Cognitive Quit Smoking

Hi all,
today wasn’t my day at all. I just lost it at work, first barking at the guy
I am reliev\ing and that wasn’t enough I send my boss an E-nail telling hime
I dont’ wont to work the day shif any longer and I want I transfer. I don’t
know what was hitting me. I don’t evne know what I wanted. Result my boss
called me and for the first time ever he yelled at me. The worst part of it
is that I felt guilty and disappointed him.
After in my office I realized how stupied that was and then Warren was
really fast telling me lets have a smoke everything will be okay. So here is
my response to Warren.:
A) its Monday morning and I hate being here, I just ended up in an argument
with one of the Supervisors. I know I am just more sensitive and irritated
than ever but that doesn’t justify what happen earlier. Now I
am all upset and close to tears. My head feels light headed kind of dizzy,
my whole body is shaky, jittery, I want to run away, my throught feels like
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Hi Gang - I’ve been away for a few days - just got back this p.m. I went to see
my father who still lives in my childhood home. I had some anxiety over this
visit and had prepared an ABC with Steve’s help. I hardly had to engage the
ABC. I did have some cravings when I first arrived but I worked through them.
This was the first time I had been there since I quit so upon arrival the
triggers hit. After that first night, I didn’t have a bit of trouble from then
on - even when my dad irritated the crap out of me. My son and daughter-in-law
and husband were with me and they are all very supportive. It helped having
their encouragement. It was a good trip from the quitting smoking standpoint,
otherwise it was the weekend from hell!!! My parent’s home is what you might
call rustic (and not in a decorator sense). Very little water - 2 minute
showers, flush after every 5th or 6th use, use outhouse for “big” jobs, candle
moths (millers) swarming the bedrooms at night, my daughter-in-law is Philipino
and my father is a bigot in addition to being grumpier than a bear, hotter than
hell, millions of grasshoppers everywhere, can’t drink the tap water and it goes
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Hi folks. Pretty quiet round here so I thought I’d ramble on a bit.
I’ve worked hard on this quit - done my lists and homework, done my
ABC’s etc. The last few days have been some of the hardest days I’ve
had, and it’s been challenging to try and work out just what is going
on. Now that it’s settled down some, I can understand it a bit
better. Anyone else felt like this - a real irritation with life and
ppl, flaring up at the slightest thing. Even the cat runs to hide
when she sees me approaching. I wonder why it is that extreme
emotions like this trigger the ‘ geez I need SOMETHING to calm me
down and make me feel better’. I know the logical things to do to
deal with the physical angst and discomfort…. and I’ve done
them…. but at times it’s been massively hard to do.
The root of all this I think is my crap (am I allowed to say that?)
sleeping recently. I thought I could get by but obviously it’s been
creeping up on me, the cumulative effects of being overtired. When
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Hi all,
I am working 12 hours night tomorrow. I have done it many times before but
never that early in my quit. I am still very irritated and get tiered very
fast. So this will be hard tomorrow, I now by arround 02 -04h I will have a
hard time to stay awake, so I made an ABC so that I can counter any cravings
I may get.
A — I have done the whole building patrol, the night is still so long and
I feel tiered. My body feels exhausted, my eyes are burning, my moves are
kind of slow and I feel low on energy
B — It’s not the first time that I work 12 hours night shift I always had
a smoke after I finished patrol and would feel better nice and relaxed.
C — go and smoke
B1 — I will not smoke no matter how I feel physical or emotional, a smoke
is not going to make me feel better. It willl only temporary relief the
feeling of tiered. Even if I smoke I want another one and another one and by
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I made my lists. Now what do I do? Post all of it here or what? LOL

I just had a hell of a day. An argument in the morning with a bus driver, at
work nothing but trouble, my throught is dry and my lungs are hurting and on top
of everything I had to cover PMO. .
I am very irritated and I want to smoke so badly that it is not fun. Cravings
plus cravings makes even more cravings.
I am not going to smoke. No No No — having said that I realized that I was
starting again to think of quiting as a hang in time, like hanging on to
something and hoping it goes away. So I sat back looked at my statement and
decided to make an ABC.
A — I am having a bad day, even a fly on the wall annoys me, I am irritated
and I am ready to jomp. physical sensation: my head feels like a ticking bomb
ready to explode, my heart rate is up and I feel like I am running. I am kind
like out of breath and all I can think of is smoking. My lungs are hurting for
some reason I can’t breath deeply.
B — I know a smoke will help, it will make the irritation away and I will be
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Ok - It’s time to cowboy up as we say in the wild wild west. I had a
moment of drama and panic last night. I was feeling pretty lost and alone.
After a night of not sleeping and some early morning quiet time, I’ve come up
with a very long ABC to handle my general sense of anxiety - about everything.
A. I have a general sense of nervousness, anxiety, intensity. my neck and
shoulders are tight as ticks, I have my dreaded tension headache which is
debilitating. I have feelings of anger, sadness, impatience, intolerance. I’m
finger-tapping tense. These feelings are brought on not only by my son’s
family’s visit but by the changes I’m experiences as a non-smoker and real life.
B. In the past I could hide behind my cigs and alcohol to ease my feelings.
Have a glass of wine and a dozen or so cigarettes and cruise through life.
Handle any and everything with ease.
C. Smoke and drink
B1: Since I no longer smoke, nor do I want to be a smoker, using cigarettes to
deal with my nervous anxiety and my life is not an option for me. Cigarettes or
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Hi Everyone,
Just a note to introduce myself. I have been hanging around this board for a
week or so and it does look like it has some good info and I can relate to
alot of it as I always felt I had difficulties with my mind when quitting as
opposed to physical sensations.
I am 31 years old I have a two and a half year old daughter and a baby son of
10 days. I have quit the cigarettes at least ten times my longest quit was 3
months and my shortest was a couple of hours. In my last quit (ended 4 weeks
ago) I went 8 weeks having read Alan Carrs easyway and I did not have one
single craving in that time. However on a trip, alone, I smoked during my first
crave. My reason I was alone drinking in a bar and felt really
ubcomfortable/self-conscious as a non smoker, yes it was my first visit to a bar
during that
quit. I woke the following day thinking thank goodness I don’t want a cig. Got
showered, dresses, walked outside bought cigarettes because I did not want to
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Hi all,
I wondered if Steve–or anyone else–had any opinions about subliminal message
therapy for stopping smoking. I recently bought a program that flashes anti-
smoking messages that I write for myself across my computer screen all day–so
quickly that my concious mind can’t register or see them.
Do you think these blurbs can help influence Warren?
Thanks,
JM
3weeks, 1day quit.

This is not a normal ABC; it is more of an admission to slipping,
which we talked about last night, Steve. You know and I know that I
was not very smart to even allow the slip to happen, nor did it do me
any good. I thought about running this by you, but thought it would
be better to post in the group so others can see how by slipping
it’s not worth undoing all of the work and dedication that goes
into this process.
I feel lucky that I thought to talk to you about it and didn’t
assume because I had slipped it was ok for me to become a smoker
again. I do not want to be a smoker and have learned a very valuable
lesson from this. I wanted to say thanks for not berating me, but
for listening to how I was feeling:) I am back on track again.
I will work on lots of ABC’s and remind myself if I want to slip
again how I felt this time. The sad part is, that for this situation
I had prepared an ABC, but decided I didn’t want to use it. There was
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