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smoking is about reward..it's about nicotine releasing dopamine..The nicotine kept us coming back for the dopamine

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎04-01-2014 12:33 PM

if you could get a dopamine release every time you thought of having a smoke after you quit, would it make it easier for you to accept and cope?

chocolate causes a release of dopamine. Red hots cause a release of dopamine.

A toll house morsel has 2 calories

A red hot has 3 calories.

Why couldn't you fill a RX bottle with the equivalent of how many cigarettes you smoked a day in red hots or chocolate morsels?

The fact the you are getting the dopamine release is one good point, but, the reminder that it is not a cigarette giving it keeps your mind on why you are carrying around that pill bottle and that is to unlearn reaching for a cig.

Caution: That state trooper or highway patrolman may react funny if there's a description of a white oval pill on the bottle so remove it before you have some splainin' to do.

Also: Only ONE morsel per cigarette you would have normally smoked or you may become "overly morselated."

PS Cinnamon toothpicks are good if you feel the need to have something in your mouth.

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.