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I tried hypnotherapy (about fifteen years ago) to stop me smoking nicotine and it worked fine. Only for about a month, though. The hypnotist had said to come back in a month for another "refresher" session and I probably couldn't afford it or something and consequently got back into a the habit one drunken night.
The thing with stopping smoking fags, in my case, seems to be engineering other changes in my lifestyle which fill the gap. I go out more generally, start up at the gym again, go to non-smoking environments a lot more.
Giving up hash, and I have also wanted to chuck it at points for the reasons you gave, I have to say has never proven to be a great problem. I drink more to moderate my mood is the only downside I can think of. I get nightmares more often but I'm a big boy, I cope. And I find I can smoke some now and then without feeling the need to keep a stash tucked away for quotidian use. There are so many positives about not being out of my face so frequently, for hours at a time. I don't get the paranoia when the doorbell rings and can answer the phone. I can follow the plot with films and tv shows. I can read (not just the same couple of sentences over and over).
But fags, that's a horse of a whole different stripe. Have used patches twice and done well for five or six months and then just crumbled each time. I miss it too much and find it hard to find the positives to motivate the lifestyle change over a lengthy period.
My lungs are like shrivelled carriers bags and I must be past the scary "million cigarette" mark but wtf, nobody's perfect. |
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