Give up... with a powerball...

[Killjoy]

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]

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]

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]

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. ;):D

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!! :o;):D

[Tstering]

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]

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. ;):D

[Physioblue]

I too gave up the dreaded cancer sticks a few years ago. (I know, I know, being a physio and everything, should've known better, blah blah blah).

THE way to give up is this:
(well it worked for me!)

There are usually 4 or 5 fags a day that are really hard to get rid of, and most people when they cut down, just smoke these few. For me it was; on the way to work, on the way home, on the PC and before bed. I could cut it down to those 4 but couldn't do without them.
So..... I allowed myself to smoke as much as I wanted, but I wasn't allowed to smoke while in the car, in front of the PC or 1 hour before bedtime.

After a couple of months I was no longer missing those 4 fags, so I switched brand to one that i really didn't like.

So then, I'm smoking fags I don't like at times that I don't care about.
Its not so hard to give up at this point!;)

Haven't touched one for 3 years and counting......

[hugh495]

i used to smoke when i was like 14-15, did for about 2 months then one day i had a ciggarette and after i finished i thought,that didnt do anything for me,no rush, no buzz so i just stopped then

[Akis]

For anyone who is still hooked on this curse I would strongly recommend a reading of Allen Carr's book "The Easy Way to stop smoking". It is utterly enlightening and liberating. (I personally haven't ever put the damned thing in my mouth nor will I ever do but I have seen people giving up in one day with this book!).

Cheers
Akis

[One-Eye]

You set a very good example Akis.

The best way to stop smoking is to never start.

I sometimes wish I'd never tried it and, forgetting for a moment about the well documented health issues, it's an expensive habit to support.

At current UK prices, to support a fairly low 10-a-day habit costs approx £20 per week, nearly £90 per month and just over £1000 per year.

Just think how many Powerballs you could buy with that, and they last a lot longer than cigarettes AND Powerballs are actually good for you.

;):D

[petemayhew]

I think we're over-educated at school on what to do and what not to do. But I don't see the attraction. Of course once you start you are dragged in by the nicotine but hell does it smell horrible. I can stand 10 meters away from someone smoking and still smell it. Also I love playing pool but people smoking around the table has restricted me quite a bit as I don't have a table and play with my Dad in the local. But now I'm not restricted at all and can play pool more regularly. Ay' for the smoking ban. :)

[LTLFTC]

I've never smoked but the thing that really put me away from it was a course I did at Uni. As part of Dentistry we had to do Pathology and a part of that involved going to three necropsies. (When someone dies in suspicious cicumstances they cut up the body to determine cause of death it is called an Autopsy, if it isn't suspicious it is called a Necropsy). Any way one of the Necropsies involved a smoker. The stench coming from this persons lungs was absolutely appalling and they just looked completely wasted much more off putting than a picture on a packet of smokes. If they made those pictures scratch and sniff they might be a bit more off putting.

[dabar]

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)endorphins or anandamide.. last i heard the white coats where still arguing over the which was the real cause of the "runner's high". experts :rolleyes: