Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:54 am Post subject: Quitting Smoking
Hey friends ,
I am as i wright this pretty much 24 hours since my last cigarette . I am trying to quit useing the "cold turkey" method .
I am quiting smoking as a preperation for a post / during PO world .
I consider this step a PO preperation for several reasons .
Regardless of how PO comes upon us "fast colapse , slow decline" Being more healthy will help in surviveing .
In a slow decline scenerio , you lose an expensive habit and thus conserve money .
I would like outher people effected by this issue to coment here .
You can give advise , encouragement .. maybe even state your own intentions to quit ..
We can support each outher and maybe get wisdom from folks whom have quit already .
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:19 am Post subject: Re: Quiting smoking .
Quitting smoking is easy - I did it many times.
Seriously though, if you've gone a day, you're through the toughest 24 hours.
In 2 weeks, you'll start finding that urges are going away.
In 1 month, you'll find that you have almost no real urges.
So that's it. Make it that far, and it gets easier.
You'll start coughing up years of collected debris soon. Consider that a good sign.
Your lung cells are remarkable at regeneration, and, I read once, your lungs will heal at the rate of 1 year for every 4 years you smoked.
Anyway, keep it up - change any habits that lead you back - getting drunk, hanging out with 5 guys who smoke, and so on. _________________ Massive Human Dieoff must occur as a result of Peak Oil. Many more than half will die. It will occur everywhere, including where you live. If you fail to recognize this, then your odds of living move toward the "going to die" group.
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:11 am Post subject: Re: Quiting smoking .
You dont need peak oil to enjoy the benefits of not smoking my friend!
Keeping busy helps. I found that spending a few nights at home playing online games helped distract me, instead of going out where my smoking stressors were.
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:21 am Post subject: Re: Quiting smoking .
Mack12345 wrote:
Hey friends ,
I am as i wright this pretty much 24 hours since my last cigarette . I am trying to quit useing the "cold turkey" method .
I am quiting smoking as a preperation for a post / during PO world .
I consider this step a PO preperation for several reasons .
Regardless of how PO comes upon us "fast colapse , slow decline" Being more healthy will help in surviveing .
In a slow decline scenerio , you lose an expensive habit and thus conserve money .
I would like outher people effected by this issue to coment here .
You can give advise , encouragement .. maybe even state your own intentions to quit ..
We can support each outher and maybe get wisdom from folks whom have quit already .
Thank you all in advance,
Regards .
Hi Mack!
My habit was chewing tobacco (or really "snus", but I do not know what that is in English)
For me it was rather easy to stop and the cravings ceased in about two weeks time, BUT I never got rid of the "nostalgia effect". Nicotine is a nice drug, and that feeling will stay with you the rest of your life.... so I started again... and stopped...and started.... and now hopefully stopped for good!
Quitting is the easy part, Not starting again is the hard part! So do not ever, ever, ever believe that you can control it. You can not! Stop and stop for good! _________________ Me Tar sands, you Jane
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:31 am Post subject: Re: Quitting Smoking
cipi604 wrote:
I smoke cannabis a lot, doesn't make you an addict or get cancer from it,
Completely incorrect. In fact, as far as I've read, smoking 1 joint has the cancerous effect of a pack of cigarettes.
But you don't need a scientific study to understand this . . .
The more crap you breath into your lungs, the higher your risk of lung cancer. _________________ Massive Human Dieoff must occur as a result of Peak Oil. Many more than half will die. It will occur everywhere, including where you live. If you fail to recognize this, then your odds of living move toward the "going to die" group.
Joined: Sep 02, 2005 Posts: 3047 Location: In a Nigerian compound surrounded by mighty dignataries
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:36 am Post subject: Re: Quitting Smoking
Cold turkey is tough to do. I'm trying to taper off gradually. Last year I smoked half a pack a day. Now I'm down to 1 cigarette a day.
My energy has increased and my lungs feel stronger. _________________ Hair in my eyes like a highland steer, spring in my step like a white tailed deer. Hitch in my hip like an old sheep dog, puff up my chest like a big bull frog.-Corb Lund
I quit cold turkey nearly four years ago. One of the hardest things I've done.
Recovery was not a linear progression for me. For me, week 3 was the worst. Definitely. The first couple of days were tough of course, but the rest of that first week I felt so sick I didn't feel much like smoking. That was the physical withdrawals. The psychological withdrawals came later, and by week three I was feeling much better physically, and I wanted a smoke so baaaaaad.....
That was hump time for me. Peak withdrawal. After that, it started getting easier. But then, I smoked for a long time, and loved it very much. Your recovery path might be very different from mine. You could try quitnet.com for an online support community of quitsters. Helped me quite a bit, I was always sneaking online during work, especially that first month.
Best of luck to you. No matter how bad it gets, remember - It is worth it! _________________ "If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst." — Thomas Hardy
I'm in the middle of quitting smoking. I started with 4 mg nicotine gum, about 10 pieces a day for 3 weeks, then went to 2 mg gum for about 3 weeks. Now I'm on nicotine patches, 7 mg/day, chewing regular gum. This system seems to have worked so far. Yesterday I forgot to put on a patch, with no ill effects. Quitting smoking is one of the hardest things I've ever done. Good luck with it. _________________ Death is certain, Life is not...
We can support each outher and maybe get wisdom from folks whom have quit already .
Thank you all in advance,
Regards .
i quit in spring 1996 & bought a new computer on the day i knew i could be smoke-free.
i started again the summer of 2004 and stopped Xmas day 2004. what helped there was to plan on doing absolutely nothing, and to have a decent novel or Books on Tape to focus on. _________________ http://www.LASIK-Flap.com/ ~ Health Warning about LASIK Eye Surgery
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