After a long absence, I've been lurking around here for the last few months. I will hunt down your address and send you an email - although you know me, I'm a very spasmodic correspondent!
I hope you've managed to find some good red wines for Christmas, I know I have!
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 12/16/2004 Smoke-Free Days: 1463 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 46,816 Amount Saved: �8,778.00 Life Gained: Days: 203 Hrs: 20 Mins: 3 Seconds: 53
But this weekend is special, it's the last weekend before Christmas.
For many in the UK, this will be their last day at work until well after the New Year. But many others (including me) will be working right up to Christmas Eve.
The roads will be busy this afternoon, with Christmas shoppers mingling with commuters leaving work early and children being picked up after their last day at school.
Tempers might fray in the jams - but whatever happens, I won't be lighting up in Sussex!
Please join with me in promising not to smoke this weekend.
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 12/16/2004 Smoke-Free Days: 1464 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 46,848 Amount Saved: �8,784.00 Life Gained: Days: 203 Hrs: 23 Mins: 18 Seconds: 38
I can relate to mosr of the stories so far. But here is my worst:
It was back in the days of when you could still smoke on an airplane. I can't remember where we were flying back from, but I think it was LA. In spite of checking in over 3.5 hours before the flight, we were told there were no smoking seats left.
My husband wasn't too fussed, he could pick up or put down the smokes (he's spent the last few years on one cigar a day, but finally quit even that a few months ago) but I was totally horrified!
After we'd taken off, I asked the staff if we could be moved, they were very sweet and even checked if we could upgrade, but there was no joy. So they said that I could join them in the galley and smoke. I spent almost the entire 10 hour night flight standing up and smoking with the crew in the galley.
Not long after that, smoking was banned on all aircraft, I could never face the thought of a transatlantic flight after that, the longest I ever went was 4 hours to destinations like Greece and the Canaries, even then I had to use a nicotine inhalator to get me through.
Since quitting, I've flown to South Africa twice, I'd love to visit the US again, or maybe Canada.
Everyone is different, but I found that at seven weeks I felt I'd turned a corner and would never be going back. I really hope that is the same for you, maybe six weeks is the last 'gasp' of major temptation for you?
Just keep on breathing through the next week and the new year ahead!
I have to paste in my stats, there seems to be a gremlin right now in the older version of SSC, but you'll see what you can do if you just hang in there:
My Quit Date: 12/16/2004 Smoke-Free Days: 1469 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 47,015 Amount Saved: £8814 Life Gained: Days: 202 Hrs: 2 Mins: 30 Seconds: 47
No, it's still not working Lolly, I've been trying to remember to paste my stats into my posts, but I often forget!
It's definitely nothing to do with the setting in the Personal profile (top right of page in glove compartment says click here to change your Personal Profile, then there's a setting in that to say you want your quitmeter to show on posts) I've turned mine off and on again several times and it hasn't helped.
It is nothing we've done, I know it has affected quite a lot of others, I'm assuming it's everyone still logging in on Version 5 of the site.
I hope this can be fixed now we have passed all the holidays, somebody must know what changes they made on the Friday or weekend before Christmas?
I won't paste my stats today, just to prove they are still missing!
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(With Miss Marple just a couple of days after too)
and I will get there one day later! 
