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Joel's Halloween Fearfest https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IPynhryM2RY Halloween is a holiday where people try to scare themselves. It is a perfect holiday to address irrational fears people have regarding quitting as well as the frightening realities faced by people who smoke and do not quit. For those looking for blood and guts, some of the videos linked below will meet those needs too. What is really scary is that all of the stories and pictures related in those videos are real. Scaring yourself to death is really pretty hard to do. Smoking yourself to death isn't. Don't use fear to trick yourself into not quitting--treat yourself to a healthier and happier life by making and sticking to a personal commitment to never take another puff. Videos addressing the fears surrounding quitting smoking: The fear of failure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_64R... The fear of success https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHhWS... The fear of relapsing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoWuS... Quitting smoking out of fear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wpre... Everything you did as a smoker you can do as an ex-smoker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqlyA... Videos addressing to the scary effects of smoking with no gory pictures: "I don't want to see any scary pictures" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZgIM... Feel what it is like to breathe with emphysema https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf0ts... The Palmolive bottle demonstration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbUG... "I can't quit or I won't quit" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i22AI... The power of nicotine addiction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpYRr... Premature deaths caused by smoking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5a7D... For those wanting to see the blood and guts kind of destructions caused by smoking: Heart and circulatory diseases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xt9v... Lung cancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFNv8... See how smoking destroys your lungs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0EHB...

NOPE!

Best show on TV.

Makes me wonder what's up. There's a reason why they ended the episode with that...

What a way to end the episode! Now have to wait until next week...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3eN9u5N2Q4

This issue seems resolved. Anybody still having any problems?

They still allow smoking indoors in designated areas and also employees who have their own offices can smoke in them. So, basically all they've done is stop smoking in open indoor areas. They have designated certain conference rooms etc. to smoke in. They just don't get it. Cigarette Company Finally Bans Workers From Smoking At Their Desks RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Camel cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is snuffing out smoking in its offices and buildings. The nation's second-biggest tobacco company informed employees Wednesday that beginning next year, the use of traditional cigarettes, cigars or pipes will no longer be permitted at employee desks or offices, conference rooms, hallways and elevators. Lighting up already is prohibited on factory floors and in cafeterias and fitness centers. The no-smoking policy will go into effect once Reynolds builds indoor smoking areas for those still wanting to light up indoors, spokesman David Howard said. "We believe it's the right thing to do and the right time to do it because updating our tobacco use policies will better accommodate both non-smokers and smokers who work in and visit our facilities," Howard said. "We're just better aligning our tobacco use policies with the realities of what you're seeing in society today." While Reynolds will no longer allow smoking, it will allow the use of smokeless tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, moist snuff and pouches of finely milled tobacco called snus (pronounced "snoose"). The company also will allow the use of Eclipse, a cigarette made by Reynolds that uses a carbon tip that heats tobacco after being lit by a lighter. First released in the mid-1990s, Eclipse is in limited distribution and one of the top-selling brands in the cafeteria at the company's Winston-Salem, North Carolina, headquarters. The percentage of Reynolds' 5,200 employees that smoke is in line with the smoking rate in the U.S. That is about 18 percent of adults, according to the federal Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. Through its subsidiaries, Reynolds American also makes Pall Mall cigarettes, Grizzly smokeless tobacco and Vuse-branded electronic cigarettes. Altria Group Inc., the Richmond, Virginia-based owner of the nation's biggest cigarette maker, Philip Morris USA, doesn't allow smoking on factory floors and in places like elevators or hallways, said spokesman David Sylvia. Employees with separate offices can smoke in them, but otherwise the company has designated smoking areas in office buildings, conference areas and cafeterias, he said. ___ Michael Felberbaum can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/MLFelberbaum. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/camel-smoking-ban_n_6030786.html

Iam, is this your site? If so, PM me. :)

I sent her an email this evening...

Cute little guy isn't he?

