Cognitive Quit Smoking

UK Katie; glad to hear you’re doing well and learning how to recognize
depression. I’ve had two spells of feeling low since my quit. Once was
a few weeks after quitting zyban and the other was about three weeks
ago. The first time I believe was my body reacting to the absence of
the anti-depressant. Once I realized what was going on, I was able to
deal with the situation by forcing myself to think more positively and
to do things that make me feel better about myself. The second low was
different. I let outside events affect me. My negative response to the
stress reinforced my negativity. The hard part here is that I realized
what I was doing to myself, but I just couldn’t make myself care. After
a while, I got tired of the self-pity party and pulled out very slowly.
That ride down to the coast was the closest I’ve come to stopping for
smokes in the past four months. Luckily, I thought of the abc’s I’d
mentally prepared for when I got to the beach. I thought ‘well, this
would be a terrible waste to smoke now when I’ve got abc’s already
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Just did this post and lost it because I resized the page -
GGGRRRRR!!!
Anyway, the gist of the post was that Marde, Pam, and I were chatting
earlier on MSN IM. We talked about a lot of things like gardening
(Gail, we missed you in this one), and digital cameras and men and all
sorts of good stuff. After at least 45 minutes, we said our goodbyes.
I realized a little while later that not once had the topic of smoking
come up. I just thought it was pretty neat that we had all gotten to
the stage where we could have a Normal Non-Smokers conversation. - OK,
I mentioned this to Steve and he questioned the Normal part, probably
because I was involved but you know what I’m saying. Anyway, just a
simple observation in our “growing up” process.
- Cat
PS - Just to be clear, I do like talking about smoking (hell, I like to
talk about just about anything) so if anyone wants to talk about it
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WTG Carla

Anyone around later on for chat? Times anyone?
Around 9.30pm Brit time (4.30EST) would be good for me.
Pam