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Damn, Derrick. Sorry to hear that!

Wait to see how the prognosis looks before you sell anything.
You might just need to get out to the shop to escape.
Sharpening all your drill bits might be a great physical and mental therapy.

Maybe that California air doesn't agree with you, too.

-brino
 
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Cadillac said:
The one thing I've thought about was hypnosis? I would be more than willing to pay the fee and it work. My excuse Is what if I go in not beleiving the process does it work? I see your n Illinois would you know the name of the hypnotist? You can pm me if so. Thanks
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To quit smoking, we need to QUIT, not avoid...
 
Check out Shick Center, they will teach you not to smoke using aversion therapy, rough but effective. The only way I was able to quit was by having a collapsed lung, scared the crap out of me.
 
I quit over 35 years ago. Cold turkey it was - but the smoking career had started when I was teenager. I understand that after 7 years or so, various body processes has removed all smoking-related substances. The damaged tissue in the lungs remains. The tiny alveoli has scar holes left in it. It may have been 35 years, but it still affects me now.

Hope your recovery goes well dlane.
 
Bob Korves said:
To quit smoking, we need to QUIT, not avoid...
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This is the key.You can get the damn things in dozens of stores you pass every day. Half the people you work with have them in close proximity.
Mr. dlane, I wish you strength. To all who have read this thread, hear this. The answer is within YOU. Once YOU have made up your mind, it is not too hard. I spent 20+ years of my life trying to make up my mind. Once I realized that the only way to put them down was to truly WANT to, the ice was broken, so to speak. I am at about 20 months off, by far the longest streak of many. I am convinced I am done with them. I have had urges, and triggers, and all those other "temptations" that have set me back before. With each one that has come along, I have looked em in the eye, and decided "I don't WANT to". In ten seconds, all is well. The upshot of the whole mindset is this- the damn things are NOT stronger than me. Kiss my a**!

I wish strength to ALL. You CAN do it, you really can.
 
westerner said:
Once I realized that the only way to put them down was to truly WANT to, the ice was broken, so to speak. I am at about 20 months off, by far the longest streak of many. I am convinced I am done with them. I have had urges, and triggers, and all those other "temptations" that have set me back before.
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Westerner: Congrats dude!
The staying power of the addiction is longer from cigarettes than it it is for heroin, even though the physical effects of sudden withdrawal are not as severe. If you made it past 2 months, the "urges" change in subtle ways. Stay out of traditional social situations where the psychology presses, and places where subject to passive smoke. If you made it to 20 months, your health will have steadily improved, though you might have gained some weight.

For me, the trigger was a (very modest) new Ford Escort MK3, 1200cc, provided by the company, replacing a worn out old MK2, to travel to service company equipment. When I stopped by to pick up my wife at her place of work, she happened to put her earrings, and an item of er.. "underwear" in the ash tray space. I was about to light up when she said "Don't you DARE stink up this new car"! The ash tray was already taken, "reserved" so to speak. If it came to considering the cigs against all that, it was a no-brainer. The cigarettes had to go!

There will be the odd impulses for another year or so, but you may have broken the back of the thing!
Well done!
 
graham-xrf said:
Stay out of traditional social situations where the psychology presses, and places where subject to passive smoke.
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I no longer fear the traditional places or triggers to the addiction. I actually enjoy (for a VERY short time) being exposed to second hand smoke.
It is so foul that I wonder how I ever thought I enjoyed a smoke. The reinforcement to my psyche builds my wall, my confidence and my resolve.
If I can get to this place, ANY of us can. Get mad, and get your mind RIGHT.
 
Three decades of those stinky things and I managed to quit 15 months ago. I would often wonder how am I going to quit. Then one day the damn things started to taste absolutely disgusting, a couple of days later out the truck window they went.
 
I've been smoke free for around 25 years... I didn't plan to quit, just smoked the last one I had and never found the time to go buy another pack...

I never missed it at all.

-Bear
 
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