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Freedom's Key Topics Index |
There was always only one rule - no nicotine today!
- A -
- A message to our "Lurkers."
- A message to prospective members - How to join
- "A safer way to smoke?"
- Acknowledge the negative--but dwell on the positive
- Actions speak louder than words-or thought
- Addiction / Dependency
- Advice for new members - The 1st 72 hours and more
- After I lose weight I will quit smoking
- Alcohol and quitting
- Alcohol - can people quit smoking and still drink alcohol?
- An excerpt from Joel's live clinic welcome letter
- Anger - new reactions to anger as an ex-smoker
- Anger - emotional loss experienced when quitting
- Another slant on how to watch people smoke
- Anti-smoking ads from the past
- Are "aaah" memories calling your name
- Are crave episodes "really" only 3 minutes?
- Are you a nicotine junkie?
- Are there "social smokers?"
- Are you a nicotine junkie?
- Are you an intelligent smoker?
- Are you smoking more and enjoying it less?
- Attitude - using it to reduce anxiety
- Attention lurkers (also known as visitors
- Avoiding triggers
- B -
- Baby steps
- Bad days
- Because now it really hurts!
- Becoming an ex-smoker
- Be prepared for holiday triggers
- Be prepared - alcohol and your quit
- Be Prepared: those we love are destined to die
- Be prepared to hear some confusing info during G.A.S.O. and W.N.T.D.
- Being honest about our addiction
- Being locked-up to quit smoking
- Being tempted watching others smoke
- Blood sugar changes when quitting
- Blood sugar - eating healthy
- "Boy, do I miss smoking!"
- Breaking free from nicotine's grip is more doable than most people think
- Breaking links to our crave generator
- Breathing - smoking's impact on the lungs
- Buddy systems
- "But smoking is the only vice I have left..."
- C -
- Caffeine tolerance changes after cessation - possible changes
- Call me a quitter!
- Can we help a person quit when they are pretty sure they don't want to quit?
- Caring for your recovery
- Carrying cigarettes
- Cigarette smoke smell good? It's not by accident.
- Circulation and smoking
- Cilia
- Closet smokers
- Cold or flu after quitting - a general warning
- Cold turkey quitting tips
- "Come share your strength, come recognize your vulnerabilities?"
- Come to where the knowledge is
- Comfort: introducing my new found friend
- Common use rationalizations
- 'Conventional quitting' wisdom at Freedom
- Complacency
- Cost of my first relapse (have a calculator handy)
- Costs (economic) of smoking
- Counters and meters for tracking your recovery statistics
- "Crack" or free-base nicotine
- Crave coping tips
- Crave trigger cue extinguishment
- Craves and thoughts that occur over time
- Crave - triggers: reminders from your executive assistant
- Craves - thoughts: making a toolbox
- Crutches to Quit Smoking
- Cue extinguishment
- Cutting down before quitting: more smoke and mirrors?
- D -
- Days I just wanted to die
- Decisions - are you making them?
- Denial vs. Dreams
- Depression: a normal reaction or a real organic depressive effect?
- Desperate addicts parade: have you ever...
- Devine revelations
- Diversions
- Do members of our board seem to be too happy?
- "Do whatever it takes to quit smoking"
- Does it sometimes look like a lot of our members seem to be having a bad day?
- Does Joel have any books?
- Don't give up!
- Discussing other books on smoking cessation at Freedom
- Dreaming about smoking
- "Dying for a cigarette!"
- E -
- Easy way to quit smoking - Joel humor
- The easy way to quit smoking
- Eat, drink and be merry
- Education is a Quitting Method
- Embracing crave episodes
- Emotional loss experienced when quitting
- Emotional recovery
- Enhancing a smoker's motivation to quit
- Every quit is different
- Everyone is different?
- F -
- False associations
- The fan letter
- Fear of success
- Feel how smoking affects your lungs
- Finding cigarettes
- Fixating on a cigarette
- For all of our one year+ quitters - adjusted but never cured
- For members not celebrating an important milestone today...
- For people wondering if quitting is really worth the effort...
- For people who think quitting smoking is the hardest thing they have ever done
- Free quit smoking counters and meters
- Freedom - a virtual classroom
- Freedom - designed to foster a positive attitude
- Freedom's no relapse policy
- Freedom's courtesies and rules
- Freedom's mission statement
- Freedom - how to join
- Freedom - the forum's early history
- Freedom's best crave coping tips
- Freedom - To-all-members: Its-time-to-get-serious-about-quitting
- Freedom from Nicotine - The Journey Home
- G -
- General warning about getting a cold or flu after quitting
- Getting vigilant and staying vigilant with the concept of addiction
- Giving and getting medical advice online
- Good cigarettes
- Good news, our members don't relapse anymore...
- Great American Smoke Out Hijacked
- H -
- Have you ever embraced a crave?
- Have you ever gone through an ashtray in search of the longest butt?
- Have you noticed some of these "lost" long-term quits?
