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What were somethings that you had to overcome after you quit smoking?

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:47:29 +0000

I quit smoking about 5 months ago… (I am so proud of myself) I feel so much healthier and a whole lot better about myself! It feels so weird to not get that ‘"break" to get away from something. To deal with things! Sometimes, I get so moody…. I know I have to stay positive! Lol… Quiting feels so good! So would you please tell me your story! How did you learn to calm yourself? If you put on some weight did you lose it after sometime? Do you feel more alive? How has your life changed since you quit?

I quit smoking when I was 27. I was smoking 3 packs a day and I drank coffee by the pot. I was eating Oreos and ice cream, and otherwise snacking quite a bit through the day because the cigs tasted better after I ate,, sooooo.. I was gaining a bit of weight before I quit. I gained no weight when I quit smoking, I lost… I also had a headache everyday of my life and had gone to eye drs, chiropractors, etc.. trying to cure them.. after a few months of no smoking I realized I had no more headaches…

So one night I was getting ready to go to sleep and I heard a wheezing sound coming from my mouth.. I said no way, and put my 1/2 empty pack of cigs in my pocket the next morning so that I wouldn’t go through the crazy looking for cig buts or bumming from somebody else etc… Then I never smoked again. I did like it for the first few months when a person came around and was smoking, I could breathe their smoke and feel so good… But soon the smoke was not pleasing anymore, 6 months, a year and a half.. I don’t remember exactly. Then the smoke irritated me..

I was very busy with my retail store so I was never bored and wandering what to do with my time so I think that helped. I also quit coffee as I said, they went together and I figured it would be easier to quit smoking without the coffee. I still don’t drink coffee to this day.. 20 years later… I dreamed off and on for about 7 years that I was smoking again, I would tell myself that I was so stupid and "why did you start again after so long" I would be really upset with my self when I woke up, sometimes I couldn’t tell if it was real or a dream after a awoke. I think that I was really ready to quit and it made it very easy for me. I think that you just have to keep your mind set to the fact that you are no longer a smoker and just never take that 1st one again…

I always thought I would kill everybody around me when I quit smoking, I had a lot of stress with my business, and a wife that was a hypochondriac and a liar, I thought that I need to smoke so that I would not blow up and yell and scream, beat on people or something… But the only real problem I had was wanting to sleep all the time, I think from quitting the coffee. I got over that in a few weeks though. I didn’t kill, beat or even yell too much…. The best thing is that now at almost 50 years old I feel better and stronger than I did when I was 27. I would drive my van in to Vegas a hundred miles and when I got out I would walk across the parking lot like an old man.. Now I jump out and do two double back flips and… oh well I do jump out and walk upright…

How do you take the first step out of addiction(s) without looking back?

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:33:24 +0000

I’m 17 and feeling pretty low right about now. Actually I’ve been in a bout of depression for the past 7-8 months and I’m sort of lost. I’ve realized I’m pretty young and I’ve got quite a ways to go in life, and for that I’m extremely grateful. I know in the back of my mind that I still have a chance at a decent happy life, but I can’t bring myself to actually making things happen. I don’t want to live this way anymore, but I can’t seem to stop. If you’ve had experience with addiction and living a shitty life please drop some knowledge and lend me a hand. I need someone who really knows what they’re talking about, someone who has taken that first step out and has been where I am.

I’m a sleeping pill junkie, and that’s one of my biggest problems. I think my mom gave them to me when I was 12 to help me sleep and I’ve been addicted ever since. It’s gotten to the point where I could take 12 maximum strength pills a night and not even fall asleep. I’ll just stay up and listen to music while I enjoy the high. I’ve quit before, but I just end up relapsing. I know I’m capable of quiting again, it’s just so hard. Especially because I want this time to be my last.

I use to smoke 2 packs of cigarettes a day from 15-17 (I’m about to be 18). I’ve quit and haven’t smoked in about 9 months.

Another addiction I have, which might not sound like one, is being a recluse. I was locked up when I was 14 for practically dropping out of school and I lost a lot of friends. I ended up switching to a charter school wich is 2 days a week for a short time and I ended up staying at home with no where to go. I eventually started skipping school because I got pale and I didn’t want people to look at me weird. Now it’s to the point where I haven’t really left my room for about 6th months.

