h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I hope so


Got snuggle withdrawl too tonight

Think i'll be in bed early with a lemsip

Keep up the good work then!

CBT really works, I can vouch for that as it has completely changed the way I think about food now!



I hope you feel better soon.

I haven't smoked much today well, didn'ty have any cigarettes left then was busy ing about and recovering from last night been a crawling in teh loft, found a very old, very good Arcam amp spent part of the day testing it out make sure it works alright which it does then rearranged bedroom, put the old speakers I retrieved from teh loft last week in place, hunted about and found speaker cable and interconnects gona go buy new CD player and turntable tomorrow ahve offer of second hand tuner from a friend, which I'll get from round his tomorrow after we've been down the pub

I think seeing how well it's worked for you is one of the things that gives me hope in it
I've read the first couple of chapters. And from a few minutes ago ,it's a chapeter and new tecniques a day for a maximum of 10 days after which I must stop altogether and should have no desire to smoke left anyway! Seems I'll have to go on smoking more than I have been the last couple of days for it to work properly though ! He insists that for the first part you smoke when you feel like it..and one of the first techniques(wich i sarted before i went to bed) depends on you smoking at the time to work! its called NURD and says it works best when the desire is still relatively weak (early in the craving in other words and actually recommends 'against trying to fight it off as this causes conflict between 'concious 'and 'feeling' or something).you should every fag you smoke,stop what youre doinf completely n cncentrate on the feelig of smoking,and as you do..this fag is giving me NO satisfaction,with the first puff,this is an UPLEASENT experience with the second..through this is making feeel rotton and I am losing all DESIRE to smoke.Apparantly this works in most cases to reduce smoking by 25-50 % in the first 24 hr period! I still refuse to go back to chain smoking though..id like to stay at 10-15 tops till it starts to reduce as i dont want it which should be pretty quick!

The book sounds good Now you have to follow it!

10-15 a day is still quite alot really, its probably 1 per hour you are awake.... When I am at work I have 1 in the car en route, 1 at 10am, 1 at 2pm and one on the way home. Then probably 2 in the evening.. Perhaps you should keep an eye on the times you are most vunerable, i.e when you are bored in the afternoon and see if you can change your routine to help you get over some of the cravings..

How are you feeling this morning?

something else i have to do is keep a record card of what times i smoked ..and step 2 (tomorrow) starts an extra techique of thinking about and dispelling the triggers too

Still all bunged up n coldy sound like lilly savage I do!

How're you?

I'm ok, just a feeling a little low at the moment (as per journal). I'll be ok soon enough though!

Unfortunately you might be plagued by colds and things for a while, your throat is normally coated with stuff and when you stop smoking it clears itself leaving you open to more infections than you used to have. The body adjusts pretty quickly but don't be surprised if you are a little snivelly for a while.



Now are you going to be up tonight so I can show you some photo's? Or are you going to bed early again!?

I suppose I could always pop over another day, its just I'm pretty busy at the moment...

Was coming down with this just before my smoking attempts started ,its pretty nasty. Ged has it too now n we dont know who gave it to who cos his mum had it last week


read your journal
Don't know if i'll be up or not..gimme a text on your way to your meeting

I find it fairly easiy keeping to about ten cigarettes a day less I'm smoking <doh in the pub

Doing ok so far. only 5 since midnight last night when i started the first exercise.Although I have lept a lot today. Realised a little while ago my patch had come off too!

I've smoked far too many today have been sitting waiting for lodger to get ready so we can pop out in search of electornics

sitting about is lethal! definately my biggest prob I think..

QUICK! Do something...sew buttons on stuff, whether they need them or not, clean the windows (can't have a cig with wet hands), unravel the christmas tree lights....

thats the spirit

Have you got a sewing kit? You could have a go at repairing josh's trousers.

Or you could go through all your clothes, deciding what can be kept or thrown away or taken to the charity shop

I'd end up stitching my finger into the seam

Well do a clothes sort then

Thats my first plan for tomorrow

cool, try and find that top with the laces

Ok will do.. think it needs some new laces though as I lost them at the meet