- Health Recovery Benefits Timetable
- "Hell Week" (An unacceptable term)
- "Help me, I've relapsed!" A plea for help or a cry for attention?
- Helping others quit - what if they're pretty sure they don't want to quit?
- Herbal tobacco
- Hermit quitting vs Happy quitting
- Holidays
- "How can I get my family and friends to quit smoking?"
- "How did we survive back then?" (secondhand smoke)
- How do I deal with....
- How do you handle being with smokers?
- How does your program compare to...
- "How in the world did I do it?"
- How to join Freedom
- How would you deal with the following situations?
- I -
- I am an addict! Hooray!
- "I am not going to smoke today!"
- " I'm different, I'll never be comfortable without nicotine "
- I'M DYING!
- "I'm mad that I can't smoke anymore!"
- "I'm not going to smoke today!"
- "I'm safe from smoking related problems by my genetic makeup."
- I am just too weak to quit smoking!
- "I can't quit" ... or ... "I won't quit"?
- I choose life
- I don't know if I have another quit in me.
- "I don't want to die!" - the bottom line?
- "I feel 100% better since I quit smoking!"
- I got through a month without smoking! Boy, I deserve a cigarette for that!
- "I guess I am doing OK, I just smoked one yesterday"
- I have to smoke because of all my stress
- "I have smoked more than 40 years, quitting now is impossible!"
- I just turned green, so why am I blue?
- I know I will quit again
- I liked my other support group more
- "I made a conscious decision to smoke."
- I quit thousands of times then...
- I smoke because I'm self-destructive
- "I smoke because I like smoking!"
- "I smoke because I like the flavor"
- "I think I have decided to go back to smoking"
- I want one...
- I will not smoke today!
- "I will quit when ..."
- I wish it was just a nasty little habit
- I want "something"
- I used to be like that.
- I've tried everything to quit and nothing works
- If cigarettes were as deadly as you say they are...
- "If they ever cure lung cancer, I would go back to smoking."
- If this is your first time quitting
- If you fall down just pick yourself up and dust yourself off
- Individual approaches used to motivate smokers to quit
- "Is anyone else experiencing the symptom of...?"
- Is cold turkey the only way to quit?
- Is Freedom a cult?
- Is it true that everything smells and tastes better when you quit smoking?
- "Isn't quitting cold turkey too dangerous?"
- Is relapse a natural part of the addiction process?
- Isolation of a widowed smoker
- It's only cigarette smoking not a crime punishable by death
- J -
- Joel's Library (his book, articles & videos)
- Journey beyond comfort
- Junkie Thinking
- Just one little puff
- Just one or two
- Just think about something else?
- K -
- L -
- M -
- Make a list of why you want to quit smoking
- Making recovery your #1 Priority - The Fan Letter
- "Maybe I am different"
- "Maybe this isn't the best time to quit?
- Medical advice -giving or getting it online
- Medication adjustments
- Medical implications of smoking
- Meet Bryan Lee Curtis - age 34
- Meet Deborah Scott - age 38
- Meet Kim Genovy, a member of Freedom - age 44
- Meet Noni Glykos - age 33
- Meet Sean Marsee message - age 19
- Memorial to our family and friends
- Minimizing the weight gained
- Misery loves company
- Monster under the bed
- Month Three - Inhaling smoke on my Bronze aniversary
- Month Four - Today is a good day (it's just too much trouble)
- Month Five - you are new here today or struggling...meet our Beccy : )
- Month Six - The pros and cons
- Month Six - New perspectives
- Month 9 - Yes you can ... A message from Lorraine
- Month Twenty - What does my quit mean to me now ?
- Motivations - Reach for your dreams!
- Motivating others
- My computer saved my life
- "My cigarette, my friend"
- "My support group is responsible!"
- My Visit to the Lung Doctor
- N -
- Navigating the first 72 hours
- Need a boost? Reach for your dreams!
- Negative posts - letting them fall after the crisis passes
- Negative support from others
- Negative support - the angry, still smoking spouse
- Neither side is perfect!
- Never Take Another Puff
- New reactions to anger as an ex-smoker
- New Year's resolutions - a better approach
- Nicodemon's Lies or Our Lies?
- Nicotine addiction 101
- Nicotine Addiction Articles
- Nicotine - a neuromodulator
- Nicotine addiction in the tobacco industry's own words - The Sine Qua Non of Smoking
- Nicotine vs. alcohol - Co-quitting: myth vs. fact
- Nicotine vs. heroin
- Nicotine vs. marijuana
- No magic here
- No need to apologize
- "No thank you, I can't have a cigarette"
- None or All. Why I choose none Parade
- Normal depressive reaction or real organic?
- Not much of a smoker
- NRT and quit meters
- NRT & quitting products
- O -
- Offers for cigarettes
- Once and for all, there is no Nicodemon
- One day at a time
- One hour at a time
- One puff files
- P -
- Palmolive Bottle Demonstration - Only about 10% is breathed out
- Parades
- Parade - why we must never take another puff
- Past FAILURES
- Patience
- Pharmacological crutches
- Physical recovery
- Planning to quit
- "Please don't smoke"
- Post-operative complications and slower healing
- Prolonging withdrawal symptoms - NRT
- Puppet - Did you ever feel like this?
