Quit Smoking

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  1. MELLA

    MELLA Peon

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    #81
    Yeh that's the worst..eating everything and anything, thus putting on a shit load of weight.

    I will probably end up spending even more time on DP (if thats physically possible) just because typing gives my hands something to do. And talking crap keeps me away from thinking about smoking.

    Even if I see someone smoking on the Tv all I can think is 'I wanna fag, I wanna fag'

    Someone once said (I think it was Ozzy Osbourne) giving up smoking is worse than giving up heroin. smoking is the most addicting drug ever. is that true? =/
     
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  2. palespyder

    palespyder Psycho Ninja

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    #82
    Hang in there buddy! I am 15 days or so in and I will tell you first hand, after the first week, it is all down hill. Eating is a small thing, eat, gain some weight, and just work it off after you quit smoking, thats what I am doing, but, then again, I have only gained 2 or 3 lbs(.91 to 1.36 Kilos) and only looking to gain about 10lbs(4.5 kilos)
     
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    #83
    Only in the sense that more ex-smokers relapse more often than ex-heroin addicts. It's more of a social thing. Heroin addicts can rebuild a life that keeps them away from the smack if they choose to. Ex-smokers have to learn mechanisms for dealing with the fact that their particular chosen method of hideously painful death is sanctioned by government and there fore thrust in their faces every day.

    The physical effects of extreme heroin withdrawl are not pleasant to watch, or to nurse someone through. That said, nor are the effects of alcohol withdrawal, and that is more likely to be fatal than heroin withdrawal.
     
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    #84
    it's been 2 hrs and I don't feel good.
     
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  5. Trance-formation

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    #85
    Some strategies

    • Drink PLENTY of water
    • Meditate (simple breath counting)
    • Go for a walk
    • Eat PLENTY of fruit and/or veg (carrots etc)
    • Get angry at the corporate bastards who knowingly and actively addict children
    • write a 10 point list of the benefits of now having stopped
    • write a 10 point list of little things you can do every day to keep motivation up
     
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    #86
    write a 10 point list of the benefits of now having stopped

    saving $10/day

    write a 10 point list of little things you can do every day to keep motivation up

    ummm ... 10 fingers = 10 fingernails to bite off
     
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  7. palespyder

    palespyder Psycho Ninja

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    #87
    ST,
    it's your body trying to fool you into thinking that you are dying, when I start doing that I either go for a walk or go do something I don't normally do. Another thing I noticed that helped me was chewing on a straw, I know it is disgusting, but, it helped me alot. Hang in there man, the first 24 are the toughest. Not only do you have to quit smoking, you have to change the "reactionary" habits that your body associates with smoking. Being on the computer for example is one of my harder things, I smoked the most while programming or playing a game. I promise you though, if you give it a go for 2 weeks, you will start to feel better, take for example the fact that when I take a deep breath now, I actually feel as though I am getting air. We are here for you man, I know you want one, hell I WANT one, but, I know I don't NEED one if that makes any sense.
     
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  8. MELLA

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    #88
    I just had a cigerette. :D

    Ooops.
     
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  9. palespyder

    palespyder Psycho Ninja

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    #89

    You shouldn't really even have any in your possesion, am I going to have to fly to the Netherlands and spank you? :rolleyes:
     
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    King_Richard Well-Known Member

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    #90
    Over here in NYC there is a ban to smoke in pretty much any enclosed public space... bars, shops, everything
     
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    #91
    I suspect you're going to have to join the queue... anyway, the idea isn't to reward her ;)
     
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  12. palespyder

    palespyder Psycho Ninja

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    #92

    Haha, I can just see the line of DP guys around the block from her house ;)
     
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  13. Crazy_Rob

    Crazy_Rob I seen't it!

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    #93
    That's nice!

    I wish they would do that here so I wouldn't have to shower when I get home from a bar.
     
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    #94
    ooops my ass :mad:
     
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  15. MELLA

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    #95
    Yesssss YESSSSS YESSSSSSSS HELL YEAHHHHHHH.. erm I mean uhh ahem... you know..if u want to..

    Lol nah,, It's cause I have 3 left and then my packet's empty..As much as i'd love to chuck them away, I can't bring myself to. When they are finished..It begins..

    I feel quite jittery at the thought of quitting smoking. I haven't told anyone offline incase I relapse and they are all like ''Oh another one of Mella's great quitting sessions gone down the karzy again'' :eek:
     
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    #96
    oops I just went to the store, bought a pack, smoked it and ... hehe just kidding
     
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    #97
    I think I'm starting to hear voices and seeing things. Did we just have 3 earth quakes back to back?
     
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  18. e10

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    #98
    Come on Mell. Stub it out and start stopping all over again.

    I feel like shit at the moment. There´s a pack of fags on my kitchen table but I´m not going to smoke them. I know they are there but I am not even looking at them even though I can hear them singing... ´Come on baby light my fire...come on baby lai-ight my fai-yuh.´

    It´s better for me to have them here and ignore them than throw them all out - or smoke them all before quitting. Not having a packet of fags in the house makes me crazy and I´d have to go tearing down to the local shop to buy a pack (or six).

    But... so far, so-so. I haven´t had a cig since bedtime last night. I´m feeling a bit sick and can´t concentrate on work but I think I can quit for good this time.
     
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  19. palespyder

    palespyder Psycho Ninja

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    #99
    My wife would love that ;) Wait, she might be willing to come with me and help :D
     
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    #100

    Yeah I think orwell called that 'social engineering'.


    :D
     
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