I started smoking again...

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue May 09, 2006 11:30 pm

I went over a year without a fag, I knew it was good, my new GF who I have know for 10 years smokes, I slipped back into it... im sitting here with a fag and I feel powerless to beat it again... tosser

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Wed May 10, 2006 6:22 am

You can always quit again. If you lived without cigarettes for a year, you know that you can do it.

(you might want some real advice from people who have actually smoked)

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:34 am

Post by **Kaylee** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:43 am

A year is indeed a very long time! I don't see why you can't give it up again after leaving it for so long

Unlike my dad, who gave it up for about a month then just little by little talked himself that it was alright to have an occassional cigarette; within about 5 months he was back to where he started.

Why do we fall down, Master Mark? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up again. [/Alfred]

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:47 am

Sorry I'm not being more positive, but my own battles with the demon weed are at an all-time low right now and I don't have much advice to give. Sorry, Mark.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:49 am

Karl Lynch wrote:Why do we fall down, Master Mark?

Because Newton had to go and ruin it for the rest of us?

Post by **Kaylee** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:54 am

Brendocon wrote:
Karl Lynch wrote:Why do we fall down, Master Mark?
Because Newton had to go and ruin it for the rest of us?

Damn him for inventing gravity!!!

...wait a minute... -.o

~

Poor rob too

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:05 pm

Its ok im not really looking for sympathy is a bloody stupid thing to do and im throughly ashamed of myself, I just felt I need to express my crapness online!

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:32 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:Its ok im not really looking for sympathy

Okeydokey!

Next time you fancy a smoke, take a look at this first and see if you still want it.

http://www.csmngt.com/smokers%20lung.jpg

Post by **Kaylee** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:33 pm

...why do I suddenly fancy a barbecue?

Jetfire · Post by **Jetfire** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:58 pm

It's very hard to avoid lifes pleasures. I go through periods where I drink a bottle of wine every night. I can do it too easily and work without a problem next day (With Wine I quickly build up a immunity to the effects).Normally I drink due to stress, tiredness or just wanting to switch off of everything. I stop drinking for a while just to stop myself going over (Both parents have had trouble) and some of the looks form my family or flatmate. I really binge so I'm glad I'm not a smoker otherwise I'd be a 40 a day type. Good luck in the battle.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Wed May 10, 2006 3:16 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote: I started smoking again...

I suppose it IS difficult if your partner is also a smoker to defeat the temptation, it becomes a very positive sort of relaxing thing you do together, at special times...

Well, listen to Karly Mark, you can do it again. I suppose the tricky thing is to tell your gal' that she can't smoke around you if you're going to try it again.

Jetfire wrote:I drink a bottle of wine every night. I can do it too easily and work without a problem next day. Normally I drink due to stress, tiredness or just wanting to switch off of everything.

Dude, that sounds a bit dangerous. You really shouldn't drink alone, call a mate over if you're gonna do it, any mate. Even the ones that you don't like perticularly much, just get someone you know over there and have a drink with him. Never alone.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Wed May 10, 2006 3:37 pm

Predabot wrote:You really shouldn't drink alone, call a mate over if you're gonna do it, any mate. Even the ones that you don't like perticularly much, just get someone you know over there and have a drink with him. Never alone.

Rubbish. Drinking with somebody you dislike is just gonna make things worse. Don't pass comment on the best way to get steamed, Mr "I don't drink because it's evil and therefore have no ******* clue what I'm talking about."

Holier than thou ****.

Mark! If you want to smoke, smoke. My advice would be to not think about quitting, just throw away whatever cigs are near you and remove the temptation. Obviously not practical though, so... uhm, yeah... listen to Karl.

Seriously, you beat it once, you can do it again. Lack of confidence in yourself is the enemy - not the sticks. Rob, same thing. Get some squirrels in to remove your stash.

[/useless post]

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Wed May 10, 2006 4:10 pm

The squirrels won't know what hit 'em.

*cocks airgun*

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:20 pm

Dunno if this is bull or what, but there's an episode of Frost, where his sidekick is the guy from Hustle whose brother was in Life on Mars (how tedious a link is that when I could've just said Robert Glennister? Thanks IMDb!), and it's about the murder of a paedo, who wears a rubber band on his wrist. Glennister's character recognises it as meaning he was trying to keep himself on the straight and narrow, as he used the same method to give up smoking. He promptly lights up, showing how well it worked for him.

But anyway, would that be worth a try? Wearing a band on your wrist, and every time you feel the urge for a ciggie, twang it and feel the pain instead?

And as for squirrels, they can be right nasty pieces of work.

