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*Article: Smoking May Ease Anger And Anxiety, Acting as Trigger
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| note: I found this article interesting though particpants were few but =
*emotional smokers may have a harder time quitting*
Anger or anxiety may trigger the urge to smoke in some people, according to
a new study that suggests emotional smokers may have a harder time quitting.
The study also found that men are more likely to smoke when they are angry
and women are more likely to smoke when they are happy.
"Anger and negative affect may trigger smoking in some people, a process
that may explain the higher relapse rates following smoking cessation that
have been reported for high-hostile rather than low-hostile and for
depressed rather than non-depressed individuals," says the study's lead
author Ralph J. Delfino, M.D., Ph.D., of the university of California,
Irvine.
The study is published in the August issue of Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
Although the study included only 25 women and 35 men, the data was based on
nearly 7,000 observations gathered during two 24-hour periods of continuous
monitoring. Eligible participants, defined as those who smoked at least 10
cigarettes a day and were otherwise healthy, were recruited by local
newspaper advertisements.
Over the two 24-hour periods, the subjects wore monitors that measured their
blood pressure approximately every 20 minutes. Every time their pressure was
taken during waking hours, participants recorded their location, activity
and mood states in a diary. Participants were also told to initiate blood
pressure readings and write in their diary before and after smoking.
The researchers found that both men and women were more likely to smoke when
they were angry, but the effect was stronger in men. Women also were more
likely to smoke when they were happy, while men were not.
The subjects in this study were more likely to smoke when they were sad,
with the effect stronger in men than women. Both men and women were twice as
likely to smoke when anxious.
The study results also suggested that the men obtained an immediate but
short-lived calming of their anger when they smoked. This may be due to
metabolic effects of nicotine in the brain, says Delfino.
"Smoking-cessation and preventive interventions may require new methods that
teach anger and stress management as well as broader aspects of effective
emotional regulation," the researchers say.
The differences between the genders in emotional triggers of smoking should
be taken into account, they say. "If smoking cues and reinforcing effects
differ in men and women, smoking-cessation interventions may require some
level of gender-specificity if they are to succeed."
The study was funded by the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research
Program and the National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Drug
Abuse, through the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center Grant
Award.
# # #
Nicotine & Tobacco Research is the official peer-reviewed quarterly journal
of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. Release Date: August
20, 2001
Note: "Smoking-cessation and preventive interventions may require new
methods that teach anger and stress management as well as broader aspects of
effective emotional regulation," the researchers say.
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| 'Kate- 2005-05-18, 9:43 am |
| On Wed, 11 May 2005 22:22:15 GMT, "Robbb"
<robbb@DICEALLCAPSciggyfree.org> the following was posted in blue
crayon:
> note: I found this article interesting though particpants were few but =
>*emotional smokers may have a harder time quitting*
>
Ok... now that I'm feeling a little better and that headache is gone,
had a meal, and the kids are home to keep me from being more stupid
than I usually am.... NOW YOU POST THIS?
thanks. :-)
'Kate
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| You bet sweetie 
OK you all have a great night I have to run away and party!
lol
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee don't smoke!
x0x0x0x
"'Kate-" <not_at_home-@home.net> wrote in message
news:fc55811opfnuoa8b6135mkobm33fj8nsa1@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 11 May 2005 22:22:15 GMT, "Robbb"
> <robbb@DICEALLCAPSciggyfree.org> the following was posted in blue
> crayon:
>
>
> Ok... now that I'm feeling a little better and that headache is gone,
> had a meal, and the kids are home to keep me from being more stupid
> than I usually am.... NOW YOU POST THIS?
>
> thanks. :-)
>
> 'Kate
>
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| GoddessXena 2005-05-18, 9:43 am |
| Robbb wrote:
> note: I found this article interesting though particpants were few but =
> *emotional smokers may have a harder time quitting*
>
> Anger or anxiety may trigger the urge to smoke in some people, according to
> a new study that suggests emotional smokers may have a harder time quitting.
*THIS* is ME.
TY, my friend, for posting this.
--
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." -G.W. Bush,
Greater Nashua, N.H., January 27, 2000
---
Agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
http://home.earthlink.net/~goddessxena
http://icantimmormon.com/
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| Richard 2005-05-18, 9:44 am |
| I think that we are beginning to understand the nature of tobacco addiction
better as this wave of new research or at least widely published research
filters through to more smokers/quitters.
at one time it was just thought that you stopped smoking with a bit of will
power and that was it! we are now beginning to understand that it is a lot
more complex than that and that psychological issues are probably at the
heart of the whole thing. we might at last be going from seeing smoking as
a social problem to seeing it as a drug problem.
we can only hope
Richard
"Robbb" <robbb@DICEALLCAPSciggyfree.org> wrote in message
news:rAvge.2401$rw4.994@trndny03...
