Giving up smoking

(Mark Rhodes) #21

I have included the Gary Taubes quotes. Don’t hesitate to reach out. Keto alone is great. Keto without nicotine is stratospheric.

(George) #22

I stopped smoking (well, significantly cut back) about a year before I came across Keto, mainly because I didn’t want my now wife to know I was a smoker LOL. Vaping really played a major role in it.

I’ll still have a cig maybe 2 or 3 times/year at a social gathering, but that’s nothing compared to the half pack I used to smoke per day.

(John) #23

Took me a long time to quit tobacco. I only smoked for 3 years, but continued on with smokeless products for another 11, before I finally quit for good (in 1994). However, what helped me to quit was to eat too much! So that’s not a good choice.

I found the nicotine gum was a big help, but I was quitting oral tobacco (snuff / chewing tobacco) so it kind of fit in.

But eventually just going cold turkey and burning up some willpower reserve did it.

Just remember - tattoo this on your forehead if you have to. YOU CAN NEVER, EVER HAVE JUST ONE. There is no just one. Just one becomes just one pack, then just one carton, then you are right back where you are. When you quit, you are done with it. Forever.

I no longer (after 25 years) have any desire for a cigarette, or chewing tobacco, but I’d kill for some of that gum. :slight_smile:

(Mark Rhodes) #24

The caboose never killed anyone in a train accident. It was always the locomotive.

I.E. only the first one can begin your path to smoking again.

#26

sounds also like a carb thing or ick food thing or sugar intake statement to me also when ya think about it :slight_smile: now matter what ya call it! :slight_smile:

first one carby icky meal. first one booze drink. first one white line. first little ol’ puff, or even changin’ behavior issues from OCD and more.
Such a big part of our lives thru the entire population but one must define one’s own literal boundaries to scrape forward if we desire change and lock it in! Up to each of us for sure!

(Mark Rhodes) #27

Well yeah, I learned this in AA, so it definitely is about intoxicating substances. I gave a talk in Waukesha WI last night on how to survive the Holidaze on Low Carb. Instead of food I talked about many of the same principles that have kept me sober over the last 33 years.

#28

great you are helping others!!! all one can do is pass on ‘good advice and procedures and concepts to learn’ and then it is 1000% up to that individual, after that?

(Mark Rhodes) #29

I have taken the message I learned in recovery i.e to “carry the message” to another suffering alcoholic into our low carb community. Roughly in a 12 step program I can help one person in ten. However, in nutrition I can help 9 people out of 10, if they care to hear the message. So my message in the low carb community has consistently been that of giving away freely of what was given to me. I don’t charge people for sharing my experience, which BTW was given to me freely in places like this forum, Facebook or the like. Others didn’t charge me.

I run an in person Low Carb Meeting in Waukesha WI, which met last night in fact, and every month I give a presentation on how to successfully navigate a keto lifestyle and what the science says. Last night was about navigating the next 2 months of parties and over indulgence. I do all of this to express my gratitude at finding health and continue to do it so I don’t back slide.

I have been consistent about this. I talked about it as far back as here.

(Robin) #30

Love this! good for you!