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Update on the nicotine/smoking situation: Just boxed everything I could find that contains nicotine and smoking related materials. Gonna throw it out tomorrow morning and see how long it takes for me to become very irritable
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04-13-2020, 09:54 PM | #46 |
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It's a good time to be irritable with social distancing. Best of luck to you!
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04-13-2020, 09:54 PM | #47 |
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GREAT! Also a good thing that you're quarantined, can't be mean to anyone if you cant be around anyone. Smurt
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04-14-2020, 02:37 AM | #48 |
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Take hot showers /baths if you can. It will help you sweat out the nicotine, and if its done 3 days in a row the cravings should be gone by then.
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Like any sucky situation, you can make it temporary as long as you focus on the end goal and make it to the finish line.
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trying to understand if its health related or financial..
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Financially it's been better. A pack of cigs were $9.81 when I was smoking a pack a day. Juul pods were $15-16 for a pack of 4 which would last 4-5 days, but after the FDA came down on them prices started increasing so I bought one of those refillable nic salt devices, and a $25 bottle of juice went 3-3.5 weeks. So at that point my nicotine was a fairly small amount of my monthly expense but it's still money spent that shouldn't be a necessity. |
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04-14-2020, 10:48 AM | #52 | |
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id say that if you really want to quit, you have to stay away from other people who smoke/vape for at least 6 months. the temptation will be there for much longer than just three days. |
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04-14-2020, 12:47 PM | #53 |
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I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
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04-14-2020, 01:25 PM | #55 |
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Biting my finger nails. Been doing it since I can remember. I had a good chance of stopping and didn’t do it for a few weeks and then everything came crashing down last few weeks and back at it. I hate it but I can’t stop
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04-14-2020, 01:28 PM | #56 |
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Several comments about quitting smoking, one of the things I deal with professionally. Unfortunately, many of the misconceptions end up demoralizing people when they attempt a quit and do not succeed, and I'd hope to offset this some. Nicotine is arguably the most (or one of the most) addictive substances known; plus the smoking becomes a very ingrained habit - a double whammy for many. Don't beat yourself up for 'not having willpower' or for somehow being 'stupid enough to do it'. The idea that just stopping doing something is easy is a terrible flaw in our thinking. It is true that many just decide to quit and do so, and some just start a taper and work themselves off of it. But they aren't the majority, and nobody really knows how to get the next guy to that point. If your initial efforts aren't successful, consider finding a health psychologist to work with you - there is science to this that can point you to the best tactics - not easy, but easier.
Side notes: vaping devices are like the gold-standard addiction machines; the only way you could design a better vehicle for addiction would be if they came with a supermodel who urged you to use it more often. I would avoid these like the plague if you are not already an addicted smoker, and only use one as part of a very controlled quit process. financial factoid from early 90's (so in '90s dollars), if this type of thing motivates you: If you made tobacco companies pay for all the health-related issues of smoking, then set the cost of a pack of cigarettes to amortize that cost, a pack would cost about $100. So on average, smokers (and their insurance companies) will spend $5/cigarette to treat the damage that is being done. Heart attacks, strokes, and cancer get pretty expensive - the up front pack price is chump change compared to the 'balloon payment'. |
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Even now, it's almost 11:30pm here, and I'm on my phone looking up stuff I was thinking about earlier in the day and also scrolling through BP. Caffeine intensifies this issue.
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I have an extremely bad habit of picking my facial hair out, particularly when I’m deep in thought. There have been times when I look in the mirror and a whole side of my face has hair missing from it.
I have a pretty bad temper as well. Almost beat a fedex driver’s ass this weekend for starting shit. So yeah, I probably need to work on that lmao I have poor sleeping habits, too. Usually get 4-5 hours a night. |
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04-15-2020, 01:19 AM | #62 |
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Quit smoking cigarettes and weed. Every time I light up a cigarette I just keep thinking about how bad I want to quit. Flower just adds to the damage and doesn't even get me high anymore.
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04-15-2020, 08:24 AM | #64 |
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Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program from Jon Kabat-Zinn is an excellent approach for many of the issues noted here, can't recommend it strongly enough - kind of like an exercise program for the mind, to improve the ability to hold with a specific focus, or avoid the rumination and distraction of unwanted thoughts (more like Yoga than Karate, it improves the overall 'mental fitness' capacity to direct and coordinate thinking, rather than having specific tactics to suppress/change thoughts or improve mood). There are lots of cheap 'knock-off wannabe's' that have been diluting it, or throwing around a few phrases/tactics that are stupid in isolation or out of context, so seek out those who actually did some formal training and use it themselves. Full Catastrophe Living was my intro and still the central resource, even better is to work with an instructor or group if you can.
https://www.amazon.com/Full-Catastro.../dp/B00C4BA3UK https://mbsrtraining.com/jon-kabat-zinn-mbsr-training/ |
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