> note: I found this article interesting though particpants were few but =
> *emotional smokers may have a harder time quitting*
>
> Anger or anxiety may trigger the urge to smoke in some people, according
> to a new study that suggests emotional smokers may have a harder time
> quitting.
>
> The study also found that men are more likely to smoke when they are angry
> and women are more likely to smoke when they are happy.
>
> "Anger and negative affect may trigger smoking in some people, a process
> that may explain the higher relapse rates following smoking cessation that
> have been reported for high-hostile rather than low-hostile and for
> depressed rather than non-depressed individuals," says the study's lead
> author Ralph J. Delfino, M.D., Ph.D., of the university of California,
> Irvine.
>
> The study is published in the August issue of Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
>
> Although the study included only 25 women and 35 men, the data was based
> on nearly 7,000 observations gathered during two 24-hour periods of
> continuous monitoring. Eligible participants, defined as those who smoked
> at least 10 cigarettes a day and were otherwise healthy, were recruited by
> local newspaper advertisements.
>
> Over the two 24-hour periods, the subjects wore monitors that measured
> their blood pressure approximately every 20 minutes. Every time their
> pressure was taken during waking hours, participants recorded their
> location, activity and mood states in a diary. Participants were also told
> to initiate blood pressure readings and write in their diary before and
> after smoking.
>
> The researchers found that both men and women were more likely to smoke
> when they were angry, but the effect was stronger in men. Women also were
> more likely to smoke when they were happy, while men were not.
>
> The subjects in this study were more likely to smoke when they were sad,
> with the effect stronger in men than women. Both men and women were twice
> as likely to smoke when anxious.
>
> The study results also suggested that the men obtained an immediate but
> short-lived calming of their anger when they smoked. This may be due to
> metabolic effects of nicotine in the brain, says Delfino.
>
> "Smoking-cessation and preventive interventions may require new methods
> that teach anger and stress management as well as broader aspects of
> effective emotional regulation," the researchers say.
>
> The differences between the genders in emotional triggers of smoking
> should be taken into account, they say. "If smoking cues and reinforcing
> effects differ in men and women, smoking-cessation interventions may
> require some level of gender-specificity if they are to succeed."
>
> The study was funded by the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research
> Program and the National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Drug
> Abuse, through the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center Grant
> Award.
>
> # # #
>
> Nicotine & Tobacco Research is the official peer-reviewed quarterly
> journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. Release Date:
> August 20, 2001
>
> Note: "Smoking-cessation and preventive interventions may require new
> methods that teach anger and stress management as well as broader aspects
> of effective emotional regulation," the researchers say.
>
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| Thanx Richard - I was thinking in that direction also. Also still doing a
bit of research on generational smoking and altered DNA - I just wish time
was on my side this year...
Dutch sent me something interesting yesterday to check into - some drug or
shot - there is so much to this drug with its myriad facets - that I believe
this decade we have only touched the tip of an iceberg...
Thanx for being here Richard I really appreciate the discourse.
"Richard" <rvardy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:hsEge.67872$Cq2.36159@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>I think that we are beginning to understand the nature of tobacco addiction
>better as this wave of new research or at least widely published research
>filters through to more smokers/quitters.
> at one time it was just thought that you stopped smoking with a bit of
> will power and that was it! we are now beginning to understand that it is
> a lot more complex than that and that psychological issues are probably at
> the heart of the whole thing. we might at last be going from seeing
> smoking as a social problem to seeing it as a drug problem.
>
> we can only hope
> Richard
> "Robbb" <robbb@DICEALLCAPSciggyfree.org> wrote in message
> news:rAvge.2401$rw4.994@trndny03...
>
>
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|
| GX!!!!!
So glad to see you back!!!!
YOU were missed
Take care of *YOU*
x0x00x0x
"GoddessXena" <goddessxena@papernapkin.net> wrote in message
news:Huyge.6446$Dh.2804@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> Robbb wrote:
>
> *THIS* is ME.
>
> TY, my friend, for posting this.