I’m really living on the shit side of life right now and want out. I know I’m never going to be 100% like everyone else, but I want somewhat of a normal life or to be able to say I lived life to the fullest. There’s days where I’m ready to go out and do something about it, but end up getting discouraged because I don’t really know what to do and I slip back into this reclusive state with sleeping pills.

I want to say that it’s not that bad, but of course I’m going to say that because it’s an addiction…

I want to be able to put my life behind me once and for all. If there’s anyone who can help me or give advice, please do so.

I’m about to be out of school by the way.. Going for my GED because of my life style right now pretty much.. I just don’t know where I’m going after. I’ve put some thought into the military, but the more I think about it I don’t know if it’s such a good idea. I was kind of using it as an escape or a place I could turn too, but I know they would tear me up in there. I have major self-esteem issues.

I don’t know..

wow thats too much to read.im straight. just set your mind to it and u can quit anything. nothing and no one can help u , you gotta help your self in this world thats how it works. u gotta do what u gotta do.so go do it! why u on the computer for

marijuana cravings stopped…then started again?

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:16:43 +0000

ok…i used to smoke weed,cigarettes, Black and mild’s, and i used to drink any type of hard liquor……i quit it all 4 months ago because i noticed how much it effected me… and me and all my Friends who did smoke and party wit me and all that got into arguments with me over those 4 months…..my best friend and i just started to not be friends and i haven’t did anything besides go to school, and regular family stuff for a month now…i have no friends outside of school……i was pretty much proud of myself for quiting but now i keep having cravings for all of these….im pretty shure it has to do with me not doing anything…but none of my friends will take me back, i don’t want to mess myself up again but im depressed and there isn’t anything to do but go on the computer…..wat do i do????
48 minutes ago – 4 days left to answer.
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my friendz didn’t stop being my friendz just cause i stopped…they were proud of me after like a month……..i dont want to start again i just want the cravings to stop and a way to get out of my depresion and do different stuff
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i DONT want to be on drugs….period…. i just want to be a normal teen……no depression….no stupid drugs……no fuking people i have to rely on…..also how do i become independent……i noticed how important my frendz were and i dnt wanna need any1 ………iz it like this the whole time yur a teenager???? im 13 btw
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i love the feeling of weed but the after effects make me so lazy and yah

Well…you should do whatever you think is right and good for you. Since you are only 13, you’ve got A LOT more of those teen years coming up, and the pressure of drinking and smoking will probably worsen. Just stick to your commitment and fight the cravings, they are only psychological. Good luck

why am i having these cravingz now?

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:29:25 +0000

i love the feeling of weed but the after effects make me so lazy and yah

OKAY!

first, to the ALI girl above me…

you don’t TAKE weed. you SMOKE it.
it only stays in your system for about 40 days.
NOT MONTHS.

and to YOU!

they weren’t really your REAL friends. if they were, they would STILL be your friends.

and secondly, my hubby and i quit doing EVERYTHING, just like you, more than a YEAR ago. and we still want to do it. don’t feel like something’s wrong or anything. you just have to fight the urges to do it. just be proud of yourself, and how you made yourself QUIT. soon enough, you’ll be able to be as independent as you want. chew gum, take up yoga, start playing an instrument. do something that will take your mind of off smoking a blunt, or drinking some alcohol. i’m sure you’ll get rid of those cravings soon enough. i wish you the BEST of luck.

My boyfriend cheated on me, was drunk and on drugs, should I take him back?

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:39:30 +0000

I was at a music festival with my then boyfriend, we’d both had e, coke and booze (it was a festival please don’t judge) we went to some mates tent and smoked some weed and I just wanted to pass out but he went back to our van. When i went to get him in the morning he was in there with some whore b*tch and they were both naked!! I blew my top!

Told him he was a worthless c*** and needed to f*** off. That I hoped the sl*t gave him a disease and he had f***ed everything because he would never again have someone as hot and as awesome as me who would put up with his s***! We had been having problems, nothing major, he needed to lerarn how to clean up after himself because he was mommy-coddled and needed to stop quiting his jobs before he had another one lined up so I would have to support him etc. And we were trying to work things working things out.

