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tis a dear do GSG
and we all under-estimate what me smoked it seems-lol
my money gonna pay for Amsterdam mara, new kit and treat Mrs H
Keep going Hoose!
One day down and another approaching fast!
Well done Hoose.... stick with it.... a couple more days and you are through the worst of the cravings.... worth fighting for!
5 weeks for me today....
well done magna
You must be feeling great.
tbh aint had much in line of cravings., Was losing them during my prep.
The Nicotine Trick
Nicotine creates a nervy, mild anxiety like feeling in your body (every smoker knows that feeling) that increases to a peak and fades out within 4 days.Every cigarette you have does exactly that. Because each cigarette starts the process from an hour after imbibing and its effects start at a lower level, your sub-conscious mind translates what happens as the cigarette taking away(partially) that feeling rather than causing it. This is because the feeling mimics "fear" and your subconscious will do what it can to rid you of it. Because nicotine as it enters the body resets the process to a milder feeling of edginess and anxiety (before it buids up again), subconscious is tricked into seeing cigarettes as helping you rather than causing the feeling in the first place.
Once your subconscious takes that on board and sees through it -it will let go of driving you to smoke.
It explains well why smokers feel a need to smoke loads at times of real stress(effects of nicotine feels like anxiety and stress) . It never really helps the real stress just reduces the nicotine induced imitation of it before starting it over again. It also explains why you can crave months and years after stopping. That is because at certain times you get real stress and if subconscious believes still that a fag reduces it, it will have a tantrum if you cannot have one.
I believe this and experience tells me it is pretty accurate. Hope it proves useful for you too.
lol -may have been it
over with now
well still off em but still getting fluidy lungs. This could be due to past fags or the reminants of the swine flu I had.
actually almost "cried for my lungs" this morning as if I had no right to do what I have done to them
ta GSG
I see you are doing good
*peers around the corner*
Can I join? I put em down yesterday....
Thanks!
How you feeling BTW?
notsa bad but do worry when i dont struggle
how are you feeling at the mo?
You worry when you don't struggle?
I am feeling really good. I think I am fortunate in that when I quit smoking, I tend to go super healthy. I lose weight, become really active and eat really well. And of course, the ever consistent pounding in my ears at night stops too.
I just probably need help to keep off them - am thinking about doing an Allen Carr course. We get them for like GBP20 if we on this Vitality stuff out here. Everything for being healthy and all that...
PO -there is a link to Carr's book a few pages bback on this thread- free e book-so worth a go
I am worried bbecause i found it easy for 3 months but found I easily had one and got re-hooked.
should get it from this:
http://www.pdf-search-engine.com/the-easy-way-to-quit-smoking-allen-carr-pdf.html
Yeh I have both of his books but they are in the UK (along with all my other stuff). Hopefully, I can get it from a colleague tomorrow
I guess the thing is is that we need to remember that it's an addiction - like drinking or drugs. And therefore, we need to look at it as such.
We can never again have a puff of a cigarette
Ever
yes PO
what helped me this time was Neil Casey's The Nicotine Trick-like Carr but with a slightly different slant and he identifies "withdrawal" much better. By following him I didnt have to stop until I was ready. well well worth a look. Id a link on that somewhere.
good luck
Thanks Hoosey - deffo post that link
I am ready - if I don't do it now, it's going to carry on and on and on and on and I am sick of it. I have a mate who is my age and is a confirmed alcoholic. It's only because smoking isn't (for some arb reason) not seen as bad as being an alcoholic - else there would be a whole lot more "Smokers Anonymous" groups out there
here you are-look at the reviews -most very positive and i know why
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nicotine-Trick-Totally-Stop-Smoking/dp/1843580519
I will definitely have a look at that then - maybe purchase it in my lunch break or sommat
Thanks
Pretty good thanks Hoosey.
I seem to have so much more energy that I am restless - battling to sleep. And I keep feeling like I am not breathing properly.
It's good because I don't want it to be "easy" - I am not thinking too much about smoking, more about how my body starts to react to not being poisoned.
But not sleeping is insane
How are you doing?