http://www.smoking.wordpress-by.org/2005/11/30/question-and-thoughts/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:25:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://www.smoking.wordpress-by.org/2005/11/30/question-and-thoughts/#comment-2428 Raleigh Missy Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:08:12 +0000 http://www.smoking.wordpress-by.org/2005/11/30/question-and-thoughts/#comment-2428 I don't really know. For sure it's very individual based on smoking history, general health, current activity, etc. Some things like the chest ache and the wheeze seem to clear up pretty quickly. Other things like improved lung function take longer. Sense of taste and smell can return within a few weeks. Emotional stability often takes months. Most quitters find that it takes a year to move through the quit process. (That's not to say that it's a year of working at it, just a year of becoming a not smoker.) Wish I had a more definitive answer. Sounds like you pull up your cognitive thinking any time you need it. Excellent. It's interesting that we need to make an effort to 'bask'. Once we do, we generally enjoy it. I think it was Cat (a cog quitter our newer members wouldn't know) who had to learn to sit out on her deck without a cig. You're right, and it does. Cognitive quitting is based pretty <!--more--> much on some cognitive behavior techniques. Cognitive behavior therapy makes realistic and rational thinking part of how we approach life situations. As cog quitters we learn to do that within the very narrow area of smoking and quitting and then discover that this sort of rational thinking works for the rest of life's situations. It really is a very sane and calm way to live. Steve I don’t really know. For sure it’s very individual based on smoking
history, general health, current activity, etc. Some things like the
chest ache and the wheeze seem to clear up pretty quickly.
Other things like improved lung function take longer. Sense of taste and
smell can return within a few weeks. Emotional stability often takes
months. Most quitters find that it takes a year to move through the quit
process. (That’s not to say that it’s a year of working at it, just a year
of becoming a not smoker.)
Wish I had a more definitive answer.
Sounds like you pull up your cognitive thinking any time you need it.
Excellent.
It’s interesting that we need to make an effort to ‘bask’. Once we
do, we generally enjoy it. I think it was Cat (a cog quitter our newer
members wouldn’t know) who had to learn to sit out on her deck without a cig.
You’re right, and it does. Cognitive quitting is based pretty

much on some cognitive behavior techniques. Cognitive behavior therapy
makes realistic and rational thinking part of how we approach life
situations. As cog quitters we learn to do that within the very narrow area
of smoking and quitting and then discover that this sort of rational
thinking works for the rest of life’s situations. It really is a very
sane and calm way to live.
Steve

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