Yuku free message boards

- A -

• A message to prospective members - How to join
• "A safer way to smoke?"
• Acknowledge the negative--but dwell on the positive
• Actions speak louder than words-or thought
• Addiction / Dependency
• Advice for new members - The 1st 72 hours and more
• After I lose weight I will quit smoking
• Alcohol and quitting
• Alcohol - can people quit smoking and still drink alcohol?
• An excerpt from Joel's live clinic welcome letter
• Anger - new reactions to anger as an ex-smoker
• Anger - emotional loss experienced when quitting
• Another slant on how to watch people smoke
• Anti-smoking ads from the past
• Are "aaah" memories calling your name?
• Are crave episodes "really" only 3 minutes?
• Are you a nicotine junkie?
• Are there "social smokers?"
• Are you an intelligent smoker?
• Are you smoking more and enjoying it less?
• Attitude - using it to reduce anxiety
• Attention lurkers (also known as visitors)
• Avoiding triggers

- B -

• Baby steps
• Bad days
• Because now it really hurts!
• Becoming an ex-smoker
• Being honest about our addiction
• Be prepared for holiday triggers
• Be prepared - alcohol and your quit
• Be prepared to hear some confusing info during G.A.S.O. and W.N.T.D.
• Being locked-up to quit smoking
• Blood sugar changes when quitting
• Blood sugar - eating healthy
• "Boy, do I miss smoking!"
• Breaking free from nicotine's grip is more doable than most people think
• Breaking links to our crave generator
• Breathing - smoking's impact on the lungs
• Buddy systems
• "But smoking is the only vice I have left..."

- C -

• Caffeine tolerance changes after cessation - possible changes
• Call me a quitter!
• Can we help a person quit when they are pretty sure they don't want to quit?
• Caring for your quit
• Carrying cigarettes
• Carrying NRT's
• Cigarette smoke smell good? It's not by accident.
• Cilia
• 'Conventional quitting' wisdom at Freedom
• Common use rationalizations
• The closet smoker
• Cold or flu after quitting - a general warning
• "Come share your strength, come recognize your vulnerabilities?"
• Come to where the knowledge is
• Complacency
• Cost of my first relapse (have a calculator handy)
• "Crack" or free-base nicotine
• Craves - thoughts
• Craves and thoughts that occur over time
• Crave - triggers: reminders from your executive assistant
• Craves - thoughts: making a toolbox
• Crutches to Quit Smoking
• Cue extinguishment
• Cutting down before quitting: more smoke and mirrors?

- D -

• Days I just wanted to die
• Divine revelations
• Decisions - are you making them?
• Denial vs. Dreams
• Desperate addicts parade: have you ever...
• Diversions
• Do members of our board seem to be too happy?
• "Do whatever it takes to quit smoking"
• Does it sometimes look like a lot of our members seem to be having a bad day?
• Does Joel have any books?
• Don't give up!
• Discussing other books on smoking cessation at Freedom
• Dreaming about smoking
• "Dying for a cigarette!"

- E -

• Easy way to quit smoking - joel humor
• The easy way to quit smoking
• Eat, drink and be merry.
• Emotional loss experienced when quitting
• Emotional recovery
• Enhancing a smoker's motivation to quit
• Every quit is different
• Everyone is different?

- F -

• False associations
• The fan letter
• Fear of success
• Feel how smoking effects your lungs
• Finding cigarettes
• Fixating on a cigarette
• For all of our one year+ quitters - adjusted but never cured
• For members not celebrating an important milestone today...
• For people wondering if quitting is really worth the effort...
• For people who think quitting smoking is the hardest thing they have ever done
• Freedom - a virtual classroom
• Freedom's early history
• Freedom's No Relapse policy
• Freedom - your journey to comfort - a highly focused forum
• Freedom's best crave coping tips
• Freedom from Nicotine - The Journey Home
• From any angle its the only answer

- G -

• Giving and getting medical advice online
• Getting vigilant and staying vigilant with the concept of addiction
• Good news, our members don't relapse anymore...
• Great American Smoke Out Hijacked

- H -

• Have you ever embraced a crave?
• Have you ever gone through an ashtray in search of the longest butt?
• Have you noticed some of these "lost" long-term quits?
• "Hell week" - an unacceptable term
• "Help me, I've relapsed!" A plea for help or a cry for attention?
• Helping others quit - what if they're pretty sure they don't want to quit?
• "How can I get my family and friends to quit smoking?"
• Hermit quitting vs Happy quitting
• Herbal tobacco
• Holidays
• "How did we survive back then?"
• How do I deal with....
• How in the world did I do it?"
• How does your program compare to...
• How to Join
• How would you deal with the following situations?

