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RE: Addiction - 10/13/2006 4:55:45 PM

juliaoceania

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I will never give up the green ones... that is for sure!

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RE: Addiction - 10/13/2006 5:31:04 PM

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ORIGINAL: RiotGirl

Pepsi addiction! Cigeratte Addiction (sorry its not dramatic as what you were hoping!)

I have managed to transfer all my other terrible addictions into these two things - so i can die alot SLOWER. Doh

My Dom would like me to quit smoking and i know this and i see him trying to gradually push me that way. Cos when i'm around him he dramatically reduces my nicotine intake. ::keels over and dies:: Like sometimes he thinks i can go a WHOLE 3 hours with out a cig. Plus he's told me i'll be quitting soon....

Obviously, i am partially making fun of myself here because i know its good thing. Its good, its good. Yet gaaaawd so dang hard.

Tonight i just got BANNED from Pepsi (shall i keel over and die again?) And Just like the smoking, its in my best interest. It literally tears apart my stomach and eating actual food AND drinking pepsi is like asking to have gut wrenching pain that i practuically keel over from. So what does MY dumb ass do? I dont eat. On top of that i was talking to a friend on the way home about the banning of pepsi and she said that since i started drinking it again (i tried to quit recently) i've been in this "funk" Which i have been feeling like shit lately for no good reason.

My problem is - i know its a good for me and i want to obey - but gaaaaaaaawd i dont know if i can. No more pepsi? i think i asked him 30 times if he was serious.

No more pepsi and eventually no more cigerattes???? Aaaaaaaaaaaah i feel like a snot nosed brat. How will i possibly function??

and how am i going to possibly pull this off and do as im supposed too? Any suggestions?

I'm only addicted to my ex...and she pisses me off almost daily...so it's one of those 50/50 things.

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RE: Addiction - 10/13/2006 8:32:15 PM

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Marie! You posted the same site as me... did you use that too? Gosh it helped me sooooo much

lol Yes! But mostly the one piece that I linked was what really helped me. I think I glanced over a few of the other writings on the site as well, but nothing was as helpful to me as that one. Something about the way he explains about your brain cells bathing in oxygen rich blood instead of tar, and finding out all the chemicals that were present in the cigs. My god....arsenic??? I couldnt take a drag without thinking about that. It totally made me see the cigarettes differently. I had been getting psyched up to quit even before I came across this site, but this really really helped. The explaination of the withdrawal symptoms was a huge support as well and the reminder that the horror does eventualy pass. I think the author said he was a 3 pack per day smoker. I figured if he could do it, so could I. Hell I was only around 10 smokes a day, but it still remains one of the toughest exercises of willpower in my life. In the beginning of my quit, I would go back and read it when I needed strength....I barely hung on in the beginning. I felt like an alcoholic you see in the movies in rehab or something. Crying my eyes out...waking up in the middle of the night sweating....it was horrible. The article was part of what helped me succeed. Maybe I needed it to be, or maybe it was that good. I dont know...all I know is it sure put a different spin on my pov about the smokes.

This is my second quit; I had quit 13 yrs ago when I got pregnant, but it was somehow easier to be motivated with the baby inside. I stayed quit all those years, Then about 3 yrs ago while going through my divorce, I picked them up again. 18 months after that, I beat the shit out of it again. Hopefully this is the last. 7 months on Sunday.

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RE: Addiction - 10/13/2006 9:33:39 PM

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Yes, I got a lot out of that page too!

I have cigs cross my mind once in a while, but I do not have much trouble dismissing the thought. I had this moment right before I turned 36 and I was out of breath all the time, sick all of time, wheezing and coughing all the time. I was angry at myself for destroying a perfectly adequate body that I had been blessed with. I was scared for my health... that is what I think about everytime I think of smoking...

It is a deal breaker for my Daddy, if I started smoking it would be OVER... and I just am too over the moon for him to start smoking again

, although it is not that hard for me to stay off the cancer sticks... I really love the way I feel. I always give the same page out as you when encouraging others to quit... my mom quit after smoking 50+ years about 2 months after I did, it helped her a lot too.

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