Praise for me please

[VTRgirl]

Good girl! Keep it up!

I can't believe more people don't use hospital admission as a starting point. People will go without for a week sometimes when they have to have surgery, then they leave hospital & get straight back on the sticks! Always amazes me, especially if they've been "trying" to give up.

So, I take it the drinking thing's not been going so well since we last chatted...

[tony.wilde1]

so your "cig"really is broke then ay kaz?

[Jaglifter]

Well done Kaz. It can be done. My wife stopped for 6 years and Dad gave up his pipe after 60 years!

Not sure about the booze though. Trouble is its a bit like a good dentist who will freeze your gums a bit at a time, so you don't feel anything. When you've had "just the one" you don't notice the rest!

Till the next day of couse!

[thumper]

well done kaz so far

pete will be wondering whats next for you to give up , sex?????

[storminateacup]

That's really brave of you giving up cigs and booze at the same time. I gave up the fags in '78 and the booze has all but given me up, even a glass of red wine or a single malt (my weakness) now results in a blinding migraine. But fortunately despite my advancing years I can still manage SEX oh and riding my Storm which is nearly as good as sex.

[storminateacup]

lol Keith ! I was joking about the sex part !

however.. I will hold my hands up and plead guilty to actually drinking a bottle of red wine the other night

my youngest daughter has gone to Manchester to spend this week with her dad as it's half term.... so I thought i'd cook a nice cut of steak for mine and Pete's dinner.
picked up 2 pieces of sirloin.. to be served with mushrooms and a large green salad with crispy garlic croutons and a ceasar dressing... I managed to avoid temptation to pick up a bottle of wine whilst I was buying the steak.... but just before i was due to cook it.. I just really fancied a glass of red to wash my dinner down with
Well... the wine Pete brought back for me, i've had numerous times before... but when i first tasted it again.... wow... what a difference.... much more flavour.. it tasted like a different wine i'm presuming my taste buds are coming back to life now after a week of no smoking.. and boy can i tell !!!!!!
anyway.. 1 glass turned into 2.. and 2 into 3 etc... but every mouthful was savoured and it took me 4 hours to drink 1 bottle... usually i'd have gone thru 2 bottles in that time ! And I never touched a ciggie either !!!!

I did feel soooo guilty the following morning.... but at least i didn't touch the smokes !!

I wish I'd known there was a party going on, I was up at Hebden Bridge for the weekend, I would have risked the migraine to drink some of your red wine to help with your resolve maybe next time.

[Squiffythewombat]

not quite sure how ive manged to miss this thread!

W E L L D O N E !!!!

As a smoker i really am quite jealous (and so happy for you). I smoke about 10-15 a day, 20 if im out drinking, i would love to stop but i find hanging about with smokers is the hardest thing!

[Beamish]

Kaz kicking both vices in a oner is sometimes the best way but if you have the odd drinking bender and still stay off the ciggys you are a winner in my book . Keep it up

[Pete.L]

Well Done kaz Keep At it
wish I could claim to have your will power.
Pete.l
Opps Good luck with the new job too

[LotusSevenMan]

Stick at it Kaz; well done!

I moved a car for someone the other day who smokes. Chr*st, I'd forgotten how bad it was to get in a smokers car having non smokers (like me) and company cars so no smoking in them etc. Stale tobacco smell is all pervading. This car reeked (a twenty years old girl/idjut) and it was just awful. I only moved it about a 100 metres but it felt as if it seeped into your clothes even in that short time. Bet she'll have fun trying to find a buyer for it at a later date!!!

Bet your handbag (!) too feels heavier with all the cash you're now accumulating too eh?