Cognitive Quit Smoking

Hi everyone
Well what a day I have had - all day one ‘thought’/'craving’/'desire’ after
another and nothing would help.
I have been really busy at work this week and I know I am tired but sometimes
life is just soooo busy that we have no alternative but to be tired.
Today was a good day at work although it was extremely busy it wasn’t
stressful (or at least I didn’t feel stressed) but from this morning until
now even I could ‘murder’ a cig.
So not sure what I really want cos I know really I don’t want to smoke - oh
yes I do!!!
If I thought I could get away with it and if I had any in the house I would
have one - oh no I wouldn’t cos if that was the case I would have had one at
work when I could have bummed one.
But whatever is going on I have used my foundation statements that I really
do not want to smoke and no matter how uncomfortable I get I will not smoke.
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…..plus a streaming cold, so I’m off to bed for a an early night.
Nite
Pam

Pat,
The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and said:
“You must have really pissed off Grandma then.”
Thanks so much for posting that—-I really needed to lighten up and
this one really hit home!!!! lol!
Terry

In reading the recent posts from those of you who are dealing with
teenage children, I’d like to offer this one up. My 35 year old
daughter, whom I was SURE was not going to make it out of her teenage
years ’cause I was this close to ending her misery and therefore mine,
is now my best friend. You can imagine the coffee I spilled when she
sent this one to me this morning. I laughed out loud. Gray hairs,
indeed. I’ve got a head full of ‘em and now I know where they came
from! I plan on printing her mail out and sticking it up on the
fridge… right next to Spencer’s picture. He’s her payback child just
as she was mine. Grin.
Pat
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WHY ARE SOME HAIRS WHITE?

One day, a little girl is sitting and watching her mother do the dishes
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Hi All
Sorry I’ve been a bit slow posting but I’ve been working really late and then
when I get home and cook dinner - very quickly check my email - read stuff
that is important (like all posts on cogquit) and file the rest, spend some
time with DH and try to fit in watching some of my soaps there isn’t a lot of
time left.
Wanted to say thank you to all who posted recently in response to Cats
posting about smell of cigs. I think I’m falling somewhere in the middle.
I really don’t like the smell of ’stale smoke’ on smokers or the breath of
smokers or very smoky atmospheres but then I didn’t like this when I did
smoke so not a lot different.
I do though still like the smell of freshly lit cigs outdoors but yes like a
lot of you my sense of smell has drastically increased and I can smell cig
smoke anywhere now - even from my car waiting at traffic lights. Now DH
cannot smell this - so does this really mean that it is a ‘desire’ to smoke,
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Hi Kelley here
I guess I need some help identifying what is happening here for me and some
suggestions of how to deal with it.
I have realized that I am giving in to the “thought” of smoking….
Each morning when I am getting ready for work (about a one hour process) my
mind is obsessed with the idea of smoking that day. Things like, I want to
smoke today, I will only smoke while I am out, it will make me feel energized,
I will only smoke while I am shopping, just a few today, etc…..
My other mind (smile) answers with “No, it is not necessary to smoke, look how
far you have come, you do not want to smoke again, think of your family, you
know that you cannot have just a few, you will feel lousy afterwards and be
disappointed in yourself, etc….”
So, I am having this power struggle in my mind and often the smoking side wins
out because I get so tired of fighting.
does this make any sense?
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Merry Christmas!!!
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Twas the night before CHRISTMAS and all through the kitchen;
I was cooking and baking and moanin’ and bitchin’.
I’ve been here for hours,
I can’t stop to rest,
This place is a disaster,
just look at this mess!
Tomorrow I’ve got thirty people to feed,
They expect all the trimmings
who cares what I need!
My feet are both blistered,
I’ve got cramps in my legs,
The dog just knocked over a bowl full of eggs.
There’s a knock at the door and the telephone’s ringing;
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Hi Cat!
Friday night is my deadline for making my ABC’s for the holiday
weeks. If I don’t do it soon, then it will be a retrospective study!
I will post them when I get them done. I am under tremendous
business and personal pressure right now and am working on abc’s for
the current situations and no further at this point. I am having
trouble finding time to post and have been reading here for support
without being able to contribute much right now. Thank you all for
sharing and forgive me for taking more than giving at the moment.
Have a wonderful December day!!!
Terry

Hey, Indi. Two months for you today!!! Way to go, girlfriend!
- Cat

This just made me think of coffee. I love the smell of coffee. What a great
smell. But I don’t smell it very often because I don’t drink it, have no
desire to drink it. Maybe I need cigs to be my coffee so to speak.
Yes, I was feeling kind of concerned about the smell of smoke still tempting
to me. Seems like most people who have quit for over a few weeks don’t like
the smell at all, so I was thinking maybe I was doing something wrong. Well,
I don’t think that anymore. The fact is that I still don’t mind the smell of
a cig burning, and I am still tempted by that smell, even though the appeal
is lessening as time goes on. And that’s the name of that tune, so I’m gonna
play it for now til it gets tiresome.
Not always, Steve. Can’t claim that’s always the case. Getting there
though.
See above. I think it’s important to take a look at this, but you know I get
nit-picky about a lot of things. I have decided this is a non-issue for me
at this point but it was important for me to examine the issue first.
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