She just vanished and the last we knew was that nobody had a clue where she was or what happened to her. Now we know what TAC is okay, we need to make sure that Rachael is okay. We knew when TAC left that he was going to be without Internet for awhile but with Rachael, nothing. Very concerned about her.

Interesting.

This is the reason why QuitTrain was started. Not only do we have these stories in one place, but the reader can also ask questions, post SOS's and can get encouragement in real-time. :) There are some great books out there already about quitting smoking like Allen Carr's and Joel Spitzer's materials (which are completely free) so what will your book offer that is different than support forums such as this and other books already published? Do you have a publisher already? Are you a former smoker?

I thought that I truly enjoyed smoking. For me, this turned out to be a false belief. Sure, there were the occasional cigarettes that were amazing, especially the first one with my morning coffee as I sprang back to life. But those were few and far between and what was left were thousands of cigarettes that I didn't enjoy and in fact, much of the time while smoking them I was thinking about how it was ruining my health and shortening my life. Now, my coffee tastes much better, I get to stay inside and peruse the forum while drinking it, no smoke in my eyes, no stink on my clothes and best of all, I don't even think about smoking EVER while drinking my morning coffee. I thought the correlation between smoking and drinking coffee would be something that I would have to deal with for the rest of my life and now it doesn't even exist. I thought it helped me relieve stress or enable me to better cope with it. Another falsehood. As it turned out, smoking caused more stress in my life. It caused me to feel guilty knowing that I was willingly robbing years of my life from my children, wife and family. This was a huge burden for me. The stress of knowing that I was killing myself. The stress of always concerning myself if I had enough cigarettes to get me through the workday. The list can go on and on. Smoking raises your blood pressure and forces your adrenal glands to produce adrenaline to flood your bloodstream to prepare for your body for "fight or flight". As a result, your blood pressure and heart rate increase significantly, your lungs expand to ready themselves for action and your pupils dilate; ultra aware of any impending danger. These reactions prove that smoking does not relieve stress. We think smoking relieves stress because when we smoke we're in a constant state of withdrawal. Every twenty minutes or so as our bodies have metabolized the nicotine, we crave more which causes us to go into withdrawal dozens of times throughout the day. How do we relieve this stress caused by smoking? Either continue smoking or quit. Once you quit smoking, you're no longer torturing your body and mind by feeding the addiction which causes in and of itself, more stress in our lives than we ever imagined while we were smoking. I think we could have an entire topic dedicated to how smoking caused stress in our lives instead of relieving it. These were my two big ones. I'm sure others will have the same but please write about them anyway because we want to learn about your experiences.

What were the main obstacles that hindered quitting smoking for you? Explain what they were, how you got past them and if they were real or some notion that turned out to be false. Newbies, smokers and lurkers, this is for you! Please follow this link to our discussion. http://www.quittrain.com/topic/3249-group-discussion-wk44-what-was-stopping-you-from-quitting-smoking/?do=findComment&comment=87581

What were the main obstacles that hindered quitting smoking for you? Explain what they were, how you got past them and if they were real or some notion that turned out to be false.

What was stopping you from quitting?

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False with capital F TPBM has thrown an object threw a window at some point in his/her life.

Welcome to the forum and congrats on your decision to quit. Can't give any suggestions on the vapor flavors, but as long as you're using it like the patch or gum, it's fine. The only way to break the nicotine addiction is to get off it completely. I hope this is your goal. Nicotine is nicotine is nicotine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KViTfIfHUv0

TAC!!!!! Glad to see you back. You've been missed!

A lot of members were having issues with their computers automatically logging them back in even after they logged out (I was one of them), closed the browser and then pulled it back up at a later time. Because of the obvious privacy issues this created, I found that I was able to make some changes. Once you log out, you'll have to re-enter your username and password when you pull the site back up. If you check "Remember Me", it will automatically populate for you and you'll just have to click enter or whatever the button is you click after you enter login credentials. If your browser asks you to update and or remember the password, click yes. The site generated password you can change in your profile and just use the same one that you picked that you've used all along. Let me know if you have any other issues. :)

Congrats, Comrade!