Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!!
— In CognitiveQuitSmoking@y…, “Marde Tibbets”
There were some things about my quit that seemed so obvious but took
me a while to figure out. Because I put some brain power into this
quit, I would have revelations about my associations with smoking.
Some of these revelations would take weeks to reveal (amazing to me
since most are so simple) but once I worked on eliminating the
association to smoking, it seemed to only take days to realize the
relief from the craving/urge.
I’m glad you caught the fact that you’re using too much of the gum.
I’d hate to see you OD on nic gum. Can you chew on regular gum in
between the nic gum? Then as you work more and more on your stress
at work, the need to chew will lessen.
And no breaks!!! That’s right, Bad Marde!!! But Good Marde for
thinking about what you’re doing and realizing the gum thing (did the
sore jaws tip you off?) and for posting.
- Cat
November 8th, 2003 at 4:31 pm
Hi Marde
A key point here is that you recognised what was triggering your
smoking urges - hunger and tiredness (remember H.A.L.T.?).
We all used to smoke (or in your case yesterday, chew furiously on
the nic.gum) if we got over-tired or over-hungry, and didn’t stop to
think what it was our bodies really needed.
The only
You did - and that ’step back’ awareness you’re now developing is
going to play a key part in responding to those urges to smoke in a
more appropriate way. I think you’re doing great - well done.
Pam
— In CognitiveQuitSmoking@y…, “Marde Tibbets”