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Subject: BS: detox From: mkebenn Date: 07 Dec 09 - 07:59 AM Quitting smoking and whiskey today. Send me strengh. Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: Will Fly Date: 07 Dec 09 - 08:01 AM Good luck with the smoking stopping. Did that around 1970 and never regretted it. I still like a dash of malt now and then but, if it's a problem, then good luck with that too. Keep busy, keep occupied. Don't think about them. :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Date: 07 Dec 09 - 08:04 AM Wow, right before Xmas - lots of temptation about in the next few weeks! From my fellas experience, if you 'slip up' just don't give up giving up. My Mr. kept giving up and slipping then giving up again over and again, until he finally cracked it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: Leadfingers Date: 07 Dec 09 - 08:25 AM Best of luck from a 'Never' smoker and a lover of Single malts ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: SINSULL Date: 07 Dec 09 - 08:35 AM Lots of support from Maine. Those F#$+@##&g cigarettes will kill you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: gnu Date: 07 Dec 09 - 09:09 AM Good luck! |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: catspaw49 Date: 07 Dec 09 - 09:44 AM No Sins.....Cigarettes do worse than kill you. Ask me. Ask Kendall. Good luck Mike......You CAN do it, All urges pass. Until I believed that, I never had any success. When all those urges hit you, just say "Fuck it......Urges Pass" and go right on doing what you were doing or go find something else to do. Substituting candy and gum and the like never worked for me because all the time I was chewing or eating I kept thinking, "This is my cigarette substitute." Didn't work for me until I told myself, "Urges pass." THey will.......No shit! Funny thing.......I smoked for almost forty years and the damage was already done but the thing I am proudest of is not the quitting.........its the fact that I have never had a single puff, not one single puff, since the day I said URGES PASS. Five years later I still get urges.....but URGES PASS. Good luck Mike.........Do whatever it takes even if you have smoked for a lifetime. Kick those fuckers in the ass!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: MikeL2 Date: 07 Dec 09 - 10:51 AM Hi Mike Best of luck with your abstentions.... Me....I never ever smoked....not one puff. Alcohol....that's another matter!!! lol But some years ago I contacted throat cancer....and in the next months I saw more doctors than I could have ever imagined. And do you know what every single doctor advised me ???? Stop smoking !!!!!¬! They said I had a throat like a heavy smoker. We put it down to passive smoking. Too many nights spent drinking and playing in smokey pubs and clubs. So you see smoking is the killer...don't listen to those who will tell you different.... Just do it !! Regards Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: Alice Date: 07 Dec 09 - 01:05 PM Good luck, Mike. When you are tempted, keep your fingers busy typing on the computer keys to Mudcat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: GUEST,999 Date: 07 Dec 09 - 05:51 PM I'll send you strength. You send me the smokes and whiskey. (Best wishes to you for success, Mike.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: GUEST,Hollowfox who needs to reset her cookie Date: 07 Dec 09 - 05:52 PM Midwest juju and a smokeless $#@!-reduction candle when I get home from work! 'Spaw, that's the best head advice I've ever heard (keeping busy is hand advice). I've had it pointed out to me by some smokers that the habit has become part of a routine. After sex is the movie cliche, but the smokers didn't mention that one; lighting up automatically with morning coffee was the example that got a lot of heads nodding. Just an observation, I hope it helps. |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: akenaton Date: 07 Dec 09 - 06:32 PM You can do it! I did, many years ago, just a couple at ne'er day now and havn't had a fag(wee Scottish joke there) for thirty years...AKe |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: GUEST,999 Date: 07 Dec 09 - 06:35 PM Don't let that get to the AIDS thread, Ake. |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: Bobert Date: 07 Dec 09 - 06:35 PM 24 years on the no smokes... "Cigarettes, that is" (Tony Curtis) Cut way back on alcohol a while back and substituted Busch NA (Non Alcohol) in place... Still get drunk on a second slice of apple pie, tho... One day at a time, Mike... Hang in there... It's worth it... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: katlaughing Date: 07 Dec 09 - 06:38 PM My Rog stopped smoking two years ago this month. He used tablets from the doctor for a few weeks and has never touched one since. You can do it and we will all be rooting for you, for both cigs and whiskey. They both taste vile to me!*bg* All the best to you, kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: Amos Date: 07 Dec 09 - 06:48 PM U R G E S P A S SBest advice there is on the subject. Bear in mind, You only have to say no to one. When you say yes, it is to thousands. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: mkebenn Date: 08 Dec 09 - 07:06 AM Thank you all for thoughts. Wonder if to take guitar to work to keep hands busy? Morning coffee without smoke? I'm there now. Urges pass, indeed, how 'bout the shakes? Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: Micca Date: 08 Dec 09 - 07:19 AM A friend told me years ago (UK) that the tricky bit was the Pub (before the universal ban on smoking in pubs) it seemed to be (for him) the natural accompaniment to drinking beer, Now they have banned it and made it an "outdoor, cold and wet activity" I hope it will help you, Thats, maybe the time when a Guitar in your hands to keep them busy will pay off!! Good Luck anyway, I dont smoke(except a good cigar aabout once every 2 years) But I do LOVE Single malts, but am fairly abstemious even with them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: GUEST,bankley Date: 08 Dec 09 - 02:24 PM shakes ? get some Niacin... you've depleted the B vitamins in your system... don't drink much coffee either, you have to give your body/mind a chance.... lots of water and/or juices to flush the toxins out... breathe... best of luck from someone who has been there |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: lefthanded guitar Date: 08 Dec 09 - 04:37 PM Try : drink water instead of smoking find something to do with your hands; a puzzle or crossword, knitting, solitaire with real cards,e tc. yeah guitar is great, but probably not at work see if you can find a support group, friend or online site to commisserate don't have coffee for a while, have tea instead. Or try a different ' flavor' coffee to quell the urge. Take your ciggie money and put in a box to reward yourself with a gift! Remember this: once the cravings are gone, you won 't miss this habit! It's easier than dieting b/c you NEED food, you don't NEED ciggies. Good luck, we're all with you. YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 09 Dec 09 - 03:16 AM excellently said, Amos You only have to say no to one. When you say yes, it is to thousands. good luck, Mike sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: Mavis Enderby Date: 09 Dec 09 - 03:45 AM I gave up smoking 5 years ago after many years of trying. Nicotine replacement therapy (patches) helped reduce the craving, plus the financial incentive of putting away the money otherwise spent on smokes for other treats. Nothing, but nothing though is better than being able to breathe and taste good, clean air again. Go outside on a cool morning and take in great lungfulls of it. Beats any smoke any day! Good luck Pete. |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: open mike Date: 09 Dec 09 - 03:52 AM strength to you! just say "no" to the things you want to stop and find things to say yes to to switch to the positive... good luck! |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: gnu Date: 09 Dec 09 - 05:44 AM What Bankley said... vitamin B (NOT B1 or B Complex) 100mg a day, and a multi, like those for adults over 50. Take them in the morning with food. |
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 09 Dec 09 - 10:39 PM
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Subject: RE: BS: detox From: Mrrzy Date: 10 Dec 09 - 09:02 AM GOOD ON YER - just be real careful quitting alcohol, withdrawal can be deadly, literally. Post often. It isn't really the same muscles that boot up the computer and light the cigarette! |
