20-08-2004 10:12									#31
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quote: Originally posted by Winston Thanks, Serb. Please keep it in the back of your head that you could also give it one more try. We'll help eachother.

Don't warry about me. I'll stay in smoker's team till September 1. After that I'll quit for my own personal reasons. I have to stop smoking at least for a couple of months. I've tried to quit two weeks ago, because I had a vacation (it's much easier to quit when you don't have to work). It was just a try, an experiment and I found that I really can live without sigarettes at least for a three days .
I'll quit in September, I'm sure.

	20-08-2004 10:12									#32
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Some people might try little shread o wheat cereals. My grandfather used them to quit after smoking for 30 years.

	20-08-2004 10:15									#33
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quote: Originally posted by Lonestar I find myself in agreement with Serb.

Shoking, isn't it?

quote: Don't be quitters!

I don't want to quit, but I have to stop for a 2-3 months.

	20-08-2004 17:58									#34
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Good luck, guys. This is a great decision you've made.

The only downside is that Pekka will be even more arrogant when he -- inevitably -- succeeds in quitting.

	20-08-2004 17:59									#35
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I'm intelligent - I never started

	20-08-2004 18:14									#36
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I'm hopeless - I was never even tempted to try.

	20-08-2004 18:19									#37
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quote: Originally posted by Winston I don't drink so that would be okay. Of course I'm not completely abstinent, but it's very rare that I drink. I don't like getting drunk, not sure what that makes me...

temperate, I think is the english word. IIUC the original temperance movement did not call for abstinence, but for moderation.

	20-08-2004 18:22									#38
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It's hard to quit but well worth it. Good luck to you all.

	20-08-2004 18:29									#39
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jrabbit, what do you mean arrogant. Do you think I'm arrogant and why?

OK, it's the first day and I haven't yet gotten huge cravings. I actually still feel pretty confident. I want to fight these urges, but they haven't yet surfaced, so I'm still waiting.

	20-08-2004 18:31									#40
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You'll crack before Monday, Pekka.

	20-08-2004 18:33									#41
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I would quit smoking forever, drinking forever and masturbating forever if it meant you couldn't score another girl the rest of your life

	20-08-2004 18:39									#42
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No, hearing your stories, I can't believe you'd do something to decrease your chances of scoring a girl .

	20-08-2004 18:42									#43
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I think you somehow might be feeling this rebuttal is somehow 'awesome' and 'right on the button', but in fact it is so bad that anyone who laughs to it is desperate and must have thought suicide more than twice today.

	20-08-2004 18:46									#44
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Next time you'll accuse me of being suicidal...

	20-08-2004 18:50									#45
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I accuse nothing. I make the oceans flow to certain directions and wind blow from where I want it to blow. I have no interest in your self destructive thoughts, for they are small to what I do. Ruling the world.

	20-08-2004 18:53									#46
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I always knew you have a little problem with self evaluation .

	20-08-2004 18:57									#47
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Be gone little peasant, go and see the wonders of the world.. like little stones and empty bottles.

	20-08-2004 19:13									#48
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My father quit after 25+ years. Says he can smell things again (like flowers, etc), which I found surprising. When you stop smoking, the world opens up again. Like a short-sighted person putting on glasses for the first time.

However, the habit of putting something in the mouth remains. You have to replace that habit with something else. My father eats peppermints (no its not to hide the breath of smoke! he really has quit! besides peppermints wouldn't hide the smell of smoke!).
He probably goes through a bag of peppermints twice a week. (There's probably about 100 in each bag).

Try it!

	20-08-2004 19:16									#49
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Yeah I need something that I do when I would normally smoke. Perhaps I could suck on something too. But nothing super bad for you, peppermints sounds actually pretty good, I might try it, thanks for the tip!

	20-08-2004 19:30									#50
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Good luck with it Pekka...

	20-08-2004 19:33									#51
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Good luck to you all

I've quit smoking myself. I started by switching to snuff ("snus"), just to get my nicotine fix. Now I've almost quit that too. But there are still certain situations where I can't cope without it, like when I'm fishing, writing or driving a car.

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	20-08-2004 19:51									#52
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quote: Originally posted by Pekka jrabbit, what do you mean arrogant. Do you think I'm arrogant and why? OK, it's the first day and I haven't yet gotten huge cravings. I actually still feel pretty confident. I want to fight these urges, but they haven't yet surfaced, so I'm still waiting.

Just trolling you a bit, Pekka. Maybe "self-confident" is a better term.

For something to do with your hands, get a pair of drumsticks and play along with music, hitting couch cushions, your bed, etc. It's a blast, and the physical aspect of it can be very satisfying. I used to beat on my steering wheel at stoplights.

Or you can just keep posting at Poly...

	20-08-2004 19:54									#53
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Right. I admit I might sometimes get blurred by a word that would indicate me being of something with negative connotations and lose the forrest from the tree . I try to be better.

I feel like I should smoke. THe feeling is not strong. But there is a feeling that now I would normally smoke the latest. Let's see, I'll fight this brain fixation and obsession, I submit them and choke them out of my brain. They have no chance. I simply hit too hard.

	20-08-2004 20:12									#54
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smoked for a bit, from time to time. Never developed a dependency. Drank a lot, same thing.

	20-08-2004 20:40									#55
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I would like to stop too, don't think I can though.

	20-08-2004 20:51									#56
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Don't carry around any change. You won't be able to buy them, and soon, you won't smoke.

	20-08-2004 21:10									#57
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I'm going to a party tonight...this is going to be the first true test of my self-control.

Pekka: Chew some gum...it gives you something to do in place of what you would normally be doing...its certainly helped me, especially on long drives.

	20-08-2004 21:13									#58
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Not buying filter ( by this I mean pre-made) cigarettes helps too.

	20-08-2004 21:30									#59
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Walk from one city to the next. Tiring, exhausting, but satisfying and actually quite distracting.

Nothing like walking 26 km in 3 and a half hours.

Well maybe in Singapore, because you can pass 100+ key landmarks and roads and features within a certain route of that.

Or maybe I'm a youth with a lot of time.

Then I'd suggest going into chili. I mean, no crazy person smokes with tons of hot chili burning in one's mouth, right? Sort of like you don't drink hot water with chili, either...I think. I never smoked before, so I don't know.

	20-08-2004 21:51									#60
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quote: Originally posted by Pekka Yeah I need something that I do when I would normally smoke. Perhaps I could suck on something too.

And so Pekka continues his gradual shift into homosexuality.....