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Richard Jernigan
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RE: how i quit smoking (in reply to xirdneH_imiJ)
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The difficulty varies from person to person. I started when I was 15 or 16, smoking a few a day. My first 8-hour a day indoor job was when I was 28, tackling tough math and engineering problems. Sitting, staring at the ceiling, trying to come up with the next step, I would reach for a cigarette. Soon I was up to a pack a day. It made me feel bad, so I quit. It was easy. But my new young wife smoked. On Saturday morning over a second cup of coffee I would reach for one of hers. Soon I would be back buying them and smoking them. I asked her to quit. Nobly, she did it for me. Years later we were driving down the street. "Do you know what day it is?" she asked. "Oh, Hell!" I thought. "What have I done now?" Then aloud, "No, sorry, I don't know what day it is." "It's been ten years since I had a cigarette." "..and you still want one." "Yes. I still want one." I bought her a bouquet of roses and took her to a nice restaurant. RNJ
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Date Feb. 9 2011 20:16:53
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El Kiko
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RE: how i quit smoking (in reply to xirdneH_imiJ)
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i really had the urge so i ended up eating a lot (again)... Something like that happened to me a few years ago when I quit for a few months, and I really got fat(ter) all the snacking cos I had nothing to do with my hands and then unfortunately I started to smoke again,,,,,,,,,,and then I thought ,," OH no , now I am Fat AND smoke ,,..!!! at least I was slimmer before.... I think when your body gets used to a new way of life you can loose it again...// try snacking fruit or something that has less calories , stay away from the biscuits, stay away ,,, stay awayyy.. So long as you can still reach your guitar your not too fat........!!!
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Date Feb. 9 2011 20:26:16
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n85ae
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RE: how i quit smoking (in reply to El Kiko)
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The easiest way to fail to lose weight is to go on a diet like that. In a nutshell, carbs are good, they fuel the metabolism which burns fat. The problem is that most people don't exercise. IF you want to lose weight, you need to learn about nutrition, and exercise, and adjust your eating around your exercise. If you do that, then you can eat a lot, and still lose weight. If you try a "diet", you're 99.9% guaranteed to fail. At least that is, after you get sick of what the diet makes you eat. Most people go on a diet, BUT then get hungry all the time, they suffer, and they lose weight. Then they get sick of suffering, the diet fails and poof they're fat again. If you exercise regularly, in a real way and get yourself fit. Increase muscle mass, get the cardiovascular system up to snuff. You can eat regularly through the day (5-6 times), and drop weight at the same time. Regards, Jeff quote:
Good work man. I'm on week eight or nine now and had noticed a bit of weight gain so I went on some diet called the South Beach Diet. On the first week of the diet it's a miracle it didn't end up in prison for murder. Not sure if it was the lack of carbs or the lack of sugar but I turned into a raging monster. Way worse then the nicotine withdrawal. I'm starting to 'normalize' again now.
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Date Mar. 7 2011 14:42:29
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n85ae
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RE: how i quit smoking (in reply to edguerin)
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Hi - I do a lot of cycling myself, try doing it with a heart rate monitor (they're cheap) figure out your various heart rates, and then work in targeted zones. Also doing intervals are a great way to really boost the calorie output, build strength and endurance. (i.e. pop the bike in high gear at a stop and with all your strength pedal up to as fast as you can go for 30 seconds, the shift to a lower gear and pedal at a low resistance for 60 seconds and recover, repeat, etc.). Doing intervals a couple times a week will improve your cycling a LOT faster than spending hours at a time just spinning along. It does take time for your body to burn down fat, if you saw a big drop in a short time. Then you lost weight by the old fashioned starvation method. :) Which generally is an unhealthy way to lose weight, and if you start eating again it's likely to pop right back. However it can be done. It just wouldn't work for me. The only way I could get the weight off was cycling, and a bunch of other stuff such as weights, and calisthenics. Once I got the upper body involved in the plan then for me it all started working a lot better. Regards, Jeff
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Date Mar. 8 2011 14:27:01
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El Kiko
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RE: how i quit smoking (in reply to edguerin)
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actually , yes it is nice there , I been only a few times and to Asturias, and therabouts, and of course Galicia , where my wifes family comes from .. Anyway, ask your lovely lady if she knows this song ,,,,, Cantabria querida,..te voy a cantar,...a canción que mi pecho.,...te va a dedicar...... aah no se mas que eso, pero bueno fue muchos años... and then you can make a recording of her singing and put it here....
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Date Mar. 11 2011 21:26:15
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chrisva
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RE: how i quit smoking (in reply to edguerin)
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As Stu mentioned in his post, Allan Car's book is supposed to be great. http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Way-Stop-Allen-Carr/9780973468403-item.html?ikwid=allen+carr&ikwsec=Home I don't smoke myself, so I can't speak for it, but several colleagues who were die-hard smokers used it and quit. These guys had tried everything for years and no luck. One of the guys who could never quit tried it to essentially show the first guy that this book is BS and won't work, however, he's quit using it and has been off cigarettes for about 5 months now (which for him is amazing, since in the past he could only stop for about 1 week). He still has a poker night every Thursday where all his buddies light up, and it doesn't bother him. He says in the book it explains that most of it is mental. Again, not first-hand experience, but in case someone may find use in this. Chris
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Date May 5 2011 11:29:56
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