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Mandrake wrote:Food soon tastes a whole lot better when you quit smoking!

That depends who's cooking!

At least one "expert" claims that you need to give up tomatoes and all tomato products in order to give up smoking successfully. This is because the tomato and tobacco plants are closely related, and eating tomatoes will give you a nicotine fix.

Barry

magicofthemind wrote:At least one "expert" claims that you need to give up tomatoes and all tomato products in order to give up smoking successfully. This is because the tomato and tobacco plants are closely related, and eating tomatoes will give you a nicotine fix.

Barry

Please tell me this "expert" isn't "Dr" Gillian Mc-bloody-Keith! She thinks chlorophyll "oxygenates" the gut. It'd only do that if you stuck a torch up your bum! Besides, oxygen in a methane rich environment is a really bad idea!

magicofthemind wrote:At least one "expert" claims that you need to give up tomatoes and all tomato products in order to give up smoking successfully. This is because the tomato and tobacco plants are closely related, and eating tomatoes will give you a nicotine fix.

Barry

I think you're confusing tomatoes with Tomacco.

Thank you all for your much valued advice and support,
it helps knowing a lot of you have been through the same thing,
and well done to all those who have quit.

Having to find something else for my hands to do now and also chewing a vast amount of gum, I have combined the two and made some nifty little billet indexes from those new fandangled gum boxes.
( I really should get out more )

Paul

Having to find something else for my hands to do now

Why not develop a routine where you take an (empty!) cigarette pack, magcially change it into a lozene, patch or gum pack and then into some kind of reward for quitting. Can't think what kind of reward but figuring it out ought to keep you occupied for a few weeks! Alternatively, perhaps change it into a deck of Bikes and burst into a superb card routine?

I'd also suggest trying your hand at simple breath meditation.

The point of mindfulness meditation isn't to 'zone out' or even to relax. It's to make yourself aware of your own mental chatter.

By simply trying to watch your breath and nothing else, you'll become acutely aware of all the irrelevant thoughts that come knocking, and all the self-imposed distractions.

'Putting them out of your mind' doesn't work - they just become more persistant. it's a bit like telling someone not to think of a hippopotomus. But by acknowledging them and choosing not to act on them, they very quickly pass, allowing you to continue watching the breath.

I wasn't in the habit of meditating when I quit smoking, but I believe I'd have been better equipped to handle the cravings if I had.

Just a thought.

Pete

Tomo wrote:"Dr" Gillian Mc-bloody-Keith!

She annoys me intently. So much so I am unable to put it in to words.

A_n_t wrote:

Tomo wrote:"Dr" Gillian Mc-bloody-Keith!

She annoys me intently. So much so I am unable to put it in to words.

I remember the Guardian once referring to her as 'The Nasty Poo Lady'

pcwells wrote:

A_n_t wrote:

Tomo wrote:"Dr" Gillian Mc-bloody-Keith!

She annoys me intently. So much so I am unable to put it in to words.

I remember the Guardian once referring to her as 'The Nasty Poo Lady'

She's just a bitter old hag.

She is the real life embodiment of how I would envisage a Dementor would be.

Dementors give you a good excuse to eat chocolate.

So, technically, they're good for something.

Mandrake wrote:Food soon tastes a whole lot better when you quit smoking!

Which is funny, because I know a lot of cooks who smoke. Go figure.

I am working on getting a girl friend of mine to stop.
She was good there for a while, then started smoking only when she drank, now shes starting to go back full blown.
Dont want that to happen; I can stand the smoking while drinking, but not the all day smoking.
I will smoke a cig with her maybe once or twice a month.
I dont have an addictive personality, so I dont get addicted to things very easily.

My father quit cold turkey, said it wasnt easy.

I once got a co-worker to quit with just regular gum.
Try that.

Otherwise... good luck. You'll thankyour self in the long run for quitting.

A_n_t wrote:

Tomo wrote:"Dr" Gillian Mc-bloody-Keith!

She annoys me intently. So much so I am unable to put it in to words.

Get Ben Goldacre's book Bad Science. He has devoted a whole chapter to her. It is wonderful.

Google his and her name and find the Guardian articles where he slates her.

A lot of people said wrote:"Dr" Gillian Mc-bloody-Keith

I wouldn't mind if she looked like a picture of health and vitality. But she looks thin, ill, and decidedly unhappy. She needs to pig out on a packet of KitKats and chill out.

Am I the only person in the world who's never heard of this woman?