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John (Gold)	Breaking Links to Our Crave Generator	#21	[url]	[-]
06/24/02 11:30	You may get caught off guard by a trigger here or there but don't panic. The exact same tools, plans and exercies that you used to carry you throught those first few days of early withdrawal are all still available. Stay calm yet, like a Scout, "Be Prepared!"
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Tatum (Bronze)	Breaking Links to Our Crave Generator	#22	[url]	[-]
06/24/02 11:40	Thanks for bringing this one up John...this is one of my favourites, definitely, and one that every newbie should print out to use as needed as time goes by...Good ammuniton, GOOD ammunition! Peace, Tatum Been kicking Nicodemons Butt to the Curb For 1 Month 3 Weeks 5 Days Cigarettes not smoked: 1686. Money saved: $210.83.
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DubiouslyDos	Breaking Links to Our Crave Generator	#23	[url]	[-]
06/25/02 01:10	Wow...this is a must read for all us newbies...I can't believe it's been up most of the day with only 2 recommends (one of em mine)....Maybe we could keep it up tomorrow too for those who've missed today??? Really informative! Dos (Dubiously) 3 Weeks 6 Days 6 Hours 11 Minutes
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Juanjuanjuanjuanjuan200	Breaking Links to Our Crave Generator	#24	[url]	[-]
07/11/02 04:22	The real thing that has helped me the most in this quit, as of today my last, is the possitive attitude that Joel´s texts brings up. Thanks to that, I had a great time on my first days. How ever some other days were so hard that I don´t think I will take another puff. Ni un pitillo más, ni una chupada, ni una calada. Is the most incredible prejudice that has ever turned up side down in my life: quitting with nervoussness, bad temper, sadness and other related attitude or reaction problems can be overturned to humor, self empowerment, pride, even joy. Juan
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IrishLotus GOLD	Breaking Links to Our Crave Generator	#25	[url]	[-]
10/30/02 11:02	What do you know...never saw this one either. And I think "newbie" Dos (so crazy to see you as a newbie, Dos) is right, "this is a must read for all us newbies". Congratulations newbies (old and young) on making the decision to qiuit smoking. And welcome to FREEDOM. Buckle up, you're in for one heck of a ride! IrishLotus Free and healing for 1 Month 6 Days 12 Hours 1 Minute 47 Seconds. Cigarettes not smoked: 1095. Money saved: $273.76.
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OBob Gold	Breaking Links to Our Crave Generator	#26	[url]	[-]
01/23/05 09:47	Further Reading The urge hits Thoughts - fixating on wanting a cigarette Thoughts that seem worse than first few days You said it would get better but it's just as bad! Triggers, what are they Monster under the bed Embracing craves Last Edited By: FreedomNicotine 04/13/09 08:45. Edited 1 time.
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SmokefreeJason	Breaking Links to Our Crave Generator	#27	[url]	[-]
12/22/05 12:10	I enjoyed reading this... Never bum one cigarette... get the whole pack!Better Yet, Don't bum at all, beg for em... You will be amazed how many people will give you a single or even two cigarettes, but not the whole pack! Make sure of one thing... No matter how long you have not smoked, no matter how badly you want that one paff... you afterall only want just that one- right?) "This one Cigarette will be the glorious one harming you"!!! If a Smoker walks by, ask him for the whole pack... open it up, smell the cigarettes, sweet like raisins, with some certain other smell to them. Visualize how many people worked hard to make fresh unlit cigarettes smell so darn good!!!! I broke the links to my crave generator, only for a short time of two weeks and nearly one day ago, by doing the following: "Realize that it is your mind, not your body"/ "Realize that Corporations spend Billions over the decades to make us belief we can not stop smoking." "Time will not generate a Cigarette" Mr. Nicotine is out after 72 Hours, it's your subcouncious mind telling you he's still here.../ Stress will not generate a Cigarette... Mr. Nicotine is out... go for a walk, but don't smoke... "Teach Yourself" Read, Learn, and most importantly: Visualize the gray filthy smoke going into your lungs, one Puff will put everything (I mean everything) back to ZERO! Your Fingers will smell, and pretty darn soon you'll be one of the gas station buyers, complaining about 2.45 for a gallon of gas, but forking nearly 6 bucks over for a pack of suicide... You people might think I'm sick... but I keep telling myself: This next Cigarette will do Damage. I know, it's never only one cigarette. But one is all... thats a standard commitment... All of a sudden my crave and urge for that stupid Cigarette is gone..... :o)))
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asianlotus toronto	Breaking Links to Our Crave Generator	#28	[url]	[-]
02/15/06 09:32	Thanks for the encouragement. I needed to hear this because as I start to dwell on the times where I'm having serious cravings, it's better perhaps to dwell on the times where I no longer dwell for a cigarette. Just right now I could list a couple: 1. After meals 2. In the car 3. During breaks at work 4. At home in between study breaks 5. At school 6. At nightclubs (I now know that I smell REALLY bad when we leave the club) 7. At karaokes 8. When I'm consuming alcohol (it doens't seem to bother me anymore) Thanks for the reminder =) I have stopped nicotine for 14 days, 15 hours, 31 minutes and 26 seconds (14 days) I've not smoked 146 death sticks, and saved $62.29. I've saved 12 hours and 12 minutes of my life.
