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Having Taken A Solemn Vow To Abjure The Rough Magic Of Lager And Cigs...

 
 
Alex's Grandma
22:56 / 02.01.05
Anyone who says " Sex ! " is not going to be taken seriously.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:05 / 02.01.05
Crack?
Smack?
Seppuku?
 
 
Ganesh
23:12 / 02.01.05
Masturbation. Lots of it.
 
 
w1rebaby
07:03 / 03.01.05
Wine.
 
 
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07:14 / 03.01.05
Pure orange juice, but the good stuff. Tropicana or something that's not from concentrate.
 
 
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03:21 / 04.01.05
Cup-a-soups seem to be helping me cut down too.

The important bit is that if you fuck up, don't just go back to drinking and smoking like you used to, make sure you carry on weening yourself off it. Even cutting down makes you fitter, more confident and gives you that extra bit of willpower for when you next try.

I hope you do well anyway.
 
 
Saint Keggers
03:24 / 04.01.05
Tea and Crumpets!!!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
06:44 / 04.01.05
It's true. Keggers appears to have gone crumpet crazy. Vicar.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
06:55 / 04.01.05
Coffee, on the hour, every hour.

Every time you think to yourself, I would like a smoke, drink a cup of coffee.
 
 
Seth
07:03 / 04.01.05
Thelemite Repsonse (not to be confused with the Corbomite Manoeuvre): The thought that if you lapse then you'll never respect yourself again. If you don't have indomitable will you’re not worth shit as a human being.
 
 
Spaniel
10:02 / 04.01.05
Swapping coffee for cigs, hmmm.

Whilst I can't fault your logic - caffine helped me overcome the demon nicotine - I'm not sure the raio should be 1 for 1.

Having tried this I would suggest it's a bad idea.
Picture the scene: Boboss standing over a toilet bowl after drinking twelve cups of coffee, shaking violently and in desperate need of a piss. Unfortunately the caffine seems to have done something to his testicles which ache horribly as he strains to relieve his splitting bladder.

I am rather sensitive to caffine.
 
 
Jub
10:06 / 04.01.05
Can definitely empathise with your resolve. Very good; but be careful trying to stop your vices all at once. Can get pretty hairy - well did for me at least.

Why are you giving up lager anyway? Cos it makes you fat? In that case, switch to wine or vodka. Also, give yourself treat days when you can drink it (mates' birthdays etc).

Good effort anyway. Keep it up!
 
 
Axolotl
10:28 / 04.01.05
Having decided to stop drinking during the week I am now struck by how long the evening seems to last. What do tee-totallers do to fill the time?
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
10:47 / 04.01.05
Board games.

Once you've realised that you're too sober to watch TV and the games designed for acne-ridden, testoserone, wobbly-voiced 15 year-olds no longer hold thrall then they are the only thing left.

I recommend scrabble and mancala.
 
 
iconoplast
20:27 / 04.01.05
One of the biggest challenges is figuring out what you like doing. Because drinking makes anything feel as though it were fun. In sobriety, you are doomed to higher standards of amusation.

When I quit drinking, someone told me to drink as much coffee and smoke as many cigarettes as I could stand for the first six months or so.

But I think that's mostly to act as a gerry-rigged mood stabilizer to cope with the lack of depressants in your system.

I hear a lot of people who don't drink go to meetings, too.
 
 
Triplets
20:33 / 04.01.05
After my meteoric rise and fall from rockstardom I now vow to say no to Cake.

No!

No! Cake!
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
23:53 / 04.01.05
Coffee works. Also, I recommend video games. Nothing kills the hours like video games.

For me, I alternate between drinking and smoking chronic. I don't think it's feasible for me to be off of both at the same time,although I usually quit smoking cigarettes and drinking at the same time I get back into the ganj. It's almost impossible to drink without smoking cigarettes in my experience.
 
 
w1rebaby
23:57 / 04.01.05
Oh yeah - crisps. Crisps are ace. Salt and vinegar McCoys, Nice And Spicy NikNaks or Worcestershire Sauce Wheat Crunchies.
 
 
King of Town
04:23 / 05.01.05
I've heard that some people have some success quelling their nic-fits with grapefruit juice or cinnamon gum. I was once ambushed by a cup of canned grapefruit juice on a scout camp out. It was so incredibly disgusting that I simply didn't beleive it was possibly as terrible as I thought. So I took another sip. ughhhh. Wow. I guess it was at least as bad as I first thought. But it was kind of fun to drink something so nasty knowing that someone out there actually enjoyed this bile-like substance, so I carried on drinking it one shuddering sip at a time. In testament to human adaptability, this perverse pleasure eventually became actual enjoyment and I now like grapefruit juice in all of it's manifestations. Freshly squeezed is the best, and least bitter, but any other form can also be made more pallatable by pouring in some sugar and perhaps watering it down somewhat.

