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Addiction and Recovery
It was the fall of 1996 and I had decided to finally stop smoking. I smoked for over 20 years and enjoyed everything about it: the scent, the camaraderie in smoking circles, the self-contained privacy of a good cigarette and the sensuality. Yes, I loved everything about smoking and still do -- I just don't smoke anymore. No one was more surprised than my family when I stopped. I was a staunch advocate of smokers' rights (still am) and very much enjoyed my habit and its routines. When asked why I...
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Addiction and Recovery
Soberity Savers ..
Relapse Prevention Tips to Help You Thru --
The First 30 Day's
1.) Grab a pen & paper. ...
Write day & date. Then write what's going on in that moment? in the second of clarity when you realize it's over, you cannot take 1 more second of the insanity that's become your life. What caused you too hit your bottom? what emotion's did you feel ? where were you ? who or what brought you to this place ? What did you see / hear ? write it all down.
This is vital to fi...
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Addiction and Recovery
Each year, more than 2 million Americans are given powerful prescription painkillers that contain opiods (sometimes called narcotics) for the relief of pain and discomfort brought on by injury, surgery, menstrual cramps, and even headaches. But a growing number of people taking these medications are becoming addicted to them. And it's not hard to understand why.
Drugs such as Vicodin, Percocet, and Methadone block pain all the way from the nerve endings in the skin to the spinal cord to the b...
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Addiction and Recovery
Here is a large list of reasons to quit smoking. The earlier you quit, the less of a risk you have of dying. I hope this list will help to convince smokers to kick the habit as soon as possible.
1) If you smoke more than 25 cigarettes a day, you are 25 times more likely to die from cancer and heart disease.
2) Each cigarette takes about 11 minutes away from your life.
3) Fifty diseases are caused by smoking. Twenty of them are proven to be fatal.
4) Seve...
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Addiction and Recovery
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1. Write down why you want to stop
2. Write down why you like to smoke
3. Decide if you want to stop more than you want to smoke
4. If you do want to stop more than you want to smoke,
continue with this checklist. If not, read on only when
you're ready to quit
5. Continue to smoke until you've completed the checklist.
6. Write down where, when and with w...
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Addiction and Recovery
Like any disease, there are signs or symptoms of alcoholism. Some of them is very easy to recognize whilst others are less obvious. Most of us can go out maybe once a week or just on special occasions and have a few drinks and it is no big deal. Anyone can be an alcoholic including teenagers. Alcoholism affects over 17 million Americans everyday. There is a difference between drinking or abusing alcohol and alcoholism. It is not how much a person drinks but how they let the drink affect and cont...
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Addiction and Recovery
Finding a good quality drug or alcohol rehab can make the difference between success and sobriety, and a wasted month or more and continuing abuse; and it's too bad that such a crucial decision comes at a time in life when few are at their best, and capable of making a rational and researched decision.
With all the choices out there, and so much of the information on the internet biased and commercial, getting the information you need can be tough; and since the decision needs to be made quic...
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Addiction and Recovery
When you decide to stop smoking the most difficult part is to resist the urges. It doesn't matter that each craving lasts only 3-5 minutes. It's still the whole 5 minutes to battle with your willpower! These 7 tips will help you to resist the urge to smoke (one urge at a time).
1. Remind Yourself Why You Quit
Every time you experience a craving remind yourself why you quit. It's the excellent idea to take a blank index card and list all the reasons why you decided to quit smoking. List as ...
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Addiction and Recovery
Yes it is true that there are many offline organizations available to help in recovery, but not everyone who's addicted can get to those organizations. For some people with special needs like the deaf, the visually impaired and blind, the disabled, the homebound and for geographically isolated alcoholics/addicts, "cyberspace" offers all of these the chance of forming a Recovery Community.
Now all of these don't sound like much when you just read it off in a list like that, but if you add up ...
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Addiction and Recovery
Anyone who's tried to quit smoking knows how very, very hard it can be. Even when you really want to stop, cigarettes sneak up on you and the next thing you know, you're inhaling. Or worse, you realize that you just smoked a cigarette and put it out without even noticing.
For many, stop-smoking programs are a battle of wills in which the conscious mind remains constantly on guard, intercepting signals from a well-established habit that doesn't want to die.
That's the problem. Resolutions, ...
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Addiction and Recovery
A Proven Way That Women Can Quit Drinking Without AA
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) has helped millions of people recover from alcoholism. For many women, however, AA may not be the best choice when it comes to the difficult task of quitting drinking. The main reason it may not be the best choice is this:
AA is based on the philosophy that self-centeredness is the root of alcoholism. In other words, AA's approach is to instill humility and minimize egotism in its members.
While this method ...
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Addiction and Recovery
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
My intention is to share with others what I've experienced and
researched, what I've lived, and how the Holy Spirit has worked a
miracle in my life.
What I have attempted to do in this summary is to give the reader a
glimpse of each chapter and the focus which I have taken with each part
of my story.
The purpose of this story is to assist those individuals who feel/think
that they may be suffering from compulsive or abusi...
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