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01-16-2018, 08:06 PM | #17 | |
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(I've only just made the connection that I started smoking again about the time that my first book was getting rejected by trad-pubs. ... So it's all their fault! ) Curiously enough, my smoking (or lack there of) did not seem to affect my writing all that much at that time. I find that surprising because I had noticed how easily my writing was distracted by other things (eg: minor injury or illness). I am now attempting to be a non-smoker again (become an ex-ex-ex-smoker), and must admit that I have not managed to do any writing in the last few weeks ... but there have been other distractions, and giving up smoking is all about distraction. Smoking, for many (most?) people, has an element of ritual, and so we come to associate certain actions with lighting a cigarette. (Pouring a drink, sitting down to write, whatever.) One of the hard parts with quitting is breaking those rituals (triggers/habits) - which is where distraction comes in (make yourself think of something else at those times). And that is a long way of saying: If sitting down to write was one of your triggers for smoking, there seems little wonder that giving up caused problems. It might help if you could set up to write in some way that would not trigger those old associations (or maybe replace it with another ritual). |
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Yeah, it's been...lemme think...16 years? Yes, about that. I know that it's ritual and habit. It just strikes me as odd that that--creative writing, as opposed to business writing--was so heavily afflicted. Oh, well. BTW: when I quit, the last time, (LOL), I wore the stepdown-type patch. What most folks don't do, though, is what I did--I wore that last, lowest-dose Nicotine patch for a year. That's what it took, for me to make the transition, as I'd smoked a lot. I don't know if that will help, but it did work for me. Hitch |
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The first time I gave up I managed cold-turkey, so I'm trying that this time too. It's been an interesting (as in the may-you-live-in-interesting-times curse) few weeks so far. (It is amazing the stupid tricks your mind can play on you, the stupid bargains that keep popping into your head "if I do this then ...". Hey! I'm not stupid, so why am I acting like I am?) If my attempt looks like failing then I will definitely be looking for some chemical assistance. Last edited by gmw; 01-17-2018 at 02:44 AM. |
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* Bear in mind that when I say "cold", I'm in an area of Australia that rarely has snow stick to the ground. |
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According to the electric company, this cold snap may put a strain on the power grid because it got to below freezing in the southern part of the state that rarely gets below 10C or 50F at night. Those people are cold. |
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01-18-2018, 01:28 AM | #26 |
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The reason for my footnote is that these things are relative. Yes we get cold here, but there are many places that get much colder. We also get very hot here ... at a guess, there are less places that get hotter, despite the fact that where I live we don't see the same extremes as elsewhere in Australia. (Where I grew up further inland, we had similar heat but over longer stretches without relief.) What really gets to you is when it reaches over 40C during the day and gets down into single digits overnight.
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England right now is dull during the day and hovering round zero; but what gives me more energy in summer is the bright sunshine, people (and my cats) being outdoors and a general buzz of energy in nature.
I have an odd sleeping pattern. Sometimes I go to bed early and wake early, so write in the morning. Because it's been drilled into me that early nights and mornings "makes Jack healthy, wealthy and wise" this makes me feel as though I've achieved something. But my more usual pattern is to be up late and sleep late and write late at night. I feel a guilty pleasure from this, especially as my mother, even when I no longer lived with her, would nag me about this. Men still do. I think it's one reason I've never married: boyfriends found my late nights difficult to deal with. This added to the rebellious element. Speaking of smoking: I gave up smoking when I was 16. Edward Heath put packets of cigarettes up to 50p a packet! It was no longer a rebellious thing to do, so became boring and expensive. I didn't have a substitute. My father gave up when he went to hospital for an ulcer operation (I was around 10), after which he always had mint humbugs in his pocket - he became very popular with myself and my friends! My set rewards for writing: mugs of hot chocolate!! Please tell me more about your best writing times. Thanks. |
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