Replacing a very bad habit with a bad habit

It's been over a decade since I walked into the tobacco shop opposite Ilford Exchange Shopping Centre and purchased my first sheesha (aka hookah). Along with Nakhlah banana flavour. I've been smoking the molasses soaked tobacco every night ever since. Well when I've been at home or had access to it.

Previous attempts to quit didn't work. I would relapse after a few days. Even after removing the sheesha and all related items I would again purchase the lot again.

This time I planned well. I was away in India for 2 months. Before I left I got rid of the sheesha and all related items. I now also understand it is the ritual of preparing the sheesha which I also enjoy.

Solution to replace the habit of preparing and smoking sheesha after my evening meal. With preparing a paan.

Now it's still a bad habit. But after the paan I shall switch to preparing and enjoying a fruit tea or green tea if not to late.

The key for me is to replace the ritual of preparation.

I'll keep you posted on how this works.

Note: I will no longer have sheesha in my home. I will not part money or services in exchange for it. But if at a friends home he offers, then I'll partake a little.

Munchies at work

Around 15:00 at work I get the munchies. Now I always bring a healthy home cooked packed lunch. And try and have this around 12:30 but I just need somthing around 15:00 ish. So today along with my usual fruit snack I packed a little container full of almonds, pistachios, walnuts, cashews and dried figs.

That container is now locked in my draw.

Week 2 on MMS

Ok 1 week in at a 1 drop per hour dose (but only having 7 consecutive per day). So far so good. Not felt any nausea and the head fog of the first two or three days has decreased drastically. I take a good dose of Psyllium husk after breakfast to help keep me regulaer and in the hopes of clearing my bowls of any die off from any fungual, virul or parasites.

The Psyllium husk addition helped greatly as in the first few days of being on MMS I wasn't as regular in the bowl movement department as I normally am.

I'm in two minds to use a quality probiotic at night or to leave this until I start to come off the MMS. For now I'll just use the MMS and Psyllium husk. I'll be upping the doasge to about 1.5 to 2 drops per hour for this week.

Back on MMS

I've been feeling rough the last few weeks, and it's peaked at a nasty cold I've had since Friday. So this morning I'm back on the MMS. I've mixed up a 800ml shaker with 8 drops of MMS. filled it to the top with filtered water. I drink 100ml every hour. The plan is to stay at this dose for a week and review how I'm feeling.

After my very first dose I experienced the same feeling I had the last time I took this solution. Something similar to a minimise explosion just under the surface of my skin (left forearm). Not painful at all, just a very unique feeling. I'm assuming the MMS is destroying some single cell life form close to the skin, which allows me to feel it.

Slow and steady this time round. Projectile vomiting was a horrible experience last time.

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Smell to Change Frame of Mind

In my current life redesign I'm attempting to increase energy levels and focus through a change in diet, rest patterns and a few other tweaks. I also will be touching on the subject of smells (aromatherepy). we've all experinced a time when a wif of somthing (a particular perfume or baking apples) to have our minds rush back to a memory/ a moment of our life linked to such a smell.

For me it is my experience with Oud (more here). I was first was exposed to this strange oil about 15 years ago. It was dabbed onto the back of my hand by J.B and as I rubbed it into my skin it smelled to me of damp leather. I found it of horrid, but as I attempted to rub it off my hands the musky smell opened and I had fallen for it head over heels.

Every time I smell it on some one I pause and smile. I've got some at home and use it on teh odd occasion. My wife is not keen of it. She states it smells like cow manure.

To conclude, find the smells which make you happy, and use those smells to make you happy again.