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Giving up Smoking
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20 Oct 2008 Mon 08:22 am |
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You should use your "brain power" (everybody has it), not anything else and stop it immediately. I know many people around doing it without any help. They just decided and did it.
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20 Oct 2008 Mon 03:51 pm |
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It is not "cold Turkey", but "cold turkey"! The "turkey" in the phrase does not refer to the country, but to the bird. 
The phrase "cold turkey" describes the skin´s reaction to heroin withdrawal. As an addict stops using the drug, blood is drawn toward the internal organs, leaving the skin to resemble a cold, plucked turkey. The phrase is dated to 1910 and it originally meant "without preparation", referring to the ease of making a dish of cold turkey.
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Dearest Cat 
Thank you for the Alamedaish link. I am aware, of course, what "cold turkey" means but mistyped turkey with a capital ´T´ out of habit on this site!!!!!
It was a genuine error and (Dearest Si++++++++ please note) was NOT in anyway meant to offend Turkish people! Actually the turkey bird is named after Turkey, not the other way round, so you should not be so sensitive about it! 
The trouble with being sarcastic 80% of the time is that people never believe you when you are serious! 
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20 Oct 2008 Mon 04:06 pm |
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The trouble with being sarcastic 80% of the time is that people never believe you when you are serious!
I believe you
Only sort of surprised youre smoking? Anyway good luck! Saying you´re a ´non smoker´ may sound funny, but it does help!
I just ´postponed´ every cigarette ý felt like taking. For example if I felt the urge I pushed myself to take it 10 minutes later etc. In the end I was able to postpone the breakfast cigarette till the noon, and now I am at the teabreak  That is the hardest to quit and I still take one ocasionally, but not the way I used to. Set myself an ultimatum and sticking to it!
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20 Oct 2008 Mon 04:11 pm |
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Thanks DK
Yes, I think your way is the BEST way. If I tell myself "no more" I will get all emotional about it hehe. I also decided to leave ONE cigarette in the house, because I sometimes notice that the craving for a smoke is often much worse if you don´t have any. If it is there I can tell myself "you can maybe have it later" and just keep postponing it.
I hope so anyway... 
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20 Oct 2008 Mon 04:52 pm |
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Offffffffff Please do not quit smoking... If you quit it, then you will be online here all the time you got bored!!
Please you cant torture us with that!!! I will pay for a pack of cigarette for you everyday
deal?
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20 Oct 2008 Mon 04:54 pm |
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Offffffffff Please do not quit smoking... If you quit it, then you will be online here all the time you got bored!!
Please you cant torture us with that!!! I will pay for a pack of cigarette for you everyday
deal?
Ama Ama...I didn´t even start yet!
....but...ok deal
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20 Oct 2008 Mon 04:57 pm |
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Ama Ama...I didn´t even start yet!
....but...ok deal
you didnt start yet what? to try quiting? or smoking?
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20 Oct 2008 Mon 05:00 pm |
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you didnt start yet what? to try quiting? or smoking?
I didn´t try to stop yet. However, I have accepted your offer, so please forward £202.50 for my first months´ supply
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20 Oct 2008 Mon 05:03 pm |
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I didn´t try to stop yet. However, I have accepted your offer, so please forward £202.50 for my first months´ supply
No no no!
you clever brit! i am sending your supply in papers and tobaccos so make your own cigarette and enjoy
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20 Oct 2008 Mon 05:11 pm |
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No no no!
you clever brit! i am sending your supply in papers and tobaccos so make your own cigarette and enjoy
I don´t like "roughing" it
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20 Oct 2008 Mon 05:19 pm |
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I don´t like "roughing" it
hmmm ok then!
How about two cartons of Marlboro Lights per month?
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