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Post by hibouxdufromage on Jun 16, 2010 10:38:17 GMT -5
Many people on this board have already or will donate their time, money, and effort to the memory of our fallen brother. Please jump on that bandwagon! This isn't an "instead of" thread rather than it is an "in addition to" thread. I thought it would be a good thing for each one of us to make a personal positive commitment in our lives to honor his.
Matt, since you're no longer bound by your corporeal form, I know you can read this. Today I quit smoking cigarettes and I'm going to give all the money I would have spent on smokes for the next year to Matt's Trees. Please help me not be a jerkface while I readjust to life without nicotine, and please help my friends and family be patient with me if I'm being a jerkface.
Many people on this board have already or will donate their time, money, and effort to the memory of our fallen brother. Please jump on that bandwagon! This isn't an "instead of" thread rather than it is an "in addition to" thread. I thought it would be a good thing for each one of us to make a personal positive commitment in our lives to honor his.
Matt, since you're no longer bound by your corporeal form, I know you can read this. Today I quit smoking cigarettes and I'm going to give all the money I would have spent on smokes for the next year to Matt's Trees. Please help me not be a jerkface while I readjust to life without nicotine, and please help my friends and family be patient with me if I'm being a jerkface.
Viking, it was great to hang out with you at Camp this year. I know the mood was pretty down on Sunday, but you being there with all of us made it better!
I think this is a great idea, I am gonna think on this one and see if I can come up with something I can do as well!!!
Post by hibouxdufromage on Jun 16, 2010 17:41:08 GMT -5
Thanks roofan! I was tryin' to keep spirits up in the interest of everyone including myself. Unfortunately, I have experience with losing a member of my roo family. My friend Mike Copp who I camped with from 03 to 06 passed away due to a random car crash in Atlanta in June 07, and I found out literally as I was leaving my apartment to go down to the farm. When Alisa told me about Matt, I thought "oh man, not again." And whoever told you that your av pic doesn't look anything like you do in person was right, man!
set a date ahead when you want to "stop" but start stopping today...if that makes sense
if you make a slip, get right back on it. dont smoke one and then smoke the rest of the day. every cig you avoid will bring you closer to quitting
dont take up another bad habbit in the mean time such as drinking too much or eating too much
take up a new past time that wouldnt allow you to smoke anyway
keep the money you are saving in site where you can see it
keep a chart and mark the days you do fairly well as well as the days you go cold turkey. so maybe pink for a fair day and red for a grea day
consider the over the counter remedy or try some RX from your doc
consider relaxation or meditational activities. you dont have to sit and meditate to do something meditational. running or even scribbling on paper can be meditational if it clears your mind. swimming can be meditational and you dont usually smoke while swimming hehehe
let us know how you are doing so we can encourage you!!!
Keep in mind - it takes 21 days to break a habit or make a habit - try replacing your cigarette habit with another healthy habit such as walking - not saying you should walk everytime you would have smoked but saying try making an effore to walk for at least 15 min every day for at least 21 days - it becomes a habit.
Just like not smoking for 21 days and you can break the habit - it's not easy - I started trying to quit today.
I am not a first thing I have to have in the morning is a cigarette type of person - I am normally up for at least 2 hoursbefore I smoke my first cigarette - so today I tried to wait for 3 hours - it worked - result of which is that I will have smoke at least 2 less cigs today
I also don't smoke at work which is good - my problem is smoking while driving - that will be my habit to break.
Post by strumntheguitar on Jun 17, 2010 9:43:13 GMT -5
I think this is a pretty awesome thing to do. I've been on the "I swear I'm gonna quit... starting tomorrow" bandwagon for atleast a month now. I had quit for a week, but then my boss started being a huge doosh and kept tempting me with cigarettes and I eventually cracked, and I told him he will owe me my hospital bill if I ever am diagnosed with cancer.
The moral of that story is.... Avoid people that smoke relentlessly as best you can for the first month or so. Try to stick around people that support your efforts, people who, even if you ask them for a smoke, they will tell you no. I have found that for atleast me personally, you have to do more than just stop buying packs. You have to make slight adjustments to your everyday routine so that you don't look at your watch and think "hmmm... normally I'd be having a cigarette right now..."
I've found chewing really minty gum helps reduce my craving. Maybe it's just me, but the flavor of mint in my mouth makes me not want to ruin it with the taste of tobacco.
Post by ronswanson on Jun 17, 2010 10:15:06 GMT -5
Hey I found these flavored toothpicks at a healthfood store that really seem to help me, along with the nicotine gum. I find that the hardest times to not smoke are generally times in which you are used to smoking. For example i used to chain smoke when I would drive, so I generally try to chew gum, sunflower seeds, etc. when I drive to prevent a craving.
I read somewhere that it is important to keep hydrated when you quit smoking, although I have no clue as to why.
Post by daisychain on Jun 17, 2010 10:51:12 GMT -5
Vector, this is a fantastic thread and a fantastic idea. Thanks for that. I still haven't managed to stop crying but I'm trying to stay strong and move on because that's what Matt would want.
As far as honoring Matt goes, I will certainly be donating my time and money. I plan to head down to the gulf to continue some of Matt's work rebuilding NoLa and doing wildlife rescue. I'm also hoping to do some volunteer work with Rottweiler rescues since Matt loved his dogs. He loved beauty in all its forms and was in love with love and life. I plan to do whatever I can to make the world a more beautiful and loving place. I also plan to throw more movie quotes into conversations just because it will make me giggle and think of him. He used to tell me he could converse entirely in movie quotes. Silly boy. Since I managed to convince him to do his first Wallaroo I'll be making BBQ and rum punch an annual tradition there in his honor and adopting noobs to take under my wing at Roo. Please stop by for some BBQ and punch if you see me. Matt and I both had a distaste for how distant instant electronic communication had made personal interaction so I will make more of an effort to meet up with people in person instead of texting, emailing or calling. I will also continue to try to carpe diem as it were.
Matt and I had a favorite quote and I hope that it can inspire everyone on the board the way it inspired us: "To move forward clinging to the past is like dragging a ball and chain. The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. We are all guilty of crime, the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free. We can stop thinking of what we have failed to do and do whatever lies within our power. What these powers that are in us may be no one has truly dared to imagine. That they are infinite we will realize the day we admit to ourselves that imagination is everything. Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything God-like about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything." Henry Miller
Matt, baby, I know that you are watching over us all from above. Please give us all the strength to make it through this difficult time and to be constructive instead of destructive. I know that your spirit will be front row with me for the rest of my Phoenix and Deadmau5 shows. You will live on forever in our minds and hearts.
Post by hibouxdufromage on Jun 17, 2010 12:22:39 GMT -5
Daisy, you rock! I know that's trite, but that's all I got. everyone else helping me with nic-fits, so far what's helped is dropping and doing 20 pushups whenever the fits start getting to me. Gets a little aggression and frustration out of the way.
