No Anna I'm in the South. I read about it in the newspaper and then looked up the Duke study so I could relay the information here. I'm sorry I missed your post! :blush: - Good to see you again Danielle, keep up the fine job you are doing at the SSC. - Hi Hummy! Yeah, I hear ya~lol It made a lot of sense to me also and was something I never read when I was trying to quit so I thought I'd come spread the word. I ate a lot of fruit while going through withdrawal and switched to decaffeinated coffee for a bit, yet I never understood how much doing so may have helped with the craves. Happy Holiday :) - Same with me Windy, I generally hated the taste except with coffee or alcoholic drinks. I used to think I couldn't enjoy one without the other.(coffee/smoke) However, I am NOW living proof (that for some of us) smoking eventually loses it appeal [i]in every way.[/i] Now I wouldn't dream of ruining my coffee with a poisonous sickarette. - T/Y Jaset, see ya around. - Stay strong folks and eat your veggies :p [color=blue][font=Tahoma]All the best~[/color] [img]http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6922/n3us.gif[/img][size=3][color=blue]2[/color][/size][img]http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/2344/k6ob.gif[/img][/color] [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 8/20/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 596 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 13,133 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2980 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 58 [B]Hrs:[/B] 3 [B]Mins:[/B] 36 [B]Seconds:[/B] 37

VERY GOOD THREAD!!! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 11/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 142 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,858 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $781 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 22 [B]Hrs:[/B] 3 [B]Mins:[/B] 3 [B]Seconds:[/B] 17

You know...in 27 years of smoking...I always hated the taste...I had to drink something every single time that I smoked. Water and milk wouldn't have done much to cover up the awful taste and grungy mouth(in fact I only drank water with a smoke if it was absolutely the only drink available) Amazing what we did to maintain our addictions. Windy [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 9/11/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 209 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 4,196 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1045 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 20 [B]Hrs:[/B] 10 [B]Mins:[/B] 30 [B]Seconds:[/B] 24

Hi N2K! Happy Easter. :) Good info. Never thought about it before, but the survey makes sense. Don�t ever remember eating a yogurt smoothie and longing for a cigarette, but I do remember eating a hamburger and not being able to wait to get outside for one. Not cravin', never cavin'. Hummy [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 5/5/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 703 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 28,150 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $4569.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 92 [B]Hrs:[/B] 0 [B]Mins:[/B] 47 [B]Seconds:[/B] 40

Are you from the Cincinnati area????!!!! This was just on my local news the other night. I posted this as well!!! :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/8/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 90 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,360 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $378 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 8 [B]Hrs:[/B] 9 [B]Mins:[/B] 21 [B]Seconds:[/B] 24

N2K, Thank you for sharing the results of this study with us! This bit of information could be helpful to those preparing for their quit or just starting out. Danielle ____________________ The SSC Support Team

Getting ready to quit smoking? Try eating more vegetables and less meat -- and swap that coffee for a glass of milk. A Duke University study shows that fruits, vegetables, and dairy foods make cigarettes taste terrible. But meat, coffee, and alcoholic beverages make smoking much tastier, find Duke University psychologist F. Joseph McClernon, PhD, and colleagues. "The conventional wisdom is that cigarette addiction is all about the nicotine," McClernon says. "But we are learning more and more it is also about sensory effects like the taste and the smell and the visual experience and the habitual routines of smoking. The taste effects are important." McClernon, a researcher at the Duke center for nicotine and smoking research, kept hearing smokers say that certain foods and beverages made their cigarettes taste much better. He began to wonder exactly which foods these were -- and whether any foods made smoking a worse experience. To study the issue, he asked 209 smokers to list foods that worsened or enhanced the smoking experience. The smokers averaged a little better than a pack of cigarettes a day for an average 21 years. About half were women, a fourth were black, two-thirds were white, and nearly all of them were high-school or college graduates. Nearly 70% of the smokers said some foods made their cigarettes taste better. These foods tended to be caffeinated beverages, alcoholic beverages, and meat. Surprisingly, just under half of the smokers -- 45% -- said some foods made their cigarettes taste worse. [b]These foods tended to be fruits and vegetables, noncaffeinated beverages such as water and juice, dairy beverages, and dairy foods.[/b] -- So give these foods a try and avoid any possible food triggers until you get far enough along in your quit that it no longer matters. Learn all you can and [i]Outsmart your addiction.[/i] [color=blue][font=Tahoma]All the best~[/color] [img]http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6922/n3us.gif[/img][size=3][color=blue]2[/color][/size][img]http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/2344/k6ob.gif[/img][/color] [color=maroon][size=2][font=impact]I Killed the Nicodemon and got off scot-free and you can too! [/color][/size][/font] [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 8/20/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Da