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@tomic
Administrator
USA
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 Posted - 06/27/2001 : 00:51:57 [Permalink]
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Have either of you started Zyban?
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ljbrs
SFN Regular
USA
842 Posts |
Posted - 06/27/2001 : 21:48:27 [Permalink]
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I have stopped several times during my lifetime. This time will be my last. I am no longer worrying about the temptation to smoke just one cigarette, because the last time quitting was very, very easy (once I was finished with the preparation to quit.
1. First, you have to absolutely desire to quit and have the opinion that it is a lousy habit.
2. Second, you have to stop drinking (because it is impossible to overcome temptation when you have been drinking). Also, you want to take off the weight necessary, because stopping smoking always adds to one's weight.
3. Next, you must lose a lot of weight. In this way, quitting smoking will only bring you back to your former weight.
4. Quit drinking coffee. It is hard to resist a cigarette while drinking coffee. Try tea.
5. Find a cigarette substitute (such as a small pen) which you can wave around in the air like a cigarette while taking deep breaths and exhaling slowly. Do not think about the idiotic way it will make you look when you are doing this.
6. Use the patches. Watch out for the overly sexy dreams. I cut up my patches to avoid them. I did not need to carry it on for a long time.
7. Pick new friends who do not smoke, or at least who do not smoke around you.
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I have been completely free from that stupid habit for over 13 years. However, smoking one single cigarette will put you right back as a smoker. However, it is so easy to quit using the patches, etc., that you will not be afraid of the temptation to smoke.
You will not need to worry about where you have to sit in a restaurant. I usually sit in the smoking section to free up the non-smoking section for the faint-of-heart.
It feels great to be an ex-smoker! You can thumb your nose at the advertisements. And you can still be sympathetic towards those who are unable to quit. And you can eat anywhere and go anywhere without a care in the world.
ljbrs
I knew better and I did better. Whee!!!!
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@tomic
Administrator
USA
4607 Posts |
Posted - 06/27/2001 : 21:56:41 [Permalink]
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quote:
4. Quit drinking coffee. It is hard to resist a cigarette while drinking coffee. Try tea.
Blasphemy!! I can do without cigarettes, I can cut down on the food but coffee is just too damn good to give up!
I actually go find some smokers when I take a break at work so I can watch them smoke and sort of smoke vicariously. being around smokers doesn't even bother me a bit, but that's because I am so determined to quit. Heh, went out and bought myself a laptop today with the money I already saved 
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2001 : 00:16:58 [Permalink]
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No, I'm not on the Zyban yet...thought my appointment was this month, but instead it's in July! But like I said, finding a job has done a lot to alieviate the stress....so my smoking has slowed considerably.
Can't give up the coffee...terrible migraines if I do, and tea just isn't up to the job. ljbrs, I have tried the patches and the gum, have always started at the first sign of stress, like losing my job, which is a terrible time to start again! Because I lack the bachelors in what I do, I've been unable to find anything, they want my experience with the degree.
Switching gears and careers is difficult when I don't have a steady income. (I hate unemployment here...they've denied my application this week again!) Terrible stresser to try and live on $200 for 2 1/2 months.
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ljbrs
SFN Regular
USA
842 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2001 : 20:58:35 [Permalink]
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Trish:
Under those circumstances, it would be nearly impossible to quit. I did not drink tea at first. I do it because it is good for me. I understand that drinking coffee is good for you now (and not the decafinated kind) -- prevents Parkinson's disease in regular heavy coffee drinkers.
I have the degrees (B.S., M.A.), but I prefer a job where I do not need to take anything home at night. I am a widow (wonderful guy). I spend my free time (away from work) with my outside activities (astronomy, skeptics, symphony and chamber concerts, Mensa, visiting my son and my friends, etc.) I am happy as a lark. However, money never did a lot for me.
Good luck...
ljbrs
No message this time...
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2001 : 21:59:19 [Permalink]
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I'm lucky, ljbrs. I've found the perfect career feild for me and actually wouldn't be taking my work home but one of my favorite hobbies to work.
I like building things and drawing. That is what Industrial Design is about. Also, designing systems, work flow...the challenges that I enjoy and never really the same from day to day. Designing consumer products, everything from mundane furniture to items used by the space program.
As for money - me either, however I would like to pay my rent and utilities, go grocery shopping, etc.
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ljbrs
SFN Regular
USA
842 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2001 : 21:27:18 [Permalink]
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Oh, I like my job. However, I like the variety that I have in my life.
ljbrs
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ljbrs
SFN Regular
USA
842 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2001 : 21:34:36 [Permalink]
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@tomic:
Oh, I can be around smokers now. It is just good to stay away from smokers when you are trying to quit. However, the ambient smoke is not very good for anybody. It does not really bother me to be around smokers. Giving up something like smoking is terribly difficult for everybody who tries.
ljbrs
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2001 : 20:38:06 [Permalink]
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This audio clip from TwistedRadio.com is for all smokers and ex-smokers. Just go to the site and click on the song title "The Girl with....."
Seriously tho, YOU CAN QUIT! I did, and I smoked for 27 years. And that was four years ago!
Audio Clip from TwistedRadio.com:
http://www.twistedtunes.com/stf_pickup.asp?ID=5243
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2001 : 21:46:02 [Permalink]
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For all you smokers who want to quit out there......
http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,301759-412,00.shtml
Stick this story in your pipe and smoke it.
This was the one of the main reasons I quit. They've really exposed their true self on this one.
**I WILL NEVER PUT ANOTHER PENNY IN THOSE BASTARD'S POCKETS**
Now, seriously ask yourself,...how can you?
Oh yeah, it's to feed that little monkey on your back.
Geez, just think you can keep patting yourselves on your back, for helping perpetuate Phillip Morris and the like.
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@tomic
Administrator
USA
4607 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2001 : 22:15:05 [Permalink]
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That's some sick stuff there 
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2001 : 22:43:11 [Permalink]
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Yep, the tobacco industry really bared itself to us all with that one. And wasn't it just yesterday or so, all the chairmen of the 5 major tobacco companies swore under oath, at a Senate inquiry, that nicotine is NOT addictive?
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gdaye
New Member
Canada
18 Posts |
Posted - 07/24/2001 : 18:51:31 [Permalink]
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If it's any help, I quit a dozen years ago after smoking since I was 15.
I started by having my first cig AFTER breakfast instead of before. After a week or so, I didn't have the first one until I was in the car on the way to work.
The next step was to not have the first one until I actually got to work; then the first one was at coffee break; and so on.
It took a pretty long time, but eventually I was down to 3 a day (all at night), and at that point, why bother even buying another pack.
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Randy
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1990 Posts |
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@tomic
Administrator
USA
4607 Posts |
Posted - 07/26/2001 : 19:35:06 [Permalink]
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I don't know if an aplogy does it for me. I would feel better if we ripped their lungs out and left them gasping for breath. How much money would their deaths save us all hmm?
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