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- 23kon0
"Chewing is great!"
When you chew, your tummy starts getting acid ready for the food that it's about to get soon so it can digest it.
When you are chewing gum, your tummy does the same and gets acid ready - but it never gets anything to digest so you end up with a VERY acid stomach, ulcers, bloatedness etc.
Better off chewing something your tum will actually get.
- Interesting. This probably has been unconsciously helping with my manorexia.flavorful
- Khurram0
hey flaorful haha, did you beat everyone?in your school? by over a minute? even though you were a smoker, and you still beat everyone? is that true flavorful haha? is that how good you are? did you make it look easy flavourful haha? i bet you did. did you bang all the girls in your school as well? did you flavorful haha? did you? haha.
- flavorful0
I remember I quit smoking the first time in high school after I was finishing up a triathlon and was in the swimming portion thinking in my head, "My G-d I think my lungs are going to explode, I'm never smoking again."
Then ended up beating everyone by over a minute anyway. In my head I was like, "Ah shit." But I ended up stopping for years.
When I started working, I picked it back up - but I've never been like addicted to smoking so I haven't really ever considered myself a smoker. I'd be able to make a pack last a week or longer would be the first tell tale sign.
I still smoke one here or there actually, always turns me back off though.
You should start chewing though.
Chewing is great!
- jayoh0
The best way to quit is this book. I smoked for 10 years and this book really gets to the core of why you smoke and the excuses you make for it. When you can understand an addiction, you can beat it.
- flavorful0
Props kelpie.
I used to smoke, but basically the same reasons. To pass time, or as an excuse to get up from my desk at work - and just going outside to do nothing seemed like a waste of time. Or that I'd just look like a goon, heh.
You'll probably never get the taste back, but that's not because of the nicotine - it's because alcohol has had its way with your taste buds. But your sense of smell gets better.
Plus with most pubs banning smoking, it just makes sense.
- jaylarson0
quit 10.75 years ago
- at least your not counting to the nearest quarter.Jnr_Madison
- moth0
Rain or shine - I see more people outside pubs and bars than in them these days.
- mikotondria30
Smoking seems enhanced when you drink because the alcohol lifts the nicotine off their receptors so you get an instant withdrawl, which gives you a steeper rush when you do take nicotine in again, it's a daft game, really.
If you don't smoke, then the beer tastes even better and you don't have to stand outside under a little bus shelter with your 'comrades'.Pft.
- moth0
Yum.
- Why do you smoke italian Marlboro?Sequencer
- 'cause he's obviously cheap and get his fags off a 'guy down the pub'Jnr_Madison
- mikotondria30
Keep going, Kelpie - its all normal what you're going through - it does fuck with your mind for a little while and cause totally irrational thoughts like ' I can't do design if I haven't breathed in partially burned toxic plant fumes', but it'll pass, those thoughts will go..
Surprise surprise, non-smokers have those blank pages too, those blocks you just need to learn to do something else than smoke, that's too easy, the hardest bit about not smoking is having to fill in the parts of your routine when you normally would have lit up and had 'a little time off', but those pangs for the old 'routine' DO pass, and you'll realise that the old way was weak and foolish. It wasn't 'time off', it was time to get a fix to stop your craving for nicotine, plain and simple, what was the addiction is that it had got under your conscious radar and you rationalised it as something else.
Now you're stepping out from under that shadow and theres a gap where you used to be smoking, but that need has gone, because it wasn't real, the need to you have is to take a little break from your work.
Im only a few weeks ahead of you on being a non-smoking, pious twat, and I'll liken the first few weeks to like being on a kids roundabout at the playground, just drifting round slowly, round and round, then - when you stop smoking, you get off the roundabout and it feels like you're still going round, and forget how to walk in a straight line, but your realise that you were actually on a ride the whole time, and that standing on the ground is the normal way to be, even though IT feels wobbly and unexpected. It's a big step, stopping smoking - I was a woose for years and didnt even try because I didn't think I could do it, but I have and so can you, please post back here and let us know how you get on and what you did instead of smoking. All the best- thank you! I didn't realise you were only a few weeks ahead. you make perfect sense here, cheerskelpie
- SkyPoo0
"Think I'm terminally burned out,"
Mate, its apparent to me that most of us are feeling terminally worn out. That's not you, nor is it smoking related, it's the world we live in. There's a nagging sense of redundancy tugging at our sleeves.
- Khurram0
well then... will ONE cigarette be so bad? ;-)
if you have 1, then sit back down to work and realise that it's made no difference - might be better for your mental conditioning in the long-term.
Just a thought, not sure how sound ^ that advice is.
x
(i heard someone say that a ship is off course 80% of the time, and that the entire navigational process is making tiny tiny adjustments to get it back on track until the destination, na'm sayin'?)
- I'm going to resist the ciggie, think I agree with the last point mate, takelpie
- That's really truly terrible advice, lol. Its a sequential habit, so 'just one' is actually the vital bridge the habit needs to survive.SkyPoo
- ha yeah, i know. It's not for everyone. I know how i quit, it was pretty gradual. That's why i said it.Khurram
- in fact, i never defined myself as "i've quit smoking" until i realised i had. Different strokes...Khurram
- SkyPoo0
The first thing your mind does when you try to kill its dependency on cigarettes is to start throwing loads and loads of 'reasons why' your day-to-day existence absolutely depends on maintaining the inflow of toxic chemicals and nicotine into your bloodstream.
Your cigarette breaks are not the things that solve the blank page syndrome... allowing yourself that period of time to think clearly does. Right now your in a sort of early stage panic mode - your body is realising its not getting the vital poison it needs so its trying desperately to alert you to the problem. Much the same is it does when your blood sugar is low, or when you need carbs etc.
Smoking cigarettes doesn't solve your problem. Do something else distracting instead. Go and walk to the shop and buy a Mars Bar, stand outside and eat it, then go back to your desk. This is good in three ways:
1. You put something into your body that makes a chemical difference
2. You emulate the behaviour of a fag break rather than observing a hole in your sechudle where a cigarette would have been
3. You help yourself to put on weight... part of your plan.oh, and
4.you get to practice going into a shop that sells smoking stuff without buying anything smoking related.
- kelpie0
aye, good for yous. outside work = easy as fuck, loving it, walked over 60 miles in the last week and feel a million dollars. inside work = going spare here. Kuz, it most likely is rationalising things, but its not really helping having that knowledge; I will not smoke any cigarettes today but I'll also get in a tonne of trouble here and miss my deadline spectacularly. I'm fucking really worried all in. Think I'm terminally burned out, its just making the quitting thing slightly harder.
- skt0
ok, not a pint, but maybe a cup of tea, outside of the office somewhere. you just need to get away from the screen.
- Jordy0
I used to smoke a pack of Marlboro Reds a day. It's been three months now since I quit, from one to day to the other .. no pills, patches or any other kind of that shit.
Discipline.
- VectorMasked0
it's 3 am and can't fall asleep.
Just had a smoke (marlboro light 100's) and feel revitalized
:o)
- but don't give up dude.
drink 3 gallons of water a day. it helps.VectorMasked
- but don't give up dude.