I quit drinking, I quit smoking smoking and as of two months ago I quit eating meat! I'm running out of things to quit! It's really quite a feeling of power to be able to shrug off bad habits like this...I need to find some new unhealthy habits to start so I can give them up. Any suggestions? I'm thinking of something really challenging like heroine, I hear that's a doozy :)
I am proud of you, Tipsy, and I know you are only trying to rile folks up here.... not gonna work for me this time. I am just really grateful to hear that you are getting healthy. Say a prayer for me, to quit smoking soon. It sucks!! But I have picked up Yoga, which is a good habit i hope i never have to quit.
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Good to hear! I'm working with my higher power to remove all my unwanted obsessions so I can gain clarity and peace to carry out his will for me. The obessions I working on are chewing tabacco, eating late at night, sex and trying to control my kids. The only obession I want is my relationship with my higher power and AA. Thanks for your post.
Wow! You really are a quitting machine! Alcohol and coffee will have to be enough for me right now as I don't want to have to many things to think about. Cigs and chewing tobacco (yup, BOTH!) will have to be down the road as my body accumulates to these changes.
Trying to control our kids will be an unwon battle!!!!! Thats right up there with controlling the hubby!!!!! Keep up the good work tipsy.....
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Tipsy: That picture you have here looks like my last girfriend!!!! Your right about one thing as far as my experience goes. Recovery without passion is just like going to church on Sunday was like. Try to think back about how many sermons you remember. I don't know about what's exciting. That's whatever flavor I have to take responsibility for. I do have a suggestion if ya' wanna find out where your humility is at. Do something nice for someone. Preferably someone you really hate, don't tell them or anyone else what it was. Just keep it between you and whatever nasty habit you might be comtemplating. Thanks for keeping it in a state of restoration.-John
I think I'm incapable of not offending at least 1 person with every post.
Seriously though, I mentioned earlier in another thread that I quit smoking by embracing the simple philosophy in a book called "Allen Carr's Easyway To Stop Smoking"...I then applied that philosophy to other areas of my life that I had always wanted to change but was unable. While I was reading the book I also used a relaxation/hypnosis CD created by a Dr. Lloyd Glauberman for dealing with "Procrastination". Believe me, I am the weakest willed, why-do-today-what-can-be-done-tomorrow, slack ass there is so if these things were able to me it says a lot.
Tipsy: All those "How to" books and CDs are great for the people that made them or wrote them. Tipsy I'm looking at all the addiction from the inside out. That's why I need the insanity of another alcoholic to share with. Besides all the Dr. Phil's of the world aren't gonna die if there book doesn't sell. I'm betting my life on the BB. AA is the only place I ever went to where people actually laughed at my suicide stories. Try telling a suicide story to Dr. Phil. Son of a Bitch is way to serious to be actually beliving the wonder of his own bullshit. Jesus when I start doing that I start getting mentally and emotionally constipated. Do it too long and I'm lusting after the gas oven again. We can do together what I can't do alone. Shit look at all the help I had in destroying my life. The well meaning people were the best enablers of all!!! Procrastination is great!!!!! Why take days to screw it up when I can do it 5 minutes before it's do. Makes me feel like I'm still on that comfortable destructive edge!!! Take care Tipsy. I'm glad I never met you while I was drinking,but then again I was a blackout drinker.
Have you tried attending an AA meeting? This is a great board in the meantime to make new friends...however the posting you found and reposted has responses from folks who I have either never or rarely seen on this board.
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I need new friends who are in the process of quitting so that we can build pillar
New friends quitting ... smoking, wakesho?
Or alcohol?
We got some of each. I think Baba Louie recently quit the smokes. And Pythonpappy could probably provide some good testimony about the ills of cigarettes.
Tobacco addiction is a very tough one to deal with, as stated above...
Darn, Tanin....don't feel so "special" anymore....LOL. (Read this after my last posting in response to yours)....
Yep....trying now to get off the nasty ass cigs myself.
Not easy!
Something about coughing up chunks of brown phlegm that must turn me on for some reason. Yum!
I'm glad to announce that I did, in fact, give up the cigs ... Thank you Pickle for bringing that to the surface .... (There are NOT many patients that could face my Surgeon on the issue of smokin' ... ... ... I mean seriously, this guy scared me to death ...
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