OT: Update on TINK!

Okay -- that's what I thought of as pestering. ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

Spread some of that down here if you could please!!! I could use alot of help to become willing to stop smoking, and then to try again...

I will pray along with you for Tink.

.Stephanie.

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One of my friends started smoking again, and when I asked her why, she said "because I just love to smoke!"

It's hard to quit something you don't want to quit. Not smoking is easy for me, because I don't really enjoy it. (Although I do it from time to time anyway, and then go "Yup, still not worth the pain".)

-Kalera

Stephanie wrote:

Stephanie -- use us here as your support group. Check in every day, etc. We've done it before, we can do it again. You've got my total and absolute support. ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

In article , Kathy N-V writes

No I wouldnt pester anyone either cos from experience it doesnt do any good. All it does is p*$$ the smoker off and the best way to give up is if you REALLY want to do it for your self, not for your loved ones or friends.

My Mum is ok if exposed to smoke (funnily) but she keeps getting a paticular bug on her chest which sends her to hospital cos the only antibiotics which knock it out are IV ones. Its a pain, but we live with it and in between she is pretty well.

On a funny - after she had her first bad bug and hospitalisation she was prescribed an oxygen cylinder for use at home. Well much to our frustration we couldnt get her to use it except when she was almost gasping for air. Finally she confessed she didnt want to become addicted to!!! So I walked round for a while holding my breath till I was gasping. When she asked what on earth I was doing I said well you dont want me to get addicted to oxygen either do you? We laugh now but she's still stubborn about looking after herself!

I hope Tink and all of you who have COPD look after themselves, and stay as well as possible this winter. :-)

In article , Kalera Stratton writes

:-)

In article , Dr. Sooz writes

And mine.

Tip: Mum always associated sitting down and having a cup of tea with having a ciggie. As much as a chemical addiction its an associative thing. So when she had a cup of tea she would do crosswords or knit. When she sat in the evening watching tv she started playing my gameboy. Pretty soon she got her own and that was followed by other game machines. She is now the oldest person in the computer game shop in town. They all know her by name and pick games out for her! She replaced one addiction with another harmless one (well relatively) :-)

Another suggestion I've heard is to substitute cinnamon sticks. The right size and shape, and it has a bite to it. But don't light it. ;-)

Tina

I'll gladly add Tink to my quit-smoking vibes. Mike and I kinda had it out over the weekend, about a few things (I blame the pressure of my Mom's impending visit). One of them was his smoking again. He'd quit Feb of 2003, did great until this past June, when his psycho ex-wife appeared for their daughter's wedding, then left in a snit the night before the event was to take place. He's been smoking again ever since, despite a few promises to quit and deadlines utterly ignored. I am NOT happy. He'd quit hacking and coughing within weeks of quitting, and sounds horribly wheezy again. Plus his BP is up despite pretty good medications. Arrrgh! He's promised, again, to really try, and will be seeing our doc next week, so I'm hopeful. I told him I wouldn't marry someone with one foot in the grave, and I think he's finally figured out that I'm absolutely serious.

KarenK

Pete had quit smoking a couple years before we got married. And then the bugger started smoking again. For about 2 1/2 years. But he's stopped again and I think this time will be for good. The process of stopping took about 6 or 8 months. First he switched to rolling his own. After 4 months of that, he started making them very skinny. Then finishing butts before lighting another one. Eventually he was using old dry tobacco and then smoking old butts.

Before he buys any more tobacco or cigarettes he has to smoke up the old butts sitting on the bench on the back porch. Blech!! But it worked.

Tina

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :

]Another suggestion I've heard is to substitute cinnamon sticks. The right ]size and shape, and it has a bite to it. But don't light it. ;-)

one of the books i'm reading says i've been 'self-medicating' my ADD with caffeine and nicotine all these years - which makes a LOT of sense, since my father and Jamie both smoke -- and the three of us are so much alike it's scary!

I read an article about nicotine use in schizophrenics in Discover magazine---something like over 90% of people with it do smoke, and its because theres a part of the nicotine thats VERY potent at medicating the brain. Scientists are working on a drug that does the same thing without the Central Nervous System poisons also in nicotine. (we use two soaked ciggys, two cayenne peppers and a mashed up bulb of garlic in a gallon of water, left to steep for a week to make bug spray that kills all sorts of bugs on plants) Sarajane

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Thanks for the kind thoughts, but I thought I'd change the subject line in a cranky bid to separate myself from the discussion.

Tink Check here for available work:

Everyone I know who has switched to rolling their own, has quit. My theory is that they don't put the horribly addictive stuff in loose tobacco, for some reason.

-Kalera

Christ> Pete had quit smoking a couple years before we got married. And then the

Won't work you know :-). Hope you're breathing easier already. That must have been scary. But do think about the smoking part dear colleague. Just think how much better you'll be with more lung capacity at making that first bubble when you come back to the marver from the furnace with a pipe full of glass.

susan in canada

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comeatspam (Sjpolyclay) :

]I read an article about nicotine use in schizophrenics in Discover ]magazine---something like over 90% of people with it do smoke, and its because ]theres a part of the nicotine thats VERY potent at medicating the brain. ]Scientists are working on a drug that does the same thing without the Central ]Nervous System poisons also in nicotine.

let me know if they come out with one! [i really haven't been diagnosed schizophrenic . . . . yet!]

] (we use two soaked ciggys, two cayenne ]peppers and a mashed up bulb of garlic in a gallon of water, left to steep for ]a week to make bug spray that kills all sorts of bugs on plants)

yes, that part i did know.

Makes sense. Those are uppers, and uppers help ADD.

Tina

I wish my sister would stop smoking.

Our mother had breast cancer, and also has a heart and lung disease that's caused by her other illnesses. She never smoked a day in her life..she's just terribly unlucky when it comes to her health.

But my sis still smokes, despite seeing the pain (physical and emotional) that those diseases cause. Our mother has tried everything to get her to stop..she's pestered her about it to no effect. She's threatened to show Shannon her mastectomy scar. Nothing works. So eventually we all stopped pestering her about it, because she's going to keep smoking regardless of what anyone says or feels.

I cringe every time I see her light up a cigarette. She gets bad chest colds several times a year, she coughs all the time, her teeth are starting to go bad..and she's only 26. She's been smoking since she was 18.

-Amber.