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Comment author: taryneast 27 June 2011 04:57:46PM 2 points [-]

8) i need something to do with my hands and my mouth. i dont like gum or lollies all that much.

chew on the end of your pen. of get a ring and twirl it around your finger. or take up knitting or some other hand-crafty activity to quell your fidget-cravings (which I get too).

Comment author: pthalo 28 June 2011 05:37:00AM 3 points [-]

i've started crocheting semirecently. i actually started with "smoke less" in my mind. my first project is a hyperbolic möbius strip (directions: chain as many as you want, sc to end of chain, repeat for a few rows, crochet it together into a möbius strip, then continue sc increasing one every three stitches). perfect for mastering single crochet stich. Maybe I'll do the next with double crochet stitches to work on those. im slow at it and not very good yet, but that is because i am a newbie.

and i do have a ring to play with. i'll try to use it more. :)

Comment author: taryneast 28 June 2011 02:59:57PM 0 points [-]

Cool. I've heard of a few different funky math-objects that are crochetable. Gaussian planes ad other surfaces - even klein bottles - all on teh interwebs if you google, and surprisingly simple instructions (like your möbius strip).

Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 28 June 2011 06:32:25AM 2 points [-]

In this vein, I have known people who replaced the hand/mouth activity of cigarettes with candy canes. If you don't want all the sugar, flavored toothpicks are another option often recommended to help with quitting.