What else is there in life? : Movies can be great and time-consuming, but books are greatly time-consuming. I often wish that I had more time to read because there are so many books waiting alluringly for me. Really though, if I had more time I'd spend a lot more of it in going to the gym. I find that it's very enoyable once I'm there, my main problem is going. I also have a few projects waiting for me (reupholster my car, reduce a set of shelves, install my new surround sound system that i got for christmas). Cooking can be fun and fill some of an evening and save money too. Have you thought about learning something new? I'd like to have more time to play my guitar or piano. (not that i own a piano, but there is one close by that I can often use) I could go on and on, but lists are boring.
 
 
agvvv
10:24 / 06.01.05
Sex
 
 
imaginary mice
07:11 / 07.01.05
Pistachios.
 
 
Benny the Ball
07:17 / 07.01.05
I've had to give up crisps as they make me spotty and fat (well, maybe not, but I'm paranoid that they will).

Chai Tea Latte's are my thing of the moment - mmmmmmm.
 
 
Olulabelle
10:35 / 07.01.05
After you have cracked open the first Pistachio then you cannot rest until every single one in the bowl has gone. I bet most people don't even really swallow the first nut before they're cracking open the next. They're just as addictive as smoking and drinking.

Yummy, but just as bad.
 
 
alas
13:52 / 07.01.05
Anything requiring cracking: try walnuts in the shell. Sort of like grapefruit juice, they're not that tasty, and they also give you something to do with your hands.

Chocolate--dark chocolate. I don't tend to want a TON of this, just a good solid cube of it. And supposedly the chemical reaction is good. Red wine is also supposed to have some virtues. If you can't drink cofffee all day, tea is a little milder and has anti-oxidants.

A friend of mine said he doesn't think he could have stopped smoking cigs without weed. But that may be not the surgeon general's advice.

Crossword puzzles--hardish ones like the Sunday New York Times. (Doable, esp, if you have a partner in crime) but it takes some time and a few reference volumes).

Spend your time here?
 
 
Haus of Mystery
14:05 / 07.01.05
Yo-Yo's, long walks, and good food.

And lots and lots of pornography.
 
 
haus of fraser
14:27 / 07.01.05
A friend of mine said he doesn't think he could have stopped smoking cigs without weed. But that may be not the surgeon general's advice.

doesn't that entail still smoking?
 
 
_Boboss
14:32 / 07.01.05
it does, value not to be underestimated however as a) habit breaker and b) withdrawal-symptom allayer.
 
 
Axolotl
14:39 / 07.01.05
plus if in the US it probably doesn't involve smoking tobacco.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
14:44 / 07.01.05
But probably did involve listening to Phish, sadly.
 
 
haus of fraser
14:46 / 07.01.05
specially if you put baccy in yer spliff (doh!)

surely your just continuing your addiction- maybe in smaller doses but still continuing.

I managed to give up smoking for 4 years before starting again- The cause was smoking spliffs at Glastonbury- which reintroduced me to tobacco and saw me having the odd fag between spliffs cos its glasto- then saw me having the odd fag when i got back cos i had baccy left and left me in this situation 4 years later- once again a dirty smoker!

if you want dope- either smoke it straight - in a pipe or summit- or better still make space cakes- 10 million times funnier than smoking a spliff

fuggin hell i sound like a grumpy ex smoker

poo! you smoke I choke!

sorry I'm not trying to get righteous and different things work for different people but the spliff thing has always seemed a bit odd to me....
 
 
_Boboss
15:40 / 07.01.05
well that's cos it's a cop out, sure, but it has its uses in the immediate protection of sanity. really though, a giver-upper who can't allow themselves a pinch of baccy during festivals is someone still in thrall to the chemicals. i'm cutting right down on weed at the moment, but not with a 'never' attitude, just with an 'only when appropriate' attitude.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
15:41 / 07.01.05
Do you think mentioning 'Glastonbury' and 'spliffs' in the same sentence makes you sound 'cool'?
 
 
haus of fraser
16:23 / 07.01.05
i'm sure in does make me "Kool"
 
  
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