Stop Smoking Idea (111)
whatifuwr2Cork, Ireland2 Threads 30 PostsHi Guys I am about to give up smoking and I have been doing a bit of research. It seems the most sucessfull way to quit is Cold Turkey. Just wondering do you think a kind of support group loosly based on AA or similar adiction groups would be a good idea. I have quit smoking before and fell off the wagon again once after 18 months. Just looking for feedback and ideas and would be interested in joining me in my battle.
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I've just successfully weaned myself off slowly.
There's still been an aftermath as my body reacts to the changes - just things like hydration and the impact that has on all sorts of bits of the body's functioning. I feel rather hormonal and low in spirits at the moment and I know that's as a direct result of giving up even though I haven't had a cigarette for three/four weeks.
I think you have to find the way which is best for you and if cold turkey is the best for you, do it. Just be mindful of the reactions you're getting and will be getting for a while whichever way you do it, even after the nicotine is out of your system.
It's perhaps lacking in self-awareness of the physical and emotional impact of shaking off an addiction which leads us to fall off the wagon - we feel crap and go back to the thing which makes us feel better.
There's still been an aftermath as my body reacts to the changes - just things like hydration and the impact that has on all sorts of bits of the body's functioning. I feel rather hormonal and low in spirits at the moment and I know that's as a direct result of giving up even though I haven't had a cigarette for three/four weeks.
I think you have to find the way which is best for you and if cold turkey is the best for you, do it. Just be mindful of the reactions you're getting and will be getting for a while whichever way you do it, even after the nicotine is out of your system.
It's perhaps lacking in self-awareness of the physical and emotional impact of shaking off an addiction which leads us to fall off the wagon - we feel crap and go back to the thing which makes us feel better.
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Hi thanks for your reply (Congrats on Quiting by the way). What do you think of the meeting of smokers for support. You see this might seem strange but I can give up its when complacency sets in I find myself in trouble and to talk to like minded people in whatever form would be very helpfull in my opinion.
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whatifuwr2: Hi thanks for your reply (Congrats on Quiting by the way). What do you think of the meeting of smokers for support. You see this might seem strange but I can give up its when complacency sets in I find myself in trouble and to talk to like minded people in whatever form would be very helpfull in my opinion.
Giving up smoking is easy, I do it all the time!!!!!!!
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whatifuwr2: Hi thanks for your reply (Congrats on Quiting by the way). What do you think of the meeting of smokers for support. You see this might seem strange but I can give up its when complacency sets in I find myself in trouble and to talk to like minded people in whatever form would be very helpfull in my opinion.
Tell me about that feeling of complacency?
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Im managing fine Ill be a few weeks maybe months in and the devious mind takes over. It starts like a tiny thought of maybe i can have just one Im strong, But slowly grows until I give in
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I don't smoke, but I did. I smoked from seventeen years old to forty-seven years old. Two packs per day till I was 41, then cut back to one pack per day, due to developing COPD: Stage one emphysema. Continued to smoke for six years in a mild state of suffocation. Then developed heart disease: Coronary artery spasms and Atherosclerosis. One stent placed in the LAD artery and three weeks later: Double bypass. You've heard that quitting smoking is hard, but not quitting is harder: I'm proof. My body is permanently damaged from cigarette smoking. Yes, quitting cold turkey is best. I don't suggest a support group, just stop... I view cigarette smoking like this: A lion and a lion tamer, for years the lion tamer has control of the situation, then one day, all-of-a-sudden, out-of-the-blue, the lion takes on a mind of its own and kills the tamer. Just stop. Yul Brynner in mid-stage lung cancer.
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whatifuwr2: Im managing fine Ill be a few weeks maybe months in and the devious mind takes over. It starts like a tiny thought of maybe i can have just one Im strong, But slowly grows until I give in
It's like any addiction, you are never cured, just in remission. You have to take it one day at a time, for the rest of your life, can you handle that??
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Thanks. Thats quiet a good anerlogy hope life and health are better with you now
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Yes actually I think I can
tomcatwarne: It's like any addiction, you are never cured, just in remission. You have to take it one day at a time, for the rest of your life, can you handle that??
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whatifuwr2: Im managing fine Ill be a few weeks maybe months in and the devious mind takes over. It starts like a tiny thought of maybe i can have just one Im strong, But slowly grows until I give in
Why do you want that one?
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tomcatwarne: It's like any addiction, you are never cured, just in remission. You have to take it one day at a time, for the rest of your life, can you handle that??
Why is it okay for you decide the model of addiction for someone else to use?
If that addiction model worked for you, fantastic, but it might not be the right model for someone else.
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whatifuwr2: Yes actually I think I can
Then you may win!!!!
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jac379: Why is it okay for you decide the model of addiction for someone else to use?
If that addiction model worked for you, fantastic, but it might not be the right model for someone else.
If that addiction model worked for you, fantastic, but it might not be the right model for someone else.
That model works for millions of People with all sorts of Addictions!
Got a better one?
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jac379: Why is it okay for you decide the model of addiction for someone else to use?
If that addiction model worked for you, fantastic, but it might not be the right model for someone else.
If that addiction model worked for you, fantastic, but it might not be the right model for someone else.
Oh dear did I usurp your position of the expert in everything.
It is a universal truth and the correct approach to addiction IMO
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tomcatwarne: Oh dear did I usurp your position of the expert in everything.
It is a universal truth and the correct approach to addiction IMO
It is a universal truth and the correct approach to addiction IMO
It is the general approach to arrest an Addiction!
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Thank you Miss Merri, in my case I had to stop or die. Can't mess with it at all anymore, I don't have the system for it.
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Conrad73: It is the general approach to arrest an Addiction!
Hi Tom I had friends in addiction centers and go to meeting regularly. From what I have picked up (And its only my opinion) its the general support and to openly discuss weakness against the addiction
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tomcatwarne: Oh dear did I usurp your position of the expert in everything.
It is a universal truth and the correct approach to addiction IMO
It is a universal truth and the correct approach to addiction IMO
No Tom yuor missing the point if I was an expert I would not be asking for help and thats what Im asking. Do you think its better to quit with people who are also trying to the same in whatever format.
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whatifuwr2: No Tom yuor missing the point if I was an expert I would not be asking for help and thats what Im asking. Do you think its better to quit with people who are also trying to the same in whatever format.
Read my last post on the first page... I wrote that as you were writing yours... you beat me to post by 13 secs..
and BTW... welcome...
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