Happy New Year!

[Lulu Bennett]

I quit smoking when I found out I was expecting my daughter. Unfortunately, with my son a couple years earlier, I was unable to do it, and he was a preemie, and has asthma, and I feel awful guilty. So when my daughter came along I just knuckled down and DID it. But it is sheer hell the first couple of weeks, so just hang in there, Lulu.
One thing you can do to inspire yourself is to put the money you would normally spend on smokes into a jar, and at the end of each month being smoke-free, you go out and buy yourself something really nice, or get a manicure/pedicure -- anything really to pamper yourself. It's amazing how fast the dollars and cents add up, and it's a great way to keep yourself going when the cravings get difficult to deal with.
Best of luck.........it's a challenge, but a very worthwhile one.

Hahaha i have already started that. I have got a 3L empty Smirnoff vodka bottle and have about £70 in there. but as i work in a pub, most is my tips .
I think it will be going towards my trip to the king Tut exhibit, London, to Hamm for a few snakes or my 2week trip to syria, or the 09 meeting in south carolina hehehe

[adamanteus]

I have got a 3L empty Smirnoff vodka bottle and have about £70 in there.

Just think of all the cigarettes you could buy with the money you save!

[Stefan-A]

Forget about the cigarettes, think of all the vodka.

[anji1971]

Great.........just what she needs, Stefan. To give up smoking and become an alcoholic instead!!!

[adamanteus]

Great.........just what she needs, Stefan. To give up smoking and become an alcoholic instead!!!

I know... she could combine the two and be just like me!

[anji1971]

Now that sounds like something to aspire to........