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| The Almost War That Wasn't; Chantix And Quitting | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 22 2009, 08:23 AM (1,194 Views) | |
| Aqua Letifer | Mar 27 2009, 04:37 AM Post #101 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Not good enough. You need to go and hammerknife that mofo. |
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| Frank_W | Mar 27 2009, 04:40 AM Post #102 |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Mikhailoh | Mar 27 2009, 04:45 AM Post #103 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Take a K-Bar to it.... |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Frank_W | Mar 27 2009, 04:47 AM Post #104 |
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Yarbrough, Reeve, or Randall knives are better. ![]() My SF buddy in Afghanistan bought this from Reeve, for me:
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Mar 27 2009, 04:51 AM Post #105 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Can you plan ahead now for a time in the future when you might be weak? May I suggest setting up some locks and chains in your basement and ask your wife to lock you up for a month or so if you get weak? Enlist in a convent with some really strict nuns for a month? Rewrite your will stating that if you ever smoke again, your entire estate will go to a group that supports eliminating guns and motorcycles? Just talking out loud here. Just teasing you. I think what you're doing is great. |
| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| Frank_W | Mar 27 2009, 04:53 AM Post #106 |
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Hee hee... Actually, R2: Planning for the weak times is an excellent strategy, and one that I've been trying to implement. Your ideas are good... Ah... But maybe just a tad extreme.
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Mar 27 2009, 05:00 AM Post #107 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Yeah, I thought I had a good concept in there but the execution seemed a bit harsh. I also thought about you having a hypdermic needle around full of a drug that would knock you out for 24 hours. If you start to get weak you could quickly inject yourself and pass out wherever you were.....
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| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| Frank_W | Mar 27 2009, 05:01 AM Post #108 |
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That would work!! Ideally, I would be able to hibernate for two months, and when I awoke, I would have forgotten all about cigarettes or smoking. Selective amnesia.
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Mar 27 2009, 05:07 AM Post #109 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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![]() How about group therapy? You seem like the kinda guy that would loooove group therapy? |
| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| Frank_W | Mar 27 2009, 05:08 AM Post #110 |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Mar 27 2009, 05:11 AM Post #111 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Maybe we'll have some group therapy for ya later at Happy Hour. We'll be at a "no smoking or we'll kick your a$$" pub. Srsly -- keep up your sense of humor. Nothing relieves stress like a good laugh. Visit the LOL cat thread often, if nothing else. |
| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| Frank_W | Mar 27 2009, 05:13 AM Post #112 |
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You're absolutely right. Thank you so much. Forgetting to laugh makes things so much harder. There's a tendency to take things much too seriously, when facing down something like this.
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Mar 27 2009, 05:19 AM Post #113 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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| Frank_W | Mar 27 2009, 05:35 AM Post #114 |
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That second photo is how I felt this morning...
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Frank_W | Mar 27 2009, 01:54 PM Post #115 |
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Withdrawal Emerging seventeen miles high miles high... miles high... into pristine azure silence that prickles my skin with the icy splinters of lucidity. lucidity... lucidity... Deafening absence of sound of sound of sound... and I'm creeping upside down on the arching reaching stretching dome of the sky, and like an insect, I kick a hole in a pane and through the shattered and falling pieces, my hand releases my clutching desperate grip on the very edge. edge edge... And sleepdrift-swimming into eternal chasm of space and smiling in drowsy farewell, my eyes close, and I dive -- a silvery shimmer of flashing scales -- into leagues of cobalt repose. -Frank |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Frank_W | Mar 27 2009, 05:14 PM Post #116 |
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It's 8:14 p.m. An hour and 14 minutes ago, I entered the 7th day. 181 not smoked $45.40 saved Life saved, supposedly: 15 hours, 5 minutes. |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| George K | Mar 27 2009, 05:16 PM Post #117 |
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Finally
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Still no urges, right? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Frank_W | Mar 27 2009, 05:29 PM Post #118 |
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A couple of small ones, today. Yesterday was hellish. I don't know WHAT was going on, but it was like one long crave... Verily, it did suck. Today, not so bad... The usual post-supper crave, and a couple of "twinges" earlier in the day, but that's about it.
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| George K | Mar 27 2009, 05:31 PM Post #119 |
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Finally
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You're probably over the hump by now, Frank. Your brain is getting over being wired into nicotine. Now, you have to break the "habit." |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Frank_W | Mar 27 2009, 05:35 PM Post #120 |
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Thanks, George. In many ways, breaking that habit is the toughest part. All nicotine is out of my system by now. My body isn't craving it. My brain is craving the habit, though. Cigarettes punctuated everything I did for twenty-two years. First thing I did when I awoke, last thing I did before going to sleep, first thing I did after finishing a project, and any break I took in the middle was a "smoke break," and any time I wanted to get out of an uncomfortable social situation, I could pop out for a smoke, or if I was angry, tired, bored, sleepy, sad, lonely, or stressed, I could fire up the nicotine pacifier. Each day, I win the battles. The war will take care of itself. It's like playing chess with myself: If I win, I still kinda' lose. If I lose, I definitely lose.
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| George K | Mar 27 2009, 05:37 PM Post #121 |
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You have a good handle on it, and you seem to understand how much of this is really psychological - after the first week or so. Most of it is in your head, not in your neurons. It took Sophie (daughter #3) about a month to start noticing how bad smokers smell (and yes, you do stink) and to be repulsed by the fact that she smelled that way. She's off since January, thanks to Chantix. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Frank_W | Mar 27 2009, 06:04 PM Post #122 |
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Wonderful!! I'm so happy for her! Within a few days of quitting, I notice it. A couple of mornings ago, I picked up a T-shirt that I'd slung over the back of a chair. I'd worn it once and it wasn't dirty, so I was going to wear it again. The last time I'd worn it, I was still a smoker, and Phew!!! That thing STUNK!! As hard as quitting is, NOT quitting is harder. COPD and emphysema both scare the crap out of me. I resent the expense. (Marlboro Lights are now $5.42/pack!) I despise the slavery of it, and it is absolutely at odds with my spiritual goals and progress towards self-mastery. My wife hates it, my daughter hates it, I hated smelling it on my father all the time... I can't think of anything good about it. It's not cool, suave, sophisticated, tough, rebellious, or anything like that. It's sickness, death, disease, poison, slavery, and drug addiction. If it had to be injected, the way people mainline heroin, smoking would be looked upon with absolute horror, and the number of smokers worldwide, would be fewer than that of heroin addicts, I'd be willing to wager. The addiction and desperation of it are no less than that of heroin. For now, I'm just taking it one day at a time. I've been humbled too many times by falling splat on my face. May the days turn into weeks, into months, into years. |
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| Frank_W | Mar 28 2009, 07:48 AM Post #123 |
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One Week!!! HOOAH!!! I'm doing okay... Had a powerful crave after breakfast, but I'm doing pretty good. The good things: I'm not a slave, I don't reek of smoke, I have more money, I'm breathing better, my skin looks better, I'm sleeping better and awakening refreshed, and I'm not having to worry about getting lung cancer, throat cancer, stomach cancer, COPD, or emphysema. I'd say that's a pretty good trade in exchange for five minutes of the pleasure of poisoning myself and paying the tobacco companies for the privilege. Hrmph! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nan4Kdtz-9w |
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Forgetting to laugh makes things so much harder. There's a tendency to take things much too seriously, when facing down something like this.


4:12 PM Jul 10