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by **Jpegg** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:30 am

I'm ok......

really I am.......

I'm ignoring people around me and not letting the little things get to me. My skin is crawling a little bit now under the surface but I'm cool. It's all going to be just fine

by **trgeorge** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:58 am

Poking time

Seriusly as smoker myself I hope you'll pull tru and succed.

by **Buglight** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 4:17 am

Best of luck to ya....

by **Jpegg** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 4:40 am

Thanks... I'm doin ok.. hands are sweating a little bit and I'm starting to talk faster. Shocked myself in work earlier by getting up and saying 'I need a f***ing ruler cos the print's too small on this report' I'm usually quite calm. Tryin to psycho-analyse myself isnt doing any good either cos my personailities are multiplying by the hour. Time will tell :shock:

by **Schan** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:38 am

you can do this Peggy. last time you hold months if not longer

*keep one beer,soda in each hand. that will prevent you from from picking up a sigarette

by **Jpegg** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:47 am

Yay... 3pm and I havent been arrested for murder

))))))))))))))

It's goin well but I'm starving now

I could suck puke through a tramps sock, I'm so friggin hungry :twisted:

I reckon I'm gonna do it this time.....

edit: not suck puke thru a tramps sock

I meant I reckon I'm gonna quit for good

by **Buglight** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:41 am

Just told my wife about your attempt here... we are both cheering for ya.. now pass us some of that inner strength so we can quit with you !!

by **Volais** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:09 am

Cant.....hold....back....

CRAWWWWWLING IIIIIINNNN MY SKIIIIIIN! [/LUEser speak]

Uhhh....*/me looks around* what?

Anyway...going cold turkey sucks man. Try teh patch and teh gum...im sure you brits or whatever you are have them. I had a friend who quit cold turkey. It was hoorible for him but hey, we got free entertainment out of it

by **Jpegg** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:25 am

Nah, I'm doing this on my own. I'm almost through the day now... I got relaxing ao tonight and plenty of food to keep me occupied, it's all plain sailing til I go to bed

If I can do this today, I can do it tomorrow. I'm a bit strange in the fact that I like feeling 'on edge' anyway so this isn't anything new apart from the fact I'm trying to stay out of trouble instead of letting it come to me.

It's all gonna be ok

by **Buglight** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:50 am

Not to sound too lame but consider this...

The whole deep breathing, rhythmic breathing thing when you want a smoke.. Just stop, and mellow yourself... worked for me for like an hour then I went all wang tang and ran off into the woods...

by **Sorroe** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 1:14 pm

Buglight wrote:worked for me for like an hour then I went all wang tang and ran off into the woods...

Wow I missed you Buggy.

I quit 3 years ago in April and it's still the hardest thing I've ever done. I couldn't use the patch or the gum because I got really wired and had some strange dreams (no Sid, you weren't starring in any of them). Cold turkey does work but what I had to realize was that I could never have another cigarette as long as I lived. There are some people that can have one a month and I'm just not one of them. Long after the physical addiction is gone, the mental is still the tough part. You can do it. Just hang in there and mean it.

by **Sidarion** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 4:52 pm

Ok... wait a second:

first on topic:

1. JP... hang in there. Its the first three days that are the hardest. After that, the worst symptoms of addiction will have passed. Know though that residiues of nicotine stay in your system for around 7 years. When you first started smoking, it made you sick. The stimulant receptors in your brain tend to develop a habit pretty fast. Nicotine is among the most addictive substances on this planet. When you quit smoking, the nicotine level in your bloodstream drops beneath a certain tolerance level pretty fast since the stimulant receptors in your brain got used to having a constant minimum of nicotine on average around. Once it drops below that threshold, your psyche prompts you to smoke, manifesting itself in physiological reactions (cold turkey syndrome).
Over time, nicotine gets flushed out of your system very slowly. Your body gets used to traces of nicotine being around and the said stimulant receptors in your brain use that amount of nicotine to go around. Over time, that tolerance level of nicotine drops repeatedly under a certain level, your body got used to. Thats why so many people develop a craving for cigarettes after 3 weeks, 3-4 months... 1 year... 3 years...

just because Nicotine stays in your system for such a long time. Think of nicotine as a radioactive isotope with a certain degrading time...

There is nothing that can help you from abstaining for good, except for your own will to do so. Good luck my friend... I have been there... and have failed times and again. Stay strong and you will be alright.

2. @ Sorroe:
I trust that should I ever appear in one of your dreams, it would not appear in a dream featuring cold turkey-cold sweat horror scenes... I absolutelt trust that it would be in a dream that would warm your heart where you would wake up a bit dazed but happy....

(ok...ok... cut your comments. If you want to survive out there as a soldier, you better develop an ego... if nothing else)

3. @ Sorroe and especially @ Buglight

WTF!!!! Don't you people have a home???! What are you doing here squatting on the Cerberus forums? Shooo! And don't you think it to be strange that you end up meeting Buglight here, of all places??? Isn't a certain RP guilds forum a better place to celebrate your reunion??? Go home... shoo... ::mrgreen:

((j/k of course))

Sid

P.P.S.: To my guildies who don't know so much about me: This diatribe was all in jest. Buglight, Sorroe and me are old guildies who go a long way back together. Back in the day, we were all in WE. Buglight and me used to have that constant RP jabbing going on, much to the rest of the guilds delight. Sorroe proved to have an equally sharp wit, tongue and heart... so she was the natural addition to the circus. Alas, Buggy left AO for quite a while, me and Sorroe subsequentially left for other guilds...

BY THE WAY:

July 13 (my RL birthday) was my 1 year anniversary of joining the RKFF after quitting WE!

by **Flameforge** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:37 pm

Sidarion wrote:Nicotine is among the most addictive substances on this planet.

It's up there with AO?

by **furyangel** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 12:07 am

Well I quit about 4 years ago so I've still got 3 to go to make sure then

Good luck Jpegg, if you really want to do it you'll do it simple as that! So many times I tried to give up on a whim and couldn't do it because at the end of the day I didn't really want to. The first time I really made my mind up to do it my willpower was so much stronger and it made it easy, hope it is easy for you too

by **Kalimyst** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:04 am

Best wishes.

I saw this one ad downtown dat said it at least takes 8 times for people to fully quit.

well, as for me i've tried twice, but i'm back again. Well, i've cut down, mostly cuz this stupid acute breathing problem dat popped up, haha. (not funny, but

), anyway, i guess i hab 6 more tries to go

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