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Old Tue, Dec-30-08, 12:16
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Has anyone found that while LCing you have less of an urge to smoke? I do still smoke but I find I don't crave it as much, so I do smoke much less. I was thinking it had to do with blood sugar evening out.
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Old Tue, Dec-30-08, 18:58
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That was not my experience. I smoked just as much after I began lc as I did before.

That is not to say that my experience was "typical," though. I was a real, dyed-in-the-wool, lifelong smoker. I started smoking when I was 15, and by the time I was in my early 20s, I smoked 3, and sometimes 4, packs a day. I quit while I was pregnant, and I quit for a couple of years back in the '80s, but other than that, I was a heavy-duty smoker.

It is such a relief to have quit. You will, too, one day. Each of us has to come to our own moment of reckoning, just like with losing weight.
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Old Tue, Dec-30-08, 19:09
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That was not my experience. I smoked just as much after I began lc as I did before.

That is not to say that my experience was "typical," though.


Perhaps not, but that was also my experience. I was a 1-2 pack a day smoker for 25 years and I can't say that going low carb made me smoke any less (wish it had, though!).
One good thing about low carb is that I think it helped boost my immune system enough so I didn't get bronchitis as often as I did before I low carbed.
Then again, after I quit, I haven't had it once since.
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Hmm interesting. I've been smoking for about 5 years and never really got up to even half a pack a day. I'm not a huge smoker, never have been, and I'm not sure if all of my smoking is really a nicotine craving type of thing but a "I'm bored" or "I have a headache let me try to have a cigarette" or "Hmm you know what sounds good? A cigarette" I really do enjoy the act of smoking.
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