I want to quit smoking; I have been told that it is much easier to stop a habit under a certain sign of the zodiac.  I do not know the sign. Can you help?
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Here is a list of habit breaking techniques typified by each zodiac sign: http://www.katsong.com/wdzohabits.html\n\nPerhaps that's what you are looking for.
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I quit smoking about 5 months ago.  I started with the gum, but after about 3 days I had enough of it.  Then I quit cold turkey.  For about the first 3 weeks, I wanted to punch every living being in the face.  I was very irritable.  Then I started to calm down.  After about 5 weeks, I started to forget about cigarettes (believe me, you'll think of them constantly when you quit).  It got easier and easier.  However, don't relapse if you get stressed.  About a week ago, I started smoking again because I was so stressed.  I am going to quit starting tomorrow, but it's going to suck again.  Just stick with it!!!!!!!
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I think your question is an excellent summary of the situation that most smokers find themselves in ... I'm in exactly the same position - have just stopped (again!) - 6 days now - after 30/day since December ... 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 ...   \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 the Big Money Tabacoo Companies and their shareholders who cream benefits from the demise and illness of others !!!
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Scorpio Zodiac Sign - ruled by Mars, co-ruler Pluto.\n\nYour Sun Zodiac sign may not best describe your personality features, your characteristics and general qualities that you bring to life. For many people, their Ascendant or its planetary ruler is the more obvious characteristic, or sometimes the Moon sign. Your Sun sign, rather, says more about the direction you should be moving in, to make the contribution to humanity you were born to make, and thus achieve a degree of personal fulfilment.\n\nHaving the Sun in Scorpio, your task is to learn to be at ease with feeling what goes on beneath the surface of life. Scorpio follows Libra in the zodiac. Whereas Libra has an ideal about how relationships ought to be, Scorpio is more interested in the emotional reality, a reality that can be the end of any ideal! The move from Libra to Scorpio symbolises the move from ideal of how things ought to be to the experience of how things are. This applies to love relationships, certainly, but also to everyday life.\n \nTraits of a Scorpio:\n\nIntense \nStrong-willed \nDetermined \nSecretive \nMeticulous \nInvestigative \nCurious \nDeep thinker \nVindictive \nJealous \nSullen \nBitter \nSarcastic \nBad tempered \nLikes...\n\nDebates \nIntellectual conversation \nThe occult \nResearch \nBeing the boss \nMaking others angry \nSecrets \n Dislikes...\n\nBeing analysed \nPersonal questions \nknow-it-all \nstrangers \nshow-offs
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Virgo\nAugust 24 - September 22 \nThis is the sign of the meticulous worker who pays such attention to detail in order to make the environment more efficient. This comes from a need to bring order to the world. You are ruled by the planet Mercury, as such, you have a brilliant intellectual mind which is able to grasp universal principles once properly focused. \n\nYou have an amazing capacity to analyze detail, making you are an adept critic. As you put your world under a microscope, you sometimes tend to lose sight of the big picture. Your challenge is to discriminate essential information from that which is trivial. Once this is mastered, your true potential emerges. Your lesson is to learn that the body must serve the mind and the mind ultimately serves the spirit. \n\nArtificial foods and drugs do not agree with you, especially if you are emotionally charged. Excessive worry and overwork can also have a detrimental effect on your health due to your highly sensitive physical nature. Once you are able to discipline your mind your capacity to resist illness increases. \n\nYou have strong influential healing energies that can help others once your mind is disciplined. You can excel in the field of service as you are able to work unselfishly for a greater purpose.
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I believe that for hypnosis to work the person undertaking it has to want to get the end result. So if you really want to give up smoking it will work. I know of a couple of people that went for hypnosis to stop smoking, but they did not really want to give up - and as a result the process failed.
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Yes it only gets harder the longer you smoke. What I would do is tell him if he is going to continue to smoke that you don't want to be with him anymore because it is not good for him and you are only looking toward his well-being.  Make him realize that life is too precious to let cigarettes kill him.  If he choose cigarettes over you then he never really loved you and you shouldn't be with him anyway, but if he chooses you and quits smoking then you are free!  Good luck!
