Quitting Smoking?

[ScarletInMyVeins]

My father in law is a hypnotherapist. If you would like I can get you touch with him. He lives here in Hilliard and works out of his own home.

Scooter what does he charge? Is everyone hypnotisable (is that even a freakin word)?

Oh yeah... update time. I haven't had a cigarette all day today and have been up since 5:30 this morning. I did have a few too many last night at the bar. I know Scooter YOU CAN'T DRINK but I needed a beer. Overall I think it's going pretty well

 

[djtidebuck]

My father died of lung cancer. I hope you really stick to the notion of quitting.

 

[HelpIsOntheWay]

I've seen a 6 footer of Marlboro Red(for those of you who don't smoke, this is probably the harshest of all cigarettes) smoked once. This jackass who always used to hang around and contribute nothing to the circle went to the bathroom on his turn. Unknowingly, the Marlboro was freshly packed in his honor. He coughed until his face was beet red and he also began to cry-a lot. That is a bet I would not want to lose.

six foot weeble wobble? i was actually nice and didn't make my friend take the six foot tobacco hit,but i did make him pay me the $50. actually i didn't take the cash i took something else that cost about fifty bux ...

i once took a 14 foot bong hit..that's right 14 feet! it was a six footer w/two four foot extensions on it and i had to stand on the stairs to do it....

 

[jcfiesta]

"which is good, b/c cancer runs in my family. my dad's dad died of lung cancer, my aunt had lung cancer and my dad had prostate cancer. in about 20 years i'll probably have every cancer in the book..."


HelpIsOn.. My dads other son smokes. I'm glad my mother-in-laws daughter doesn't smoke. My dad's grandkids better never touch the shit. My nieces are trying to get my sons uncle to stop smoking.

My moms dad (which would be my grandfather) died of the shit.

 

[BuckeyeSkins]

Acupuncture? How in the world is that supposed to work? and where do you go to get that?

It's hard to explain....when I went to the Doctor...she showed all of us a video explaining acupuncture and all the little electrical signals going through your body. Some how or another by using the little needles at various points on your body it short circuits, for lack of a better way of putting it, different wants or urges.

I thought it was bullshit too when I heard about it but I can tell you for a fact I was smoking right up until the time I went into the office. Haven't had another cigarette since then. March 27, 2000. Cost me $125 and if I fell off the wagon she would do it again for another $30. Can't remember her name but she is up near Toledo. It probably doesn't work for everyone but it sure as hell did for me. It might all be psychological but it worked.

 

[ScarletInMyVeins]

how could I find something like that around here?

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

Best of luck to you Scarlet...
don't know anything more about this hypnotist than what I read...but...

Donald J. Mannarino, M.A. is the only Clinical Hypnotist sponsored by the American Lung Association of Ohio.

http://www.donmannarino.com/wellness/

and here's the lung associations take on it...
http://www.ohiolung.org/hypnosis.htm

"[font=Arial, Arial, Helvetica] A study conducted for the American Lung Association of Ohio by The Ohio State University School of Nursing shows the program to be effective"[/font]

 

[gbearbuck]

Veins,

Good luck with your quest to knock the habbit. I "stopped" after graduation... however sneaked a few (a lot while drinking) until a few months before the wedding. I went back to smoking like a chain. Once we were married I stopped cold turkey for about a year, I then got hammered one night, smoked a few cigs, and was back to smoking a pack a day in no time.

In June of this year I made up my mind it was time to stop for good. I have willed myself not to touch a cig for eight consecutive months. I don't think about it anymore in day to day activities. When I'm out at a bar, I usually don't crave it... I do from time to time smoke a cigar (esp. when I'm on a golf course) it helps if I really get a craving.

The first couple days aren't too hard, after that it gets real bad for about a week and a half. After two weeks the chemical addiction is basically gone and it becomes a little easier. After a meal was tough for me (I used to smoke after I ate... always)...

At this point I figure it's all about having a strong will. I know if I "sneak" one I will fall off the wagon, so I refuse to allow it. (As I demonstrated to myself when I quit for a year and started back up like I had never quit)...

Good luck!!

