Of course he doesn't because anyone in a relationship like that would leave it and move on.

MLYLT,

How's the not smoking thing going?

Sun log:

Not good. I've been smoking since Valentine's day.

Why is it necessary to have jelly toast with pancakes? Isn't that like ordering a side of french fries with your spaghetti?

If you want to have the foods you like from time to time (such as pancakes), fine, but learn to compromise a little. That breakfast wouldn't have been a calorie trash fire if you had avoided the jelly toast and pile o' bacon.

And yeah, you could retort that you still ended up under calories for the day, but there's no question that you took on some satiety debt, and a binge in the next few days is ever more likely.

That'll teach him!

You've already demonstrated that you can quit (at least short-term) if properly motivated. Now you just need to figure out how to be motivated internally rather than externally. Good luck with the quitting!

Sunday workout:
15 min walk @3.0,5°

DB rows:
3x12x30lbs

Inclined bench:
3x15x65

Deadlift:
4x12x70

Leg curls:
3x10x70

Leg extensions:
3x10x90

Squats:
1x10x95

Inclined leg press:
3x10x90

Thanks. Yeah, I've got to figure it out. It was dumb of me to believe that me not smoking would have any positive effect on my relationship.(it did keep him from telling me I'm undesirable for about a month)
Smoking is just such a comfort and stress reliever for me, I just don't know what to do to change my mindset.

MLY, what was the longest period you have stopped for recently?

For me the biggest shift in smoking came from longer and longer stoppages. Each time I would go back I would enjoy something about it less than I had before. The taste started turning ashy, I would notice way more the scratchy throat or phlegm buildup. It honestly just became not an enjoyable experience and that made it much easier to quit over time.

I think it would probably help a lot to focus on the positive feelings you notice when youre not smoking. Take notice that your mouth doesnt taste like complete butt in the morning. Your clothes, hair, and hands dont smell (and guess what, everyone around you smells this stuff 10 fold). You can breath easier. Seriously, notice the difference in breath during your walks after not smoking for a short period. Its an incredible difference.

Alternatively, when you break and smoke again, dont beat yourself up. Use it as a chance to compare some of these things. One of the biggest things for me was noticing how much harder I had to breath when going up steps on a day when I had a cig. I HATE that feeling and I was like wow that was basically ten times worse after a cig!

I have a friend who the lozenges helped a lot, I personally used an ecig to deal with habit issues. I dont think theres a silver bullet, but I do think you need to take a mental approach to it more than just "try to stop".

Well he sounds hideous.

Cigarettes are hard to quit, but cigars you can quit like that. Almost like they put something extra in the cigarettes to make them harder to quit.

It's just a day that encapsulates her all-or-nothing mentality toward dieting. It's either eating nothing but a 300 calorie lean cuisine for an entire 18 hour period or having pancakes with jelly toast and four servings of bacon.

Is her weight plateauing? Not quite, but the process of plateauing must begin with a slowing of weight loss, which can certainly be observed. Does she have a problem with blowout days? Debatable, but there are certainly some >2500 calorie days and possibly many more if we believe that she's regularly underestimating her foods. However, none of that concerns me as much as the fact that she doesn't appear to be making lasting improvements to her eating habits at large.

In case I'm being too negative, it isn't like there are no good things happening here. The exercising is wonderful to see. That she hasn't lapsed from logging is probably the best thing of all. I just know how much more progress she could be making if she'd fix a few simple things.

lol, i'm assuming you mean nicotine... which is in tobacco itself, not merely an additive. as in, cigars also contain nicotine.

Read Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking, it will do exactly that.

You're...serious?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._in_cigarettes

are you?

cigarettes have a ton of additives, great, agreed. but your post implies that there is something making them more addictive than cigars.

which of those chemicals in the list of 599 are you arguing makes cigarettes more addictive than cigars? I just clicked on 10 random ones, ctrl+f for "addic" and got 0 hits combined.

please, be specific.

Lol, good luck with all your future endeavors bro.

yeah expected. dont worry, we forgive your misstep. you're not the first person to think that nicotine is an additive lol.

The additives in cigarettes aren't addictive; they increase nicotine absorption, which makes cigarettes more addictive. Or at least that's what I used to think until I randomly click on a few, ctrl+f for "absor" and got 0 hits combined.

Can you give me the cliffs....Or just tell me what the easy way is?

always happy to show someone the light! don't mention it!

Just say no--Nancy Reagan

Seriously, don't you think if there were an easy way that could be conveyed by a post on an internet message board, that cigarette smoking would be totally eradicated by now?

I've seen some hypnosis videos for quitting. I'm going to try that out.

Dangit. Just thinking about watching the videos made me want to smoke one last cig just in case it works.

The only way you're going to quit is because you really want to quit.

Look at what you just posted, you don't. You like the idea of quitting but you don't actually want to go without smoking. So you won't.

You have to want it.