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I smoke - a lot. Roll your own, white ox, unfilterred - basicly the strongest stuff you can buy here, and in ample quantities. The first thing I think about getting out of bed is having a cigarette, and it's the last thing I do at night. I like smoking and wont stop until it kills me.

I also use the computer a lot, between those two things, sleep and occasionally eating - that's pretty much all I do.
So anyway, it occured to me that I havent been getting enough physical exercise over the last couple of years and that is a bad thing. It would be beneficial to smoke less and exercise more.

So, in order to remind and encourage myself to exercise, and / or reduce the amount that I smoke, I put little labels on all the packets of cigarette papers lying around the place. If I want to roll one with these papers - that's 50 pushups bud, with those papers - 20 pushups with your feet elevated, and so on. I have 4 or 5 different packs, and will buy some more specifically to vary the excercises to include stretches and whatnot.

That was a few days ago, and since then something strange has happened. My addictive reflex is starting to get confused.

This morning, the first thing on my mind was not the smoke, it was the exercise. When a craving hits, its not a "Must suck back nicotene - Now!" feeling in my throat, but rather a "Must do something physically gruelling - Now!" feeling in my arms and chest. Surprisingly, if anything my tar intake has increased, and I'm getting more exercise than I imagined possible, just now I've increased the physical requirements on the labels...

Of course it's all moot when there's someone else present, but I find that I'm smoking far, far less when there is.

So now I'm thinking, the other big chemical addiction is caffeine, right? - I ought to bind that craving to some other sort of beneficial behaviour. Just need to come up with something suitable to put myself through 3 or 4 times a day...?

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awesome idea, slight. good luck with it.

I need to try that... but put the labels on my tubes of cookie dough and cheese-dip, be damned if I will hender my computer time though.

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maybe you should vacuum or clean something before you think about caffeine....?

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i tried doing something similar to this with my computer room. the desk, shelves, and floor get horribly cluttered with stuff. every time i get up to do something- pee, get a drink, check the kid- when i got back to the desk, i was making myself spend five minutes cleaning up clutter. it worked for about six hours. then i got lazy. go me.

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maybe you should vacuum or clean something before you think about caffeine....?

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I've found that an all out 100-200 yard sprint does the same for me as can of Pepsi.

How bout every time you want that cup of coffee, you sprint down your street 100 yards, catch your breath, and sprint back? Or just do the army thing where you lay flat on your back sit up/stand up/jump up/squat down/sit down/lay down/repeat thing 10 times.

Oh and how the fuck do you do this? "20 pushups with your feet elevated"? Are you like spider man or something?

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Heather, you are fucking insane.

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dude, you should stop smoking

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Heather, you are fucking insane.

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you're kinda missing the point heather.

here's a little diagram to make it simpler...

nicotene exercise
caffeine something else

Lu's suggestion is excellent, but this aversion to housework will probably stop me drinking coffee entirely. :/

and the elevated feet thing is easier with a wall, or a chair for beginners.

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I think exercise is just artifical work.

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You are entirely correct Pinecrika.

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I've found that an all out 100-200 yard sprint does the same for me as can of Pepsi.

How bout every time you want that cup of coffee, you sprint down your street 100 yards, catch your breath, and sprint back? Or just do the army thing where you lay flat on your back sit up/stand up/jump up/squat down/sit down/lay down/repeat thing 10 times.

Oh and how the fuck do you do this? "20 pushups with your feet elevated"? Are you like spider man or something?

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Heather, you are fucking insane.

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rest your feet ontop of something like a chair instead of on the ground which you normally do for pushups.

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Ohhhh OK...

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you're kinda missing the point heather.

here's a little diagram to make it simpler...

nicotene exercise
caffeine something else

Lu's suggestion is excellent, but this aversion to housework will probably stop me drinking coffee entirely. :/

and the elevated feet thing is easier with a wall, or a chair for beginners.

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Originally posted by Princess_Heather
There is also always masturbation or sex.

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Originally posted by Buddha's Penis!


there you go. want coffee? whack it! depending on your daily consumption you will either come (ugh. not a pun) to think of coffee as either sexual release or hideous penis-torture.
win-win!

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eeeexoooooorciise???
what is with you people and your long words that no one in their right minds (or sane minds) can possibly understand?
exercise...that's a cute one.

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Every time you walk back to the break room at work to pour a cup you'll get a boner. HAH

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I am going to steal that idea, slight. It rules!

See you in smokers hell, dude!

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