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List of “NORMAL” responses to activating events

Is there a list, like for instance:
I’m tired but circumstances dictate that I can not take a nap or
break — eat a granola bar or something for a lift
I feel like my mind is boggled — shut eyes and etc etc
Any list out there like that, because I haven’t been dealing with
life as a regular person for the past 17 years I feel it would be
helpful to have a list of normal responses to activating events.
Thank you XOXOX

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2 Responses to “List of “NORMAL” responses to activating events”

  1. Neva Marjory Says:
    August 14th, 2003 at 2:41 pm

    Thank you Steve.
    Actually I was just out there shopping (I wanted to drive) with my
    husband and I don’t know but in my town it is packed with these
    after holiday shoppers. Anyway, lots of driving complaints and I
    thought “okay this would be the point where I would want a cig
    because I am angry at the rest of the world for it being hard for
    me to get around easily and I am feeling rushed and there is
    always someone right behind me” so anyway I asked my
    husband what a normal person would do and he says
    “Complain”. So I did and felt like a big moster ogre. I was loud
    and abnoxious and I just found myself distasteful.
    My question…am I this monster, seems like that must be the real
    me because that’s what I was doing instead of smoking. I have
    realized one thing, I hate being controlled and don’t know what to
    do with that type of anger. Before I would be angry and smoke,

    now I feel I could easily confront someone and it might not be for
    the best…
    Choloe

  2. Raleigh Missy Says:
    August 15th, 2003 at 7:48 pm

    Hi Choloe,
    No, you aren’t that ‘monster’. This is a question that’s asked often.
    When we quit, most of us go through a period of being rather ’short
    tempered’. Many begin to wonder, now that the cigarette cloud is gone, if
    this is the real us. What you are seeing is you in recovery. It is you in
    transition and is NOT the real you. You will not be an angry person
    forever. For the first several months of my quit the one ’symptom of
    recovery’ that was most prominent was rage. It took almost 6 months till I
    realized that I was no longer being visited by sudden rages at the ’stupid’
    people of the world. But for those first months, I was convinced that those
    stupid people where all there just to get in my way.
    It takes a while, but those stupid people will move away.
    Steve
    www.cognitivequitting.com

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