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01-15-2008, 08:59 PM
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01-16-2008, 01:39 AM
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#122
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Location: New York
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HFWR
Six months...
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Congratulations!
I hit three months myself, last Saturday.
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01-16-2008, 05:01 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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My problem is cigarillo's,usually 5 to 6 per day.Just gave it up for 3 weeks on my family trip to Florida but started again once back home.Main problem for me about quitting is i feel like whats the point of life without a smoke? sometimes i wonder if i'm not just a cigars way of smoking another cigar.
What ever peoples level of addiction is i must have it bad
I am hoping the Alan Carr approach will help. Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking > Home
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01-16-2008, 07:06 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jambo101
My problem is cigarillo's,usually 5 to 6 per day.Just gave it up for 3 weeks on my family trip to Florida but started again once back home.Main problem for me about quitting is i feel like whats the point of life without a smoke?
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So, you have to know what the meaning of life is before you will consider quitting? And I thought I was great with rationalizing things. I think you take the cake.
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Originally Posted by jambo101
sometimes i wonder if i'm not just a cigars way of smoking another cigar.
What ever peoples level of addiction is i must have it bad
I am hoping the Alan Carr approach will help. Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking > Home
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Good luck with that. Over about ten years I tried a lot of methods and aids to stop smoking, and what finally worked for me was: (drumroll)
to actually stop smoking.
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01-16-2008, 07:31 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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jambo, my brother was a two-pack-a-day guy for about 8 years. He cut out cigarettes and for years got by on three cigarillos a day - one after every meal. Not sure how much good it did as he still developed lung cancer. He's now in hospice care.
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Originally Posted by jambo101
... i feel like whats the point of life without a smoke?
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I'm sure he could provide you with an answer to that question.
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01-16-2008, 08:01 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Funniest thing is, my wife does respiratory therapy and cares for lots of people near the end of their lives, mostly from smoking.
Yet, many of the respiratory specialists, nurses and even some of the doctors where she works smoke.
So even the results staring you in the face every day are no deterrent.
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01-16-2008, 08:09 AM
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#127
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Originally Posted by cute fuzzy bunny
So even the results staring you in the face every day are no deterrent.
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Yep. Nicotine use creates a powerful drug addiction, one even the most basic need for survival often cannot defeat. I have great respect for those who find a way to totally stop smoking.
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01-16-2008, 08:46 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Location: Lawn chair in Texas
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Prolly a good way to lose a coupla teef...
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01-16-2008, 10:57 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
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Location: New Orleans
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Quote:
Originally Posted by REWahoo
Yep. Nicotine use creates a powerful drug addiction, one even the most basic need for survival often cannot defeat. I have great respect for those who find a way to totally stop smoking.
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I don't know if I could have done it if I were a guy. I wanted to get pregnant and didn't want our baby to be "smoking in the womb", so to speak. So maternal instinct/hormones helped me out.
Said baby for whom I suffered the agonizing pangs of withdrawal from a heavy nicotine addiction, is the same one who at age 29 still speaks to me as though I was an idiot sometimes (but I love her anyway, go figure).
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