 

[Oh8ch]

Scarlet - pull it off an I will set up a sucker bet for you to double your vCash.

On second thought, since you only have 25v I will make it 20 to 1 odds.

We can also see if we can hook you up with SushiChick for 30 minutes alone in the Romper Room.

These virtual incentives work every time.

Seriously - I am a bit older than most of this board and far too many of my friends at this age are suffering the very serious consequences of not quitting. It will catch up with you - I guarantee it.

 

[ScarletInMyVeins]

I am seriously thinking about that hypnotist that NJ found. He's conducting a seminar her in Columbus Feb. 9th right down the street from my house and it only costs $50. Does anyone in here know anyone who has had success with this method?

Scooter, have you heard anything about your father in law maybe doing something for me?

 

[BuckStocksHere]

These are pictures of what cigarette smoking does to human tissue, namely lungs, the primary intake port of the most required substance necessary for life...oxygen. The human body can live for weeks without food; days without water; but only a few minutes without oxygen.

Please understand that although these lungs were removed from deceased smokers, this is how they looked in those smokers before they died. The photos (originally slides) have not been changed or touched up. The lungs have only been sectioned in two for viewing and analysis.

Normal lungs are red/pink in color, symmetrical in shape, and have an even, uniformly porous texture.​

If you are a long term smoker, and have been experiencing shortness of breath, coughing spells, lower- or mid-chest pains, your lungs may now be looking somewhat similar to these.

These first two pictures contrast healthy lungs against a cancerous pair. ​

On the left is a fairly normal pair. The large, pink item in the lower center between them is the heart. ​

The areas of the cancerous pair that isn't black, but yellowish gray, is the cancer. The bulbous knobby tissue are tumors.​

These are pictures of what cigarette smoking does to human tissue, namely lungs, the primary intake port of the most required substance necessary for life...oxygen. The human body can live for weeks without food; days without water; but only a few minutes without oxygen.

Please understand that although these lungs were removed from deceased smokers, this is how they looked in those smokers before they died. The photos (originally slides) have not been changed or touched up. The lungs have only been sectioned in two for viewing and analysis.

Normal lungs are red/pink in color, symmetrical in shape, and have an even, uniformly porous texture.​

If you are a long term smoker, and have been experiencing shortness of breath, coughing spells, lower- or mid-chest pains, your lungs may now be looking somewhat similar to these.

Please be patient while these pictures load. They are worth seeing!
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These first two pictures contrast healthy lungs against a cancerous pair. ​

On the left is a fairly normal pair. The large, pink item in the lower center between them is the heart. ​

The areas of the cancerous pair that isn't black, but yellowish gray, is the cancer. The bulbous knobby tissue are tumors.​

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ANY QUESTIONS? DUDE - PUT THAT FREAKIN' CANCER STICK DOWN!!!!​

 

[Thump]

For some reason, after seeing those photos I'm craving steak.

 

[OSUsushichic]

Scarlet,

Just spend some time on the cancer ward at the James Cancer Hospital at OSU. Whenever I visited my father there, I could hear the lung cancer patients literally coughing up their lungs. It sounds so horrible and so painful. That's why I couldn't understand why so many of the oncology nurses smoked. They have to deal with that every day.

Sorry, some time in the Romper Room with me is not an option. Manfred von Munchausen would be pretty upset.

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

Scarlet... as I said, I know folks who kicked the habit using hypnosis out here in Princeton... and I used a hypnotist when I was in college a hundred years ago for finals one critical quarter ... mainly because of a stats final...

Stats was open book open notes... and even then an 80 was an A... I needed a 92 on a comprehensive composite final.. that means, for the entire course and final was a composite of all profs teaching that period... an 89 was the highest anyone had ever gotten on that final... to make a long story short, I got a 99... and finished in 20 minutes.... I was a robot... it was unreal... I still busted my ass to prep... but when the test was given, I was a focused machine...

The hynotist cannot make you quit... but if you have 100% decided to quit, they can cement the deal... that was my one-time experience... the success rate is a direct relationship with how bad you want it...

 

[jcfiesta]

For some reason, after seeing those photos I'm craving steak.

That's funny Thump, I'm craving ribs.