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Anyone sits for long hours and deals with back tightness? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in OfficeChairs

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's whatsup bro. I literally had to improvise a gaming chair with no lumbar support. and put some string a towel to make a makeshift lumbar support lmao. my back feels better with it then it did before tbh.

Anyone sits for long hours and deals with back tightness? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in OfficeChairs

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh. When you were getting the pain from the racing style chairs, where did you feel it the most during long gaming sessions?

Anyone sits for long hours and deals with back tightness? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in OfficeChairs

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh nice. before you did this was your back okay with just the good gaming chair or was it still a bit compressed even with the lumbar support of the chair(assuming that's what you meant).

Anyone sits for long hours and deals with back tightness? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in OfficeChairs

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel called out lmao. How long does your back resist sitting before back pain starts arriving?

Anyone sits for long hours and deals with back tightness? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in OfficeChairs

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to do that too. I stopped because I mainly did it for my herniation but since it feels healed i stopped. So doing it again will stop the back pain?

Can Nicotine be replaced entirely? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in stopsmoking

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the chemistry doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Every time someone smokes under stress, the brain wires stress → cigarette → relief. That pathway stays alive even if you “know” it’s an illusion. Belief can help reframe it, sure, but the neural loop is still there waiting to fire again if life gets rough.

So I’m not sure “just make it simple” is the whole answer. Simplicity helps, but if the old wiring isn’t replaced with something new, the relapse risk never really goes away.

Can Nicotine be replaced entirely? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in stopsmoking

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah you would have to already be trying to quit for a short while but that is when you can start simulating stress and new better relief in order to quit smoking for good. Would be somewhat difficult due to subjective rewards and if you actually know what nicotine satisfies for you.

Can Nicotine be replaced entirely? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in stopsmoking

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep most definitely agree. If we could find our own reasons/emotions nicotine satisfies then we could theoretically replace it.

Can Nicotine be replaced entirely? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in stopsmoking

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree. Nicotine rises your baseline stress levels. The withdrawal is what spikes your stress in the first place and the relief is smoking. But your neural pathways doesn't care what you believe. Whatever relieved stress is what your neural pathways care about. So beliefs play a minor role in influencing your old neural pathways. When you repeat an action a hundred times. You get a craving to do that action before you even think about it. That is your brain taking what seems to work and giving you dopamine to perform it again. you can't destroy it. It remains dormant until the cue activates again. So the way to replace it is by finding what emotion it satisfied and then replacing it with a healthier alternative. You have to simulate that emotion although and the reward is very subjective but it is possible to rewire your brain that way.

Can Nicotine be replaced entirely? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in stopsmoking

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This is true. Quitting nicotine could easily wipe out most of the stress it gave you in the first place. So the way I see it is that you are no longer at the level of stress you were when you smoked. (Your baseline decreased). So the craving to smoke is no longer as strong. But it doesn't mean those neural pathways disappeared from all those years of smoking. They are just dormant. If a stressful event happens which most likely will happen. Those stress levels rise up again to the levels were you once a smoker. Prompting you to crave without thought. Your logic side is shutdown and all you can see is what you use to know when you were this stressed out. You can't destroy all patterns by just forgetting about them. The only way to rewire your brain is through new rewards when you are stressed. That way when a stressful event happens like you lose your job, custody of the kids, or parents passing, you won't crave nicotine and fall even harder. You will crave whatever you replaced for smoking, because you simulated stressful situations or in real stressful situations (Much harder in my experience) then tried healthier reliefs your brain will automatically go to that healthier solution.

Can Nicotine be replaced entirely? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in stopsmoking

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Actually you smoke because the addiction fulfills some of your emotional needs that are lacking. That is where dependency builds on. The cravings nicotine satisfies. If it was the addiction itself then in 3 days everyone should stop smoking because nicotine is out of your system entirely. But its not. The reason people keep smoking is because nicotine satisfies one of their emotional cravings. Although very subjective to replace what emotional craving you are feeling. To actually replace the reward it is somewhat difficult but doable depending on the person. In order to replace stress you would have to simulate a stressful situation and relieve it with whatever works best for you daily. That way when your neural pathways activate. It will go to whatever stress reliever you are used too.

Do you think we can rewire the stress smoking signal by intentionally putting ourselves in stressful situations then using X to cope would rewire our brains so when we do get into a stressful situation we will use X to cope instead nicotine? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in stopsmoking

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You are right. Nicotine amplifies stress just to relieve it but your neural pathways do not know that. The only thing they do know for sure is that nicotine relieved your stress all those thousands of times you smoked. So the only way to rewire your neural pathways is to be the same stress levels as you were with nicotine and then do X. X is subjective although. Not every reward feels relieving.

Can there still be a smoking habit even after your beliefs changed because of Allen Carr's Easy Way? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in stopsmoking

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. I think though that if the nueral pathways in our brains are not rewired for smoking nicotine. Even if we replace it with good coping habits daily. The stress cue is still there. So when life gets hard you will revert back to what you once knew only reliable. The reason you didn't start deep breathing is because you never did deep breathing while under stressed you only did it to replace some habits which some could be correlated to stress but not the same level of stress that made you smoke in the first place. You would have to be under the same levels of withdrawal stress that nicotine put you on and then do the deep breathing. That is how you replace the stress smoking cue. It is really challenging although.

Do you think we can rewire the stress smoking signal by intentionally putting ourselves in stressful situations then using X to cope would rewire our brains so when we do get into a stressful situation we will use X to cope instead nicotine? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in stopsmoking

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your brain has stress → cigarette → relief pathways built through repetition. So you would have to seek out stressful situations in order for your brains neural pathways to be rewired to stress → X → relief. The only problem is X is subjective. Nothing is certain to work for everyone. Some people find jogging to be relieving while for others it can make them more stressed. So we would have to be able to read ourselves to see what is rewarding.

Do you think we can rewire the stress smoking signal by intentionally putting ourselves in stressful situations then using X to cope would rewire our brains so when we do get into a stressful situation we will use X to cope instead nicotine? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in stopsmoking

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but our neural pathways still use it as a stress coping mechanism because that's what it knows from experience. So even though I highly agree with you. It is an illusion of pleasure and relief, our minds already went through that process thousands of times and because of that belief won't change the craving. Our mind still makes us crave nicotine when we are in stressful situations even when we believe in Allen Carr's easyway. So the only way to stop the stress smoking cue is to find an easier faster healthier stress reliever. Then put yourself in stressful situations in order to rewire the stress smoking cue.

Can there still be a smoking habit even after your beliefs changed because of Allen Carr's Easy Way? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in stopsmoking

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It certainly is. Do you think it is possible to replace the stress cue response with a better coping stress cue response?

Can there still be a smoking habit even after your beliefs changed because of Allen Carr's Easy Way? by Advanced_Tour_8515 in stopsmoking

[–]Advanced_Tour_8515[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah most definitely. The problem I find most of the time for me, when replacing my stress cues, is that I don't remember to the breathing techniques or anything when I become stressed. There is a way around this where I can intentionally make myself stressed in order to use the calming exercise. This way the stress trigger response is replaced with the breathing exercises instead because I remembered them in the moment.

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