Welcome to Melissa and Dannye
Hi to both of you and welcome to cog quit. This has got to be the
best aid to quitting that I have ever come across and if you both
truly want to quit then you are in the right place.
My name is Indi and I was a smoker for 44 years over a pack a day. I
had tried numerous times to quit with the longest lasting for a year
and the shortest for about 10 hours (while I was asleep for 8 of
them:)
I found Steve’s site when I was looking for support for this quit as
I had been diagnosed with heart problems and told that I had to quit
by a cardiologist or face open heart surgery.
So I had a good reason to quit but I knew from past experience (or at
least I thought I knew) that it would be sooooo difficult for me, the
trauma of quitting would do me more harm than continuing to smoke,
I’m in my mid 50’s now and I’ve smoked most of my life so whats the
point, all that sort of jazz.
These were my belief systems and I didn’t know - until I came here -
that it was my belief systems which were keeping me smoking.
You will hear people talk about Warren - well Warren is your belief
system. It’s Warren who tells you that it’s time to have a smoke for
whatever reason. Because your happy, sad, excited, afraid, angry,
tired, uptight - you name the emotion which causes a feeling in your
body and Warren will tell you that by lighting up the feeling will be
fixed.
But just like my beliefs about me being too old to quit etc these
beliefs are false. So in a nutshell for me cog quitting has been all
about challenging Warren - checking out what it is my body is telling
me when Warren tells me it is a cig.
So from a very heavy smoker who never thought she could quit here I
am a very happy almost 5 months nicotine free non smoker who very
seldom has thoughts of smoking let alone cravings.
Stick around, talk to the oldies, read the files, ask questions, do
your homework, listen to the advice - take what is good for you and
very soon you will be where I am.
Nice to meet you and look forward to hearing from you again.
Namaste
Indi