I'm into day 2 of quitting smoking... Dammit this is hard... using the gum this time...seems to work better than the zyban or patch. Think I'll head out for a massage...my other addiction....
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Good for you BB;
Keep it up its only gonna do you good.
I still smoke and have been thinking about doing the gum thing
as well.
Its definately not easy have tried a couple of times and caved!!
Gotta give it a go again........think of the money we could save
for more pooning !!
...........QM'r
Keep it up its only gonna do you good.
I still smoke and have been thinking about doing the gum thing
as well.
Its definately not easy have tried a couple of times and caved!!
Gotta give it a go again........think of the money we could save
for more pooning !!
...........QM'r
FYI: the actual physical 'addiction' takes less than 2 weeks to get over ... the patch, the gum, and all that just wean you off the nicotine to make it a little easier ...
the harder part is getting off the psychological addiction: for that, it helps to break as many other 'habits' you have that are associated with smoking.
so, if you have a smoke with coffee, switch to some other drink and go to some other place for it -- if you smoke outside Starbucks then avoid Starbucks!
if you smoke when drinking alcohol, then stop drinking for a while, or drink something non-alcoholic and avoid the usual places you drink.
the psychological addiction will stay with you for a long, long, long time ... I have now been a non-smoker (15 years) for longer than I was a smoker (13 years) but still feel like a smoke now and then ... but just don't go near them!
good luck with this ...
the harder part is getting off the psychological addiction: for that, it helps to break as many other 'habits' you have that are associated with smoking.
so, if you have a smoke with coffee, switch to some other drink and go to some other place for it -- if you smoke outside Starbucks then avoid Starbucks!
if you smoke when drinking alcohol, then stop drinking for a while, or drink something non-alcoholic and avoid the usual places you drink.
the psychological addiction will stay with you for a long, long, long time ... I have now been a non-smoker (15 years) for longer than I was a smoker (13 years) but still feel like a smoke now and then ... but just don't go near them!
good luck with this ...
I went to my doctor to ask for some stop smoking prescription aid when I decided to quit. He told me to stop being such a fucking pussy and refused to write me a prescription. He said that if a person wants to quit, they will. Period. With or without drugs. He explained to me in explicit detail what could happen to me if I didn't quit. That was over a year and a half ago and I don't even think about smokes anymore.
You could walk into VGH and ask a doctor to show you around the cancer ward there. Whenever you feel like a smoke after that, you will think of what you saw there and abstain. Its ugly.
You could walk into VGH and ask a doctor to show you around the cancer ward there. Whenever you feel like a smoke after that, you will think of what you saw there and abstain. Its ugly.
Last time when I attempted to quit, my doctor recommended a self-help book to help me get over the psychological addictions: Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking. It worked for me for 3 weeks. Then I went drinking one night, and all the things I absorbed from that book were drowned away by too much booze and everyone smoking around me - so by the end of the night I was a smoker again.LonelyGhost said:
Now that smoking has been banned from all bars in E-town as of yesterday, I'm soon going to make another attempt to quit using the same book.
smoking kills
I lost a father-in-law to lung cancer. He was a very nice simple Portuguese guy who worked all his life in South America and then in Canada raising four sons and a daughter. Semi-retired at 65 from a quasi-family freight business, and was looking forward to moving to Florida, taking life easy and fishing on the lakes. Then it hit. Shortness of breath, pain, the usual signs (Google look them up). Had one lung removed. For the next year, so weakened he hardly ever got out of the TV chair, all the time feeling like his body was being bitten from the inside. The thing about lung cancer is that the lung is where things meet. It very easily gets into the bloodstream and then into the bones, and well... everywhere. He lasted twelve months of misery and died.
I lost my good friend Fraser Boa, one of Canada's premier Jungian analysts, to lung cancer. A brilliant man, outgoing and warm, Fraser had one stupidity which was chain-smoking in his interview room in his Forest Hill home. It was so smoky in there, the windows were always wide open, even on the coldest winter day. Mid-40s, diagnosed with lung cancer, shrunk to a shadow on that big frame of his, last-minute marriage to the love of his life, and six months gone.
I lost a father-in-law to lung cancer. He was a very nice simple Portuguese guy who worked all his life in South America and then in Canada raising four sons and a daughter. Semi-retired at 65 from a quasi-family freight business, and was looking forward to moving to Florida, taking life easy and fishing on the lakes. Then it hit. Shortness of breath, pain, the usual signs (Google look them up). Had one lung removed. For the next year, so weakened he hardly ever got out of the TV chair, all the time feeling like his body was being bitten from the inside. The thing about lung cancer is that the lung is where things meet. It very easily gets into the bloodstream and then into the bones, and well... everywhere. He lasted twelve months of misery and died.
I lost my good friend Fraser Boa, one of Canada's premier Jungian analysts, to lung cancer. A brilliant man, outgoing and warm, Fraser had one stupidity which was chain-smoking in his interview room in his Forest Hill home. It was so smoky in there, the windows were always wide open, even on the coldest winter day. Mid-40s, diagnosed with lung cancer, shrunk to a shadow on that big frame of his, last-minute marriage to the love of his life, and six months gone.
It's about frickin time Edmonton put in the smoking ban full force. Why the heck should some walking cancer mouth add a special taste to my supper. It always amazed me how I should bend over backwards; for, walking cancer sticks as long as their aloud to enjoy their time on the other hand I shouldn't. Well you know what the shoe is on the other foot. One of the most pathetic thing is when you walk into a regular restaurants and you see the same people puffing away talking gossip.
I remember once at my work had a smoking room ventillated. I walked in for the first time couldn't frickin believe it I honestly couldn't last more that ten seconds. I was ready to throw up and there are were people sitting in there like nothing was bothering them. That was absolutely disgusting.
I remember once at my work had a smoking room ventillated. I walked in for the first time couldn't frickin believe it I honestly couldn't last more that ten seconds. I was ready to throw up and there are were people sitting in there like nothing was bothering them. That was absolutely disgusting.
6 Year Non Smoker
On March 17th, 6 years ago, I quit smoking. At that time, I was smoking between 3 and 4 packs a day. However, if the coding was going bad, that might get up to 5 packs.
I hated the taste, I hated the smell, but I needed the spike to the brain.
My most famous qoute on US radio, was the first biggest mistake I made in my life was to start smoking; the second was quiting.
The one thing that made it easier, was using an inhaler. You did the same thing, took it out of the case (pack) put in a cartridge (lit up) and satisfied you addition.
I don't know how old you are, but I had smoked for 40 years when I quit. In so doing, I really fucked up my hormones. It took me two years to find a MD that understood te problem and put me on hormone replacement.
Good luck. PM me for further details.
DWB
On March 17th, 6 years ago, I quit smoking. At that time, I was smoking between 3 and 4 packs a day. However, if the coding was going bad, that might get up to 5 packs.
I hated the taste, I hated the smell, but I needed the spike to the brain.
My most famous qoute on US radio, was the first biggest mistake I made in my life was to start smoking; the second was quiting.
The one thing that made it easier, was using an inhaler. You did the same thing, took it out of the case (pack) put in a cartridge (lit up) and satisfied you addition.
I don't know how old you are, but I had smoked for 40 years when I quit. In so doing, I really fucked up my hormones. It took me two years to find a MD that understood te problem and put me on hormone replacement.
Good luck. PM me for further details.
DWB