- I -

• I am an addict! Hooray!
• "I am not going to smoke today!"
• I'M DYING!
• "I'm mad that I can't smoke anymore!"
• "I'm not going to smoke today!"
• "I'm safe from smoking related problems by my genetic makeup."
• I am just too week too weak to quit smoking!
• "I can't quit" ... or ... "I won't quit"?
• I choose life
• I don't know if I have another quit in me.
• "I don't want to die!" - the bottom line?
• If this is your first time quitting ...
• "I feel 100% better since I quit smoking!"
• I got through a month without smoking! Boy, I deserve a cigarette for that!
• "I guess I am doing OK, I just smoked one yesterday"
• I have to smoke because of all my stress
• "I have smoked more than 40 years, quitting now is impossible!"
• I just turned green, so why am I blue?
• I've tried everything to quit and nothing works
• I know I will quit again
• I liked my other support group more
• "I made a conscious decision to smoke."
• I quit thousands of times then...
• I smoke because I'm self-destructive
• "I smoke because I like smoking!"
• "I smoke because I like the flavor"
• "I think I have decided to go back to smoking"
• I want one...
• "I will quit when ..."
• I wish it was just a nasty little habit
• I want "something"
• If cigarettes were as deadly as you say they are...
• "If they ever cure lung cancer, I would go back to smoking."
• If this is your first time quitting
• If you fall down just pick yourself up and dust yourself off
• Individual approaches used to motivate smokers to quit
• "Is anyone else experiencing the symptom of...?"
• Is cold turkey the only way to quit?
• Is Freedom a cult?
• Is it true that everything smells and tastes better when you quit smoking?
• "Isn't quitting cold turkey too dangerous?"
• Is relapse a natural part of the addiction process?
• Isolation of a widowed dmoker
• It's only cigarette smoking not a crime punishable by death

- J -

• Journey beyond comfort
• Junkie thinking.....
• Just one little puff
• Just one or two
• Just think about something else?

- K -

• Keeping cigarettes

- L -

• The Law of Addiction
• Let freedom ring
• Life goes on without smoking

- M -

• Make a list of why you want to quit smoking
• Making quitting your #1 prioroty - the Fan Letter
• Masked or hidden conditions - healthier before quitting?
• "Maybe I am different"
• "Maybe this isn't the best time to quit?
• Medication adjustments
• Medical implications of smoking - thread strings directory
• Meet Bryan Lee Curtis - age 34
• Meet Noni Glykos - age 33
• Meet Sean Marsee message - age 19
• Meet Deborah - age 38
• Meet Kim a member of Freedom - age 44
• Memorial to our family and friends
• Minimizing the weight gained
• Misery loves company
• Monster under the bed
• Month Three - Inhaling smoke on my Bronze aniversary
• Month Four - Today is a good day (it's just too much trouble)
• Month Five - you are new here today or struggling...meet our Beccy : )
• Month Six - The pros and cons
• Month Six - New perspectives
• Month 9 - Yes you can ... A message from Lorraine
• Month Twenty - What does my quit mean to me now ?
• Motivations - Reach for your dreams!
• Motivating others
• Murder, suicide, accident or stupidity?
• My computer saved my life
• "My cigarette, my friend"
• "My support group is responsible!"
• My visit to the lung doctor

- N -

• Navigating the first 72 hours
• Need a boost? Reach for your dreams!
• Negative posts - letting them fall after the crisis passes
• Negative support from others
• Negative support - the angry, still smoking spouse
• Neither side is perfect!
• Never Take Another Puff
• New reactions to anger as an ex-smoker
• New Years resolutions - a better approach
• Nicodemon's lies or junkie's junk?
• Nicotine addiction 101
• Nicotine Addiction Links
• Nicotine - a neuromodulator
• Nicotine addiction in the tobacco industry's own words - The Sine Qua Non of Smoking
• Nicotine vs. alcohol - Co-quitting: myth vs. fact
• Nicotine vs. heroin
• Nicotine vs. marijuana
• No magic here
• No need to apologize
• No thank you, I can't have a cigarette
• None or All. Why I choose none Parade
• Normal depressive reaction or real organic?
• Not much of a smoker
• NRT and quit meters
• NRT & quitting products

- O -

• Offers for cigarettes
• Once and for all, there is no Nicodemon
• One day at a time
• One hour at a time
• One puff files
• Our Mission Statement

- P -

• Palmolive Bottle Demonstration - Only about 10% is breathed out
• Parades
• Parade - why we must never take another puff
• Past FAILURES
• Patience
• Pharmacological crutches
• Physical recovery
• Planning to quit
• Post-operative complications and slower healing
• Prolonging withdrawal symptoms - NRT
• Puppet - Did you ever feel like this?

