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not much more to say than HELP

[nsd_user663_2743]

how can we help?

theres plently people on line, talk to us

[nsd_user663_3130]

Take a deep breath - visualize yourself healthy and happy - and look at the quitkeeper to see how much you have saved already

[nsd_user663_2743]

breathe deeply

get the air in those lungs, no nasty smoke ,

punch the living daylights out of a cushion,

drink water

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Just needed to hear someone who understands

All of my friends dont really understand they all smokers just really feeling the pain of it right now...

every single part of my body tingles not in a nice way lol

Im not going to give in like i have every other time.

[nsd_user663_2743]

you wont give in ....

have a long hot soak in the bath tonight , pamper yourself!!

have a early night

get tonight over, tomorrow will be better .

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Having a hard time Riv? I wish I could give you some miraculous piece of advice that would instantly make you feel better but I can't unfortunately.

All I can suggest is that you get stuck into a good book. Get stuck into any games consoles you may have. Do some online research on stopping smoking. Go mad on some stress balls (the plastic variety, not your ex b/f's!). Recite nursery rhymes. Write down your reasons for not wanting to smoke. Remind yourself why you do not want to smoke! Learn to dance some new dance via YouTube - Jumpstyle haha Pick on John. Go help your community by picking up some litter. Streak down your street yelling 'Yayyyyyyyy! I'm freeeeeeeeee'. Spend some time trying to touch your elbow with your tongue (its impossible - I know y'all doing it now).

I'll be back with some more excellent ideas later!

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Aah... tingles!

I see.....

Are you into hot baths at all?

Sounds like you need a nice distaction from that olde empty feeling 'the crave'.

It will pass, just you remind yourself of tht.

When you feel it waving over you acknowledge it and think 'Thank God I don't smoke anymore and this feeling is only temporary'.

Hope you feel better soon

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My condolences

To all items that used to be cushions...... sadly i have punched the hell out of any item that aroused mild suspicion of cushionism....

luckily have a few friends who are training to join the army and who need challenging combat partners for training...

I suggest all of us quitters who striggle with the Mr Angrypants side of withdrawal sign up as army training officers.

We would help ourselves at the same time as supporting our country...

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All of my friends dont really understand they all smokers just really feeling the pain of it right now...

every single part of my body tingles not in a nice way lol

Im not going to give in like i have every other time.

RB, don't give up.

NEVER give up!!

Stay strong and take each moment of each day bit by bit, minute by minute.

Before you know it, you will be free and not counting the days, hours or minutes at all. believe me i know exactly how you feel and can ssure you it ~WILL pass.

do you know anyone that has given up out of your friends or colleagues?

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oops

striggle is an excellent word and i think it should be expediently added to the oxford english dictionary- the definition being the act of unintentional sillyness (may manifest itself in the form of pathetically executed and wobbly punches, or perhaps insults followed shortly by incessant apologies and floods of tears, all strictly between friends)

However i meant struggle

which is what i was doing a while ago

but reading kind messages from people has helped me not do

THANKS GUYS THIS SITE REALLY WORKS

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finish explanation

striggle means all of what just said- but the reason someone striggles is because they are craving

its never intentional

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Striggle? Nooooooo! I no likey that wordy! No more say itty lol

Hey. Maybe for a laugh, we should start a thread where each poster contributes by adding their own made up word along with an explanation of its meaning lol

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No retreat No surrender

Yes i might know someone and i might be really bloody proud of them

Someone has questioned me as to whether it actually hurts to feel the withdrawals.

I thin it does. Not like a stabbing pain but it does hurt.

More than a tattoo lol,.

Im not gonna give in u know that

hear me now x

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hey - these are the words ! cause

YOU CAN DO IT

and I know what you mean - cause it can be uncomfortable

but you know that it passes

keep your fingers on the keyboard - that keeps you busy

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I suggest madanti, the word is a combination of maddy and antifag, the definition is: a paragonic force, a power, an omnipotent forever flowing stream of will and support.

RivB, you are currently being held by the hands of madanti, we are both posting on your threads, this is all you need to know, Nicotine has no power over us anymore and now hides from us,fears us - kind of like the final scene in the matrix when neo beats the agents, noctine fears us, we will be your neo.

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The Oxford Dictionary of Giving Up smoking

Come on Guys Striggle is only the first of many insightful metaphors.....

Lets see what you got- maddy's right!

Sure we all have owr own way inside our heads of dealing with the cravings even if its silly words.....

Make me laugh god knows i need to right now...........

Thanks ant~E~fag

Chopface xxxxxxx

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Come on Guys Striggle is only the first of many insightful metaphors.....

Lets see what you got- maddy's right!

Sure we all have owr own way inside our heads of dealing with the cravings even if its silly words.....

Make me laugh god knows i need to right now...........

Thanks ant~E~fag

Chopface xxxxxxx

Huh?

what is a chopface?

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lol @ madanti !! That could also mean mad-anti...:eek: But yah, the explanation of madanti was spot on! haha

As for chopface...heheh *waits on Riv's explanation*

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Chopface is an compliment that has surely until this point in time never seen the light of day.

Now it's omnipotence has been unleashed it will probably make its way into roget's....

I'm gonna do this- and just can someone agree that it is painful. Dealing with the situations in which you would normally smoke is painful. And hard and tiring.

Someone said on this site that you feel a craving everytime you subject yourself or are naturally subjected to a situation that would make you refer to a cigarrette.

And thats when the cravings reveal or for advancened ex-smokers re-reveal themselves

But the more you are subjected to these situations, and the more you deny the nasty urge, the more you are de-sensitised to the association... and each time you find it eases.... until tranquility (i.e. normal reaction to a situation as experienced by a NON SMOKER)

This also explains why people experience cravings 10 years down the line- suddenly being exposed to a situation that arises very rarely - e.g. a family funeral,,,,, you associate dealing with the trauma with a cigarrette. This is because you did so once before - Explains people who were smokers during a traumatic death before they gave up.... gave up... then turned back to the weed at the next family death many years on.

A non-smoker would not even think about starting smoking because someone had died.

This weed we smoke is something that causes a dependency in us when we are weak

some of the most funny and strongest and most annoyingly intelligent work collegues ive ever come across have been a slave to this drug.

Luckily they are intelligent enough to have walked away from it xxxxxx

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You can walk away from it too.

OK, I will agree the pain may seem physical the first week or so, but as you approach week 2 and start week 3, the pain is definitely not physical anymore. it is completely psychological. In fact I am in week4 and when i look back i remember like a bad dream how i felt but i can't really describe it as physical pain, more a physical niggling.

You talk about triggers occuring in later life or at ceratin times, there is a simple solution, whyquit.com drills a sentence into you which when coupled with what you have read on his site brings back all the reasons why you quit.

The phrase is NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF AGAIN.

In fact in full it is, 'stick to the commitment you promised yourself when you decided to stop smoking and NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF AGAIN'

The rule is to ALWAYS stay on guard and whenever temptation is near just say the phrase to yourself. The phrase is very very powerful because all smokers that stop/start know it always starts from just taking one puff, or thinking they can handle a few lugs etc. it doesn't work like that. The enemy is crafty and plays dirty. NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF AGAIN.

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Or as John would say DBSFS :rolleyes: