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so its 2009 and I'm resolved to kick nicotine. i've been smoking since I was 13-- 12 years ago. I started with cloves. Been a pack a day for nearly 10 years. I've quit crack heroin/methadone, alcohol.. but always smoking. I woke up this morning and didn't smoke for 5 hours, before my girlfriend and I both caved. I felt kind of lost in an open, cold, brooding sea of consciousness. it was an ominous sense of what life was like without my buoy. We shared a cigarette. I am relieved to know that the half-life of nicotine in the body is only 2 hours, and sensed a certain kind of clarity again after while. I can't really concentrate very well on my own, yet. My girlfriend started having pretty extreme mood swings, and the whole thing is pretty frustrating. Has anyone here smoked for 5-10 years consistently and then quit? Especially anyone who did so through teenage years.. I am worried that my neural dynamics have wired around the assumption that an external component delivers jolt via my bloodstream from my lungs.. I hope I don't get fat. I'm pretty skinny from a lot of exercise.. but if my metabolism slows down, i could grow a double chin. Terrible insidious mindfuck this stuff is. |
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good luck!!! its a challenge |
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random notes some you might like some you might think im going to far . but all these helped me. ly down when watching tv or reading sitting up makes your hands wander for cig. start doing push ups. get better every 2 days you have to rest a day really. but when i gave up i went swimming every night and looked forward to a good meal with fesh ingredients you gotta switch it round ! go the other way ..go up not down. get a water filter. even change your toothpaste change your after shave change your soap powder, change your environment move the chairs to different places .. cause it takes you away from that place where you smoked every day and night and the smells that you associate with smoking . your toothpaste smell after shave are smells that go with smoking. change them and you can change your thoughts and create new associations .like if you change your seating arrangment. or paint a wall. whatever its good and helps get a bike , i never need a cig when cycling , sitting on a bus i used to . eat olives avacardo nuts to fill up and stop the food cravings ,rather than dairy, cheese will make yo into sumo you think when the craving hits that it wont go away that it will be like this forever...but its just a wave coming in ....and it goes away ...eventually the sea calms and you completely forget about the storm....i smoked for over 10 +years from teen years...and i now don't think about smoking at all ,until i see people on forums talk about it. so it will go away but its harder when friends smoke in front of you ,you need to make sure they dont offer you any. chew gum do push ups. watch yourself get healthy and feel great . to be honest i watched all the lee evans comedies every night too for the first week cause he's nuts made me feel calmer |
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noted-- thanks. i've been gobbling chocolate like a fatty. |
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I'm in the same place as you. I'm 20, and have smoked 10-20 a day, since I was 12. Tried to quit for new year and caved last night. Might try and join the gym or summit, cause the amount of crisps I'm eating is cronic. |
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i quit over a year ago and i still crave. i know that probably doesnt help. |
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nicotine is awesome |
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i have to quit for the second time, i started smokin again cus i was stressed at work. but i have decided to keep my lungs fresh mon, i suggest ya do the same ting, or else ya SUFFUR and eventually die innit |
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the craving goes you think it will stick for all night long but it doesnt when the trees get there branches cut along the roadside by the bitch road counsil and governements the new twigs begin to grow eventually ..like your lungs they will re grow ..its best not to smoke just on a weekend cause it will totally mess you up. that feeling you get is your lungs growing back into shape.....let them grow!! try to enjoy the feeling rather than hate it. its a good thing! obvioulsy! so when it starts to tickle or burn or whatever, let your lungs do there job ...and dont take a single drag on a fag cause that drag is the cousil ready to chop your new twigs and it will totally unbalance you . |
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i'll quit smoking when i get something terminal and only then, and by quit i mean jump off a nice high bridge |
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its the subtlest drug |
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quitting cold turkey = feeling very strange for three days with mood swings/ depressive emotional sensations and then bliss. good luck, sincerely. |
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i stopped last year for 2 months cold turkey and it was really easy in fact i felt better immediately, but i think it was easy because i really decided to quit and the timing was right. but a convergence of stressful circumstances ended that stint. now i want to quit because i have had some faint pain in my lungs and it is surprisingly much harder when it's not really my choice to quit. |
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i've had a less than a cigarette a day each day since the first.. very frustrating. i'm getting it out of my routine.. me out of it.. or whatever |
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i miss that feeling of giving up., the.. "oooooh i've added 20 years of health to my life " feeling. the " ooh im no longer feel im gonna die of hideous deseases next month" feeling " ooh i have money " feeling i still have that feeling now , but its awesome when you first feel it. |
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i'd start up again just so i could give up and enjoy that feeling of giving up. ....but i know if i take just one drag ..i'll destroy all the nerves and lung tissue ive been growing the past 2 years. enjoy the feeling , dont hate it. |
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you quit heroin so quitting sigarettes should now be walk in the park, no. |
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one thing is putting an effort, another is going crazy because of quitting. if you gotta crash you head on the wall just give youself time. the best would be trying to reduce in a propitious moment and don't feel like a shit if you still can't go over that two or three cigs a day. it is a gradual thing. |
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its wierd i havent smoked for two day, jus because i'm at my moms, dont have my car, havent been out, its fookin cold and i gots no pots, i dont feel i'm craving a fag or that i want to smoke but i know that soon as is viable i'll have one. i dunno i'd prob stop smoking rollies if i stopped pots but i dont see that happening too soon so for now i'll jus smoke when i feel like... |
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why is there a 'gay bear dating' ad on the right of this page? |
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because the zilty bear is looking for love, why else? |
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its not unusual or uncommon to have a sexual attraction to male bears, im sure a lot of norweigans on this board have had experiences in that field of excitement. |
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When you imagine yourself in a situation where you smoke, change the image in your mind to remove smoking. So if you think 'but I like smoking outside of work' and you see it in your mind, change the image to you just standing there perhaps with your hands in your pockets. Imagine yourself getting out of bed and not smoking. That is how you quit. Language only covers one side of your mind and images rule over language. Most people fail because they don't go deep enough into the mind. I still smoke when I want, mostly weekends. It makes me ill as fuck until I get the first one down. You're not quitting, you can have a smoke whenever you like. |
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i hear it's best to say that you're 'stopping', as 'quitting' implies that you're giving something up. a suggestion which is not helpful to the process. |
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you cunt. i'm fucking dying here |
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