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About This Page: This is a discussion on Reality Hipcheck within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. OK everyone,
Ready to quit.
Would like some advise.
Done it several times before for a couple months, but addiction sucks.
No more smoking during intermissions at LGK pickup games
Done it several times before for a couple months, but addiction sucks.
No more smoking during intermissions at LGK pickup games for me.
Patches, pill, and gum won't work.
Any help will be much appreciated.
__________________ -Fish
"When you can't run anymore you crawl, and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that..."
Karma to whomever can finish that.
I quit 3 years ago and it was hard. I set a date and tapered down till I finally quit. The best advise I got was buy a lot of sugar free gum and chew the hell out of it.
Remember that after the first 72 hours you will have physically detoxed the nicotine so any craving or feeling sick is all mental, and the average nicotine craving really only lasts 30 seconds at a time. Oh and drink a lot of water it helps.
After the first month it was really easy it's just a matter of breaking the habit.
As Mark Twain said, "quitting smoking is easy, I've done it myself a thousand times." No easy solutions, I'm afraid. Gotta keep trying, and eventually it will stick. Try to stay out of situations that make you smoke, whatever it is - booze was always a big one for me.
You don't necessarily have to quit cold turkey - if you start by cutting down, your body will adjust to a lower level of nicotine, and it will be a lot less painful. Maybe try smoking one less cigarette every day, or every couple of days. Different things work for different people - you just have to find what works for you.
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On the serious side. Quit cold turkey. Try using the switching technique. FOr example. Let's say you like to smoke outside on the patio. Picture yourself smoking then zap it out and erplace it with you picturing your self with a cup of coffee or reading a book etc. Then repeat the process a few times.
Any time you get into the situation and you start craving the nicotine. Do this. It's a tough technique but can work. I did this when I quit a few years back.
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Originally Posted by CBGB
I'm retiring at 10,000 posts. I already spend way to much time here and don't get enough REAL work done.
how the hell does someone crave a smoke while doing a extremely strenuous (sp?) activity like playing hockey?
how bout this everytime you take a smoke break during hockey the second you get back on the ice/rink ill lay you out.
We'd have to get it set up in order for you to do that.
And it makes sense that I crave it afterwards. Sweating out the toxins, breathing a lot. It's weird, but my lungs hurt afterwards UNTIL I smoke. I crave it more after hockey than any other time, aside from when drinking a lot.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Irreverent
Wear a nicotine patch overnight and you'll wake up so nauseaus you'll never want to see tobacco ever again.
Can't sleep on the nicotine patch... at all. I could at first, but tried it later and couldn't do it. Although when I could I had some epic dreams. Normally don't remember them, but when I could handle the patch I could really remember several hours of what went on in great detail. Good times.
Every time you want a cigarette, jab something sharp into your arm. Eventually your mind will equate cigarettes with pain.
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On the serious side. Quit cold turkey. Try using the switching technique. FOr example. Let's say you like to smoke outside on the patio. Picture yourself smoking then zap it out and erplace it with you picturing your self with a cup of coffee or reading a book etc. Then repeat the process a few times.
Any time you get into the situation and you start craving the nicotine. Do this. It's a tough technique but can work. I did this when I quit a few years back.
The American Cancer Society has a really good smoking cessation class. My company offered it for employees. They taught a technique like the one above. You have to break the habit. If you sit in your favorite chair and have a cigarette, move to the couch. They have several other techniques as well.
I used to get up at work when I craved a smoke and just take a walk. The urge goes away.
When you first quit, make a deal with yourself. If you quit for two days you buy yourself a present. If you break down and smoke, you have to do a nasty chore. Make the time period longer and longer.
It works. I quit in 1989. I still crave it and when someone lights up a cigarette, I have an urge to beat them up and take it from them! But I haven't started again, because I don't want to have to quit. It's Hard!!!
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