I am really proud of you, the bottom line is we just have to
not smoke. I am struggling but I am doing it. I am ok, my
family is hating me right now, but they understand.
Patricia
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> "Beav" <
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>
>>"Alan" <
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>>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:23:39 -0700, "Patricia1966wa"
>>> <
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>>>
>>> > thanks Alan. Thanks a lot.
>>> >
>>> >Patricia
>>>
>>> Said with the best of intentions. I still like success
>>> stories. I've been where you are; I know how hard the
>>> addictions, both smokes and foods, can be to break. No
>>> sermons; I just know you can do it.
>
>>I wish to f^&k *I* could do it Al!!
>
> Stopping smoking is hard, because modern cigarrette
> tobacco is crack tobacco - they treat it the same way one
> treats cocaine to make it crack cocaine. Makes it much
> more addictive. Helps to keep profits up. Do you really
> want to keep lining the pockets of these legal dope
> dealers?
>
> I think I probably stopped about twelve times before I got
> the hang of
> it. My method was simply to add 15 mins each day to the
> time I smoked my first one. The easy bit was stopping.
> The hard bit was staying stopped. Aerobic exercise
> helps, because the effects of having been stopped for
> a week are very obvious, and the effects of starting
> again are very obvious. I found a long staircase on
> the way to work which I could just manage to walk up
> at a brisk pace without stopping when I wasn't
> smoking. When I was smoking it was impossible, I had
> to stop before one of my legs, heart, or lungs,
> exploded.
>
> I finally stopped by shooting them. I took a half finished
> pack of cigs, and shot it to bits with an air pistol. I
> then nailed the resulting shattered mess to the wall. When
> people asked me what it was I said "It's a warning. They
> were trying to kill me. The next packet that tries it gets
> the same treatment."
>
> A joke. Also a ritual which impressed me and I hope made
> me fear cigarrettes. It made it embarrassing for me to
> start again, and it reminded me of the consequences of
> smoking.
>
> That was 30 years ago. It took about twenty years before I
> stopped lusting after a cigarrette every time I smelt one.
> And sometimes I fell and smoked one. But I had also
> discovered what for me was the golden rule of staying
> stopped. I had discovered my own threshold of addiction. I
> could smoke up to three cigarrettes in one day, provided
> that I did not smoke again for at least two days. If I
> kept within those bounds I didn't get re-addicted, and
> could be naughty now and then, usually when getting drunk.
>
> So after I stopped I actually still smoked, but at an
> average rate of about 1 cigarrette a month, in the form of
> a burst of a few every few months, almost always when
> drinking.
>
> The last one was some years ago. Three? Seven? Can't
> remember.
>
>
> --
> Chris Malcolm
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