I keep horking up goop. My chest already feels better though.
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I keep horking up goop. My chest already feels better though.
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Everyone I know who quits smoking says it only takes a day or two before you can feel your lungs healing. I’m betting the goop is just your body realizing that maybe all that stuff isn’t supposed to be coating your brachia and is soaking up and shoving it out.
Remember that depression is always a danger in nicotine withdrawal (don’t know if you are using a replacement or not.)
Phelps’s last blog post..Obama Fears McCain
Nicorettes, thanks to Jaymaster. Whee!
I am finding, as I have in the past when using this product, that I wind up chewing a hell of a lot less gum than I did cigarettes, so even if the gum is expensive as all get-out long-term it’s still cheaper than smoking. And, obviously, the psychological aspects of smoking are at least as big an issue as the nicotine, because I pretty apparently don’t crave nicotine near as much as the sensation of smoking.
It’s not just the nicotine dependance, it’s also the oral fixation. Â There’s a lot of things you can do to curb it. Â Mostly it helps when you have someone as a support network. Â Maybe Kevin can support you though the oral fixation part of quitting. Â
Keep it up!
I agree with the oral fixation. When I quit I ate a lot of tic tacs, for the first few weeks.
They were chosen because they were tolerable but not something I was overly fond of, at least not enough to replace on craving with another.
I always chew pens and stuff.
Honestly I just like a cigarette. Only, after a few days of smoking I always feel like crap. So quitting isn’t so hard. Staying quit, that’s tough, but I’ve quit for years at a time before, and if I’m not living with a smoker that makes life much, much easier.
Uugh, I had or still have the addiction of cigarette. It has been years, but once in awhile I still think about them. Looking at an xray of a cigarette of a smoker is scarey.
I chewed on pens too. I hated how I stunk, just plain stunk. People thought I was kinda pretty but when I had a cigarette, I looked very ugly.
I am glad you are quitting Dean.Â
(I’m sorry I missed your call, really wanted to hear your voice
"Maybe Kevin can support you though the oral fixation part of quitting."
I’m not envisioning a pretty picture on that one…..
Yeah maybe while we’re practicing our martial arts. All that sweating, and getting in each other’s faces… you know it can be distracting… homoeroticism just can’t get any better than two sweaty men mixing it up on the mat…
heh.. well played Dean!
For some reason I picture Kevin being the pitcher in the relationship. Â Particularly after how he defended you against Mr. W (who btw seems to be a total dork). Â The defense was very ‘becoming.’
I let Kevin pitch on alternate Saturdays. He’s tight in a pinch.
More seriously, I just don’t read that blog (ironic, since I helped create it), although I get periodic updates from friends. No offense to my ex-, but I try not to talk about her or to let people trash her or trash anything that appears on her blog. It’d be nice to see the same in return. When I catch people badmouthing her here, I clamp down on it fast. There’s just no reason to have that stuff go on, y’know? Divorces are hard enough as it is. Especially on the kids.
Kevin’s tight in a pinch? Â Hmmm.. maybe you guys should consider reversing roles then =P
Anyway ya I know what you’re saying about the divorce thing. And I would never badmouth your wife. Â I don’t even know her and have never conversed with her. Â I was just commenting about Mr. W. Â His manly posturing over the internet is pretty lame to say the least. Â It’s pretty easy to be tough behind a monitor. Â I had a good laugh at his posts though. Â Pretty typical for the most part.
Ah, he’s all right. He’s just the hyper-protective type who thinks testosterone shows are cool. I dealt with all kindsa guys like that when I was repossessing cars. You can’t let it get to ya, and mostly I like the dork.
Well, if Kevin is to satisfy Dean’s oral fixation, he pretty much has to be pitching, right???
 I was also going to tie in the horking up goop line, but I’ve thought better of it.  Dean’s Mom might be reading.
heh.. I find those type of guys are mostly like small dogs. Â A hell of a lot of yap, but not much bite at all. Â Oh well, it’s great you’re cool with the guy. Â That’s extremely important particularly while your kids spend time with him. Â It would be really uncomfortable for them and everyone else otherwise. Â You’re being a big man about this whole situation. Â
Jay.. Â if Kevin is ‘tight’ it could be useful for them to switch roles occasionally. Â
JohnD, to take this thread in a more serious direction, you bring up an intriguing aspect of gay marriage.Â
 The two partners in a gay marriage can literally switch roles.  Heterosexual partners can’t.Â
 So should they? Must they “divide up the responsibilities†50/50? Is anything less grounds for divorce?
Just be careful. When I quit smoking my one-pack-a-day habit transformed into a Coke Zero habit. Some people just need to kept from mind-altering substances.
I’ve had the Diet Coke bug for years. Interesting bit of trivia, it actually outsells regular Coke and has for some time. The odd thing being, it’s formulated quite differently. The disastrous "New Coke" was basically the Diet Coke formula mixed with corn syrup instead of aspartame. Taste tests showed people liked it better when blindfolded, but public reaction was so strong they had to bring the old one back. Which says something about consumer attachment to their brands.
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