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I'm so happy that I'm not smoking, most of all people that I know are doing it. Most of my friends. For example, when we are waiting outeside - they smoke and it looks like they are busy. I feel a little bit uncomfortable, when everyone aroud me are "busy" and I'm just doing nothing. When we were younger, they used to say that they can left it in every moment. After a few years 3 of them tried to left, 5 days was their biggest record. So they stoped trying to avoid smoking. Here, box of cigarettes (20) is 12-15 grn, for about 1.75$ . Most of them use 1,5 box per day. That's very expensive. They look like junkies with this smoking, "let's go to the center of the city? - lets smoke and go" "Watching film at someone's birthday? - we will have a smoke-break 3 times during film". In the institute we even have few guys who ask proffesor to go outeside during the lection (of cource for smoking). Some of them feel very jealous to those who are not smoking, the others say that it's calming good. But how much nerves it takes from those who are trying to left it. That's terrible to walk outeside and breath this shit from others who are going just close to you. I would put cigarettes in one line with drugs.

[MikeRoger]

I have remained smoke-free,by using two techniques: 1) avoid tempting situations and 2) do something else when the urge to smoke arises like reading, playing games or music.

[raydan]

MikeRoger wrote:

I have remained smoke-free,by using two techniques: 1) avoid tempting situations and 2) do something else when the urge to smoke arises like reading, playing games or music.

3) ...and spamming my sig.

[Regina]

[Lemmy]

Mike Rogers was a hell of a hockey player.

[Regina]

Yup.....not bad at all!!
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdis ... p?pid=4631

[Choban]

Thanos wrote:

My sister (45 years old) has been warned by her doctor to quit smoking ASAP. She's in relatively good health overall, but the smoking's contributing to some intermittent but very severe pains caused by adhesions left behind by an abdominal surgery a few years ago. She's not an idiot and knows she'll have to quit sooner or later. But she's also worried about everything from gaining weight to losing the relaxing effect of nicotine that she claims to 'need'.

Has anyone here quit smoking?

Any advice you can give that I can forward to her to help ease the transition into a non-smoking lifestyle?

Thanks in advance to all of y'all!

The Easy Way To Quit Smoking, it's a book (can't remember the author) and there are also clinics and web seminars, 95% success rate, my brother in law quit using it.

[Choban]

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The Easy Way To Quit Smoking, it's a book (can't remember the author) and there are also clinics and web seminars, 95% success rate, my brother in law quit using it.

Author is Allen Carr

[Brenda]

Choban wrote:

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The Easy Way To Quit Smoking, it's a book (can't remember the author) and there are also clinics and web seminars, 95% success rate, my brother in law quit using it.

Author is Allen Carr

Didn't he die of lung cancer?

[MikeRoger]

DrCaleb wrote:

I quit about a year and a half ago, after having a small stroke. Cold turkey. You can quit cold turkey, if you have a good enough reason. I can recall coughing on second hand smoke as a small child in the back of my Dad's '63 Dodge Monaco. I didn't start smoking until I left my parents house, not realizing I had become addicted to the second hand smoke all my life.

Both my parents smoked, and when each of them died from smoking related illness, it wasn't a good enough reason for me to quit, even though I knew I should. But losing the feeling in the left side of my body for about 10 minutes did the trick for me.

I dropped the smokes right then, and never looked back. The excuses your sister is giving are BS. Nicotine is a depressant, so having a smoke just brings her up to feeling 'normal' again. It 'relaxes' you because you feel like shit, and only calms the craving. She'll only gain weight if she replaces the nicotine craving with something else like 'food'.

No one ever died from not smoking. It's not that scary. A couple days of feeling cranky, then 6 months or so wanting a smoke whenever you see someone with one. Then you start to wonder what the fuss was all about. Remember, the first symptom most people get that they have heart disease is they drop dead on the spot. So it can never be too early to quit smoking.

I am working on quitting. I have been cutting down for 3 weeks preparing to just stop on coming saturday. Wish me luck.

[raydan]

Luck, I wish you.