Any other idiots (like me) still smoking? This virus means time to stop & wld love mutual support.
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Plan to study nicotine patches as potential coronavirus treatment
Doctors in Wales could stage trial after suggestion smokers may be less at risk of Covid-19
sideboob
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Congrats!. 8 weeks in it will only get easier from there. I quit 6 months ago, after getting diagnosed with asthma overlapping with copd. I still think about smoking, and crave one now and then, but it gets easier everyday. That being said, if this covid-19 shit ever ends Im going to indulge in a smoke, but only 1
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
But what do you think?Plan to study nicotine patches as potential coronavirus treatment
Doctors in Wales could stage trial after suggestion smokers may be less at risk of Covid-19www.theguardian.com
Yossarian
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Plan to study nicotine patches as potential coronavirus treatment
Doctors in Wales could stage trial after suggestion smokers may be less at risk of Covid-19
I saw a similar story and there was a little part of my brain that said "Hey, maybe it wouldn't be so bad if you smoked again, just a little bit!" which is smokers' logic at its finest - a handful of studies saying that smoking might make you less likely to catch the virus, but will make it more severe if you do, suddenly outweighs about 50 million other studies linking smoking to a multitude of horrible ways to die.
Same
or to put it another way:Risk of death from corona in your 40s: 0.4%
Risk of death from smoking: 50%
Yeah - I’m trying to convince myself that vaping is shielding me some way from the rona - but I also think that I may have already had it and recovered without knowing it at the time.
Nicotine is massively addictive so I’d be cautious in using it on non smokers.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
It was on the news weeks ago that doctors were using nicotine patches on covid patients in hospital.More of these articles. Not motivating at all.
Plan to study nicotine patches as potential coronavirus treatment
Doctors in Wales could stage trial after suggestion smokers may be less at risk of Covid-19
bimble
floofy
Yeah I know, think that was in France though. I’ve been following these stories with a definitely unhealthy interest.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
it's also massively poisonous and the extent of my caution in using it on non-smokers (or indeed smokers) would depend on who they were
Maybe they should do trials solely on politicians?
I started stopping and managed abojut 3 weeks before i caved in and got a 30 grammer. I'm back on the patches now and have done 7 days no ciggies.
why?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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If anything it's ramped up my smoking. However I had an interesting development this morning. I ran out of tobacco yesterday and planned to go to the tesco metro at 6am this morning to get some more. . . . . however, I discovered that I could not leave the house. Made up a few excuses in my head.
I don't like the unknown a the best of times, and now the outside world feels very 'unknown' to me, and may just be thing that keeps me off the fags.
I also have to go to the post office though.
I don't like the unknown a the best of times, and now the outside world feels very 'unknown' to me, and may just be thing that keeps me off the fags.
I also have to go to the post office though.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I did mention to my blood doctor at the hospital that I had unfortunately started smoking again in lockdown, she said that they were finding smokers less likely to catch or have bad effects from Corona. She (very much) stopped short of recommending I continue to chuff away though.
If you don't want to stop there's no point really. I did enjoy smoking at one time and tried to stop but it just didn't work. Now I genuinely do want to stop it's a lot easier. I still get cravings when it's time to put a new patch on but I'm not getting the craving for a wake up/bedtime fag or a fag after a meal; you know, the ones you enjoy having.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
politicians and marty1 it is then
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
better than anything you've mustered.Cool post bro
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
I'd have to give up drinking to be able to give up smoking.
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
And I’m back on the fags
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
sorry to hear, let's hope no one finds the bodies.
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
I want to be caught. Pressure is too much
One of the biggest predictors of whether somebody will succeed in giving to smoking is how they define themselves or think of themselves in terms of their identity after quitting. Those who say “I don’t smoke”, and “I’m not a smoker” tend to do better than those who say, “ I’m trying to give up” or “I’m a former smoker” or something along those lines.
It seems to be likely to do with how you default behaviourally under situations where previously you’d have reached for a fag. A smoker grabs that cigarette, a non-smoker doesn’t even think to do so. The former needs will-power to abstain, the later does not. Eventually, will-power alone often fails. If you can, you need to try to bake it into your identity.
It seems to be likely to do with how you default behaviourally under situations where previously you’d have reached for a fag. A smoker grabs that cigarette, a non-smoker doesn’t even think to do so. The former needs will-power to abstain, the later does not. Eventually, will-power alone often fails. If you can, you need to try to bake it into your identity.
weltweit
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Don't do it, don't even think about it...
That being said, if this covid-19 shit ever ends Im going to indulge in a smoke, but only 1
That just 1 is the thin end of the wedge, then it is just another one - what harm can it do - and then you are at the shop buying a packet of 10, then a packet of 20 and all of a sudden you are a smoker again!
I have been though this loop myself .. even just one cigar .. what harm can it do?
bimble
floofy
You can't do this bit anymore, making the whole relapse process much more efficient.
nobody says you have to stop on the first or even fiftieth attempt. Just stick at it and hopefully it'll click eventually.
sideboob
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I quit smoking, and started drinking more
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