I think I finally understand................

[nsd_user663_1744]

Hi folks

I have read allan carr several times in the past and also just about every stop smoking book published. that's no exageration either .I'm a librarian and get free access to just about every book in the UK! The recurring point I read in every book was that a cig doesn't cause you to have good feelings rather it replaces the bad feeling the cig b4 created in the first place. I admit although I read this I didn't fully grasp the concept.........That was until this morning when I stupidly knocked my hand on my oven grill (don't ask! lol) Anyway I put some of this burn cream stuff on and it felt ok-not super duper special but 'normal' like my other hand. This creams effects only last about 2 hrs so I've had to keep repplying it all day. It was then I made the connection. Nicotine had taken something from me (normally released dopamine or 'happy feelings') a bit like the grill plate took a bit of healthy skin away so I had to smoke another to feel what non smokers feel all the time - just like I had to keep applying the burn cream - so my hand would feel 'normal' like the other! I've been trying to understand 4 years. At last!

[nsd_user663_1744]

Hi, yes, Kazza, I too got confused especially the "delayed reaction to the last cigarette" as Neil Casey describes in The Nicotine Trick. Being female, have to see it as a picture. I imagine me walking along a line in a cartoon. Theline runs across the TV screen from left to right. I smoke a ciggy. I carry on walking but start to travel downhill, below the line. So I smoke another and quickly move uphill to join the original line (normality). A short while later I am walking below the line. I have to smoke another to keep on the line of feeling normal and so on. Cigarettes do not make us feel better - they just prevent us feeling normal - every time we are NOT smoking. Quit and I walk below the line a little further but then gradually travel back up to the line - which I walk along FOR EVER.

Oh, Kazza, hopefully! I'm on day 5 and very emotional. And even puzzling out the ciggy before business doesn't help much. And neither does trying to smoke this bread stick!!! Ahhhh!:eek:

Just got in from work (early finish 2day)

Read th above comment. YOU PATRONIZING LITTLE GIT . DO ONE !!!!:mad::mad:

[nsd_user663_1733]

Karen I wouldnt waste my time just ignore.

[nsd_user663_1704]

:rolleyes:

[nsd_user663_1930]

Being female, have to see it as a picture.

Hahahahahahaha...

Just because it's sexist doesn't mean it isn't true!!!!!!!

Oh, I'm gonna be in so much trouble for that statement... Hehehe...

I do apologize ladies.... Hohohohoho

Cannot stop giggling...

In way of an apology I bought you all some flowers...

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And for Kazza...

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Stiff upper lip and all that Kazza, we ex Royal Air Force...

[nsd_user663_1744]

Gavi just to let you know I was a dab hand with ak42 and I got the certificates to rove it!!! (longh time ago mind!)

[nsd_user663_1930]

I shall go and hide in a dark corner, so not to bring attention to my self.

Then I shall return when everyone has forgotten...