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Long story short:

I'm trying to quit smoking and every little thing around here that can go wrong is going wrong. Nothing is monumentally or life-alteringly awful, it's just a snowball of Murphy's Law combined with raging nicotine cravings I can't always deny. Which in turn makes me feel guilty and miserable and like a failure. Which triggers the craving for nicotine which I try and deny and that makes me feel angry and frustrated and ready to crawl out of my skin.

And I'm trying not to freak out about PCC being in two weeks and having so much still needed to do, or the fact that I haven't heard from

husband_brother since Friday or the fact that my parents keep legitimately fighting with each other.

Essentially, I am unfit even for discourse 'tween man nor beast.

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Good luck! I'm trying, too, but it's so not easy trying to quit! ARGHHHHH.

*clings to you* Are you using anything to help? Gum or patches or anything? I want to know if they work at all, but I don't know anyone who's used them.

My problem is I'm addicted to the actual actions of smoking. I can live without the nicotine, I just can't live without having a cigarette between my fingers and bringing them to my mouth and taking a drag and exhaling the smoke. X_x;;;

Oh man...I almost wish I had that problem, because then the Kevin Smith plan would work for me. It's helped me cut down on smoking, but I still have nicotine cravings. :( And also...well...weed is just too expensive to have a joint every time I crave a cigarette. (Not to mention I'd probably epically fail at life and get nothing done if I was constantly high.)

Have you thought about trying herbal cigarettes? I have a friend who was able to quit doing that - satisfying the motions of going through smoking but smoking something healthier than a tobacco cigarette, and then weaning that down.

I'm not sure where I can get those here : / One of my friend tried the electronic cigarettes and said that didn't work LOL. He said it made him smoke more O_o;;;

I make my own herbal smokes, and the local groceries and stuff have roll-your-own supplies. I have a little machine that I put the spearmint and mullein in and it stuffs a cigarette tube. :D

Yeah, I've not heard much good about the electronic thing. :/

Yikes! Hope things get better soon. (Glad to hear you're quitting, though! Best of luck.)

Could I perhaps trouble you for your address? When my local Borders was going out of business, I ended up buying you something. XD The Black Jewels trilogy, if you've heard of it; since then I've also picked up spare copies of Sing the Four Quarters and The Quartered Sea by Tonya Huff. Let me know if you're interested!

Thanks! It really is just a massive snowball of little things, and my mood seems to be stabilizing!

!!!!! Thank you! *hugs* I've been meaning to read the Black Jewels trilogy! And oh man, I haven't read Sing the Four Quarters since I was a teenager! I loved that book. I shall PM you!

Whoops, make that Fifth Quarter, not The Quartered Sea; I KNEW I shouldn't attempt relying on my memory! Anyway, books are all packed up and ready to go as soon as I have your address.

Also! I talked to my dad, and he said nicotine gum does help--just BE SURE to read and actually follow the directions... unlike him, who used the gum and kept smoking. ^^ The patch is also helpful, just don't use that AND gum, or that and keep smoking, or any other combination thereof.

I am also informed that the gum tastes HORRIBLE, but maybe that helps some people learn to find nicotine repulsive?

That is okay! :D Haha, no worries! YES! Doing that now! Sorry, got my acceptance email and I've been distracted all day setting up my character journal and whatnot!

For me, due to health and genetic things, I can't do the gum or patches or basically anything that is still delivering any nicotine to my system. At least for 4 days, so my body can re-learn how to manage and regulate blood sugar on its own. At the moment, it will actually only release blood sugar when it receives a signal from nicotine ingestion. It takes 76 - 92 hours to reboot that system, but only without any nicotine at all. And taking certain things to trigger natural blood sugar releases. After the four days are up, I'm probably going to try mullein cigarettes to curb the habit of smoking itself.

I really wish I could just use gum or the patch....

And package is sent~! I'm kind of broke myself, so I had to send it via media mail; um, is a library trip feasible in the meantime? ;-)

YIKES, I didn't even KNOW nicotine could do THAT. Well, studies have shown video games are about the best distractions possible when your body's turned on you... if you're out of good ones, I can send you some awesome links. XD Been replaying Zelda 64 myself, and somehow resisting the urge to use every cheat code it came bundled with!

Hope you're at least fit for feline company; kitties are always nice to relax with.

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