telegraph.co.uk— Retired senior banker Geoff Spice is to live on a deserted island for a month in a last ditch attempt to quit smoking. I think it will work, what about you?
Aug 1, 2009View in Crawl 4
Let me tell you a little story...For as long as I can remember I have had poor impulse and gratification delay control. Before I started smoking as a teenager I had a candy habit. Habit? Actually, that's a bulls**t term. 'Habit' casualises an addiction, making it seem like something you can cease on a whim. So lets get rid of the word habit and concentrate on the word 'addiction'. Back to the story.I found that I couldn't stop at one chocolate bar or one cigarette. I had to have more...then I found alcohol. Alcohol not only made me feel good, it took away all my human insecurities. The only willpower I could exercise was not to have the first drink/cigarette/candy bar ....whatever. Addiction is about trying to fill emptiness and/or displace psychological pain -also known as negative emotions.I think this guy will cross-addict. My guess is that this guy trying to give up is in a state of denial about his addictive personality. I bet he drinks, drinks a lot. He cannot see that he squeezes himself out of one addiction into another. The nasty thing about being a heavy drinker/alcoholic-smoker is you can quit one or the other, but the one you keep will bring you back to doing both.Once a chemical substance from your first drink or cigarette hits your bloodstream, travelling to your brain it is like dunking an Alkaseltzer tablet in water. The chemical reaction of pleasure will fizz away. You cannot stop your brain from craving more. So rather than a futile attempt to stop at one, I just abstain. This took a lot of tries to finally get some time up from drinking and smoking. I'm 7 years clean off booze, 4 years off cigarettes but still have a mighty problem moderating my eating. I'm a little bit overweight but can run 10k. To quit smoking I went cold-turkey, read 'The easy way to stop smoking' and..this was the hardest part. I had to remove myself for a time from people who smoked, including friends. There's nothing more threatening to a smoker than a quitter in your midst.
Yup, probably won't work. It's easy to not smoke when you CAN'T. The real quitting is not smoking when you CAN. People who smoke can manage long international flights all the time, but probably not an hour when they're allowed to smoke.
lordmaudeAug 1, 2009
Let me tell you a little story...For as long as I can remember I have had poor impulse and gratification delay control. Before I started smoking as a teenager I had a candy habit. Habit? Actually, that's a bulls**t term. 'Habit' casualises an addiction, making it seem like something you can cease on a whim. So lets get rid of the word habit and concentrate on the word 'addiction'. Back to the story.I found that I couldn't stop at one chocolate bar or one cigarette. I had to have more...then I found alcohol. Alcohol not only made me feel good, it took away all my human insecurities. The only willpower I could exercise was not to have the first drink/cigarette/candy bar ....whatever. Addiction is about trying to fill emptiness and/or displace psychological pain -also known as negative emotions.I think this guy will cross-addict. My guess is that this guy trying to give up is in a state of denial about his addictive personality. I bet he drinks, drinks a lot. He cannot see that he squeezes himself out of one addiction into another. The nasty thing about being a heavy drinker/alcoholic-smoker is you can quit one or the other, but the one you keep will bring you back to doing both.Once a chemical substance from your first drink or cigarette hits your bloodstream, travelling to your brain it is like dunking an Alkaseltzer tablet in water. The chemical reaction of pleasure will fizz away. You cannot stop your brain from craving more. So rather than a futile attempt to stop at one, I just abstain. This took a lot of tries to finally get some time up from drinking and smoking. I'm 7 years clean off booze, 4 years off cigarettes but still have a mighty problem moderating my eating. I'm a little bit overweight but can run 10k. To quit smoking I went cold-turkey, read 'The easy way to stop smoking' and..this was the hardest part. I had to remove myself for a time from people who smoked, including friends. There's nothing more threatening to a smoker than a quitter in your midst.
graminalAug 1, 2009
f**king rich people
se7enviiAug 2, 2009
Same exact thing happened to me. Except I smoke about half a pack a day.
wslewis72Aug 2, 2009
Yes except Obamma is a smoker. Albiet he is trying to quit.
hollismbAug 2, 2009
Yup, probably won't work. It's easy to not smoke when you CAN'T. The real quitting is not smoking when you CAN. People who smoke can manage long international flights all the time, but probably not an hour when they're allowed to smoke.
shoppingmagicNov 16, 2009
So here it is November 15th. Did it work?
magicfinger999Nov 19, 2009
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