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Care to cross fingers for husband and me? We're trying to cut back or stop smoking!
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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 423032" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>DDD, I perhaps should have explained that I am intimately familiar with the processes of giving up and re-starting smoking... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> At one time I thought I was the world's expert on the psychology of why giving up seems so impossible when you are a smoker and why smoking seems so disgusting and unnecessary when you are not!! I too gave up for many years first, then started again because of a big emotional stress, like you. And actually that was always my trigger - stress, like the alcholic with the drink. When you say that first cigarette after 12 years tasted great, I do understand that - not the taste of it, but the sensation of something that somehow "contains" or "alleviates" the trauma... And there is something in cigarettes, so I have read, that does actually act on some part of the brain that calms stress - I am not a scientist, as you can tell, and have retained none of the details <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>Anyway, suffice it to say that overcoming that stress cigarette compulsion is NOT easy but can be done nevertheless... I think I always need to make a mistake again and again, right to the end of the mistake, until I finally learn that it's better simply not to make it... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p>GOOD LUCK!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 423032, member: 11227"] DDD, I perhaps should have explained that I am intimately familiar with the processes of giving up and re-starting smoking... :-) At one time I thought I was the world's expert on the psychology of why giving up seems so impossible when you are a smoker and why smoking seems so disgusting and unnecessary when you are not!! I too gave up for many years first, then started again because of a big emotional stress, like you. And actually that was always my trigger - stress, like the alcholic with the drink. When you say that first cigarette after 12 years tasted great, I do understand that - not the taste of it, but the sensation of something that somehow "contains" or "alleviates" the trauma... And there is something in cigarettes, so I have read, that does actually act on some part of the brain that calms stress - I am not a scientist, as you can tell, and have retained none of the details :-) Anyway, suffice it to say that overcoming that stress cigarette compulsion is NOT easy but can be done nevertheless... I think I always need to make a mistake again and again, right to the end of the mistake, until I finally learn that it's better simply not to make it... :-) GOOD LUCK! [/QUOTE]
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