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07-10-2010, 04:22 PM | #12464 (permalink) | ||
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Since you're drinking decaf tea, is there something you can use besides cigarettes to create a new variation of the smoking habit? For example, instead of a cigarette you could have decaf tea and...pretzel sticks? Perhaps you can become a mini-pretzel stick baton twirler to give your fingers something to do. Would that help, or is it advised to just change habits entirely so that you do nothing that triggers the urge for things you crave (caffeine, nicotine)? Please give updates, if you want to. I've often wondered what withdrawal feels like and would like to hear about it. It must be hard, since people have such a difficult time quitting...but they *do* quit, so it can be done. I knew about headaches and jitters, but I didn't realize that stopping smoking can make someone feel like vomiting. I imagine you just have to say to yourself, "I'm going to feel awful, I'm going to hate it, and I'm going to be grumpy as hell," but then you remind yourself this WILL pass, this WILL pass. Because it will. (That was supposed to be a little pep talk.) Oh! One more question about your day: since you aren't drinking caffeinated builder's tea anymore, have you branched out into herbal flavors yet? Like some nice mint tea? My day was less traumatic than yours probably has been, though I did spend 5 hours out in a hot corn field tagging plants and sampling leaves for later DNA extractions. While doing that you kind of feel mild hopelessnes and despair, because it feels like it will never end. Tonight the plan will be a nice break from field work: roller skating at the rink with a childhood friend and her kids.
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07-10-2010, 04:57 PM | #12466 (permalink) | |
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As for builders tea - you can get de-caff substitutes which actually aren't that bad. Giving up 'proper' tea is not an option for me! Saying that, I have also got a really nice raspberry fruity tea which is ok. Perhaps I should make my own journal on quitting the only vices I have left in my life! Yeah, it's definately the habit itself more than the nicotine. I really like habit and routine (almost obsessively so) so it's going to be quite difficult to change that.
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07-10-2010, 05:11 PM | #12467 (permalink) |
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I spent the day walking around a hot shopping mall in pursuit of an experimental metal album, in hopes that the store I'd asked to order a copy had gotten it yet.
They didn't. But I still got a Gary Numan CD so I'm happy. ^_^
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07-10-2010, 05:28 PM | #12468 (permalink) | ||
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I know of two women who quit smoking...and in both cases their hopes to have a baby were the reason. They both succeeded in quitting. And they both now have children and have never returned to smoking. So it all ended up well for everyone (except the cigarette manufacturers). That raspberry fruity tea sounds lovely! Mmm. Fragrant, warm. I like adding a little frozen rice cream (like ice cream, but made with rice) to the top of herbal tea, because it makes it creamy and sweet.
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07-10-2010, 05:39 PM | #12469 (permalink) | |
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And I must find some of this rice cream!! Admittedly, part of the reason I'm doing it is the same reason as your friends, also there have been a few health scares in the family in the last few months so I guess it's all a bit of a wake up call. As I said, having decent reasons this time around has given me higher hopes of actually being able to give up and be successful this time!
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07-10-2010, 11:02 PM | #12470 (permalink) |
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Today I did the '1000 Steps,' which is a Kokoda trail memorial hike which is supposed to emulate what the troops went through hiking up with Kokoda trail (obviously to a much lesser extent.) My legs still feel like jelly! But I love exercise and the outdoors and getting fresh air.
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