Re: [OT] Given up smoking

zoara <me3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:41:46 +0100, Bella Jones wrote:

[smoking gone]

No wild urge to get a nano, that's the thing... But it's a nice idea
all the same :-)

Handbag? Shoes? Other Generic Cliched Thing That All Women Crave? Shamanic
Dancing Outfit?

Camera stuff I guess. I mean, clothes, OK. but I'd buy them anyway. :-)

Having something to "save up" for really helped me. Some people stick the
money in a jar but I (being a geek) drew a graph/table. It was nice to see
that after a month my quitting had paid for *this* toy, and after three it
paid for *that* one. It's an incentive that worked incredibly well for me.

Hmm. I think, for me, I do too much micro-management of stuff as it is.

I also had a number of 'emergency' fags; I know this won't work for
everyone, but on previous quits I suffered from the problem of caving in to
just one ciggy, then deciding "well, I've screwed up quitting then!" and
just went straight back on them. I found that if I 'allowed' myself up to
nine fags (nine lives!) without feeling I'd screwed it up, I was able to
cope with the odd really bad craving without going back full time. But that
method will actually do more harm than good for a lot of people, I reckon
("just one more", then "oh, just another won't hurt", or smoking them all
in the first day).

Yeah. I have to stay away from them now, completely.

I think that's typical of me though; I still have the odd one, but it
really is just the odd one. Maybe once every 4-6 weeks? I smoke less than
some friends who consider themselves non-smokers! But I don't consider
myself to have given up, I'm just not a smoker, either. I think my
behaviour is quite unusual.

Do some people call themselves non-smokers but actually smoke? Tsk!
Actually someone called herself sober the other day but still had the
odd something or other, I think. People seem to love to kid themselves.

I've said 'I don't drink' to people and they go 'what, like, totally?'
In fact, a friend of mine looked at me slyly, when we were on our own
together, and said 'have you really stopped?' like I must have been
having secret lines of coke on the side, or something.


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