>
> --
> "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." -G.W. Bush,
> Greater Nashua, N.H., January 27, 2000
> ---
> Agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial
> http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
> http://home.earthlink.net/~goddessxena
> http://icantimmormon.com/
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| Richard 2005-05-18, 9:44 am |
| hi Robb, nice to hear from you......... I know what you mean about 'not
enough time' mind you the more I find out the angrier I get. I've packed up
twice before, once for 5 years and once for a year and on both occasions
just went cold turkey and got on with it. This time I found it really hard
to begin the quit which I was going to do before Christmas then for new year
and finally managed on the12th Feb. This time I've been finding out as much
as I can about tobacco and it's effects especially the psychological ones
and trying to come to terms with just what a crappy situation I have put
myself in through smoking. I think that you are right in that we have only
touched the tip of the iceberg and I am in no doubt that research has been
slowed down by profit mongers and that the will to stop people from smoking
is still not really there.
Goddessxena's post seems to highlight the absurdity of corporate
thinking....we have had the Alcopops targeting flavoured alcohol to a
younger generation and now tobacco companies are trying to do the same thing
with tobacco.
I'm going to stop before I start ranting(too late?) the hypocrisy just makes
me mad
take care
Richard
"robbb" <robbb@DICEALLCAPSciggyfree.org> wrote in message
news:3eh1gdF329quU1@individual.net...
> Thanx Richard - I was thinking in that direction also. Also still doing a
> bit of research on generational smoking and altered DNA - I just wish time
> was on my side this year...
> Dutch sent me something interesting yesterday to check into - some drug or
> shot - there is so much to this drug with its myriad facets - that I
> believe this decade we have only touched the tip of an iceberg...
>
> Thanx for being here Richard I really appreciate the discourse.
>
>
>
>
> "Richard" <rvardy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:hsEge.67872$Cq2.36159@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>
>
| |
|
| Yep - agreed
this time will be different though = you will never want to go back to it
again.
Once you start sifting through fact and fiction such as this shite
http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/eclipse/
it will become a *quest*
Today I have been unpacking a lot of cervical cancer ties - crystal just
don't facking smoke
This quit I have now is my last - it was the worst agony of all my quits
combined (I was a closet/serial smoker) So we live and learn but I
personally think to beat this type of addiction we have to be heavily armed
with knowledge because the addiction itself is always in stealth mode...
> thinking....
yep her posts always RaWk!
x0x00x
"Richard" <rvardy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:PgJge.17863$Jc5.11600@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> hi Robb, nice to hear from you......... I know what you mean about 'not
> enough time' mind you the more I find out the angrier I get. I've packed
> up twice before, once for 5 years and once for a year and on both
> occasions
[snip]
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| ItsCrystal 2005-05-18, 9:44 am |
| Will someone tell 'Kate to see if her pdoc can get her a rx for Klonopin or
Xanax. They can be taken on an "as needed" basis and completly eases
anxiety.
I'm in her killfile I'm sure...but I think this would help her. Thanks to
whoever. Robbb?? please.
Crystal <---who has had an anxiety disorder since age 17 and finally got
it under total control w/meds
| |
|
| Dear 'Kate this is from Crystal:
> Will someone tell 'Kate to see if her pdoc can get her a rx for Klonopin
> or
> Xanax. They can be taken on an "as needed" basis and completly eases
> anxiety.
>
> I'm in her killfile I'm sure...but I think this would help her. Thanks to
> whoever. Robbb?? please.
Yeppers did it for ya huny
"ItsCrystal" <noXXXXingsmoking@crystal.jelly> wrote in message
news:cfeb8668a3a749ba0e38aa87bb422fdb@localhost.talkaboutsupport.com...
> Will someone tell 'Kate to see if her pdoc can get her a rx for Klonopin
> or
> Xanax. They can be taken on an "as needed" basis and completly eases
> anxiety.
>
> I'm in her killfile I'm sure...but I think this would help her. Thanks to
> whoever. Robbb?? please.
>
> Crystal <---who has had an anxiety disorder since age 17 and finally got
> it under total control w/meds
>
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| Richard 2005-05-18, 9:44 am |
| this has to be the last time....I really don't think that I could go through
it again. but this time is different apart from the knowledge about smoking
I have also altered my life in a number of ways...I go to the gym 2-3 times
a week and monitor my progress with a polar heart monitor and keep a general
check on my improving fitness which is coming on fine. I am also making time
to do things that I never got round to while I smoked especially physical
things(learning to rollerblade) get friends to go for long walks etc etc so
it's really a life change thing and filling my life with positive things. I
can't do the stop smoking and be all defensive and worry about giving in and
starting again thing. I spent a long time wilfully damaging my health and
now I'm going to put some effort into doing myself some good and hopefully
that will help to stop me from ever smoking again. bastard XXXXing habit!!!!
rich
"robbb" <robbb@DICEALLCAPSciggyfree.org> wrote in message
news:3eh7qnF2q0n9U1@individual.net...