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I'm an ex-smoker, and I know how difficult it is to quit.  You've actually got two bad habits going with cigarettes instead of one.  The first is the smoking habit itself, and the second is your addiction to nicotine.  My advise...switch to smokeless tobacco.  First you need to get cigarettes out of your life without having to detox from nicotine at the same time.  Once you've got that under control, then work on reducing the amount of smokeless tobacco you use until you've kicked the nicotine.  The patch and the gum is worthless if you're a true hardcore smoker.  Try Skoal Bandits...less spitting, and you won't be barbequing your lungs.
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Nicotine just like alcohol is a drug, a very powerful addicting drug.  It's the addictive powers that keep smokers smoking.  For some people, they feel calmer when they smoke, more relaxed.  For some people, they do it to lose weight, others may do it to be cool.  Others do it because they were bullied into it and others do it because they enjoy smoking.  But the bottom line for all these excuses is they are all addicted to nicotine.\n\nDepending on the willingness of the smoker actually determines if they quit for good or not.  If a smoker is determined to quit for good there are lots of things that person(s) can try with success.  From hypnotherapy to a patch.  But not only is it the willingness to quit important but their belief if the products would work or not for them.  Smokers must look at the possibilities and be more up beat about their process and their future and have a positive attitude as well.  If the smoker says "oh that won't work for me!"  then he or she just sealed his fate by being pessimistic/negative already without even trying the product(s).\n\nSo in essense it isn't that it is hard to invent medications that block the receptors, the problem usually comes from the individual(s) willingness and their belief in themselves to quit.\n\nI hope I was helpful to you!  Have a great evening!
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You are way too cool ! My God, what an achievement. Eight weeks without a single drag! \n\nI have quit myself, and yes, the thought of a cigarette never goes away. But one thing helps me... maybe it will help you too. \n\nAs of now its been 2 weeks since my last cig, and whenever I feel weak, I tell myself that if I take a drag, the two weeks would mean nothing, my efforts would come to nothing. And I will have to start from scratch. Every day that I am able to say no to a cig, I go to bed patting my back and feel that I have achieved something big. I started smoking 14 yrs back. \n\nJust accept its a continuous fight. Accepting that will be half the battle won. Hang in there, you can do it !! You are a great inspiration to me.
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Tell them how you feel about their smoking however pushing them to stop cold turkey is not the answer. Tell them what happens to smokers and go from there , besides is it really worth the relationship that you have with them?
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I found an article on the net.....this might help you or others looking to finding their rising sign\n\nHow to Determine(or Ascertain)\nyour Ascendant or Rising Sign\n\nYour Ascendant or Rising sign is the Earth's position in the zodiac as seen from your time and place of birth. It is the sign seen rising on the eastern horizon, based on the Earth's 24 hour rotation. Knowledge of your correct Ascendant is absolutely essential to realizing your earthly or wordly role in this life. Here are four means by which to determine this pivotal factor.\n\n1. You must have an accurate time and place of birth. To within twenty minutes if possible. Mother's memory is not always reliable. Check hospital records if you have them. The city or town is sufficient as far as place is concerned.\n\n2. If you do not have an accurate time or place of birth, there are other ways to figure out your Ascendant or Rising sign, although it may take some work. There are people or astrologers who have an intimate knowledge of the physical and personal characteristics produced by each Ascendant sign, and can tell you yours simply by observing you. You can do this too if you acquire the basic knowledge and perceptive skills necessary.\n\nMasculine signs rising(fire or air) are almost always taller, lighter, and more attractive than feminine(earth or water) ascendants. Neighbouring signs are as different as night and day, in both looks and temperament. Fire signs rising have that active, sporty look about them, while air sign risings have a social or intellectual look about them. Earth sign risings have that down to earth practical look about them while water sign risings have that domestic or homey look about them. Aries is confident and energetic, Taurus is stubborn and stodgy, Gemini is slim and wiry, Cancer is roundish and motherly, Leo is golden and dramatic, Virgo is critical and petite, Libra is simply beautiful, Scorpio is intense and forbidding, Sagittarius is athletic and cheerful, Capricorn is shy and serious, and Pisces is dreamy and sensitive.\n\nNote: Planets in the same sign as the ascendant can greatly modify its appearance according to the nature of the planets involved. If you have Sagittarius rising, for example, with Saturn there, your natural optimism and cheerfulness will be greatly toned down. "Unadulterated" ascendants or rising signs(those with no planets there) will produce the purest rising sign examples.