Off the booze and smokes once more.. (1 Viewer)

[Pat Pockets]

Off them since the middle of June meself, feel better in a million different ways. Smokes are for saps, PATCHES ARE FOR YUPPIES!!

 

[ernesto]

ugh.....my buckfast hurts

 

[David Kronenbourg]

i'm a crusty, paranoid wreck this morning. drinking's for gaybos. i'm going straight edge

 

[Dktr. Faustus]

As a result of last weekend, this has to happen. I actually felt I was dying. I think I should pick up a new vice though, ideas?

 

[Unicron]

As a result of last weekend, this has to happen. I actually felt I was dying. I think I should pick up a new vice though, ideas?

Heroin?

 

[Squiggle]

I've given up trying to give up booze and smokes... it's going really well. I think I am actually getting sick of both but I'm sticking with it.

Well, that didn't work. Got sick of smoking a couple of weeks ago, haven't been able to face a lovely cigarette since.

But it's ok though... I've substituted food.

 

[Hector Grey]

i'm off fags nearly 4 years. doddle. booze, i can never give up. never. not even for a minute. drunk now, in fact.

 

[Squiggle]

How did you give up the overeating that seems to follow?
Gaining half a stone in less than two weeks isn't funny.

 

[Jill Hives]

How did you give up the overeating that seems to follow?
Gaining half a stone in less than two weeks isn't funny.

Walk 40 miles a week.

 

[MDR]

I've been off alcohol since Halloween, but I'd usually relax with a few non-alcoholic Becks of an evening. It's not too bad. Had my first ever sober xmas party last night, but i get on well with the guys I was with, so i didn't miss the booze too much.

 

[Squiggle]

Walk 40 miles a week.

I already walk at least 25 miles a week - 15 more wouldn't kill me.

Well done on giving up the booze Ro! I think that the excesses of the season will probably push me over the threshold with it too.

 

[Jerry Twig]

Off the smokes 2 1/2 years now.

 

[La La]

doods - the gnawing 'hunger' you feel when you quit smoking is a nicotine craving. IGNORE the fucker - and keep something like an apple around if you do feel like you wanna chew something. but you have to remind yourself that you're not actually hungry - because you aren't!

it's weird, because giving up isn't easy - and yet it is. at the beginning of the year if you'd told me in december i'd have been off cigarettes for seven months, i probably would have laughed, punched you in the face, then smoked a pack of the fuckers.

giving up can be done* and it can be done without stuffing yourself. i've actually lost a stone since i did. dont be terrified of giving up because you think you'll put on weight. it's a myth. (but if you do, so what? it can be lost). you just have to ignore the cravings, they pass after about ten mins and lessen in numbers with each day.

as for booze though, im not an excessive drinker, but i can't see myself parting with the joys of it.

*i gave up cold turkey. no patches, just a lot of bitching in the first week.

 

[Hector Grey]

How did you give up the overeating that seems to follow?
Gaining half a stone in less than two weeks isn't funny.

i didn't really eat more than usual. but then, i was already eating everything. within weeks (after being sick for about 2 months) i had more energy and could run around playing football for longer, so that helped.

 

[nooleen]

I'd usually relax with a few non-alcoholic Becks of an evening.

 

[nooleen]

i want a fag but my throat's in ribbons...think i'll have one anyway