> Yep - agreed
> this time will be different though = you will never want to go back to it
> again.
> Once you start sifting through fact and fiction such as this shite
> http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/eclipse/
>
> it will become a *quest*
> Today I have been unpacking a lot of cervical cancer ties - crystal just
> don't facking smoke
>
> This quit I have now is my last - it was the worst agony of all my quits
> combined (I was a closet/serial smoker) So we live and learn but I
> personally think to beat this type of addiction we have to be heavily
> armed with knowledge because the addiction itself is always in stealth
> mode...
>
>
> yep her posts always RaWk!
>
> x0x00x
>
>
>
> "Richard" <rvardy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:PgJge.17863$Jc5.11600@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> [snip]
>
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Reminds me of that Olivia Newton-John song "let's Get Physical"
You are gonna so do this Rich )
x0x0x
~bev
--
When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.
"Richard" <rvardy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4jLge.69521$Cq2.50033@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...[vbcol=seagreen]
> this has to be the last time....I really don't think that I could go
> through it again. but this time is different apart from the knowledge
> about smoking I have also altered my life in a number of ways...I go to
> the gym 2-3 times a week and monitor my progress with a polar heart
> monitor and keep a general check on my improving fitness which is coming
> on fine. I am also making time to do things that I never got round to
> while I smoked especially physical things(learning to rollerblade) get
> friends to go for long walks etc etc so it's really a life change thing
> and filling my life with positive things. I can't do the stop smoking and
> be all defensive and worry about giving in and starting again thing. I
> spent a long time wilfully damaging my health and now I'm going to put
> some effort into doing myself some good and hopefully that will help to
> stop me from ever smoking again. bastard XXXXing habit!!!!
> rich
> "robbb" <robbb@DICEALLCAPSciggyfree.org> wrote in message
> news:3eh7qnF2q0n9U1@individual.net...
>
>
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| Richard 2005-05-18, 9:44 am |
| Olivia Newton-John aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh i need a smoke
"robbb" <robbb@DICEALLCAPSciggyfree.org> wrote in message
news:3ehg0pF36hn2U1@individual.net...
> Reminds me of that Olivia Newton-John song "let's Get Physical"
>
> You are gonna so do this Rich )
> x0x0x
> ~bev
>
>
>
>
> --
> When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.
>
>
> "Richard" <rvardy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4jLge.69521$Cq2.50033@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>
>
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| 'Kate- 2005-05-18, 9:44 am |
| On Thu, 12 May 2005 11:42:24 -0400, "robbb"
<robbb@DICEALLCAPSciggyfree.org> the following was posted in blue
crayon:
>Dear 'Kate this is from Crystal:
>
>
>Yeppers did it for ya huny
This is awkward. I know Crystal is trying to be helpful and one part
of me appreciates that but the other side is saying something entirely
different. Judging by my reaction to having to deal with this, I'd
say that the most helpful thing that I can do for myself is to keep
her in my kill file. I don't like being rude to people but I simply
cannot handle fixing something right now and I don't want to feel this
on guard. When I do that, I can only maintain it for so long, with
the prodding from the other side, before I blow up and get rid of it
in unhealthy ways. It's been a viscious cycle and I'd rather it ended.
But.. to respond because an effort was made, klonapin is the drug most
suggested both here and of the PhD's that I've talked to about this.
It's also what my mother took to alleviate her panic disorders. I'm
not sure what my cousin is taking but my siblings decided to be
functional alcoholics who smoke cigarettes and on occasion, pot.
I don't have a psychiatrist. I'm considering seeing the doc at school
because his script writing is more lenient than my family doc's is and
so far, the family doc hasn't been a whole lotta help. The thing is...
I'm not real good with going and getting help for myself. Makes me
anxious.
Here's my meter... still intact thanks to many of you & I'm very
grateful:
Eight months, three weeks, six days, 15 hours, 39 minutes and 27
seconds. 8119 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,217.93. Life saved: 4
weeks, 4 hours, 35 minutes.
'Kate
| |
|
|
Glad to see your quit intact <sigh of great relief> - and do something for
*you* today ok
--
When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.
