Smoking

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All,

Thanks all who replied on and off list.

I only posted the info for people to make themselves aware, however it has

turned into a topic of huge proportions. My inbox has never been so full.

I have tried hypnosis (Laid on a couch and some old bloke in a suit spoke

softly in my ear, I didn’t have to look at a swinging watch or anything) and I

am apparently not as susceptible to suggestion as I first thought, although just

after sex ill say yes to whatever the wife says, so hypnosis is blown for me.

I have tried the patches, the gum is a waste of time, I tried the artificial

cigarette (a cigarette shaped tube which you put nicotine capsules in and smoke

like a real fag) but as with the patches if you smoke whilst on them you get a

rush.

The will power thing is out the window before I start, because im one of those

people who hasn’t got any.

Sure I hate the smell, I don’t like my mouth tasting like an ashtray and yes

my clothes smell like crap and my breath is worse than a Taliban armpit, I have

yellow stains on my fingers and the first thing I do in the morning after my

shower is have a fag. I spend over £30 a week on fags and prefer to leave my

pint on the table and go to the " smoking area " instead of enjoying the beer, but

all that has to change, for my health and my pocket, and for the health of any

children I might have soon.

The only two things I haven’t tried are

1. Zyban

2. Being locked in a dark room with only a TV and DVD player without the fags

and loads of food.

Although the law change in Scotland will push me more towards giving up, I am

in need of that extra push and if Zyban does it for me then all the better. I

shall check with top side medical to see if it is acceptable offshore before I

start. Like most of the guys who have stopped it is the fact that you want to

stop rather than having to stop that makes you stop, and I don’t think I have

got the “Want to” bit in me just yet.

Now if I could go see an “Entertainer” type hypnotist rather than an

hypnotherapist and actually get hypnotised (Like on the telly) that would be

funny and helpful, knowing my wife she would probably get the hypnotist to

“programme” me with a word so that when she said it I would go off and do the

cleaning or something strange.

Cigarettes are addictive, just like alcohol is, some people can stop using

with the minimum of help, others need to be carted away and locked in a secure

environment where they cant get at any booze. Whilst I drink im not an alcoholic

but I am addicted to nicotine and need help.

As one of my friend once said to me “Piss of your breath smell like shit and I

don’t want you anywhere near my baby making him smell like fags”, its time to

change.

Mitch

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