Cognitive Quit Smoking

the time, anytime, and regardless of what emotions we may be feeling
at the moment
Hi Char - these are foundation statements - if I can find the examples I’ll
let you have them.
Regards
Indi

Okay
I have two voices going against each other at the moment - in my head
that is!!!!
One is telling me “Just quit, you can do it - you know they are no
good for you!!!” The other is saying “But you do enjoy it, just have
another then quit!!!”
I know I don’t want to be a smoker, I need to get rid of that second
voice.
Lynne

Glad we got chance to meet up in Chat tonight - so much for the early
night I was going to have Sorry you’d both had rough days, but
glad the chat helped - and if was fun.
Hope everyone’s well and had a good day today - keep posting.
take care
Pam
(up far too late, as usual)

Hi Pat - I’m enjoying your posts and still reading away at your
website. Three and a half years quit really is a great achievement.
haven’t.
Absolutely, yes. Like a lot of people, when I tried to quit in
the past I thought it was just about fighting those craves, hanging
in by the skin of my teeth and hoping it’d pass. I learned that it
was about understanding my smoking behaviour - looking deeper and
tackling what was REALLY causing those smoking craves. Learning how
to plan ahead and get strategies in place so that I didn’t find
myself in that blind panic that used to have me reaching for a cig.
Today for example turned out to be every bit as stressful as I’d
expected it might be. I’d worked out plans beforehand on how I was
going to field what was going to be thrown at me. In the past I’d
probably just have got through the day by the skin of my teeth,
nipping outside for a several cigs which I would have inhaled down to
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Hi Pat
Think I must have missed something about links to your site/diaries or
something - seems like I should be looking at them cos I don’t want Cat
getting more advanced than me
So can you tell me what post to look at in the archives or could you post me
the link privately.
Regards
Indi

Hi Cat
Nice long posting - sorry about the lack of hardware but as you say indoor
season is upon us so no doubt that will change.
Hopefully might catch u ’skiving’ off work later.
Have a good day - thanks for the ‘joke’s.
love
Indi

Hi Becky
Welcome to the group - I too am a recovered alcoholic and only wish that I’d
known about cognitive thinking when I decided to quit drinking it might have
been a lot easier than it was.
But never mind we can’t go back only forward - glad you have joined the group
- I have learned so much and had so much support from the people in the group
and am not only proud to be a non-smoker but also proud to be a member of
cogquit.
Look forward to getting to know you more.
Regards
Indi

Hi Steve and All
Well here I am back from my weekend safe and sound and still sane and smoke
free.
It went really well and I didn’t have any major urges. The hotel was nice we
had a lovely ground floor room which opened out onto the lake so I could walk
my dog. Food was great, pool was great and the party went off really well.
The dreaded in laws were not too bad so that didn’t cause me any major
stresses. I ended up sitting with the kids at dinner which - although it was
hard work - was on the whole my choice.
When we were sitting down to eat all of the adults seemed to be avoiding the
kids (wonder why) which meant that it was going to leave the 2 eldest
grandchildren (16 and 14) supervising them. That would have meant a lot of
behave yourself! eat properly! sit stills!!!! etc resulting in the little
ones crying and whinging then the in-laws would have got ‘loud’ which would
have stressed me out.
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Hi folks,
I’ve got a problem. When I ask ppl to describe what they’re feeling, I’m
not getting the anwers I’m looking for. This is probably because I’m not
being clear. In an effort to clarify what I mean by “Describe what you
feel?”, I’m trying to come up with some tiny exercises that illustrate
‘feelings’ in terms of physical sensations. These are not intended to
create long term awareness or even awareness through a day. Their sole
purpose is to create instant awareness of a particular sensation so that we
may learn what to focus on when ‘describing how we feel’.
Put a rubber band around your wrist. Snap it. What does that feel like?
Does it sting? Does it pinch? Describe the sensation.
Place a hand flat on the table. With two fingers of your other hand, push
down on the back of the hand that’s on the table. Push fairly hard.
Describe the sensation. Describe what the two fingers that are pushing feel.
At a steady pace, go up and down a flight of stairs twice without stopping
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I was gone for a whole 24 hours! Anyway, the brats (16 yr. old girl
soccer team) decided to play kick ball today instead of passing the
ball so we didn’t get past semi-finals for the first time in 6 years.
Kind of depressing but I can handle it. What the heck, indoor soccer
starts tomorrow Anyway, if I haven’t already welcomed the new kids on the block,
welcome!!!
Ann - congrats on your accomplishment so far. Hope to be right along
at over 7 weeks in about 3 weeks. I hate to hear about someone as
young as yourself having heart problems but thanks for sharing because
that info always makes me think about the health issues connected to
smoking. BTW, I thought that smoking was banned in California - ? A
little confirmation here, Pat? And, oh yeah, Ann, your comment on us
not being afraid to share what is deep down inside - are you kidding, a
chance for me to talk about Moi?, I can’t pass that up!
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