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Should You Give Up Drinking Because Of Strong Urge To Smoke _VERIFIED_

You may want to analyze situations in which watching others smoke triggers an urge in you to smoke. Figure out what it is about those situations that makes you want to smoke. Is it because you associate feeling happy with being around other smokers? Or is there something special about the situations, such as being around the people you usually smoked with? Is it tempting to join others for routine smoke breaks?

You may be used to smoking when drinking beer, wine, liquor, or mixed drinks. When you quit smoking, you may feel a strong urge to smoke when you drink alcohol. Know this up front if you are going to drink because your ability to resist triggers to smoke may be impaired under the influence of alcohol.

You can look really stupid. The impression is that drinking is cool, but the nervous system changes that come from drinking alcohol can make people do stupid or embarrassing things, like throwing up or peeing on themselves. Drinking also gives people bad breath, and no one enjoys a hangover.

Delay lighting upEvery time you feel the urge to light up, pop a sugar-free mint into your mouth or drink water to delay the urge. The cravings and withdrawal symptoms will pass whether you smoke or not!

Got a daily routine? Change it!Try introducing some changes in your daily routine. If you tend to take a certain route to work every day, take another path. Have breakfast somewhere else that prohibits smoking, and if you smoke after a meal, eat fruits or brush your teeth instead. Try drinking other hot beverages instead of your usual morning coffee. This will break the associations that you have formed with smoking.

Restless legs syndrome (RLS): A disorder that creates a strong urge to move your legs often because you notice strange or unpleasant sensations: creeping, crawling, pulling, itching, tingling, burning, aching and even electric shocks. When you move your legs, it relieves the strange sensations. The unpleasant feelings are strongest when you are resting or inactive, and they can make it difficult to fall or stay asleep.

The medical evaluation of potential living donors is extremely thorough. Once you complete your evaluation and we decide to proceed, there is not much additional testing to be done. If you'd like to donate your own blood in the event you need a transfusion, you should donate a unit of blood two to four weeks prior to surgery. We may need to repeat some blood tests, if they were done more than 30 days before your surgery date. You also must give a blood sample to our blood bank within 72 hours of surgery.

We advise that you not drive for at least the first two to three weeks after surgery. You must be physically and mentally strong, with normal reflexes and no abdominal pain or discomfort before you drive. If you drive, you should not take any pain medication containing narcotics, such as Vicodan, Percocet or Tylenol with codeine, that can affect your mental alertness.

Heavy drinkers should only stop drinking under medical supervision because of the risk of delirium tremens (DTs), a severe and potentially life-threatening withdrawal from alcohol that can result in seizures, hallucinations, and other physical symptoms that need to be monitored and treated in a controlled medical setting.

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