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I'm suffering from irritability and mood swings. My voice is all over the place, and can vary from my normal pitch to an almost inaudible squeak within a single sentence. My body doesn't seem to fit me any longer, and I'm being incredibly clumsy. And I've started getting random errections for no reason at all (at all kinds of potentially embarrassing moments)!
Yup - I've given up smoking: it's part of the process of re-inventing myself that I (like some others here) am going through. I've been a smoker since I was nine (with a couple of years break aged 13-15) ... over forty years: I have never been a non-smoking adult.
Fun it ain't ! But with the help of an incredibly supportive (gay) smoking cessation group I think I'm gonna make it. In the meantime, please excuse any /even more than usual irritability or random meanderings and digressions in the posts I make!
NW
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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I quit smoking some 15 years ago.... I know what you are going through.....
You can do it.......
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Cheers, Marc - well done for giving up yourself, and thanks for the expression of confidence.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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I found making the decision that I didnt want it any longer is what caused me to succede.
I wasn't denying myself something I wanted.....
I was eliminating something I didn't want....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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First of all, NW, my best wishes for your success. "You can do it, Duffy"  .
I gave up smoking 31 years ago. At the time I was smoking about 20-25 cigarettes a day. When the moment came when I had to stop it was surprisingly easy. (Be prepared for the possibility that you might put on some weight.)
FWIW, my good thoughts go with you.
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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pimple
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Likes it here |
Location: USA
Registered: March 2006
Messages: 375
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that I'd give Anything to do it again! Not!
Simon
Joy Peace and Tranquility
Joyceility
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Based on your side-effects, it seems as though you are probably past the worst of breaking the physical dependancy. So you seem to be well on your way to quitting. Last time I started to quit I noticed I had trouble breathing for several weeks afterward (I also ended up with a bronchial infection upon picking it back up again which could explain that however(I was driving acrossed the country)).
I think, based on the fact that I hate smoking, and seemed to have smoked 2 packs of cigarettes in the past 24 hours (I have been up for the past 20 hours though...) I think I am going to join you in quitting. I must say that this post also helped me come around to that decision.
I've only been smoking for really two years (I seemed to have developed a five year plan though in that I started when I was ten, started again when I was fifteen, and again when I was twenty) I can't imagine having to quit after fifteen years. It seems like you are doing well though so I have confidence that you will be successful.
david
*disclaimer, this post is probably not too coherant and I chalk that up to being up for too long.
It's always the old to lead us to the war
It's always the young to fall
Now look at all we've won with the sabre and the gun
Tell me is it worth it all
~Phil Ochs "I Aint Marching Anymore"
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I am going to have to take up smoking in order to give up. I LOVE the idea of random erections.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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timmy wrote:
> (snip)I LOVE the idea of random erections.
The IDEA is OK ! Actually, I hated having them as a teenager - on the bus, on the tube, standing in front of the class to recite ... so to suffer them at the age of 50 seems a bit much. Yesterday the worst one was standing on top of a stepladder pruning an apple tree: absolutely in full view of anyone!
I have a job interview tomorrow (for a part-time job I very much want) - although I'm usually a boxer-brief man by choice, I think that two pairs of strong briefs are called for ... better a "visible pantie line" than a visible stiffie!
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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