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Stop Smoking! - Work? Girlfriend? and Gaming?

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Raxxes
Profile Blog Joined May 2013
Germany64 Posts
June 30 2016 08:16 GMT
#1
Hello everybody,

so first off all i wanna tell you what i am going to talk about in here.

In the last few month there changed not a lot since my last post about how university change everything for me. But the things that have changed are making my life quiet better and a lot more enjoyable, on the other hand i have not as much time for my self as i use to have.

So what changed for me?
I think the most important part is that i am working a lot more in addition to university.
That's quiet good for me cause i get a lot of experience and i meet a lot of interesting people
on the other hand its real stressful but for my self i think that this is worth it overall and that's the most important part right? - As long as you can enjoy your work and as long as you love/like the people you are working with it cant get better - that's my opinion!

Second is that i am able to to sport again!
I had some rly bad health issues in the past witch didn't allowed me to the sport i love.
But after a long time (nearly two years) my Doctor allowed me to start again slowly.
So three month ago i went for my first training in a bigger town near where i live. If you wanna
know what i am doing - i go boxing - everybody who knows that sport will also know how hard the work out is.
My goal is to have an amateur fight in the middle of next year - lets see how far i can go!

The hardest thing for me is:
I was smoking like more and more in the past few weeks and month (we are talking about cigarettes and no harder drugs in here :D) and i have to say that i enjoyed it to smoke with my friends, at a party or just too relax, but looking back i got rly expensive over the time and wasn't good for my health ether. To smoke at a party is fine i think or sometimes with some friends of yours, but i smoked much more than this so i decided on Monday of this week (26.06.16) to stop smoking.
This was 4 days ago and i have to say until now i do not miss smoking as much as i expectet my self to. But the part were i will have to have rly good self control is when i meet my friends at work or on a party cause my goal is to real quit smoking and just smoke a few times a month!


And now the thing i am most happy about!
I finally got a realy nice girlfriend that accepted me how i am with all good and bad sides on me. She is realy supporting me in all parts of my life.
The best thing is that she is helping me to take care about my own health cause i had the habit to not rly look for myself no matter how bad i felt so i think i got realy lucky.
And she doesn't even want me to stop being the nerd i am so yea she is just great and
i am totally lost in love- just wanted to say this here !


But what does this all have to do with gaming you may ask yourself right now?
Its easy - i do not have as much time as i want but i got a lot more motivation cause my life just feels so much better in the moment that i am a lot more disciplined so that i might be able to stream a few times a week and get back to a level where i am happy with my self.

Hope you enjoyed ready about my life.
this is the end ....

But just for this entry !

See you all sooner or later in the next one!

*****
Sewi
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Germany1697 Posts
June 30 2016 10:06 GMT
#2
Sounds good overall.

I quit smoking ~10 years ago and I really smoked a lot! (~30 cig per day).
What I did was basically this:
I did not reduce the amount of cigarettes, I stopped completely from one day to another. All my friends who tried to quit by reducing more and more started smoking more again at some point.
Then I put a pack of cigarettes everywhere I used to smoke (desk, car, jacket...) I said to myself that if I just don't smoke because I don't have cigarettes I'll start again anyways. I had to resist although I could have smoked all the time. This might not work for everyone but for me this was the only way to go.
I often times found myself in the car or playing SC at my desk with a cigarette in my mouth (not lighted) and putting it away after a few minutes. I let my friends smoke the cigarettes I used to have everywhere and didn't buy new ones so at some point it was all over.
The hardest part was, like you said too, meeting friends or go out on weekends without smoking. Result was that I spent more time playing SC and less time with my friends :p
"Well, things were going ok until he lost all his stuff" - Tasteless, 17.02.2016
Vivax
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
22337 Posts
June 30 2016 12:01 GMT
#3
Yea wish I could stop too buddy. I feel enslaved constantly.
JWD[9]
Profile Blog Joined November 2015
364 Posts
June 30 2016 15:20 GMT
#4
“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
― Mark Twain
... wasn't good for my health ether.

Fuck people who smoke though. What about the people around you, who decided in the first place not to voluntary destroy their health? Real epidemic in Germany, I miss fresh air man.
Therapist.
Profile Joined January 2009
United States207 Posts
June 30 2016 20:23 GMT
#5
On June 30 2016 17:16 Raxxes wrote:
But the part were i will have to have rly good self control is when i meet my friends at work or on a party cause my goal is to real quit smoking and just smoke a few times a month!


So are you going to quit smoking or not quit smoking? I don't know anyone who can deal with the "smoke a few times a month" thing. You can do it all the way, man. Be free of your addiction. Good luck.
scott31337
Profile Joined January 2013
United States2979 Posts
June 30 2016 23:52 GMT
#6
It'll be my one year anniversary next month! I had an epiphany and a last hurrah and haven't had a cigarette since! You can do it too!
THIS WAGON IS HITTING MAFIA FOR SURE BOYS!
Dingodile
Profile Joined December 2011
4139 Posts
July 01 2016 10:34 GMT
#7
On July 01 2016 05:23 Therapist. wrote:
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On June 30 2016 17:16 Raxxes wrote:
But the part were i will have to have rly good self control is when i meet my friends at work or on a party cause my goal is to real quit smoking and just smoke a few times a month!


So are you going to quit smoking or not quit smoking? I don't know anyone who can deal with the "smoke a few times a month" thing. You can do it all the way, man. Be free of your addiction. Good luck.

I know a few "party smoker", they smoke for few years and never addicted to smoke outside party-time.
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