I don't have physical addictions, but I like to smoke, but want to stop badly? Seems that I only want/need at night when I have wine. Don't want to stop drinking and smoking all at once. Help?
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Quit cold turkey. You have to just make up your mind and do it.
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I stopped cold turkey about 1 1/2 years ago. Let me tell you: it's a constant struggle, especially when I drink alcohol. You really have to convince yourself that you need and want to quit. It makes it easier when you can justify it by looking at your kids, family, etc and realizing that you want to be around them for as long as possible. That's about the best I can tell you. Good luck! If you really want to quit, you can do it without patches, gum, etc.
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Firstly, good job on quitting smoking! I've never smoked, but I know how hard it must be to stop, since I've had 2 relatives who've smoked, and they've tried several times to quit but were unsuccessful.\n\nSecondly, I have never smoked, so there's nothing for me to quit. But good job to you!! And good idea on getting it off your mind!\n\nThirdly, I think you should watch the movie "Thank you for smoking" as a reward this week. It's a very funny movie about the people behind Firearms, Cigarettes, and Alcohol. They only show it in select areas, so check your area (movietickets.com is a good site) to see if they're showing it.\n\nI think with your enthusiasm you'd love it.\n\nOnce again, good job on quitting!!! \n\n< 33 Ana
615255
I too drink almost every night.I work every day,I have a wife and child,a productive life,and loving parents.I never get violent or abusive.I guess it might be more habitual than anything, but it sure is nice after a ten hour day!
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I'm addicted too. You can try to slowly cut back on your intake. Maybe that will help. That's what I've been trying to do but I tend to revert back to drinking it all day long.
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Unfortunately, it is a difficult matter to help somebody stop doing something they want to do. Your advice and support are pretty much all you can give. Coming from a long line of over indulgers in alcohol I can relate to the tragedy you endure. A positive spin on his lifestyle is all you can really expect to provide. The decision to stop drinking must be his unless he is a minor. The only effective treatment aside from 'quitting cold turkey'  is professional intervention. This is predicated on the notion that one wishes to become sober. Without that, all is lost.
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cold turkey is the way to go - i am on day 93 today.  counting the days since i have had a cigarette has gotten me through a lot of cravings as well.  i tell myself that even if i smoke just one, i have to start again at day zero.  it has been a big deterrent - and i feel great.  i am also planning to have a party on day 100 - and maybe keep on having parties every 100 days for the rest of my life if i stay smoke free.  it's really just a great excuse to have people over.
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Make a bet with a few different people and put the money in a glass jar that you will save every day. Keep gum and or toothpicks to keep your mouth busy and try not to be around any one who smokes for at least the first two weeks. Change your habits, if you have to smoke when you drink, don't drink for a while, and stay away from bars and places where a lot of people smoke. If you always smoke as soon as you wake up, try sometype of light excercise instead. I wish I could tell you it's easy, but we all know that quitting smoking is one of the hardest things to do. I quit seven years ago cold turkey from 2 and1/2 packs a day and have not had one since. I told everyone I knew and no one bellieved me, so I did it to spite them and prove to myself I could. I had tried the patch and gum prior to that, but nothing worked until I really decided I wanted to quit. Be strong and everytime you get the urge, just remember why you're quitting. Congrats on making a life changing decision and I wish you the best of luck.
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Hang on, danelover!  I had my very last cigarette on October 16, 1998 and - some days more than others - it's still hard for me to stay away from those things.  I still have what I call "Relapse Dreams".  (Fortunately, those ebb in frequency as time goes by.)\n\nAhhhh, ....I still remember how it feels to have a cigarette after a great dinner.... ahhhh, especially Thanksgiving.  ...Oh, dear. ...\n\nAnyway!  As diversion tactics, I carry around a bottle of water and take sips all day.  While at work, I take  bathroom breaks, quick trips to the mail room or copier, log on to Yahoo! for a minute or two, etc.  Try to replace "The Habit" with something begnin or, the gods forgive, something HEALTHY! \n\nOooops, my 2 minutes are up!  Good luck & Keep Smokeless, Sister!
