11 Jan 07
Originally posted by HandyAndyI'm getting cremated... burned to ash and bones!
Yes you are. Make sure they put that on your tombstone.
That'll be long after you're gone though. Didn't you ever stop to think to yourself during your thirty years of smoking... "Maybe... maybe these cigarettes don't make me look cool... maybe my outlook isn't so good afterall...?" I bet you're kicking yourself now aren't you?! Hahahah!
11 Jan 07
Originally posted by hopscotchWhen I was a smoker, I kept thinking about what a bad example I was setting for little punks like you.
I'm getting cremated... burned to ash and bones!
That'll be long after you're gone though. Didn't you ever stop to think to yourself during your thirty years of smoking... "Maybe... maybe these cigarettes don't make me look cool... maybe my outlook isn't so good afterall...?" I bet you're kicking yourself now aren't you?! Hahahah!
15 Feb 07
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Originally posted by SeitseThis is why cutting down is a difficult way to stop. If you smoke twenty a day and manage to cut down to five a day, for example, the pleasure that each of those five will give you is so much more intense than when you were smoking twenty a day that getting to zero can become very tough. In fact, you might find that you stop wanting to give up because smoking has switched from being a habit and an unwanted addiction to being simply a pleasure.
But it's so damn difficult, damn it, damn it.
The 1st one after quitting was 6 days after... and it felt sooooooooo
good, like a drug invading all my body, making me deliciously dizzy,
soothing me, and... and... damn, I need one right now.
😞
If you can just go from twenty a day to zero, then you miss out that period where you are allowing yourself the odd one or two here and there when you have Golum-like arguments with yourself along the lines of "This is way more pleasurable than it used to be, and, hey - I'm smoking less, so I'm also healthier than I was - do I really need to go all the way?".
The last thing you want to do is give your brain reinforced associations of pleasure with smoking - you want to leave it thinking "Urgg! I can't believe I used to DO that!" Perhaps you should say "ok - I'm allowed to smoke whenever I want, but if I smoke one, I must chain-smoke the whole pack."
If you do cut down rather than stop completely then the game has changed and you must recognise that you are now fighting a pleasure and not a habit or an addiction, and the mindset you used to cut down this far may not be very effective in finally putting that puppy to bed!
15 Feb 07
Originally posted by SeitseSmoke marijuana instead.
Eleven days so far and only 3 cigs, when before I used to smoke
1 pack a day. Should I be ashamed of those 3?
What can I do to stop my trembling hands and my desire to kill
everybody around me? Should I start drinking heavily?
Smoking is hell. Not smoking is hell too.
:'(
15 Feb 07
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Originally posted by SeitseIf it was easy anyone could do it. Are you in charge of your life or not?
Damn it. I knew it but wanted to hear some sympathetic words.
You're right. 😞
But it's so damn difficult, damn it, damn it. 😞
If you are not in charge of your life then smoke away like all the other drug addicts.
Do you know what happens to people who are not in control of their lives? Someone else takes control of it for you. It might be in a hospital where they try to save your life by cutting out the cancerous tumors. 😲