What comforts you?

CityMouse wrote:Also, one meal a day in the morning, one cup of coffee in the morning

I refuse to encourage this. Please eat properly Citymouse <3.

CityMouse wrote:Also, one meal a day in the morning, one cup of coffee in the morning, and holding out hope that I can quit smoking cold turkey buddy.

Last time I tried to quit cigarettes: ended up scavenging the ashtray for little left overs. Was so disgusted at myself that I tipped the whole thing in my mouth. That smelly stuff is dry.

With a mouthful of rotten butts, I realized that I'm more addicted to hating myself than the act of killing myself slowly.
It's not the cigarettes that are the addiction. It's me.

Squaredonutwheels wrote:Last time I tried to quit cigarettes...

Lovely story. But what comforts you? besides your armpits. Do you have an idea?

Eight wrote:

Squaredonutwheels wrote:Last time I tried to quit cigarettes...

Lovely story. But what comforts you? besides your armpits. Do you have an idea?

Playing in wide open spaces but sleeping and cuddling in tiny ones.

Certain words comfort me.
At the moment I can't channel as I'm slightly spiraling into depression.
Sorry if you wanted some sweet words from me. I fail to deliver at this stage.

Squaredonutwheels wrote:With a mouthful of rotten butts, I realized that I'm more addicted to hating myself than the act of killing myself slowly.
It's not the cigarettes that are the addiction. It's me.

I'm currently trying to quit (again) and let me tell you, the physical addiction is nothing. NRT works well. I use the patch and lozenges simultaneously. It's the psychological addiction that gets you. The urge to smoke hits me from all over. Smoking for me is a respite from the chaos in my head. If I can replace their value in taking a "mental health time out" I'll succeed.

Thoughts, CItyMouse?

Squaredonutwheels wrote:Playing in wide open spaces but sleeping and cuddling in tiny ones.
Certain words comfort me.

Oh, yes, sleeping in small warm spaces is wonderful.

At the moment I can't channel as I'm slightly spiraling into depression.
Sorry if you wanted some sweet words from me. I fail to deliver at this stage.

No rush. You'll come around again when you're ready.

xcagedsilhouttex wrote:

CityMouse wrote:Also, one meal a day in the morning, one cup of coffee in the morning

I refuse to encourage this. Please eat properly Citymouse <3.

Okay I will friend.

-- Wed Dec 05, 2018 6:47 am --

naps wrote:

Squaredonutwheels wrote:With a mouthful of rotten butts, I realized that I'm more addicted to hating myself than the act of killing myself slowly.
It's not the cigarettes that are the addiction. It's me.

I'm currently trying to quit (again) and let me tell you, the physical addiction is nothing. NRT works well. I use the patch and lozenges simultaneously. It's the psychological addiction that gets you. The urge to smoke hits me from all over. Smoking for me is a respite from the chaos in my head. If I can replace their value in taking a "mental health time out" I'll succeed.

Thoughts, CItyMouse?

I too am trying to quit, again. I'm quitting cold turkey. For me, it's cold turkey or bust. To me, it's like going from chugging vodka to drinking wine, it will just lead back to the vodka.

I can relate the chaos in my head. But I don't think it's actually doing anything. It's just an illusion. Does it really rescue me from the chaos in my head? Or just it just give me something to put in my mouth and do with my hands? Because there are plenty of other things to do with my mouth and put in my hands. It's really just for the nicotine.

And it just *causes* withdrawal, it doesn't relieve it.

@CityMouse Breaking an addiction is extremely hard. While I was quitting a difficult one I found immersing myself in projects and setting alarms to jog me to what I needed to do next the way to get through it.

• Read or if I have to do something where I can't directly look at a book (like cleaning) I listen to an audio book.

• Speaking of cleaning...I destress when cleaning though I know doing this does the opposite for many people.

• Getting out of my place and going somewhere alone (preferably where I won't run into anybody I know).

• Music

• Movies/shows I find light-hearted nostalgic ones best.

• Drinking green tea has become a daily go to I do lately. It chills out stress hormones and amino acids.

• I read Tetris is a good reduction of anxiety. It's easy to find the game online so I tried it after a stressful event and after maybe 30 minutes I did feel much better. Mabey a placebo but I've tried it a few times and it seems to help. Here's what I read.

A research group at Oxford University reported that playing Tetris could reduce the impact of viewing traumatic scenes, perhaps because the game disrupts retention of painful memories. It is such an effective distraction that it can help reduce cravings in dieters and addicts seeking to kick the habit. After prolonged play, images of the Tetris combinations will linger in the brain (the so-called "Tetris effect"), although this will happen with any repeated images or scenarios (solitaire, jigsaw puzzles, and so forth). It even inspired a new Playstation game, The Tetris Effect.