Cognitive Quit Smoking

Well let me see if I have got this right?
If I have a desire to smoke its due to a feeling which is created by a
thought or is it a thought which is created by a feeling.
We have been here before and a cig was the solution!!!!
So now I make a list of alternative solutions and decide which one to choose.
Sometimes I can plan ahead for events and create my ready made list of
responses!
Well I guess I should have thought of that yesterday cos if I had I wouldn’t
be sitting here feeling angry, disappointed, uncared for, unloved and all
sorts of other feelings which in the past were good reasons to smoke.
Now as a non-smoker I have to think of other responses and quite honestly
there are none. None that will change how I feel, none that will make me
feel any better (other than perhaps intravenous brandy in one arm and
intravenous valium in the other).
I’ve got 4 children, 3 stepchildren a husband, lots of grandchildren and
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For those of us old enough to remember, George Harrison passed away from cancer.
And he blamed it on all the years of smoking.
I do enjoy old B & W movies as well and yes many of the old stars lost their
lives to smoking related illness’.
It feels so good not to smoke now. We’ve been down for 4 days ( our monitor
went up in smoke), but we bagged our daughter’s monitor until our new one gets
here, and I’ve enjoyed ready through all the posts.
Ann

Control. Cool control and complete confidence.
Now THAT’S sexy! To walk anywhere, be anywhere,
relax anywhere, needing neither a whiskey to
lean on or a smoldering pacifier to suck on,
but to be self-possessed, relaxed, and fully
confident, glowing with good health…. To
go on vacation and instead of sitting on the
beach with a cigarette and a beer, pickling
and poisoning myself, running along the sand
because it FEELS GOOD, and scuba diving because
it FEELS GOOD, and swimming because it FEELS
GOOD! To build up my body, to tone these muscles,
to feel new sinewy strength running through my
arms and chest and back and legs…. To go
bike riding and running and surfing and walking
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Hi
Can someone tell me what the Quit Diaries are please.
Lynne

I posted the following letter to my Quit Diary,
but I think it bears repeating here, and I would
like some suggestions or advice on how to deal
with this, please.
Since I quit smoking, I have no more desire for
cigarettes and the craves are not satisfied by
cigarettes, however, when I get a crave, I equate
it with a craving for a cigarette, simply because
there is now a cigarette-shaped void left in my
life. The various points of the day when I would
light up have been left with holes. With voids.
I sort of walk around or sit around and feel
like I don’t know what to do with myself. So I
have this crave. And I fixate on it because I
don’t know what else to do to fill that void.
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Indi, the paragraphs that I snipped above: That’s EXACTLY where
I am right now. This whole letter is just incredible, but these
three paragraphs really stood out. Thank you very much.
-Tank

Okay I started a new job and I need an ABC cause since I started this job my
urges to smoke have increased………….the job is boring (repetitive) and I
hate boring………..LOL
Becky

Hi,
I´d be interested in trying to chat especially with Indi because I
suppose she got me a bit wrong when reading my debute post.
I just don´t know how to chat.
Is it as simple as click on the link “Chat” ?
Ilkka
Finland

Indi, I’m brand new here, but gosh, this seems
so spot on… This is also my understanding of
the process.
HU
-Frank

Well no doubt some one will tell me that what I am about to share has been
said from the very beginning of the group and is what you oldies have been
telling me all along.
Let me see if I have finally got it right
Something happens in my life that triggers an urge to smoke. It can be
almost anything, having too much to do or too little, being happy or upset,
succeeding at something or failing at something and it happens simply because
I used to smoke.
I become aware of my urge to smoke as a thought and/or feeling. It may seem
that smoking would be enjoyable or it may seem that smoking would help me in
some way. (This is where I have been struggling cos I thought that a ‘thought
of smoking’ wasn’t really an urge or a desire or a craving and it didn’t
count). Silly me:)
So thats when I have choices and this is where cog quit comes into play
a) I can choose to satisfy my urge/desire by smoking
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