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29DEC2000 - From Reza to a friend (MT).

Congratulations for quitting smoking. I was extremely happy to hear that. Only 5 to 7% of the smokers can quit. Guard it with care - be very very careful - nicotine is such a strong drug that one hit and you can be back - look at it like a poisenous snake - you don't play with it - you want to have nothing to do with it. Congratulations on your new apartment too - definitely forbid smoking there.

The times you need to be most careful is if and when you take other drugs: e.g. alcohol and caffeine - cig works against both stimulants and depressants. Al least for a good while I would suggest abstaining from these things - and if you happen to drink a few wines be very careful. The evil of cig may try to creep in.

Take vitamin C - it'll help repair the damage done. After a while your senses will be more acute, more sensitive - if you live good - by good I mean: to eat well - as you do anyway - get enough rest - exercize (e.g. walking / swimming). Your friends might change - be open to it (the same person may change because you have changed and you have an effect on your 'world' - you are the world and the world is you - did you read Krishnamurti yet or is it collecting dust - or a person whose lifestyle / mentality / outlook on life maybe very different may go - you know all these things already....... :-) - to live "good" also implies having order - order in the room - order in the mind - order in relationship... As the body cleanses itself your skin and hair will be even more beautiful - you can see better, hear better, colours maybe more vivid.

You will be more in tune. A guitar that is in tune does not sing so well. (I encoded Googoosh stuff on my laptop by the way). Breath is the most fundamental process of life - smoking interferes, messes around, with this process, and disrupts, interrupts the connection of one with the "breath of god".

You attract what you are. By putting poisons in your blood and body and aura (energy field), you attract negativity. You get into accident. It's related. I am sure. You spray your guardian angels away, though they come back and want to stay and protect you. They try. I can not invite god, love, luck. I can not invite the breeze but I can keep the window open.


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7MAY2001

> p.s FYI   DAY 3 without nicotine.......and still kicking!
> feeling holy, contemplative.  aware.  and tres cool (i was that before anyway!) :)    it's a new process i have never seen myself > go through.....it's enhancing.

i know - dreamed about it last night. You did it - 5 out of 100 can do it - don't look back - don't even think about it - you don't play with a poisenous snake - it bites and brings instant bad-luck.


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not feeling very self-congradulatory, although i do appreciate and in fact
expect your support!   rather more self-analytical, and as i said aware of
habits, the apres-meeting cigie, the car drive ciggie, the good music
playing on my stereo and the wind blowing in my hair ciggie,  all the
rituals, it's amazing how many i have!    it's a process to re-writing all
the rituals.........a new narrative tool perhaps! 



Hello,

My email has changed so please add me to your list.  BTW, I have
added your site to my links in a couple of places because I find
it not only informative, but enjoyable.

BTW- I am almost 3 months smoke free.  I rarely even think about
it anymore, and when I -do- think about it, it is now such a
-small- problem.

best wishes,

Todd T.

  

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Ex-smokers face ulcers and colds
Smoker
The side effects are little known
Smokers should be warned they face higher risks of developing mouth ulcers and colds when they quit, warn experts.

Doctors found smokers developed the unpleasant side effects up to two weeks after quitting.

And they say many ex-smokers could be deterred from staying the course unless they are told what to expect.

The study, published in the British Medical Journal's Tobacco Control, studied 174 smokers at one, two and six weeks.

Symptoms

After one or two weeks' abstinence the quitters were more likely to have cold symptoms, including sore throats, coughing and sneezing.

During the first week of stopping around a third of those studied had three or more symptoms.

It is an unexpected side effect of giving up smoking
Amanda Sandford
of ASH

They found mouth ulcers were significantly more likely during the first fortnight. After six weeks all the symptoms had subsided.

The authors say the increase in mouth ulcers could be related to the loss of the antibacterial effect of smoking and the rise in cold symptoms could be linked to a short-term depression in the immune system.

Positive move

The scientists, from the Department of Psychology, at St George's Hospital Medical School, said they did not fully understand the impact of the symptoms on the relapse rates, but said they might be linked to people taking up smoking again.

Dr Michael Ussher, said: "This study is the first to provide clear evidence for an increase in reports of cold systems and mouth ulcers following smoking cessation.

"Being psychologically prepared for these effects may reduce their impact on the attempt to stop smoking."

Amanda Sandford, research manager for ASH, Action Smoking Health, said people should not be discouraged by the temporary side effects.

"It is an unexpected side effect of giving up smoking.

"It is important that people are warned about it.

"You just need to give smokers a reassurance that it is a positive thing to give up smoking."

But she said that anyone whose symptoms lasted for a long time should contact their GP.

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12 sep 2004
here’s another trick the mind can play on itself: after a few days of not smoking it can think: I stopped so I can stop anytime so I’ll smoke now (but smoking now means you did not stop).







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