"'Kate-" <not_at_home-@home.net> wrote in message
news:vj7781ts1afdeffpofn8cba5d9mftc2m8o@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 12 May 2005 11:42:24 -0400, "robbb"
> <robbb@DICEALLCAPSciggyfree.org> the following was posted in blue
> crayon:
>
>
> This is awkward. I know Crystal is trying to be helpful and one part
> of me appreciates that but the other side is saying something entirely
> different. Judging by my reaction to having to deal with this, I'd
> say that the most helpful thing that I can do for myself is to keep
> her in my kill file. I don't like being rude to people but I simply
> cannot handle fixing something right now and I don't want to feel this
> on guard. When I do that, I can only maintain it for so long, with
> the prodding from the other side, before I blow up and get rid of it
> in unhealthy ways. It's been a viscious cycle and I'd rather it ended.
>
> But.. to respond because an effort was made, klonapin is the drug most
> suggested both here and of the PhD's that I've talked to about this.
> It's also what my mother took to alleviate her panic disorders. I'm
> not sure what my cousin is taking but my siblings decided to be
> functional alcoholics who smoke cigarettes and on occasion, pot.
>
> I don't have a psychiatrist. I'm considering seeing the doc at school
> because his script writing is more lenient than my family doc's is and
> so far, the family doc hasn't been a whole lotta help. The thing is...
> I'm not real good with going and getting help for myself. Makes me
> anxious.
>
> Here's my meter... still intact thanks to many of you & I'm very
> grateful:
>
> Eight months, three weeks, six days, 15 hours, 39 minutes and 27
> seconds. 8119 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,217.93. Life saved: 4
> weeks, 4 hours, 35 minutes.
>
> 'Kate
>
>
| |
| Tiger Lily 2005-05-18, 9:44 am |
|
"'Kate-" <not_at_home-@home.net> wrote in message
news:vj7781ts1afdeffpofn8cba5d9mftc2m8o@4ax.com...
> Here's my meter... still intact thanks to many
of you & I'm very
> grateful:
>
> Eight months, three weeks, six days, 15 hours,
39 minutes and 27
> seconds. 8119 cigarettes not smoked, saving
$1,217.93. Life saved: 4
> weeks, 4 hours, 35 minutes.
>
> 'Kate
woo hoo............ you did it girl!!!! keep on
keeping on.......... one day at a time.........
kate (the other one of 3)
| |
|
| 'Kate- wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2005 11:42:24 -0400, "robbb"
> <robbb@DICEALLCAPSciggyfree.org> the following was posted in blue
> crayon:
>
>
>
>
> This is awkward. I know Crystal is trying to be helpful and one part
> of me appreciates that but the other side is saying something entirely
> different. Judging by my reaction to having to deal with this, I'd
> say that the most helpful thing that I can do for myself is to keep
> her in my kill file. I don't like being rude to people but I simply
> cannot handle fixing something right now and I don't want to feel this
> on guard. When I do that, I can only maintain it for so long, with
> the prodding from the other side, before I blow up and get rid of it
> in unhealthy ways. It's been a viscious cycle and I'd rather it ended.
>
> But.. to respond because an effort was made, klonapin is the drug most
> suggested both here and of the PhD's that I've talked to about this.
> It's also what my mother took to alleviate her panic disorders. I'm
> not sure what my cousin is taking but my siblings decided to be
> functional alcoholics who smoke cigarettes and on occasion, pot.
>
> I don't have a psychiatrist. I'm considering seeing the doc at school
> because his script writing is more lenient than my family doc's is and
> so far, the family doc hasn't been a whole lotta help. The thing is...
> I'm not real good with going and getting help for myself. Makes me
> anxious.
>
> Here's my meter... still intact thanks to many of you & I'm very
> grateful:
>
> Eight months, three weeks, six days, 15 hours, 39 minutes and 27
> seconds. 8119 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,217.93. Life saved: 4
> weeks, 4 hours, 35 minutes.
>
> 'Kate
>
>
'Kate, it is wonderful to see your meter intact. I have no advice about
the anxiety other than what others have said. Try to get some help. If
one doc isn't doing the job, find another one. Be good to yourself,
'Kate, you deserve it.
Debbie
| |
| Julio Jorge 2005-05-18, 9:44 am |
| Excercise and sunshine and a good diet and high self esteem and a good
attitude also ease anger and anxiety, but that is common sense too.
The junkie thinking is that benzos and painkillers and alcohol and
cigarettes are all a valid therapuetic solution for the state of the
human condition. Ten years ago, we labeled these as recreational.
Today, they're medical. One path will probably kill you before you're
60.
