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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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I quit smoking about 40 days ago and everything was going great until 10 days ago. I've smoked since then, but only while at PC bangs. I can honestly say that I don't crave cigs anymore unless I'm at a PC bang, and even then I only smoke because I feel like I should. Kinda strange-e, I guess.
My lungs feel so much better. I think Korean cigs are worse than American ones.. at least, I never noticed serious health effects until after about two months of smoking Korean cigs. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 11:01 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like you need to do yourself a favour and buy yourself a computer.
You can easily rationalize it "This computer is bought with the money I've saved from not buying smokes anymore" |
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Cohiba
Joined: 01 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:06 pm Post subject: Smoking |
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I quit in January. Haven't had any cigarettes yet. Went up
to 86Kg but am now down to about 80Kg again. Been working
out 5 times a week.
I just came to the conclusion that smoking is primitive. It is
also just a cheap, smelly, disgusing habit that is dangerous
and ages prematurely.
However, I do smoke cuban cigars a few times a week.
"People who quit smoking and drinking don't live longer, it
just seems longer." |
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simone
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Now Mostly @ Home
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:19 pm Post subject: Re: Smoking |
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| Cohiba wrote: |
I just came to the conclusion that smoking is primitive. It is
also just a cheap, smelly, disgusing habit that is dangerous
and ages prematurely.
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One mind trick that I'm playing with myself is over the fact that we plan to start having kids in another year and a half or so....
There's that old expression that "each cigarette takes 7 minutes off your life" which is probably total bull*$@!, but I try to envision that 7 minutes being taken away... imagine, 7 LUCID minutes with my kids and grandkids around, what would I want to say to them, share with them? I close my eyes and think about that for a minute or two, and then the idea of heading out for a butt with my co-workers doesn't seem so appealing. I'll give up that seven minutes of hanging out in the smoking area for this imaginary seven minutes at the end of my life.
I have to pin it all down to something important, like my future grandkids...
Still having trouble with going out and seeing smoker friends though.
Simone
Two weeks as of today |
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thorin
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:18 am Post subject: |
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| 11 months. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:25 am Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
Sounds like you need to do yourself a favour and buy yourself a computer.
You can easily rationalize it "This computer is bought with the money I've saved from not buying smokes anymore" |
Oh.. don't remind me. God I wish I could afford a computer. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:55 am Post subject: |
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WTF? Q, go over to the Tech Forum and start a thread, something like-
"Who wants to help me build a computer?"
Say something like-
"I only have 300,000 to spend and just want something to keep me out of smoke-infested PC rooms. If you've got any old parts lying around that you'd like to donate to my cause I'd be happy to accept them."
I've got enough video cards, sound cards, hard drives, modem cards, lan cards, cpus and motherboards (not to mention monitors and a printer) to put together a couple of decent computers (but unfortunately I'm not in Korea), and I'm sure there are a lot of people (in Korea) with a lot more stuff kicking around than me.
Give it a try, I'm sure you'll get loads of help.
Or check the Buy & Sell forum.
If you can afford to smoke and you can afford to go to pc rooms, you can afford a pc. |
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simone
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Now Mostly @ Home
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
Oh.. don't remind me. God I wish I could afford a computer. |
We're on a budget too, just having come back to Korea out of grad school, but I couldn't bear sharing my laptop with my husband.
There was a little computer-guy shop in Haebangchon, I walked in and asked what's the cheapest they could do.
We got a Box, CD-RW, DVD player, big ugly monitor, english win XP pro, Pentium 4, all that... perfectly usable computer, probably considered "top of the line" 2 years ago. 340,000 delivered.
The nice thing is that the husband isn't good with computers, so he can always pop in there and get help for "his" computer. He has his and I have mine, and so he can't blame me for messing up his desktop...
I tell him, garbage in, garbage out. I Just won't touch it. You never learn how to maintain a computer until you absolutely have to.
Simone |
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DRAMA OVERKILL
Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:19 am Post subject: |
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I quit smoking for 5 weeks... But, I've been smoking again for the past 3 weeks... Oh my God, it's hard to kick... I even used the patch (which helps), but in the end I still insanely craved a smoke...
Very stressful time - found myself drinking more, and was very irritable... Health-wise I felt great... Gonna try again... Recently heard about a 25 year old moderate smoking female back home who has been diagnosed with lung cancer - yikes... |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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For those who missed it, Dutchman was droning on and on (and on and on) here last year about this 'great book' that helped him quit so i finally decided to read it to shut him up but instead it worked. The book is "Allan Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking" and it's a horribly written book, but it actually DOES help you to quit smoking.
Maybe What The Book will have a used copy.
[The above is a recreated dramatization 'based on' actual events] |
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Confused Canadian
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
For those who missed it, Dutchman was droning on and on (and on and on) here last year about this 'great book' that helped him quit so i finally decided to read it to shut him up but instead it worked. The book is "Allan Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking" and it's a horribly written book, but it actually DOES help you to quit smoking.
Maybe What The Book will have a used copy.
[The above is a recreated dramatization 'based on' actual events] |
I was also guilty of "droning on and on", but the book does work. After smoking +25 cigs a day for more than 12 years, I quit last May / June and haven't looked back since. I didn't put on any weight (I've been heavy for quite some time now  ). You don't need the patch or anything else...get Allen Carr's book.
Of course I had cravings during the first 3 weeks or so after I quit, but that was just my body getting rid of the nicotine. Since then, I haven't had any cravings. When I go out to drink, I never think of having a smoke. At first, I had a "strange" feeling, like something was missing. But now, the thought doesn't cross my mind. I'd equate it to something like this:
When I was a kid, seat belts weren't mandatory. When the law came into effect, everyone complained about how uncomfortable they were, but once you got used to it, you didn't think about it anymore. Now, if I'm driving and I don't wear my seat belt (sometimes I stop at the store on my way home, which is all of 500 meters from my apt.), I conciously decide not to wear my seat belt, and that feels weird. I guess it makes sense that in the beginning, there may be times that things feel wierd, as smoking is something you do several times a day, everyday. But as time passes, and you create new habits, you don't think about it anymore.
Good luck to all the future 'quitters' out there.
Confused Canadian |
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fusionbarnone
Joined: 31 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| I quit 3 years ago whilst working in Korea. Sure, cigs are cheap and everyone seems to smoke but, do you want to look like a long term smoker? Look at some of the Koreans, you wanna look like them? |
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fusionbarnone
Joined: 31 May 2004
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I quit 3 years ago whilst working in Korea. Sure, cigs are cheap and everyone seems to smoke but, do you want to look like a long term smoker? Look at some of the Koreans, you wanna look like them?
Think of it that way and it's easy to quit. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:55 am Post subject: |
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>. I huffed & i puffed for 15 years. Still, yep, i amazingly quit while here.
My advice if you ARE gonna smoke anything, stick to the GOOD stuff, & not the poisonous fake tobacco products world govt's pedal & profit from 
With any indulgence of this kind, i further strongly advice you wait until you return to the freer shores of your home country.  |
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yesterday's child
Joined: 26 Apr 2005
Location: better for me if you don't know.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:57 am Post subject: |
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healthy lung
small carcinoma (cancer)
severe carcinoma
seeing as smoking does that ^ to lungs, maybe quitting in any fuckin' place on earth is a really good idea and can benefit everybody. it's time to stop the ignorant excuses and start thinking of our children.  |
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