Being tempted watching others smoke
Ex-smokers are sometimes tempted when watching others smoke. Spending time with a specific friend and watching them smoke may be a trigger especially if it was the most time you spent with the friend...
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Here in the U.S. at least $11.2 billion in annual tobacco industry marketing (2001 F.T.C. data) creates an image that is in the opposite direction and as far from Joel's above graphic as the mind can...
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This post helped save my quit when my smoking housemates moved in...(friends of my husbands...definitely not my choice)...and it was so hard watching them all...including my husband go outside with...
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My two best friends smoke. We have ben in the habit for the last five years of calling each other for smoke breaks. "Hey, wanna smoke a cigarette with me?," either of them would ask and I would say,...
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But I explained to him that she doesn't even know what she's doing. She needed her fix, part of that habit was calling me and that's what she did. I still said, "Sure" but I just listened to her...
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Try replacing the word "cigarette" with "nicotine
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An excellent thread. I had recently been watching people who smoke and at times feeling jealous that they were smoking. Some honest reflection revealed I was engaging in junkie thinking. This thread,...
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Parade: of desperate addicts - have you ever ...
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Reading through this thread, it's surprising to me that people don't develop cancer sooner!! Of course smoking causes cancer! Look how icky it looks and smells. I might have nightmares about tobacco...
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Hi,I am more than an year into my quit.Thought this might help someone going through this phase.Sometime around month 3 or 4 into my quit, I always got tempted watching friends around me smoke. I...
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Thank you for sharing your journey and experiences in overcoming a powerful temptation / trigger. I believe it helps those early on in their quit to see the changes that happen. It certainly helped...
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I am a very happy ex-smoker. The every day triggers for me were taken care of because I had to do them, the rest of the triggers that were less frequent took a little longer. Joel and John and the...
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I needed this today. This is such a fantastic site. I feel like everything here is just...understood and the answers are no holds barred and straight to the facts. Thank you.
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