though.
But after saying that, it is a lot better now.

I still think of cigs, I still find "something" missing. But I don't want a cigarette.
Do I? But the point is that now, if I did have a cig it would be so stupid.

All I have written above is so mixed up.

I don't think I will smoke again. It's over four months since I had those 5 a day for 4 days and made myself feel really ill.
I will keep plodding on and may I say again, good luck to all quitters. Anne. x

www.whyquit.com
www.stayquit.co.uk

Who? Me? Nurse shift.

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Wot I have saved, actually I would have smoked more than that.!

It's 51 days since I had a cig.
I have a feeling that the craves I feel are "all in my head."
No nicotine in body, I am not on any NRT now. I have been off that for a good while now.

Went to work yesterday. 2pm until 9pm.

I have to send the Nursing Council some money if I wish to continue nursing for another year.
We used to do it every 3 years but now it's every year.

I will be 64 in March, so is it worth it??? I wonder if I asked the same question last year???

The doctors, like policemen are getting a lot younger. The patients are getting younger too. (I work on a rehab ward for elderly people.)

Ahh well, soon be Christmas! Take care.

Not smoking.

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:05:00 +0100

Blackpool Tower.

Tomorrow night I will have not smoked for 40 days.

It's been a bit up and down. I just wish I could get the silly things off my mind. I must admit, it is getting easier.
I'm off the Champix now. Didn't finish the full course. I felt sickly, it may have been the tablets but may not have been.
Usually feel sickly at the beginning of the course. Not everyone but it is one of the side effects.
I think I have catarrh.
But seeing I have been off the tablets, I don't think it is worth going back on them again.

Warning, if I did, I would have to start at the beginning. Half a tablet for so many days and so on. After being off them for so many days, it could be dangerous to go back to the same dose. Ok, I used to forget to take one now and then, but that was ok.

They DID work though, so thank you Mr Pfizer and company.

25 days and nights.

noreply@blogspirit.com () — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:59:24 +0200

Yes, done 25 days and nights without a ciggie. Well done to me.
Keep it up lass and all that stuff. Keep taking the tablets. Eat the fruit, do some exercise.
Go gentle though, remember your age.

One day I will forget to remember I ever smoked. It's not easy to stop but it is possible.

Going downstairs now to join himdownstairs and eat a choc ice and watch TV.
Do as I say don't do as I do!