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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Nicotine Withdrawal Help Needed
- Message-ID: <18268@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:33:22 GMT
- References: <Jan16.053149.25338@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1993Jan18.144233.9402@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <161@ky3b.UUCP>
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- In article <161@ky3b.UUCP> km@ky3b.pgh.pa.us (Ken Mitchum) writes:
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- >I also stopped smoking 8 years ago, and I do have dreams in which I am still
- >smoking. But they do not involve any craving for cigarettes, and the dreams
- >seem to relive more the disgust I felt when I still smoked than anything else.
- >Usually, about halfway through these dreams I start thinking about whether I
- >actually quit smoking or not, then I wake up, and am relieved to note that I
- >quit 8 years ago.
- >
- Amazingly enough, I have had dreams in which *I* was smoking, even
- though I've never smoked a cigarette in my life and would never
- consider such a thing. It was disgusting! So I'm not sure
- what it means to dream about smoking. (Freud said dreams are
- wishes from the subconscious, but everyone knows what a bull-shit
- artist that fellow was).
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
- geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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