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I've been smoking for a long time and I guarantee it's not to look 'cool' there's nothing cool about smoking it's simply an addiction just like alcohol, sweets & chocolates and caffine. \n\nIt's like going without a cigarette for a few hours and the body is craving it, that's an addiction to nicotine. I also associate smoking with 'me' time, I have to smoke in the garden and for me that's my time to sit alone over a cigarette and think about whatever without being disturbed! \n\nHow did I get into it? On a school trip to France my dear friend and I thought we would try so as to get into the mood of 'we're away from home so we will do what we'. My friend never got hooked but I carried on smoking ever since. \n\nIt's about personal choice, I wouldn't dream of telling someone to change their corrupted ways (whatever that might be) but smokers are given grief all the time...\n\nAnd on that note I fancy a smoke! Hope that answers your question!
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Temperance is the best way I can summarize it. I am very similar in nature when I do something I do it with everything I've got. My new addiction is Y!A  Find 2 or 3 things you like and divide your time equally among them.  You will have to use some restraint.  In behavior Modification there is this technique called interrupt and redirect.  For instance, if it is sexual thoughts that are bothering u today stop! think something different like I wonder if I h ave any new answers to my Yahoo questions?\nRe program your thought processes!\n\n:D Good Luck!
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your body is used to getting the nicotine on a regular basis so you will have huge cravings for it. as for caughing, you loung is finally starting to breeth, hopefully it will get better soon. *tumbs up* for quitting, don't give up the fight, you can do it:)
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Credentials: I used to be a heavy smoker (3 packs/day, menthol). Quit previously 3 times. The last time took. Non-smoker for over 15 years.\n\nFor me, the hardest part about quitting was removing all of the associations around smoking. Example, whenever I had a beer, I had a cigarette. Whenever I finished eating, had a cigarette. You get the idea. I purposely and deliberately "weeded out" all the associations I had with smoking until I only had a few. In other words, I consciously did not smoke after each of these other co-occurring activities, until the urge was diminished. Once this was done, I had already reduced my smoking to a few cigarettes a day. To completely quit, it was a combination of negative imagery and getting the flu. I imagined coating my lungs with a thick goo of tar and nicotine while I smoked. I was never able to smoke when I had a cold or the flu, so after 5 days of various orifice purging, I realized I could probably go another few days without. Bottom line for me: discipline of living how you want.\nAs for the stress, good time to involve yourself in a very detailed kind of hobby, like model rocketry or exercise like biking. If you can weather through the first few days, you'll start to feel the benefit of being able to breathe without getting winded, and smell wonderful scents of nature and/or aromas of baking and cooking seemingly for the first time! Good Luck!
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MAKE SURE YOU STOP ! ! ! ! YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF :^)\n\nI'm in exactly the same position - have just stopped (again!) - 7 days now - after 30/day since December (and 20/day before then ... No patch, no nothing... but ... will power ... and SPORT ! I think sport, and the ensuing self knowledge/respect, are perhaps the way out of this ...\n\nI do triathlon, and smoking like I did is in no way compatible with the life I want to lead... \n\nThink about sport ... You need to give time to sport to make your life different, better... To make your life whole, healthy, clean, and hopefully, cigarette free ...\n\nI will probably fall again, but then I will also stop again ... for the same reasons ... But that's life, and where there's life ...    ;^)\n\nWe need to find pride in ourselves, see what addiction really is, and be stronger than the cigarettes that chain our lives ...\n\nGood luck to all of us ;^)\n\nAnd to HELL with the Big Money Tabacoo Companies and their shareholders who cream benefits from the demise and illness of others !!!
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ur an alcoholic if u're addictive to it. i don't think ur an alcoholic 'coz u only drink after a meal, maybe u just love the taste.
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You can try this , cut back but be serious about it. if you smoke a pack go to half until you are use to it. then cut that in half again. do this until you can get to 1 cigarette a day and keep that routine for a year. Now , when you do one a day, you will have stressful days where more than one will seem needed. It's okay to smoke another as long as the next day you go back to just ONE! after a year of one a day, then go to one day off a week without any smoke. after that is easy for you , you are ready to try more days off, until you are without the craving. it's not the nicotine as many think , it's the actual act of smoking that stick that is hard to kick. you need to rehab yourself and time helps. you'll feel much better once your all through, and your skin and hair will show the improvement. God bless.
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It is just your answer to the pain of loosing somebody dear.\nJust watch yourself, the ideas in your mind and the sensations on your body just before starting drinking and smoking. Be aware and do nothing...the urges will dissapear.\nYou get addicted to the sensation that weed and buzz are giving u and not to the buzz or pot itself. Same with cigarettes. A little bit of weed now and than is more than ok,  a natural medicine, a wise friend but renounce the rest..they are just intoxicants. And you must know that nobody can help u but yourself...so be aware and take over your greed for pleasant sensation.