JJ
3M 3W
| |
| steveb 2005-05-18, 9:44 am |
| On Thu, 12 May 2005 18:40:32 GMT, 'Kate- <not_at_home-@home.net>
wrote:
>
>This is awkward.
Oh, it needn't be
> I know Crystal is trying to be helpful and one part
>of me appreciates that but the other side is saying something entirely
>different.
I'm pretty sure she will appreciate that ... the first bit!
>Judging by my reaction to having to deal with this, I'd
>say that the most helpful thing that I can do for myself is to keep
>her in my kill file.
Take what you need, and leave the rest!
>I don't like being rude to people but I simply
>cannot handle fixing something right now and I don't want to feel this
>on guard.
You aren't being rude. It is simple good sense to keep your filters
intact until such a time comes that you want to delete them. Far
better, I am sure, than another fight.
wtg ..... 'Kate AND Crystal
steveb
| |
|
| This article makes me feel somewhat better. In the past couple of
months, I have tried to quit several times. I actually made it 2 weeks
the last time, until major stress hit and I lit up 2 days ago. The time
before that it was because I found half a pack under my bed. It felt
like manna from heaven! I have reset my meter so many times that it's a
wonder my computer went on the blink. But I am determined to keep
trying, knowing that one day my quit will be successful... eventually.
I crave the nicotine, but it's more than just that. My body can be full
of nicotine from a miscellaneous assortment of patches or lozenges
(ugh! give me heartburn) or inhalers, but I still am consumed with the
desire for a cigarette. Then I eat so much because I feel like I am
depriving myself. And still, it consumes my every thought and action.
I quit once previously for 8 years and then started back about 12 years
ago with one seemingly innocent cigarette on a break at work. If I ever
manage to conquer this beast again, I know I will never be able to pick
up "just one" or even bum a drag. EVER.
There should be a clinic for people to go to when they quit smoking,
just like there are places for people to go when they quit drinking and
quit using cocaine or heroin. And insurance should pay for it,
I use to think I was a strong person but this addiction leaves me
feeling so weak. This site is great, though. Reading all of it and how
everyone is dealing with it somehow helps.
And all of this from someone who grew up on a tobacco farm!
| |
| CuckooCathy\(Cat\) 2005-05-18, 9:44 am |
| Welcome to as3 Cindy.
Here is some great reading to help you on your journey.
Hang in there.
Cat
http://www.quitbuddies.org
http://www.swen.uwaterloo.ca/~as3/as3.html
http://www.whyquit.com/
http://www.cognitivequitting.com/
http://www.quitsmokingonline.com/
http://www.thebrackenfamily.info/html/quithome.html
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/...6100/index.html
http://www.join-the-circle.org/
http://www.ciggyfree.org/
Chat is here:
www.as3.info
Get a meter here:
www.silkquit.org
"Cindy" <cindy9922@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1115942179.945422.294450@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
| This article makes me feel somewhat better. In the past couple of
| months, I have tried to quit several times. I actually made it 2 weeks
| the last time, until major stress hit and I lit up 2 days ago. The time
| before that it was because I found half a pack under my bed. It felt
| like manna from heaven! I have reset my meter so many times that it's a
| wonder my computer went on the blink. But I am determined to keep
| trying, knowing that one day my quit will be successful... eventually.
|
| I crave the nicotine, but it's more than just that. My body can be full
| of nicotine from a miscellaneous assortment of patches or lozenges
| (ugh! give me heartburn) or inhalers, but I still am consumed with the
| desire for a cigarette. Then I eat so much because I feel like I am
| depriving myself. And still, it consumes my every thought and action.
|
| I quit once previously for 8 years and then started back about 12 years
| ago with one seemingly innocent cigarette on a break at work. If I ever
| manage to conquer this beast again, I know I will never be able to pick
| up "just one" or even bum a drag. EVER.
|
| There should be a clinic for people to go to when they quit smoking,
| just like there are places for people to go when they quit drinking and
| quit using cocaine or heroin. And insurance should pay for it,
|
| I use to think I was a strong person but this addiction leaves me
| feeling so weak. This site is great, though. Reading all of it and how
| everyone is dealing with it somehow helps.
|
| And all of this from someone who grew up on a tobacco farm!
|
| |
| Mark Earnest 2005-05-18, 9:44 am |
|
"Cindy" wrote ...
> There should be a clinic for people to go to when they quit smoking,
> just like there are places for people to go when they quit drinking and
> quit using cocaine or heroin. And insurance should pay for it,
I agree. When I was trying to quit for over fifteen years, I sometimes
wished someone would lock me into a concrete cell to keep me from smoking,
just to save my life.
