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at_leo_87
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RE: how i quit smoking (in reply to xirdneH_imiJ)
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great advice leendert! here are some things that helped me quit. -i had really supportive friends who nagged and beat me up when i smoked and stole my cigarettes. so get some support. -i was too poor to continue. even if you're not poor, just think of what you can buy with the money you spend on cigarettes. -being dependent on something made me feel like a pussy. only pussies are needy and desperate. but still it was hard and a year after i quit, i still craved it sometimes. at the time, i felt i couldn't just stop short. so i limited the amount of cigarettes i smoked in one day, and maximized the time apart. eventually, when i smoked only a cigarette every other day, i just asked myself what was the point of continuing. congratulations on your decision and good luck! like leendert says, you really have to believe in your decision. make a list of reasons why quitting is good for you and make a list of reasons why continuing smoking is good for you. you'll find that there aren't many reasons for continuing, and if they are, they aren't really valid. for instance, many people say smoking reduces stress. but i say there's other ways to reduce stress. or why not work on the source of what's causing you stress instead of just covering it up?
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Date Feb. 8 2011 1:12:29
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RE: how i quit smoking (in reply to xirdneH_imiJ)
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good luck... insidious substance if the tobacco were 'pure' or organic i am sure less harm would be done but we have/are smoking alot of chemicals not related to tobacco at all... a legalized bio warfare on the body **** the corporates and death peddlers... me? relapse constantly.... always quitting... wishing you success...
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Date Feb. 8 2011 6:38:11
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Ruphus
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RE: how i quit smoking (in reply to xirdneH_imiJ)
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Science differenciates three groups. Strict / militant disapprovers, moderate / occasional consumers and excessive ones. With first group displaying most mental irritations ( typically being victims of authoritarian/ superficial fatherhood ). Science also in the past two deacdes expanded the former tunnel-view, not exclusively considering cons, but what there is as observable pro too. Which in sight of physical health yields nothing, however in sight of recreation and creational focus appears to have observable effects. Smoking seems to fit especially creative minds. I stopped smoking maybe four times over decades, yet after a while decided to grant me the lust again. ( = Consumption of ~ 8 to 12 cigarettes per day.) What I remember form last time is that it was unexpectedly easy to quit. With compensational action of drinking a glass of water everytime I longed for a cigarette, which again used to trigger the desire for a cigarette. Which altogether made for really weird first three days of the abstinet months to come. However, smokers of common cigarettes undergo a much harder treatment, as their cigarettes contain not only tobacco, but additional mixtures comprised of alltogther 500 different ingredients from harmless sounding ones like cacao over to severe ones like aceton and amoniac. These ingredients, chosen by the industry in order to keep low condensate quotes on the package, yet obtaining addictive properties as high as possible, are what makes the smoke of these products ghastly biting and sticky in smell. The ingredients also must be making for main cancerogene properties. Much more than actual nicotin and tar. What methods of quitting are concerned I think it significant to keep dependency to factors within your mind. Bets with other persons as well as avoidance of outer circumstances must only weaken chances of success. Seeing that encreasing number of void trials will only lessen chances for a final quit / hence considering the relevance of most promissing ways from start, it seems to me that one should not: # remove cigarettes from his home / working place, but instead keep them around like always. # make bets. # avoid bars and parties, because of others smoking there. # get paranoid about smoky environment in general unless it was indeed about overload ( too much in too little rooms ). For, shifting relevance to outer factors will do nothing else than encreasing psychological susceptibility. Keeping things / allures as usual instead, will maintain awareness of the actual decisiveness ( in your mind ) and provide best chance for success. - In my 2cents. Ruphus
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Date Feb. 8 2011 13:48:11
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Stu
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RE: how i quit smoking (in reply to xirdneH_imiJ)
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sorry havent read every post, but..... check out allan carrs books. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smoking-Permanently-Penguin-Health-Fitness/dp/0140244751/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297270100&sr=1-7 leendert has got it spot on its all in your head. but in order to get your head to the right place may take some time and help. this book helped me and i know i will never smoke again. I gave up finally a yr ago after smoking weed and cigarettes daily since i was 15. (32 now) its not full of scare tactics, he just speaks about smoking and slowly reverses the brainwashing that has been done to us since childhood about smoking. quote:
i want to be like most of my friends who are non-smokers but do smoke one or two in certain social situation What the heck???? NO! you either wanna quit or you dont. quote:
with my band we rehearse every week and we all smoke a cigarette during breaks...and they all go home and don't think about it anymore...so i refuse to treat this as an enemy, because the enemy is myself...by having the cigarettes available (not in sight though) and still not smoking, it proves to me that i'm strong enough and inspires me to stay clean more...if i had thrown away everything smoking related i might panic because i'd be left with no choice...at least this way i have the illusion that the choice is mine to make... at the moment you have no choice whatsoever, you are in a fear induced mess. sounds harsh but...it sounds to me like you are gonna be smoking again in few days if not then a few months. the reason so many keep falling back into this smoking trap is because they are drilled from children to believe that "smoking is Extremely hard to give up" its NOT. but it takes the right info to help you make this tiny mental shift and accept this truth. "Oooh Im doing so well i havent smoked for 10 days..im doing so well but its really hard at the pub when im drinking ****! its not hard, and youre not doing well. even the language we use to get thru this is all wrong. "Give up" smoking dont think of it as giving up anything because this way it feels like youre making an awful sacrifice.... think of it as "gaining" somethin: lungs full of reasonably fresh air (depending on where ya live of course), clean smelling clothes and hair, extra cash in your pocket, less risk of heart and lung disease, fitness, FREEDOM! quote:
a legalized bio warfare on the body **** the corporates and death peddlers... this is dark but true.... by smoking cigarettes you are systematically poisoning yourself and people are getting rich from you to boot patches, gum, plastic inhaler things are all absolute ****. why try to cure a nicotine addiction with more nicotine! its truly hilarious!!!! read that book man if ya really want help quitting if ya wanna smoke occasionaly then youre just as ****ed as if you smoke 20 a day. the chains arent as tight but they are still firmly clasped around your feet. as you can prob tell im rather passionate about this. good luck "pity smokers dont envy them"
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Date Feb. 9 2011 16:17:05
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