EPTQuitting smoking with SC2 Stream - Page 15
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forgotten0ne
United States951 Posts
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deezy
United States30 Posts
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kierpanda
United States757 Posts
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Risen
United States7927 Posts
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Weebem-Na
United States221 Posts
In all seriousness I'm coming up on a year since I quit and I'm so happy I had the willpower to do it at that time. YOU CAN DO IT! PS: awesome that you went public with this :DD | ||
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29 fps
United States5724 Posts
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Srontgorrth
United States204 Posts
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Thalandros
Netherlands1151 Posts
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Csquared
United States2 Posts
Best of luck Ret!! | ||
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Navane
Netherlands2748 Posts
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Liquid`Ret
Netherlands4511 Posts
its almost the end of day 2 without cigarettes... Today i feel a lot better than yesterday. Yesterday I felt like I was losing my mind, and I think I lost 11 games in a row before I stopped streaming. Today went a lot better and I was doing more closely to how I normally should when playing, although definately still feeling the desire to smoke and the lack of nicotine in my body. I also couldn't really sleep last night, took untill about 8 am so I woke up really late today haha.. Overall though it's not been so bad, especially today, and everday going forward here it will only be easier which is really nice to think about! Just wanted to write a little update, thanks for all the nice posts the ammount of support ive had on twitter, here, and reddit has really really helped! Without all of you, it wouldve just been another failed attempt, like so many before | ||
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Xiphias
Norway2223 Posts
This may saound crazy but there is a quick (and horrible) way to quit smoking in a heartbeat: 1. Open two sigarettes and take the tobacco in a casarole. 2. Add one cup of water. 3. Boil it. 4. Drink the "tobacco tea". After a big gulp you will probably vomit. 5. (this is imporant) Then smoke a sigarette right after you vomitet and you will vomit again. Now, all you can think of when you want to have another sigaret is the aweful tobacco tea and the vomiting. This is not a joke, this actually works, but few people have the guts to do it, good luck! - Xiphias. | ||
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FalconPunch
United States134 Posts
I think this book might be able to help you: http://www.amazon.com/Allen-Carrs-Easyway-Stop-Smoking/dp/0615482155 Though I never smoked before, I read the book in an effort to motivate my dad to stop smoking. I definitely learned a lot from reading it, even though a lot of things said are pretty cheesy. Very quickly from my terrible memory, some important tips from the book: - It's all in the mind. - The first step to stopping (not quitting, because quitting implies you're making a sacrifice, which you're not) smoking is to stop smoking. The proper mindset going into it is to imagine you're getting out of jail (smoking put you in "jail" because you previously had no control over smoking), as opposed to climbing Mt. Everest. Instead of thinking, "My next few weeks are going to be hell trying to battle this," you should be thinking, "I'm feeling great now that I don't need to rely on cigarettes anymore." Etc., etc. - There is absolutely nothing good that comes out of smoking. It does not reduce stress, but puts you in the position to feel more stress. - The cravings are all in the mind. Just like hunger. When you're hungry, your brain is telling you to "feed me" just like the nicotine is saying. There is no actual physical pain. When you're sleeping, you never notice the need to feed the nicotine craving. It's all fake. The difference between nicotine craving and hunger are that you need to eat to survive. - Remember there is no such thing as "just one cigarette." On a bad day, don't fall into the trap of thinking, "I went X days without smoking, I did a great job and I can at least reward myself with one cigarette today." Doing so will have erased all your progress. Remember when you first started smoking, you never thought you'd get addicted to it. Don't let it happen again! - This is more of a general tip for anyone else thinking about stopping smoking, and not for those who are already in the process of stopping. The idea of gradually stopping smoking vs going cold turkey. Going cold turkey (stopping smoking at once as opposed to over time) is the much better choice. Say you wanted to go from 20/day to 0/day by smoking one less cigarette every day. By Day 10, you will be going at 10/day, which is ok. But on day 15 you're at 5/day. The 5 cigarettes you have on day 15 will feel much more powerful than before because you have been starving yourself from the cravings and that relief will feel really really strong... so strong that you will perhaps subconsciously think that the cigarettes are a really good thing when in fact they aren't. This goes with my previous point that there is no such thing as "just one cigarette." After going X days without smoking, if you decide to smoke just one cigarette, the feeling would probably be one of immense relief. But remember, that feeling is just temporary... Yeah, just check out the book It's a easy read anyway | ||
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Nightwishone
Italy391 Posts
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cLAN.Anax
United States2847 Posts
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Valon
United States329 Posts
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radscorpion9
Canada2252 Posts
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Illiterate
Netherlands49 Posts
Ook ik heb vandaag eens hard en diep nagedacht over gewoontes die ik de laatste tijd alsmaar vaker mezelf zie doen. Stoppen met roken zie ik helaas nog niet als een optie, maar misschien wel een doel voor in de (verre) toekomst. Wel ga ik veel minder blowen vanaf nu, ik ga het beperken tot alleen in het weekend. Ook qua eten vind ik dat ik gezonder moet gaan doen, ik hou namelijk van koken. Mijn eerste stap was vandaag mijn kamer grondig schoonmaken en daar heb ik me meer dan zes uur aan onderworpen. Nadat ik morgen de laatste viezigheid heb weggeveegd ga ik naar de sportschool om mijn fitnessprogramma weer op te pakken. Ik vond het wel grappig dat jij ook net je levensstijl wilde omgooien en ook ik wilde de extra energie (en eventuele frustratie die gegenereert wordt door jezelf bepaalde genoegens te ontzeggen) te storten in Starcraft, alsmede mijn studie. Ik wens je hartstikke veel succes in je doel bereiken en ook al weet ik niet of je dit gaat lezen zal ik ervan uit gaan dat het gevoel wederzijds is. Hou je sterk! | ||
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Silentness
United States2821 Posts
My wife smoked for many years, but quit cold turkey when she found out she was pregnant. I really do think most of the smoking fight is psychological. Also on diet: I use to weigh 180 something pounds, but when I changed my eating habits (less junk / more nutritious foods) I now weigh 170 even at 5'10. I feel so great.. my abdominal waist went from 36' to 32'. I feel faster, stronger , and etc. Just got to focus on eating healthy #1. I hope my 2 cents help any. Good luck with quitting smoking! *EDIT* Do you chew gum? My wife chews sugarless gum in exchange for smoking. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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