Then I found this group, and all the live warnings of what happens when one
gives in...
And now I have been quit five and half years!
Mark
| |
| 'Kate- 2005-05-18, 9:44 am |
| On 12 May 2005 16:56:19 -0700, "Cindy" <cindy9922@aol.com> the
following was posted in blue crayon:
>This article makes me feel somewhat better. In the past couple of
>months, I have tried to quit several times. I actually made it 2 weeks
>the last time, until major stress hit and I lit up 2 days ago. The time
>before that it was because I found half a pack under my bed. It felt
>like manna from heaven! I have reset my meter so many times that it's a
>wonder my computer went on the blink. But I am determined to keep
>trying, knowing that one day my quit will be successful... eventually.
>
>I crave the nicotine, but it's more than just that. My body can be full
>of nicotine from a miscellaneous assortment of patches or lozenges
>(ugh! give me heartburn) or inhalers, but I still am consumed with the
>desire for a cigarette. Then I eat so much because I feel like I am
>depriving myself. And still, it consumes my every thought and action.
>
>I quit once previously for 8 years and then started back about 12 years
>ago with one seemingly innocent cigarette on a break at work. If I ever
>manage to conquer this beast again, I know I will never be able to pick
>up "just one" or even bum a drag. EVER.
>
>There should be a clinic for people to go to when they quit smoking,
>just like there are places for people to go when they quit drinking and
>quit using cocaine or heroin. And insurance should pay for it,
>
>I use to think I was a strong person but this addiction leaves me
>feeling so weak. This site is great, though. Reading all of it and how
>everyone is dealing with it somehow helps.
>
>And all of this from someone who grew up on a tobacco farm!
Great post.
I hope you decide to finish quitting. Maybe you can reward yourself
with something other than food? On a regular basis? It'll help to
switch your thoughts from deprivation to reward.
It really is worth it you know.
'Kate
| |
|
| Dear Cindy
I just posted another article for you
Just know that you will get to a point (when you choose) to not pick up any
more of this *manna from heaven.*
Determination is what is needed now ))
@heart!
"Cindy" <cindy9922@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1115942179.945422.294450@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> This article makes me feel somewhat better. In the past couple of
> months, I have tried to quit several times. I actually made it 2 weeks
> the last time, until major stress hit and I lit up 2 days ago. The time
> before that it was because I found half a pack under my bed. It felt
> like manna from heaven! I have reset my meter so many times that it's a
> wonder my computer went on the blink. But I am determined to keep
> trying, knowing that one day my quit will be successful... eventually.
>
> I crave the nicotine, but it's more than just that. My body can be full
> of nicotine from a miscellaneous assortment of patches or lozenges
> (ugh! give me heartburn) or inhalers, but I still am consumed with the
> desire for a cigarette. Then I eat so much because I feel like I am
> depriving myself. And still, it consumes my every thought and action.
>
> I quit once previously for 8 years and then started back about 12 years
> ago with one seemingly innocent cigarette on a break at work. If I ever
> manage to conquer this beast again, I know I will never be able to pick
> up "just one" or even bum a drag. EVER.
>
> There should be a clinic for people to go to when they quit smoking,
> just like there are places for people to go when they quit drinking and
> quit using cocaine or heroin. And insurance should pay for it,
>
> I use to think I was a strong person but this addiction leaves me
> feeling so weak. This site is great, though. Reading all of it and how
> everyone is dealing with it somehow helps.
>
> And all of this from someone who grew up on a tobacco farm!
>
| |
|
| You bet sweetie
OK you all have a great night I have to run away and party!
lol
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee don't smoke!
x0x0x0x
"'Kate-" <not_at_home-@home.net> wrote in message
news:fc55811opfnuoa8b6135mkobm33fj8nsa1@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 11 May 2005 22:22:15 GMT, "Robbb"
> <robbb@DICEALLCAPSciggyfree.org> the following was posted in blue
> crayon:
>
>
> Ok... now that I'm feeling a little better and that headache is gone,
> had a meal, and the kids are home to keep me from being more stupid
> than I usually am.... NOW YOU POST THIS?
>
> thanks. :-)
>
> 'Kate
>
| |
| GoddessXena 2005-05-18, 9:47 am |
| Robbb wrote:
> note: I found this article interesting though particpants were few but =
> *emotional smokers may have a harder time quitting*
>
> Anger or anxiety may trigger the urge to smoke in some people, according to
> a new study that suggests emotional smokers may have a harder time quitting.
