Re: Treating compulsive behaviours

[Guest guest]

It could be worse.  I developed a compulsive manual behavior and accidentally

severed an artery.  At least smoking is slow?  - unless you do something like

burn the house down around yourself.  :-(

How about compulsive exercising???

Newell

Boston, MA

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Treating compulsive behaviours (Re: Caffeine addiction)

Supertraining

Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 6:54 AM

So how do we treat compulsive behavior? im addicted to smoking, but the nicotine

is not what i crave, its the habituality of having something to do. I started

when a couple years ago while i was over seas in iraq, and would love to kick

the habit. Any ideas?

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[Guest guest]

HI ,

On May 24, 2010, at 4:54 AM, david flees wrote:

> So how do we treat compulsive behavior? im addicted to smoking, but

> the nicotine is not what i crave, its the habituality of having

> something to do.

> I started when a couple years ago while i was over seas in iraq, and

> would love to kick the habit. Any ideas?

Telle --I wonder if others would say that the habituality is the

compulsion and the nicotine the addiction? I would guess that the

habituality has been classically conditioned with the nicotine

pleasure. What this means for interdiction I dont know except maybe if

you had a fully developed set of positive and negative outcomes for

your expectations maybe you would improve? I'll bet your expectations

are now very strong and totally negative?

Jerry Telle

Lakewood CO USA

[Guest guest]

There was a great article about compulsive exercising. Most bodybuilders,

powerlifters, and general fitness enthusiast, are pretty obsessive compulsive

about their workouts and making it to the gym, then also eating, and everything

else. I am forced to take a break everyonce in a while (6-8) weeks so i dont hit

a wall with my numbers and size. I read a good article from dusty henshaw, and

he made a great point that actually forcing lay oof some times for a month,

breaks the routine. You give your body time to rest relzx and heel, no more

nagging pains in the gym when you go back in, and then it doesnt take to long to

get back to where you used to be, alot of time from forced layoffs longer then 

a week, i noticed i do not lose to much size and strength but when i go ack in

for the next month, im just destroying all my old numbers and everything. Its

nice to see day to day progress but whats more important for us who are in it

for the long run is that

were improving each year getting bigger, faster, stronger, and over all 

healthier.

Flees

Sterling, VA

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From: J. Newell <john.o.newell@...>

Supertraining

Sent: Tue, May 25, 2010 9:19:45 PM

Subject: Re: Treating compulsive behaviours

 

It could be worse.  I developed a compulsive manual behavior and accidentally

severed an artery.  At least smoking is slow?  - unless you do something like

burn the house down around yourself.  :-(

How about compulsive exercising???

Newell

Boston, MA

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Treating compulsive behaviours (Re: Caffeine addiction)

Supertraining

Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 6:54 AM

So how do we treat compulsive behavior? im addicted to smoking, but the nicotine

is not what i crave, its the habituality of having something to do. I started

when a couple years ago while i was over seas in iraq, and would love to kick

the habit. Any ideas?

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[Guest guest]

The article along those lines that I remember being very impressed by was " The

Obligatory Exerciser " at www.phys sports med.com . The big risk is overtraining

(not surprisingly). Taking time off, which I am very bad about, usually

improves, rather than harms, performance, just as your say!

Newell

Boston, MA

Treating compulsive behaviours (Re: Caffeine addiction)

Supertraining

Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 6:54 AM

So how do we treat compulsive behavior? im addicted to smoking, but the nicotine

is not what i crave, its the habituality of having something to do. I started

when a couple years ago while i was over seas in iraq, and would love to kick

the habit. Any ideas?

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