i've been drinking and smoking moderately for the past 10 years..?
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Quitting smoking is a great opportunity to learn about ourselves, as you have already observed.\nCongratulate yourself  on having the desire to stop - then you are over the worst, but still need to maintain your resolve. It's just so easy to start thinking that just one won't hurt, but it does. Just one achieves nothing except feeling the need for another. Whatever you do, don't have just one. Beware - alcohol will weaken your resolve.\nHere's a few home-brewed tips that might be useful.\nIt's not just nicotine addiction - there are 50+ chemicals in cigarettes. Also the main problem is habit.\nWe have been used to having body sensations which we translate as 'my body needs something', which we have attempted to satisfy by having a cigarette.\nWhen we try to stop smoking, we still get these 'my body needs something' sensations, and we still feel that we want a cigarette. We have to train our body to be more selective. When we feel we need something, we have to work out what it is that we actually need.\nA glass of water is an excellent substitute if nothing else comes to mind, as it helps with the clearance of the toxic substances in our body. Another good substitute is a bag of salted peanuts, used in combination with the water.\nAnother thing to do is to find an activity which occupies the mind or body. Go swimming - nobody wants to smoke while they are swimming. Slowly, as our body adjusts and translates the 'want something' feelings into something other than cigarettes, then the feelings begin to go away. We know its not a cigarette that the body really needs, because as soon as we've had one we still have the feeling, and want another!\nWe will have a few bouts of feeling or even being short tempered. We must try to bite our lip, and control; ourselves. Recognise the short temper as being the removal of toxins which are trying to find a way out. They went in through the mouth, and they try to get out that way to. We must learn to keep our mouth closed, and force the toxins out the other way.\n\nAfter we have stopped for a while we will begin to feel that just one wont to any harm.\nAll that leads to is a desire for just another one. We must guard very strongly against the desire to have just one.
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I have the same problem.  I don't think there is anything that you can do.  Maybe get some vitamins (there are ones that are supposed to help with memory and over all mental health).  Without knowing much more about you that is all that I would say.  I think my problem is from smoking too much weed when I was younger.
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a drinking problem? lol. no seriously I would go get checked out. sounds like some kinda chemical imbalance in your brain...
523354
TOTALLY quit?  Ommmm....  I can't say drinking because that's still something I do once or twice a year.  Illicit sex?  never mind, bad example.  Furniture fornicating?  Bah, I just grew out of that.  Let's see....  Fattening foods?  Pffffth, maybe for a few weeks.  Maybe....\n\nNever mind, I haven't quit anything.  Move along, folks, nothing to see here.
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I smoked for 5 years, and quit cold-turkey.  Use someone you care about as your motivation.
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I have to agree with you about pretty much everything. I've smoked for about 10 years.  It's the 1 thing I enjoy above all others and the only thing I do anymore.  (Many various flashbacks thru all the times on everything...thanks! lol) I also have a good job & a nice house & continue to be a productive member of society, even though I'm a 'stoner'.  These days, plenty of people use the legal drugs to high every day and condemn us.  Weed is the best!
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Thanks! That makes me feel great! I quit after 18 years of smoking, and wasn't cranky or shaky! That was two years ago...
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No, it is a theoretical thing. The only thing that is sure is your chance of getting ill increases. You can never prove it was the secondhand smoke, bad diet, drinking. Just that it did not help.
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First you should know it is hard but doable, you’ve been smoking for 10 years so you should not expect to quit within 10 days or so. Second you should find the reason, ask yourself why I smoked? You enjoyed it or it helped you to forget some of your problems and so on. You should first uproot the reason then try to quit, I am sure you can you can you can and YOU CAN ,NEVER BE DISAPPOINTED.
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i'm 51 and still "laid back". It is an art. You have to make a list of what needs to be done and check it off as you go. It really does help. And don't smoke anything when you have to get the important stuff done.
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When I really made my mind,then I just stopped smoking.I haven't smoked a cigarette  since two and a half years.
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yep, same here but quit years ago
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since birth... haha.. now I'm 27
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A long time. It will never really go away completely, but at least you won't be getting worse. I grew up in a family of smokers and now not a single person in my family smokes, its one of the best decisions you can make.
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i use to smoke,drink,smoke pot, i might have tryed crack once awhile back treat my mom like shit do whatever i want i suck i know bye!!!!!!!!
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sometimes trying a new and better drug might work differently.  Your body isn't used to it the way it might be to something you've been on 10 years but the best person to ask is a trained PSYCHIATRIST who knows your history.  If you can't afford it, call your local MHMR...Mental Health Mental Retardation for discounted or free facilities.  You can afford a computer so your not helpless.  Take control of your life.
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No dear ..It seems that U have been misguided.Nicotine never remains in Lungs..In fact it is absorbed by our pulmonary(lung) veins...so nicotine comes in blood...and this blood when reaches brain, makes nicotine to bind to our brain-nicotinic receptors..which ultimately produces the effects of smokin....But daily smoking  produces some changes in the tissue of lungs which is continous for years can give irreversible lung changes(including cancers)...BUt research has proved n shown that stopping smoking for 10 years approx can bring your lungs to the previous state(non-smoker state)....but this above statement is condition to one thing that in this 10 years , you should'nt have developed the permanent changes..............In all smoking is very bad...But the irony is that I have been smoking for past 6 years....lol