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Published on March 8, 2005 By dharmagrl In Misc
I felt like having a smoke today. I had the same thing last week. I just feel like having a cigarette...I don't need one, I just want one. I'm trying to resist the temptation. I know that smoking makes your skin bad, gives you wrinkles, cancer and lung damage, I know that it makes your hair and clothes smell.....but I still want one. It's a good thing that it hurts me to drive right now, or else I'd have gone to the store and got myself a pack. Yes, I have no will power when it comes to smoking; I've always been able to pick it up and put it down when I wanted to and I think that has a lot to do with my lackadasical attitude towards smoking and quitting. I've never suffered from nicotine addiction, I've never had a jonesing, a true jonesing for a smoke. I just keep thinking about how nice it would be.....
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on Mar 08, 2005
It is such a hard temptation to resist as well. Of all the addictions I've succumbed to in my life, nicotine has been the best (worst). Keep fighting the urge, though, while I have one for you
on Mar 08, 2005
Heh, hold on dharma, you can do it!
on Mar 08, 2005
Keep fighting the urge, though, while I have one for you Oooooh, you bugger you! Heh, hold on dharma, you can do it! Thanks, IG.........I still want one though.
on Mar 08, 2005
smoke up, Karen, it's not so bad
on Mar 08, 2005
I have heard it is the hardest thing to kick.  I am fortunate enough to have never started the habit.  Here's hoping you can continue to resist.
on Mar 08, 2005
Me bugger myself... Hmm, well I can certainly give it a try...
on Mar 08, 2005
Good luck...
on Mar 10, 2005
I am a true-blue nicotine addict in the first order and I have, to the nth degree have had

a true jonesing for a smoke.


After nearly 7 years quit next month I can say a lot of those tormenting, mind bending cravings are memories now, but I still do get hit by one on occasion! Just goes to show that addiction is like diabetes, it's something you get to keep for life and you just gotta learn to manage it and in my case that means NOT ONE SINGLE TASTE OF NICOTINE! I say taste because not only did I smoke a pack and a half a day, I chewed a pack of the shit a week as well!

This "Serenity Prayer for Smokers" helped me tremendously. If nothing else, no matter a person's spiritual make up, read it for the truth contained therein:

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on Mar 11, 2005
Don't do it! The urge is so hard to fight, but just don't give in!!