- Q -
- Quit cold turkey
- Quit expectations - start with baby steps
- Quitting by gradual withdrawal
- Quitting can be a very lonely experience
- Quitting for others
- "Quitting Smoking": a fate worse than death?
- Quitting tip sheet
- Quitting with a positive attitude
- R -
- Reach for your dreams!
- Reasons people want to quit smoking
- Reading and growth
- Reading at other quit smoking sites
- Recognizing needs - appendix to
- Recognizing needs
- Recovery Benefits Timetable
- Replacing the word "cigarette" with "nicotine"
- Restoring volume control
- Romancing the drug, recognizing the junkie
- S -
- Scare tactics
- Screams, laughter, fears and tears
- Second hand smoke and pet cancer
- Second hand smoke, can it cause relapse?
- Second hand smoke: Surgeon General's Report
- Setting quit dates
- Sleep adjustments
- Smokers need not apply
- Smoker's vow
- Smoking: a crime punishable by death
- Smoking and circulation
- Smoking and pancreatic cancer
- Smoking and pregnancy
- Smoking Breaks
- Smoking's Impact on the Lungs
- Smoking IS an Option
- "Smoking IS easier than not smoking"
- Smoking triggers
- So where does the story end...
- Some new findings on nicotine addiction
- Starting day 1 of your quit (For soon to be members and lurkers)
- Starting day 2 of a quit
- Starting day 3 of your quit. (For our soon to be members and lurkers)
- Starting day 4 of your quit
- Starting your first smokefree weekend
- Stronger or smarter?
- Subconscious recovery
- Suggestion box
- Support from others
- Symptoms - Freedom's no medical advice policy
- Symptoms - Possible withdrawal symptoms
- T -
- Take it one day at a time
- Tearing down the wall
- Teenage smoking - frightening trends
- Tell a newbie how many seconds a day you still want a cigarette
- The closet smoker
- "The cost of my first relapse" - (have a calculator handy)
- The Fallacy of "Good Cigarettes"
- The fan letter
- The final truth
- The forgotten "You"
- The history of nicotine addiction
- The isolation of a widowed smoker
- The journey home
- The 'joy' of smoking
- The law of addiction
- The monster under the bed
- The one puff files
- The relapse of a "social smoker"
- The smoker's vow
- The smoking dream
- The teaching of conventional wisdom at Freedom
- The terrible threes
- The urge hits
- There is no legitimate reason to relapse
- Thinking of quitting ... but ...
- THINKING vs. WANTING - there IS a difference
- Thoughts that seem worse than the first days urges
- Three years vs. three days
- To smoke, quit or relapse is just a decision away
- Triggers and craves
- Triggers - reminders from your executive assistant
- Try replacing the word "cigarette" with "nicotine"
- Turning the corner - acceptance
- "Thank goodness, it's only cigarette smoking!"
- U -
- Urge - what to do when it hits?!
- Unsupportive friends - dealing with negative support from others
- Use of scare tactics
- Using attitude to reduce anxiety
- V -
- W -
- Waiting to bottom out
- Walking among the addicted
- Wanting vs. thinking, is there a difference?
- "Was I addicted?"
- We understand why you relapsed
- Weekends - starting your first one smokefree
- Weight control - video addressing cessation weight control issues
- Weight control issues - patience
- Weight gain - minimizing the amount of change after quitting
- Weight gain concerns after smoking cessation
- Welbutrin - (see Zyban below)
- Welcome! Are you ready to take back your life?
- Welcome! We've been waiting on you!
- Well, at least I attempted to quit
- What a relief, I think I have cancer!
- What can Freedom do for me?
- What is emphysema?
- What does it feel like to have quit smoking?
- What did you love about smoking?
- What does my quit mean to me now?
- What if there was no nicotine in cigarettes?
- What is the use in quitting now?
- What is comfort?
- What's next?
- What should I call myself?
- When smoking was a choice addiction
- When did people start to take your quit seriously?
- "Where is..."
- Who should you believe?
- Who's to blame?
- Why am I still having "urges?"
- Why did I ever start smoking?
- Why do I smoke?
- Why Freedom is designed to foster a positive attitude
- Will this get better?
- Withdrawal symptoms, when do they end?
- Words that translate to " R E L A P S E"
- Y -
- You said it would get better but it's just as bad!
- You smoke because you're a smoke-a-holic
- "You were a lot healthier before you quit smoking!"
- Your journey to comfort
- "Your stupid letters"
- Youth smoking - kids just don't get it!
- Z -
- Zero Medical Advice Policy
- Zyban - general comments about use of Zyban
- Zyban - cold turkey twice as effective as NRT or Zyban
Millions of words but still only one rule - no nicotine today!