\n\n3. Another way to determine your Ascendant or Rising sign is to analyze your relationships. Important people in your life will almost always have their Suns in conjunction(same sign), opposition(opposite sign), or square(three signs away on either side), to your Ascendant. The opposition and conjunction occur frequently between close friends, intimates, or marriage partners. The square occurs frequently between parent and child or boss and employee.\n\nIn general, if you have a masculine ascendant, you will feel comfortable in the presence of masculine sun signs(Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius) and uncomfortable in the presence of feminine sun signs(Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces). Similarily, feminine ascendants will comfortable with feminine sun signs and uncomfortable with masculine sun signs. Masculine suns emanate strong rays which threaten the sensitivity of a feminine ascendant so that a bulid up of tension occurs. Conversely, feminine suns don't emit enough power or presence which gives a masculine ascendant a creepy feeling which is also interpreted as a threat and cause of tension.\n\nSo if you find, for example, that you have an excellent rapport with Leo or Aquarius sun signs, you will, in all probability have one of those two signs as your acendant or rising sign. Leo risings also enjoy a comfortable rapport with the remaining fire and air signs. Taurus and Scorpio suns(square) will be the most difficult or tense, but at the same time extremely impo
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Aren't you special, lucky you. I quit cold turkey 15 years ago. It was very difficult. Smoking is a proven addiction AND a disgusting, unhealthy, stinky (I could go on) habit. Everyone that smokes should try to quit and never stop trying to quit. A habit is checking your oil everytime you fill your tank. An addiction is smoking after every meal.
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i think something society completly oversees is how powerful our minds our. Mind over matter. If you ever experiment with hallucinogenic drugs, you will quickly realize this. Now though your on the right track with quitting by the half life of the radiation particles that is in tobacco last 30 years or so. So your chances of getting lunger cancer are very very high right now even though you quit.\n\nCheck out this article about some very interesting things you could be doing to help you now that you quit. \n\nCongrats by the way.
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Your risk of several types of cancer are increased, and more so if you have a genetic predisposition to cancer causing cells. Besides that and, of course, the fact that it isn't legal for you to smoke, you are young and the damage you do to your body will reverse itself if you quit. Your are changing your body's ability to breathe, distribute oxygen to your brain and other organs, circulate blood properly and about thirty other things that your body does involuntarily to keep you alive. So, you need to ask yourself, why do you smoke? While at your age some people (also mostly your age) will form a certain opinion about what kind of person you are, once you hit about the twenty to twenty-two age group and older, most people think you just look weak and ignorant for not knowing what you're doing to your body and too lazy to help yourself (much in the same way most people view those who are morbidly obese). The fact that you're smoking such a small amout says to me that you don't need it, you just like it. I know. We can smell our own. When I quit I promised myself I would light up one or two whenever the mood struck me-this idea helped me quit cold turkey. I had one a couple of months later, a few a couple of months after that, another one about six months later, etc. The more time that passes the less I feel like I like it so the less I smoke. But the only reason I ever did smoke was because I liked it, the feel, the flavor, the smell even. If you can't pinpoint why you do it at all-then why do you do it at all?
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You know its time for a change.  You can't just change this habit.  Its about how you are going to deal with the stress that comes up in your life.  You got to face your problems without running to some instant fix.  *the cigarette*  \n\nSecond, you got to take a proven route.  Look up Smoker annoyomous in your area.  Take the patch or gum.  You need someone that will support you in your tough times.  Maybe someone who also stopped.   When your tempted, remind yourself about the things  you hate about smoking.  So expensive.  The bad lungs.  Whatever reason you want to stop.  Remember it when your tempted
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Hi!  I was born two months early, and should have been a Scorpio, but I'm a Virgo, and sometimes I've considered this as well.  But really, to the extent that astrology can be considered an influence, the only thing that matters is the actual time of birth.  The arrangements of the planets in the sky are said to exert an influence over the individual born during a certain arrangement.  A person's chart is, theoretically at least, meant to be like a snap-shop of the sky at the time of birth, and that's all that matters.  If he was born a Capricorn, he's a Capricorn.  Good luck with your little goat!  They are cute, serious little fellows.