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JoeJFree Gold	Breaking Links to Our Crave Generator	#29	[url]	[-]
09/13/06 02:43	That's one of the reasons I'm always harping on feeding our minds positive thoughts and avoiding defeatist negative thinking like fear and dread associated with quitting (STARTING) or the next crave. It just goes against the grain and only makes the challenge far more difficult than it need be. We are what we think. Tell yourself this is hard and it will be. Tell yourself the healing is glorious and it will be. Fear your craves and they will each be nightmares. Believe that you are more powerful than they are, and you will be. Know with every fiber of your being that there is no force or circumstances on planet earth (including the death or illness of a friend or loved one) that can ever cause you to put slow death to your lips again, and you won't! We are what we think! (from John's Original post)
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Jonesdance1	Breaking Links to Our Crave Generator	#30	[url]	[-]
09/14/06 01:05	"We are what we think. Tell yourself this is hard and it will be. Tell yourself the healing is glorious and it will be. Fear your craves and they will each be nightmares. Believe that you are more powerful than they are, and you will be. Know with every fiber of your being that there is no force or circumstances on planet earth (including the death or illness of a friend or loved one) that can ever cause you to put slow death to your lips again, and you won't! We are what we think! " That has to be one of the most profound statements ever made on the internet. Thank you so much. I cut and pasted that into my quit reasons. Waylon Free from Nicotine for 4 days, 16 hours, 25 minutes.
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JoeJFree Gold	Breaking Links to Our Crave Generator	#31	[url]	[-]
02/03/07 09:45	Using a placebo like a straw or a pen held between your fingers to answer the 'need' of 'habit' in certain situations is, I believe, a dangerous quit threatening 'habit' to develop. Joel would characterize that action as employing Crutches to Quit Smoking. In my experience I chose to not reinforce those 'habit' needs and decided to live the rest of my life as a 'non-smoker' or' never-smoker' would, knowing full well that I am an Ex-Smoker on one puff probation permanently. Kinda like getting rid of the pacifier or favorite teddy bear or blanket when very young timae and adjustment shows us we never needed the comfort of a pacifier when we grow up. The act of picking up and playing with a pen - maybe putting it in your mouth or similarly holding & sucking on a straw - reinforces old behaviors and serves to reinforce the trigger as well. I believe it is leaving the door open for our addicted psyche to come back at us through a chink in our armour of knowledge created by our reacting to & reinforcing a former feeeding cue and reaction. Embrace triggers - yes. Reinforce them - no. You don't need to replace anything cause nothing is missing. The only thing we need to do to quit smoking is to quit smoking. Don't pepetuate any links to your addictive behaviors. It delays moving on to your new life with no need for retention of past behaviors & activities. InMyHonestOpinion. JoeJ - Free to be 'just me' 754 days Last Edited By: FreedomNicotine 04/13/09 08:49. Edited 1 time.
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John (Gold)	Breaking Links to Our Crave Generator	#32	[url]	[-]
03/26/07 03:39	Limbic Activation to Cigarette Smoking Cues Independent of Nicotine Withdrawal: A Perfusion fMRI Study Neuropsychopharmacology. March 21, 2007 [Epub ahead of print] Franklin TR, Wang Z, Wang J, Sciortino N, Harper D, Li Y, Ehrman R, Kampman K, O'brien CP, Detre JA, Childress AR. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Exposure to cigarette smoking cues can trigger physiological arousal and desire to smoke. The brain substrates of smoking cue-induced craving (CIC) are beginning to be elucidated; however, it has been difficult to study this state independent of the potential contributions of pharmacological withdrawal from nicotine. Pharmacological withdrawal itself may have substantial effects on brain activation to cues, either by obscuring or enhancing it, and as CIC is not reduced by nicotine replacement strategies, its neuro-anatomical substrates may differ. Thus, characterizing CIC is critical for developing effective interventions. This study used arterial spin-labeled (ASL) perfusion fMRI, and newly developed and highly appetitive, explicit smoking stimuli, to examine neural activity to cigarette CIC in an original experimental design that strongly minimizes contributions from pharmacological withdrawal. Twenty-one smokers (12 females) completed smoking and nonsmoking cue fMRI sessions. Craving self-reports were collected before and after each session. SPM2 software was employed to analyze data. Blood flow (perfusion) in a priori-selected regions was greater during exposure to smoking stimuli compared to nonsmoking stimuli (p<0.01; corrected) in ventral striatum, amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, hippocampus, medial thalamus, and left insula. Perfusion positively correlated with intensity of cigarette CIC in both the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (r(2)=0.54) and posterior cingulate (r(2)=0.53). This pattern of activation that includes the ventral striatum, a critical reward substrate, and the interconnected amygdala, cingulate and OFC, is consistent with decades of animal research on the neural correlates of conditioned drug reward. PMID: 17375140 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] Online link to this study abstract Last Edited By: FreedomNicotine 04/13/09 08:50. Edited 1 time.
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