- Q -

• Quit cold turkey
• Quit expectations - start with baby steps
• Quitting by gradual withdrawal
• Quitting for others
• "Quitting Smoking": a fate worse than death?
• Quitting tip sheet
• Quitting with a positive attitude

- R -

• Reach for your dreams!
• Reasons people want to quit smoking
• Reading and growth
• Recognizing needs - appendix to
• Recognizing needs
• Restoring volume control
• Romancing the drug, recognizing the junkie

- S -

• Screams, laughter, fears and tears
• Setting quit dates
• Sleep adjustments
• Smokers need not apply
• Smoking: a crime punishable by death
• Smoking and circulation
• Smoking and pregnancy
• "Smoking IS easier than not smoking"
• Smoking triggers
• So where does the story end...
• Some new findings on nicotine addiction
• Starting day 3
• Starting your first smoke-free weekend
• Stronger or smarter?
• Subconscious recovery

- T -

• Take it one day at a time
• Tearing down the wall
• Tell a newbie how many seconds a day you still want a cigarette
• The closet smoker
• "The cost of my first relapse" - (have a calculator handy)
• The fan letter
• The final truth
• The forgotten "You"
• The history of nicotine addiction
• The isolation of a widowed smoker
• The journey home
• The 'joy' of smoking
• The law of addiction
• The monster under the bed
• The one puff files
• The relapse of a "social smoker"
• The smoking dream
• The teaching of conventional wisdom at Freedom
• The terrible threes
• The urge hits
• There is no legitimate reason to relapse
• Thinking of quitting ... but ...
• THINKING vs. WANTING - there IS a difference
• Thoughts that seem worse than the first days urges
• Three years vs. three days
• To smoke, quit or relapse is just a decision away
• Triggers - reminders from your executive assistant
• Try replacing the word "cigarette" with "nicotine
• Turning the corner - acceptance
• "Thank goodness, it's only cigarette smoking!"

- U -

• Urge - what to do when it hits?!
• Unsupportive friends - dealing with negative support from others
• Using attitude to reduce anxiety

- V -

• Victory - how can we measure it?

- W -

• Waiting to bottom out
• Walking among the addicted
• Wanting vs. thinking, is there a difference?
• "Was I addicted?"
• Weekends - starting your first one smokefree
• Weight control - video addressing cessation weight control issues
• Weight control issues - patience
• Weight gain - minimizing the amount of change after quitting
• Weight gain concerns after smoking cessation
• Welbutrin - (see Zyban below)
• Welcome! Are you ready to take back your life?
• Welcome! We've been waiting on you!
• Well, at least I attempted to quit
• What a relief, I think I have cancer!
• What can Freedom do for me?
• What is emphysema?
• What does it feel like to have quit smoking?
• What did you love about smoking?
• What does my quit mean to me now?
• What if there was no nicotine in cigarettes?
• What is the use in quitting now?
• What is comfort?
• What's next?
• What should I call myself?
• When smoking was a choice addiction
• When did people start to take your quit seriously?
• Who should you believe?
• Who's to blame?
• Why am I still having "urges?"
• Why did I ever start smoking?
• Why do I smoke?
• Will this get better?
• Withdrawal symptoms, when do they end?
• Words that translate to " R E L A P S E"

- Y -

• You said it would get better but it's just as bad!
• You smoke because you're a smoke-a-holic
• "You were a lot healthier before you quit smoking!"
• Your journey to comfort
• "Your stupid letters"

- Z -

• Zero Medical Advice Policy
• Zyban - general comments about use of Zyban
• Zyban - cold turkey twice as effective as NRT or Zyban

Only one rule - no nicotine today !



Sincere thanks to Joe J for taking the lead in updating
links following our 01/09 MSN move and Johnnynonic
and Joel for their assistance in identifying topics!