Give up... with a powerball...

**Killjoy** · 15-07-2007, 23:46

Within under two weeks of using a powerball, my friend stopped smoking...

Used to smoke 10 a day, and now when she wants a cig, just powerballs, and hasnt smoked at all...

The science bit is I think the work out sends stuff to your brain and makes you feel good. (il let somone else explain that in later in the thread)

**Adrena1in** · 16-07-2007, 10:15

Wow, excellent. I'm not a smoker, though I have in the past, and it's just as much a mental problem as an addictive one I think. It's about having something to do...having something in your hand...it's habitual. Like going to a pub...can you just sit in a pub with your mates and not have a drink? It feels wrong.

Let's hope your friend keeps it up and doesn't revert to that stinking habit again!

**hugh495** · 16-07-2007, 12:34

Wow thats a brilliant idea!well the only people i know who smoke are my dada and sister,i already got my sister a powerball maybe i shall tell her to use it to get off the sigs.

**One-Eye** · 16-07-2007, 13:19

I gave up smoking over 2 years ago.

The trick for me was to firstly come down with a stinking cold and secondly tell myself that I was only giving up 'buying' cigarettes.

I'd happily smoke mates ciggies, but when they realised they weren't getting any back they soon stopped sharing.

Was a crafty way of cutting down.

I don't have a drink problem per se, I just go for the occasional binge drinking sesh every couple of months or so in between a few beers or glasses of wine at weekends.

But I recently packed in the drink too, but only for a month to see if I could do it, after a particularly nasty hangover.

And that was weird being out with mates and not drinking.

I probably drank a greater volume of liquid than I would have if I'd been on the beer, I just can't make soft drinks last.

And 10 pints of soda water with lime weighs heavy on your bowels, let me tell you!!

**Tstering** · 17-07-2007, 07:48

I've often thought of going T-Total or atleast trying it. Im the same as you in both the fact i gave up smoking 2 years ago (well 2 1/2 actually) and that I usually have a binge drinking night once every couple of months (plus 1 rugby tour a year which is 4 days solid drinking).
Did you feel much better for not drinking?

**One-Eye** · 17-07-2007, 08:15

Originally Posted by Tstering

Did you feel much better for not drinking?

I did actually, plus I dropped a few pounds.

But I had been drinking more during the week since I met my g/f, with meals and occasionally to the pub.

Back to my more usual drinking regime now of weekends only except for special occasions in the week.

It's certainly worth trying for a month James, to let your body detox and your liver recover.

Plus, when you start drinking again you can get muntered quite cheap (only about 3 pints of stella) thus saving you loads of money.