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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 6/7/2008 7:48:08 PM
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Silverstring
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twenty days.
<<<ooops,a little miscalculation. When editing this post, it's 20 days, when I wrote it it was 19. So I guess I am true today about what I was mistaken about yesterday. Or it's the time difference>>>>>>
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 6/9/2008 2:59:26 PM
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Here's an idea I had not considered before: Hide all tobacco products from view!
Shop owners in Ontario, Quebec and a few other provinces must now hide tobacco products from their customers under rules that will cover most of Canada by year-end as the country tries to stamp out smoking by young people.
The provincial governments want to discourage the habit by "de-normalizing" the presence of cigarettes, which typically enjoyed prime placement behind the cash register.
LINK to FULL Story
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 6/10/2008 3:07:07 AM
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I just quit Memorial day. I've smoked on average 3 to 4 packs a week for 7 years (and this would increase to a pack a day during finals).
Maybe it's too soon for me to brag, but I don't see what the fuss is about. It hasn't been as hard quitting as some people make it out to be.
I still have cravings, but I just don't buy cigarettes anymore -so even if I crave, I have no outlet to satisfy cravings.
I decided to quit once I finished my Master's degree, which I did in May, not for health reasons or anything, but mostly because I just found that I didn't enjoy smoking anymore. I'd also been smoking way too much finishing my master's thesis, so my throat was incredibly sore (which probably helped the first few days, as it was physically painful to smoke, so I didn't do it).
I might start again when I start on my Doctorate next year, but right now I'm fine.
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 6/10/2008 7:38:35 AM
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JimboFletch
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quote:
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I just quit Memorial day. I've smoked on average 3 to 4 packs a week for 7 years (and this would increase to a pack a day during finals).
Maybe it's too soon for me to brag, but I don't see what the fuss is about. It hasn't been as hard quitting as some people make it out to be.
The longer you're addicted, the harder it is to quit. For one thing, your brain becomes programmed to expect a certain nicotine level to function "normally" and it associates certain situations as requiring nicotine to enjoy them.
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I still have cravings, but I just don't buy cigarettes anymore -so even if I crave, I have no outlet to satisfy cravings.
That is a very smart thing to do. If you don't have 'em, you will find a way to get by without them - and break another link in the chains that bind you.
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ORIGINAL: henny
I decided to quit once I finished my Master's degree, which I did in May, not for health reasons or anything, but mostly because I just found that I didn't enjoy smoking anymore. I'd also been smoking way too much finishing my master's thesis, so my throat was incredibly sore (which probably helped the first few days, as it was physically painful to smoke, so I didn't do it).
I might start again when I start on my Doctorate next year, but right now I'm fine.
That last sentence is the voice of the Nicotine Slave Master, who will insist that you will be able to quit any time you get ready. I once caved after a year quit with a similar logic. That became a 30 year addiction that controlled way too many aspects of my life.
In the past 2 years, I've dealt with some of the biggest challenges of my life, including serious illness & deaths in the family and learning a new job in my mid-50s. Nicotine would not have helped solve, lessen, or remove a single one of them. All it could have done was feed the addiction it created. Nothing more. Don't be a putz, never again use nicotine because it will, instead, use you.
-Day 650 nicotine-Free, Day 747 tobacco-Free
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 6/10/2008 5:12:57 PM
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I have been quit for 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 14 hours, 37 minutes and 33 seconds (22 days). I have saved $47.59 by not smoking 226 cigarettes. I have saved 1 Day, 21 hours and 12 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 5/18/2008 11:39 PM
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 6/11/2008 2:09:09 PM
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It's income-tax-form-delivery time here in Norway now, and I'm up to my ears in very small pieces of paper in a gazillion different currencies at a similar number of billing dates. It needs sorting out, and fretting over this is a BIG trigger, I DO NOT enjoy the work, and I'm fidgety and irritable. But still quit.
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 6/11/2008 3:13:53 PM
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My first tax return after quitting wasn't nearly as stressful as I feared, but I chewed a lot of gum. The last one was breeze, despite my having to pay in $1,500 that I wasn't expecting. That would have made me go ballistic 3 years ago. I wasn't happy to get the news but I didn't get upset or angry. That was remarkable to me.
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 6/13/2008 9:24:35 AM
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GO JORDON!!!!!
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 6/14/2008 7:51:24 PM
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Silverstring
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So today had the 40th birthday party for a friend of mine, big party with aperitifs, HUGE buffet, live jazz-band, beautiful outdoor area FOR SMOKING, and all the cool people whom I hang out with making short trips outside "to check how the horse is", as the euphemism goes over here.
Still quit. Tough going there for a little while, but not as tough as I had feared!
Who was it who said something about the subconscious unlearning trigger situations after only one rehearsal, or some such?
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 6/14/2008 8:46:24 PM
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Good going, Silverstring!
I'm still quit too. I have a ticker on my myspace to keep track, but they are acting up, so I can't tell ya how much I've saved. LOL! But, been quit since May 10th. Still on the 14mg patches and feeling fine.
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 6/14/2008 9:27:08 PM
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Silverstring
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SteelMagnolia: You've got a nine-day head start on me! I pray that it always stays that way. In other words: That neither of us start smoking again!
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 6/15/2008 6:05:24 PM
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My sister and I are going to start using ArtificalCigarettes tomorrow. Has anyone else used them?
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 6/16/2008 12:28:31 PM
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JimboFletch
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Now I've started dreaming about cigarettes. Very strange, but you won't believe the reliefe when I wake up and discover I'm still quit.
They are sometimes called "Cave Dreams" and are very common - as is the relief when you wake up. They can be scary but they can also reinforce your resolve to not let it happen in real life. I had three of them, the last around the one year mark.
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 6/16/2008 7:28:00 PM
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Silverstring
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Well as long as I'm not a "cave man"...
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