Cognitive Quit Smoking

This morning I went into work and the place was a mess from the night
shift….I went in early to get some extra stuff done….and spent
all of my time cleaning up from the shift before and getting things
re-organized….then, I didn’t have time to get all of MY stuf done,
before we opened….I somehow allowed myself to get totally stressed
out-and I do mean TOTALLY-and when my boss came in, I bummed from him
and smoked THREE cigarettes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But that is not the worst of it-I almost immediatly started getting
these HORRIBLE SHOOTING PAINS in my head-they took my breath away
almost; I had to stop what I was doing, they were that bad…..and it
REALLY scared me, I thought I was having a stroke or something!!
Someone told me that it was the blood vessels in my head, contracting
and retracting, from the OVERDOSE of Nicotine-(remember, I am on the
Patch)-and I don’t know if they are correct or not, but when I heard
that, it scared me even more….and I thought, NO CIGARETTE is worth
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We all have different approaches to our quit. Some of us put down the
smokes one day and say, that’s it, enough is enough. Some of us
prepare ourselves beforehand we look into smoke aids, we read about
smoking and it’s effects on our health and our lives. Then there’s
some that take it a step further and that’s what I chose to do with
this, my final quit. I did the preparation, I did the reading, but I
also knew that I would need to do more. I wasn’t going to go through
the rest of my life with the thoughts of craving a cigarette foremost
in my mind. This just is not acceptable to me. I decided to work on
disassociating smoking with every aspect of my life. This was not easy
for me. I had to use my brain everyday (ouch) and that’s not so easy
in the first part of the quit (brain fog). This approach (cognitive
thinking) is not for everyone, some people don’t need it to keep a
lifelong quit, but I have to tell you, when I hear about some of the
cravings people are having that have the same amount of time quit as
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