He left me a letter after he moved his stuff out saying how sorry he was and how much he loves me blah blah.
I was so proud of myself for sticking it to him but now everythings sunk in I feel absolutly worthless; lonley, sad and so on and i started thinking about what would happen if i did take him back…He is a guy who I would never have thought would cheat and neither would you honestly, he had been cheated on before and told me how much it hurt him. We’ve been together almost two years. My friends are obviously baised and say I should ditch the bastard and forget him but I really need the opinions of people who can look at this from the outside right now. If i took him back it wouldn’t be for a while and i was thinking a condition could be that I get to punch him in the face three times? Or some thing like that, a kick in the balls? … Please help me!
And he would definatly need to be checked for STD’s.

Normally, I wouldn’t answer a question like this, but I feel I have to. I haven’t read your story at all. It is a no brainer. Do not take him back or anyone like him. You have set your standards in life way to low and without knowing you, that may be satisfactory for you at this time in your life. Start with the end in mind. How do you want your life to turn out in 1 yr, 5 yrs, 25 yr. I know I want mine to be good, full and happy and as such, I will only surround myself by people who can provide that for me. My husband sometimes jokes "Aren’t you lucky that I don’t do all of those sorts of things" and my reply is "no, I am not lucky, I chose you because you don’t do those sorts of things, I wouldn’t be with a guy that did". I know you will probably ignore this advice and do what you want anyway – which is to get back together, but just think about it and don’t.

I need advise concerning my fiancee…asap?

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:45:17 +0000

I have a fiancee that I love and adore, he is in love…obsessed with me right? Well, he used to do harder drugs but just smokes pot now, well did and then he was quiting about a month ago with the reason " i dont need it anymore to make me happy cause I have you, you are all I need" and he isnt a person that is full of crap you know? He told this to me, to his friends (in front of me). Well I know his password on myspace cause he gave it to me, of course I was curious…well…mopre curious to see if he is doing anything behind my back cause I don’t trust anyone after my previous dissapointments, he knows this. Anyway today…first time I looked at his page, I saw a message to his friend saying to come over…they were going to do red rock (opium) … im dissapointed and more so…I feel he realized im not enough of a substitution, which ultimately makes me feel unimportant,I so want to rip on him but I would of course have to admit how I found out which would completly do a 180 to me and make it a matter of privacy….how do I bring this up? if I don’t I will just be distant..I need to tell him without it doing this 180

Its tricky but if I were you I would say that someone knows one of his friends cousins and told you about what was going on and confront him about the matter. Let him know that you are a woman of class and that you will not be with someone who does these kinds of drugs because it is very unhealthy and that you want a life with someone who is clean cut and drug free instead of high all the time and more than likely going to be doing the same thing in 5 years. It sounds mean but thats what drugs do to people on a regular basis, you have to think about yourself just like he is doing and putting your life and goals first, otherwise the drug will take hold of you too. I hope this helps somehow, good luck hun!

How do I get over the sadness of breaking up?

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:43:13 +0000

I moved home lastnight after an 8 year relationship with my man and my pups(i miss dearly). He doesn’t want me to see the dogs at all and wants nothing of me cause I will not have an abortion. I am in my 2nd trimester this week. The stress, the hurt, the anger- I feel I made a bad decision. We both agreed we did not want kids and I was on birth control. That decision was based on me not being able to have them- apparantly so. He wants nothing to do with me and we had everything- all I have now is- well nothing. His family and my family and friends are so supportive. He wants this abortion so bad. His friends don’t know yet- sure they will when they see me gone. I just wonder how do I cope without him. I do love him and he really is not a bad guy except when the baby pops up. Plus I am really anxious and want this baby to be healthy. I have been trying to quit smoking (I know- how greedy am I to continue) but I am having a hard time quiting with all my drama. what does pregnant lady do?
Well it’s been 4 days since we spoke and I left. I am having a hard time. Can’t eat, sleep, and working very long hours at work. I have an appointment today to see another ultrasound and speak with a counselor. None of our friends know still. And he seems excited that he kicked me out. Already planning vacations without me! This hurts.

You have the child, and make him pay child support. Explain to the court how he wanted you to abort the child too. They should go hard on him. It will show how selfish he is.
You may think you have nothing now, but once you have a child, your whole life changes. Mine changed for the good. The first time you hold that baby, you never want to let go.
So trust me, motherhood will give your life meaning. Knowing you are needed by someone 24/7 is a special feeling too. So don’t ever think you have nothing. Your child will always be something. Because you’ll always be something to your child.

Should I break up with my girlfriend because she is a cigarette smoker and I am not?