*THIS* is ME.
TY, my friend, for posting this.
--
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." -G.W. Bush,
Greater Nashua, N.H., January 27, 2000
---
Agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
http://home.earthlink.net/~goddessxena
http://icantimmormon.com/
| |
| Tiger Lily 2005-05-18, 9:48 am |
|
"'Kate-" <not_at_home-@home.net> wrote in message
news:vj7781ts1afdeffpofn8cba5d9mftc2m8o@4ax.com...
> Here's my meter... still intact thanks to many
of you & I'm very
> grateful:
>
> Eight months, three weeks, six days, 15 hours,
39 minutes and 27
> seconds. 8119 cigarettes not smoked, saving
$1,217.93. Life saved: 4
> weeks, 4 hours, 35 minutes.
>
> 'Kate
woo hoo............ you did it girl!!!! keep on
keeping on.......... one day at a time.........
kate (the other one of 3)
| |
|
| Dear 'Kate this is from Crystal:
> Will someone tell 'Kate to see if her pdoc can get her a rx for Klonopin
> or
> Xanax. They can be taken on an "as needed" basis and completly eases
> anxiety.
>
> I'm in her killfile I'm sure...but I think this would help her. Thanks to
> whoever. Robbb?? please.
Yeppers did it for ya huny
"ItsCrystal" <noXXXXingsmoking@crystal.jelly> wrote in message
news:cfeb8668a3a749ba0e38aa87bb422fdb@localhost.talkaboutsupport.com...
> Will someone tell 'Kate to see if her pdoc can get her a rx for Klonopin
> or
> Xanax. They can be taken on an "as needed" basis and completly eases
> anxiety.
>
> I'm in her killfile I'm sure...but I think this would help her. Thanks to
> whoever. Robbb?? please.
>
> Crystal <---who has had an anxiety disorder since age 17 and finally got
> it under total control w/meds
>
| |
| CuckooCathy\(Cat\) 2005-05-18, 9:51 am |
| Welcome to as3 Cindy.
Here is some great reading to help you on your journey.
Hang in there.
Cat
http://www.quitbuddies.org
http://www.swen.uwaterloo.ca/~as3/as3.html
http://www.whyquit.com/
http://www.cognitivequitting.com/
http://www.quitsmokingonline.com/
http://www.thebrackenfamily.info/html/quithome.html
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/...6100/index.html
http://www.join-the-circle.org/
http://www.ciggyfree.org/
Chat is here:
www.as3.info
Get a meter here:
www.silkquit.org
"Cindy" <cindy9922@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1115942179.945422.294450@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
| This article makes me feel somewhat better. In the past couple of
| months, I have tried to quit several times. I actually made it 2 weeks
| the last time, until major stress hit and I lit up 2 days ago. The time
| before that it was because I found half a pack under my bed. It felt
| like manna from heaven! I have reset my meter so many times that it's a
| wonder my computer went on the blink. But I am determined to keep
| trying, knowing that one day my quit will be successful... eventually.
|
| I crave the nicotine, but it's more than just that. My body can be full
| of nicotine from a miscellaneous assortment of patches or lozenges
| (ugh! give me heartburn) or inhalers, but I still am consumed with the
| desire for a cigarette. Then I eat so much because I feel like I am
| depriving myself. And still, it consumes my every thought and action.
|
| I quit once previously for 8 years and then started back about 12 years
| ago with one seemingly innocent cigarette on a break at work. If I ever
| manage to conquer this beast again, I know I will never be able to pick
| up "just one" or even bum a drag. EVER.
|
| There should be a clinic for people to go to when they quit smoking,
| just like there are places for people to go when they quit drinking and
| quit using cocaine or heroin. And insurance should pay for it,
|
| I use to think I was a strong person but this addiction leaves me
| feeling so weak. This site is great, though. Reading all of it and how
| everyone is dealing with it somehow helps.
|
| And all of this from someone who grew up on a tobacco farm!
|
| |
| Mark Earnest 2005-05-18, 9:51 am |
|
"Cindy" wrote ...
> There should be a clinic for people to go to when they quit smoking,
> just like there are places for people to go when they quit drinking and
> quit using cocaine or heroin. And insurance should pay for it,
I agree. When I was trying to quit for over fifteen years, I sometimes
wished someone would lock me into a concrete cell to keep me from smoking,
just to save my life.
Then I found this group, and all the live warnings of what happens when one
gives in...
And now I have been quit five and half years!
Mark
|
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