I smoked since I was 8yrs old and quit for almost 6 years, when still in the military, until I went to Dyess AFB as my last enlistment. "Leaders" there pissed me off so bad it was either start throwin haymakers or calm down with a cigarette. Seeing as I had 20 years in at the time, the cig won out....didnt wanna throw out a squeaky-clean honorable career over a patch of f'kin idiots.
After 24yrs, I retired in 2012 and, unfortunately, am still smoking. I know I need to quit but still working in a high stress job as a DoD contractor. There's still a few asses I wanna kick and a "f-you, I'm out for a smoke" calms me down enough I can go back and endure more BS.
I dunno, if anyone has anything else I could do besides a smoke to calm down, while at work and in 5-10 minutes....I'm all ears.
The nicotine makes you think you are experiencing more stress than you are. As the levels deplete your blood pressure begins to rise. With that comes stress/anxiety until you can smoke and raise the nicotine levels to your blood/organs and decrease your blood pressure. You are physically addicted. I marvel at how I never stress out anymore like I did when I smoked. I quit by using nicotine patches and followed the directions exactly. I struggled with the physical reaction to not smoking which is why I wasn’t successful before. So find what works; some have used vaping. Just do it.
I smoked since I was 8yrs old and quit for almost 6 years, when still in the military, until I went to Dyess AFB as my last enlistment. "Leaders" there pissed me off so bad it was either start throwin haymakers or calm down with a cigarette. Seeing as I had 20 years in at the time, the cig won out....didnt wanna throw out a squeaky-clean honorable career over a patch of f'kin idiots.
After 24yrs, I retired in 2012 and, unfortunately, am still smoking. I know I need to quit but still working in a high stress job as a DoD contractor. There's still a few asses I wanna kick and a "f-you, I'm out for a smoke" calms me down enough I can go back and endure more BS.
I dunno, if anyone has anything else I could do besides a smoke to calm down, while at work and in 5-10 minutes....I'm all ears.
The nicotine makes you think you are experiencing more stress than you are. As the levels deplete your blood pressure begins to rise. With that comes stress/anxiety until you can smoke and raise the nicotine levels to your blood/organs and decrease your blood pressure. You are physically addicted. I marvel at how I never stress out anymore like I did when I smoked. I quit by using nicotine patches and followed the directions exactly. I struggled with the physical reaction to not smoking which is why I wasn’t successful before. So find what works; some have used vaping. Just do it.