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Why is it so damn difficult? Ugh. Ive tried hiding them from myself - which actually worked for awhile, strangely enough. But they just continue to increase taxes on cigarettes every three months. Prices have gone up 400% in two years, and my student budget just doesn't seem to want to balance.
Annoying, and irritating and feels sooooo good. Ugh. Again.
So bloody unhealthy, Im smoking myself into an early grave. Bloody annoying, if you ask me.
Anyone else have the same problem?
A truth told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent
-William Blake
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Hello Dewald. I'm Aqua and I am trying to quit for the second time in one year. I made it 6 months but folded and started up again. I started taking the pills ( Chantix ) again last month and am about to smoke my last one next week. Our taxes on cigarettes just jumped quite a bit last month, so I hope this time I can stay off them. The pills really work but my neighbour smokes heavily and that's what started me again.
I remember you from when I first started posting here. Welcome back and feel free to send an e-mail if you're ever lonely or bored. Good luck with the smoking problem, I hope you do suceed.
aqua
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. Washington Irving
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Aussie
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Really getting into it |
Registered: August 2006
Messages: 475
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Yes, must admit I have been there.
It was the same reason that caused me to quit about 15 years ago.
The government increased the tax on cigarettes by an unreasonable amountand I cracked 'em.
Saw a Charles Bordern seminar advertised so went along.
I have never had a cigarette since then.
They use a system of meditation/hypnotherapy and suggestion and then give you a breathing technique to avoid having your first cigarette. The theory is if you don't have your first you can't have the second. Don't know if they are still around doing these seminars.
If you are really serious about wanting to quit and want to know more just ask.
Aussie
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I did, Dewald. It is actually very easy when you want to badly enough - just a question of how strong the motive. Sylvia gave up the moment she knew she was pregnant and after a while complained that I tasted of tobacco so I gave up shortly afterwards.
Ask your boyfriend whether he likes the taste and if he smokes tell him you don't like it. Only a suggestion.
Love,
Anthony
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I think my problem has always been that my motives were weak and vauge, things like "save money" or "better long term health" - good things, overall, but still vague.
My boyfriend does smoke, in fact a ridiculous amount, just last night when we went out for coffee he managed to finish a pack of 20. I'll think about telling him I don't like it, but truth be told, in some strange and twisted way I DO like the instant calming effect, fewer headaches and better sleep it seems to help with. It's just that I know I shouldn't like it. Most people who smoke say they don't, and thats just another thing I have to do first, stop liking it so much. Blegh. Sigh. Damn, I sound like a pity party, so I'll stop here.
A truth told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent
-William Blake
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I used to smoke. One day i found a good excuse to quit. I had my last cig one month ago.
My habit mostly revolved around driving. I always had to have a cig while driving. In fact, cigs were always in my car. I never took them with me and if i wanted one i would ask people.
Last month, a friend from out of state came to visit me. He hates smoking, the smell of it, and anything relating to smoking. I remembered i never smoked whenever he was with me, even when driving. This time when he came to visit me, i told myself...if i don't have a cig for the week that he will be here, then i won't have another one after he leaves. It worked for me. I just had to find a way quit smoking whenever i was driving. He was a good enough reason for me.
I can be around people that smoke. its not too hard to say no. When i'm drinking, saying no can be especially hard. However, i keep repeating in my mind that i won't ask for one. I just try to occupy my mind with something else.
Just find a good motive to quit.
You don't love someone because they are beautiful, they are beautiful because you love them.
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I gave up (for a while) in March 2006 - see http://forum.iomfats.org/w-agora/index.php?bn=forumiomfatsorg_placeofsafety&key=1142770213&pattern=smoking&action=view . Only the second time I've seriously tried, having been a non-smoker from age 13 to 15 previously (my first boyfriend was strongly anti: when things with him went terribly wrong I reverted to the evil weed).
Unfortunately, it didn't last. Socialising with smokers? No problem! At home alone? No problem! The thing that got me started smoking again was ... going back to work part-time. It turns out that I can only work in 30-45 minute very concentrated batches, then I need a break. And I'm medically not supposed to sit for any longer than an hour without standing and walking around, anyway. And - however much I enjoy it - work is a stressful thing. So I'd been back at work for about three months when I took up smoking again - October 2007. Damn silly decision, of course ...
"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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Though I like smoking I like not smoking a lot better, then considering it could add 10 years to my life is significant all things being considered.
People will tell you where they've gone
They'll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Other's just come to harm
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13800
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Might as well. After all, no band started playing when you started, and no band's going to play when you stop. And you want to be able to breathe and give head at the same time, so, what about that quit moment?
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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