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i wanna quit smoking...help! (pg. 4)
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| tempoman |
| quote: | Originally posted by StereoPrincess
smoking is funny to me.
i have never been addicted and i can't see how a person can become addicted to such a disgusting thing.
i also can't see how a person can get addicted to anything. i guess i don't have the mental capacity to wrap my brain around it. if you don't want to do something, then don't do it. it's quite simple. |
My parents told me they'd kick me out of the house If I didn't smoke :( |
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| newr |
| quote: | Originally posted by nusty
-Smoke cigarettes as FAST as you can pull back on the drags and try to finish the cigarette in less than 1 minute. Hopefully this will have the effect of making you feel very sick and start to associate smoking with feeling craptastic instead of relaxed and good. You have to break the positive association of the addiction.
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Doesnt work... tried that... i smoked a pack of cigarettes one after another as quick as i could... I puked didnt smoke for a week then i changed from 12 smokes a day to 2 packs
I quit by always keeping my hands and mouth occupied... I carried around toothpicks... lots of em... and most of the time i still do... just stick a toothpick in your mouth insted of a smoke |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by StereoPrincess
you are talking to a person that has had numerous years of neuroscience study. i know how it works.
even chemically, it's your own body, which you can control.
with cigarettes, you don't even get addicted with the first cigarette. and i can't believe people like it so much to repeatedly smoke until they get "addicted". |
I think ppl just don't mind it and since many around them will be smoking, they inevitably find themselves not caring that theyre doing it too, since it's accepted by those around them. That's where it starts. Then after a month or two or month, you're chemically addicted to them.
I know myself, when I was on vacation down in North Carolina 6-7 years ago, I smoked the two weeks I was down there. But they were Marlboro Lights and I didnt find them gross at all. I had never smoked before and just wanted to experience it . I really wasn't worried about making myself addicted to them since I knew I had no desire to ever become dependant on them. Plus it would have been a constant sore point with my parents - strife I didn't want naturally.
I probably smoked 2 or 3 darts a day for the 2 weeks, whenever I was haning out w/ my best friend's peps down there who smoked.
It was an experience and certainly not one I'd care to carry on forever. Long-term ramifications are too scary for me.
-Jem- |
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| EvilTree |
Since everyone has put it in a more nicer term and you don't seem to have that much of a desire to quit smoking, I'm going to put it not so nicely.
Grow some balls. (yes I know you're a girl)
What does that cancer stick mean to you? A moment of simple addiction that'll rule over your life? Or is it something else?
In the end, no matter what other people do to you or say to you, only person that can motivate yourself to do something is yourself. Heck, it's your body, more importantly your mind we're talking about.
Having been a smoker myself (actually as recently as this summer), I'm quite aware of the desire to puff on that bloody thing. But I hate failing even more, so failing to quite smoking just would have really make me angry at my lack of balls.
So do it. Toss away, better yet just burn away those cigarettes.
You can talk all you want about wanting to quit, but until you have really quit smoking, those words means nothing.
-Your local friendly EvilTree :) |
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| DJ_Science |
There is a book called Allan Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking. Read it. I did and I have not had a cigarette since. It gets you to focus on different aspects of smoking that I had never thought of. It makes the process really easy.
I was sceptical at first but it really worked. |
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| ghetto_fab |
| I'm jumping on the bandwagon with the people whos quitting!!! going to be hard when drinking but lets do it!!!!! |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ_Science
There is a book called Allan Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking. Read it. I did and I have not had a cigarette since. It gets you to focus on different aspects of smoking that I had never thought of. It makes the process really easy.
I was sceptical at first but it really worked. |
Discovering new ways of seeing/viewing situations and/or forming new thought processes associate with things is a very effective way to move one to (lasting) action.
That's what I think neways.
-jem- |
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| infinity HiGH |
| ...are we quitting smoking weed here, or cigarettes? :toothless I myself have been getting around to quit cigarettes for a WHILE now...and we'll see how it goes. Right now I'm 24 hours without a cigarette. I'll probably end up smoking at Guv on saturday though...but we'll see |
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| joinT |
buy this book
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/item....on=books&zxac=1
smoking is a mental addiction and this book does the best job of explaining it and why you feel the need for a smoke.
the only way to stop smoking is to decide.. "I don't want to smoke anymore" |
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| Orko |
| quote: | Originally posted by joinT
buy this book
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/item....on=books&zxac=1
smoking is a mental addiction and this book does the best job of explaining it and why you feel the need for a smoke.
the only way to stop smoking is to decide.. "I don't want to smoke anymore" |
have you 'decided' yet? ;)
PS - best avatar ever!! You guys look like the craziest bomb was just dropped and you cannot believe it! sick momment. |
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| joinT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
have you 'decided' yet? ;)
PS - best avatar ever!! You guys look like the craziest bomb was just dropped and you cannot believe it! sick momment. |
man it is CLOOOOSE.. definitely stopping soon, getting WAAAY too cold to go outside for a smoke..
the av.. haha, there are soooo many good pics from that night.. almost any pic i'm in, i'm rocking out hard!
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| Orko |
| quote: | Originally posted by joinT
man it is CLOOOOSE.. definitely stopping soon, getting WAAAY too cold to go outside for a smoke..
the av.. haha, there are soooo many good pics from that night.. almost any pic i'm in, i'm rocking out hard!
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Have you not felt the effects in your lungs? After a night out of clubbing i usually wake up in the morning gasping for air, becaue of all the smoke i inhaled the night before.
Since i cut down on blazing, my lungs have felt a lot better. I even got a run in on sunday! |
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