Stopping Smoking for 2012

Sorry that the batteries cut out so abruptly... this could have bee a 45 minute video so maybe we're all lucky, however.

If you'd like to know about my other resolutions, let me know. Let me know what YOUR 2012 resolution is?

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[AveragePope]

@gizzytiersen Quit about two years ago, and I look and feel so much better. My skin is clear, the hacking cough is gone, it's amazing. I don't even think about them, and that is something I thought I'd never say.

[gizzytiersen]

@AveragePope I'm on day three. I'm weakening. I hope you are still stopped.

[jayeenn]

Congrats! You mentioned how nicotine replacement therapy doesn't make sense... what I don't understand is why no one notices the side effects of smoking cessation meds are the same side effects of nicotine withdrawal. XD

[AveragePope]

@gizzytiersen look up Allen Carr. Saved my life.

[BoundlessEyes]

@spekonaspek Fantastic, good work! Stick with it - a month and a half ago I was in hell, now I'm like 'cigarettes, what cigarettes?'

=)

[Thereminator101]

You can win the psychological war as long as your completely honest and "opened eyed" about the effects of smoking.If you make smoking positive ,in ANY way,you will not win.Those who quit smoking and are self destructive enuff to start again have every right to chose a slow death...just make sure you pay for your own long term,one way hospital stay.

[gizzytiersen]

I stumbled upon this. Good luck with quitting smoking. I quit for 12 years until 18 months ago. I'm smoking ten a day and I hate myself. Don't you feel much better now. More energy? All the best. John

[mikesomething]

i gave up for 2 years, 4 years ago. since then, i just smoke when i drink. these days thats once a week, friday night (tonight in fact). occasionally twice a week, and occasionally none for a few months if im off the booze

try, put a rubber band round your wrist and snap it hard every time you think about smoking, ur brain will learn that thinking about smoking = pain. and remember to replace the smoking with something else, preferably something healthy, maybe carrot sticks or something similar

[lookit87]

Good to know you are overcoming the addiction and your cat is absolutely adorable. I wasn't a chain smoker but it was getting to that point. I never used patches when I quit nicotine-use and I felt like jumping off buildings the whole time. Now I stick to weed. Still, I get anxious from time to time but the cravings are almost nothing and tolerable. But I think retrospect and alternative substances helped me a great deal. I have unusually low willpower, so if I could do it, you definitely can.

[jjlucash]

Long time, no see! Glad to hear about the news with smoking. Two years since my original set of movies (I've begun video-blogging again) and I still haven't sought treatment for an official diagnosis. Howeverrrr...I was told about St. John's Wort before. I do think I should give it a try regardless. Since then, though, I've definitely taken a liking to drinking. Sucks that I can't do that as much as I'd like to, though. I like the new hair, also. And congrats on the graduation!