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:06:14 +0000

my girlfriend and I have been living together for a year. we both love each other very much. she is exactly what i want in this world. and she feels the same way about me. we both now that we want to get married and spend our lives together. when we first got together she did smoke but bearly. i didnt like her smoking then but i delt with it because she seemed like she was going to quit. she continued this for awhile. i have told her how i felt about cigarretts… how i hate them.. the smell, the yellow teeth and fingers, the need to have them and know were they are, the health problems, birth defects etc. i hate everything there is to hate about them. we have talked about how i felt about them and how i dont want them in my world. she promissed to cut back and quit eventually… he had a agreement that she would decied when she would quit and that when she did i would not let he smoke anymore… so a about a week or so after that conversation she told me that she was quiting… i was so happy and proud of her. this was about 2 months ago. she seemed like she was doing really well with it to me until she told me today that she really didnt quit when she said she did and that she hid her cigarretts in our roomates room. she said that she was only been without cigs for like 2 weeks. she just got he first paycheck form her new job and she bought a pack a ciggaretts with the money. she showed me the box and i grabed it a destoyed them. i dont know what to do… i was nearly heartbroken when i found out that she lied about quiting and i saw that she had bought more cigaretts. i cant belive that she lied about something that is so important to me. i dont no what to do if she starts to smoke again. i know i dont want cigaretts in my life at all. i just want he to quit. it like shes choosing cigarretts over me.

If you love her, it shouldn’t matter if she smokes. Love is first. Hate for smoking is secondary.

how to prepare mentally/physically

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:26:05 +0000

well we all heard that eating unhealty or not exercising can make a person weak, thats me! im 18 and im skinny but im out of it

what can i do to glow more from the inside? i also want to be well focused in class

anything, from eating right, eating at the right time, to exercising, what can i do?

right now i will tell you that i do not exercise at all, like if i tried to run right now i would have to keep my back straight to not sprain it (lack of streaching) and i do not eat in the morning, and when i do it its after 2 and its junk food and i keep craving more, i do NOT drink soda, but i dont drink a lot of water, i wash my face everyday so im clean on that

i do masturbate everyday and dont shower for days so i feel dirty and smelly (although im assuming no one has a clue) and thatcontributes to why i feel so dull and gray

i want to shine! i want to wake up with a smile on my face wanting to go to school. i dont have much friends (im getting there) and ive never had a girlfriend so i need extra encouragement.

im a happy guy but i have my days-week (which are very bad)

i know listening to what you guys say will make me more awake and ready and it will actually help my grade in college

no smoking (very little and im quiting)

someone told me to walk in the morning and eat breakfast and you will be amazed about awake your brain will be for school…i want to hear advice like that

basically i want to feel like im at the top of the world

First off, walking or biking to school would make you feel fantastic for your first class of the day. Also I would suggest juicing or making smoothies in the morning. You say you don’t shower much, but doing so in the AM might motivate you to do so. (Sometimes I have trouble showering myself). Also, start off your day with at least one full glass of water.

Start cooking/packing your own lunch. Learning to cook– it’s easy to Google "healthy recipes" or "fast healthy recipes". Make sure you get lots of veggies. I would suggest a mostly vegetarian plus fish diet. Chicken a few times a week, red meat a few times a month. Veggies + Fish = AWESOME.

Take some vitamins. If not multivitamins, at least do a B-Complex. I take mine at night next to my toothbrush so I don’t forget.

Take a yoga class. Start stretching and if your school has a gym, force yourself at least 20 minutes of cardio 3 times a week. Lifting makes you feel pretty awesome, too.

Masturbating = GOOD… keep doing it.

Get a water bottle (16oz at least) and drink it in class. This will help keep you awake as you’ll have to pee a lot.

GL in your quest!

Smoke too much….??

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:00:22 +0000

I’ve been smoking cannabis for about 2 years now…daily…..and i know its pretty bad. but i dont feel like quiting…like i dont see anything wrong with it. i still get good grades and i ballroom dance….so its not like im stoned 24/7 in front of the tv. but lots of people give me beef about it (like classmates, grandma, etc…).
and i like doing it. i have no intentions of stopping until after college. and it makes me look forward to getting out of bed….sometimes its the only motivation to get me out of bed for my 7:30am class.
but it annoys me how some people dont leave me alone.
what should i do? any words of wisdom fellow teens?

also, a tiny survey.

Perhaps you should put some thought into what is wrong with your life, if the only thing that gets you motivated to get out of bed in the morning is drugs.