BS: detox

07 Dec 09 - 07:59 AM (#2782798)
Subject: BS: detox
From: mkebenn

Quitting smoking and whiskey today. Send me strengh. Mike

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07 Dec 09 - 08:01 AM (#2782801)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: Will Fly

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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07 Dec 09 - 08:04 AM (#2782803)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)

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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07 Dec 09 - 08:25 AM (#2782813)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: Leadfingers

Best of luck from a 'Never' smoker and a lover of Single malts !

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07 Dec 09 - 08:35 AM (#2782828)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: SINSULL

Lots of support from Maine. Those F#$+@##&g cigarettes will kill you.

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07 Dec 09 - 09:09 AM (#2782850)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: gnu

Good luck!

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07 Dec 09 - 09:44 AM (#2782868)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: catspaw49

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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07 Dec 09 - 10:51 AM (#2782907)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: MikeL2

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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07 Dec 09 - 01:05 PM (#2783024)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: Alice

Good luck, Mike.

When you are tempted, keep your fingers busy typing on the computer keys to Mudcat.

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07 Dec 09 - 05:51 PM (#2783294)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: GUEST,999

I'll send you strength. You send me the smokes and whiskey.


(Best wishes to you for success, Mike.)

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07 Dec 09 - 05:52 PM (#2783297)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: GUEST,Hollowfox who needs to reset her cookie

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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07 Dec 09 - 06:32 PM (#2783336)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: akenaton

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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07 Dec 09 - 06:35 PM (#2783341)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: GUEST,999

Don't let that get to the AIDS thread, Ake.

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07 Dec 09 - 06:35 PM (#2783342)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: Bobert

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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07 Dec 09 - 06:38 PM (#2783344)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: katlaughing

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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08 Dec 09 - 07:06 AM (#2783631)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: mkebenn

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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08 Dec 09 - 07:19 AM (#2783637)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: Micca

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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08 Dec 09 - 02:24 PM (#2783942)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: GUEST,bankley

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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08 Dec 09 - 04:37 PM (#2784058)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: lefthanded guitar

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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09 Dec 09 - 03:16 AM (#2784437)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: Sandra in Sydney

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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09 Dec 09 - 03:45 AM (#2784441)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: Mavis Enderby

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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09 Dec 09 - 03:52 AM (#2784442)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: open mike

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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09 Dec 09 - 05:44 AM (#2784479)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: gnu

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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10 Dec 09 - 09:02 AM (#2785314)
Subject: RE: BS: detox
From: Mrrzy

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!

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