From the window in our server room at work, there's a bird table visible. I say bird table, but all I've ever seen there is squirrel. Until today, when I watched a squirrel catch, pin and beat up a black bird.

They'll be riding dogs next!

The Last Autobot · Post by **The Last Autobot** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:26 pm

Well in behavior psychologist exists the notion of reviving lost patterns once in a while after they ceased (like remembering someone after 2 years or doing a thing you learned as a child or maybe in this case smoking). So take this as just a momentary setback of something you didnt want to do.

If that not the case, then just relax and do what you want.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:23 pm

Brendocon wrote:Rubbish. Drinking with somebody you dislike is just gonna make things worse. Don't pass comment on the best way to get steamed, Mr "I don't drink because it's evil and therefore have no ******* clue what I'm talking about."

Holier than thou ****.

Somebody woke up on the bad side today?

Mayhaps drinking with the mates that he regularly don't see much because they have little in common may not be fun, so maybe that was bad advice. But I've always been told while growing up that drinking alone can end badly and create a very unpleasant habit. You did point out that I've never had to head that advice myself, but it has still stuck.

And well, this guy seems to agree with me...
http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/i ... _alone.htm

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:39 pm

Predabot wrote:And well, this guy seems to agree with me...
http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/i ... _alone.htm

So, an article, whether real or spoof saying "Drinking alone now and again can be good for you" is the same as you saying "Don't drink alone, it's bad for you"?

That kind of logic is so fuzzy it could easily be a new species of mammal.

Post by **Denyer** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:56 pm

Predabot wrote:You really shouldn't drink alone, call a mate over if you're gonna do it, any mate. Even the ones that you don't like perticularly much, just get someone you know over there and have a drink with him. Never alone.

Rounds, or more people getting up and fetching, are far more likely to get you past the point of being more drunk than you intended. Try it and compare.

http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/i ... _alone.htm

*facepalm*

You can read, right?

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:12 pm

Predabot wrote:Somebody woke up on the bad side today?

No, you're just a ****.

And well, this guy seems to agree with me...
http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/i ... _alone.htm

Only if, as others have pointed out, by "agree with" you mean "completely and utterly undermine"...

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:18 pm

Denyer wrote:http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/i ... _alone.htm

*facepalm*

You can read, right?

Urrghl, no not more than the 3 first sentences or so, then my short-therm memory has reached it's max.

Brendocon wrote:
Predabot wrote:Somebody woke up on the bad side today?
No, you're just a ****.

Yet more fecal words, eh? You seem to have found quite a thing there, you're not trying to challenge Snarl are you?

Post by **Denyer** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:21 pm

Wrong orifice at a guess.

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Wed May 10, 2006 11:12 pm

Im currently on.. uh.. day two without a cigarette.

So, I've really nothing to add other than do what makes you happy; if it's smoking, it's smoking. If it's not smoking, well, bust ass and don't smoke.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Wed May 10, 2006 11:34 pm

havent smoked today

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:37 am

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:havent smoked today

Yay!

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Thu May 11, 2006 8:04 am

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:havent smoked today

Yay indeed!

So, have you thought about maybe talking to your gf about quitting together? Surely it must be easier to go through if you have a loved one supporting you, in the same situation?

Post by **Best First** » Thu May 11, 2006 10:17 am

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:havent smoked today

good work chief.

although given last nights result i may take it up...

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Thu May 11, 2006 1:24 pm

Sorry, Impy. I can't say much. I tried to get people to quit smoking for a long time. Never worked.

Supposedly if you drink a lot of grapefruit juice and use a lot of cinnamon mouthwash, your mouth will feel like sh** every time you take a puff.

Jetfire · Post by **Jetfire** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:13 pm

Predabot wrote: Dude, that sounds a bit dangerous. You really shouldn't drink alone, call a mate over if you're gonna do it, any mate. Even the ones that you don't like perticularly much, just get someone you know over there and have a drink with him. Never alone.

Look, I'm sure the advice has good intentions but I'm more than a capable drinker.
I'm a school teacher. I spend each day in the company of over a 1000 children and 100 adults. I work from 7:30 to 6ish. Some times 7:30 to 8:30 when I'm flooded. After all that I might have to take work home. Naturally after all that I like to chill when I'm free of work. A few glasses of wine is excellent for that. Better yet, after a half bottle I can utterly escape feelings of reality.

Often after a day interacting with 200 kids and a dozen adults along withs everal phone calls from parents I like a bit of alone time while I do this. I do drink a lot but as my post said I'm more than able to decide every now and again "Enough is enough" and detox for a bit. Should it affect my work or should I be unable to stop for periods when it's nessecary-that's when it's dangerous.