Closure cigarettes etc
Following on from the discussion going on in here last night ( I was
asleep as I’m several hours ahead of you folk in the
USA) ….A ‘funeral’ for cigarettes is one possibility, but it
reminds me of my previous attempts to quit when I’d defiantly throw
the packet in the trash and swear that I’d never ever ever smoke
again, and the ‘bonfires’ for cigarettes celebrated daily at another
quitsmoking venue. It had nothing to do with a reasoned, informed
choice not to smoke again, whereby smoking no longer seemed a
rational response to whatever I was experiencing emotianally and
physically.
A better option, I think, is to practice using our cognitive tools to
firstly make a commitment to our Foundation Statements, so that we’re
deciding in a calm rational moment that smoking is no longer an
appropriate option, and then to get to work on ABC’s which will give
us prepared thinking to deal with the events coming our way. As
we’re talking about ‘Closure’ cigarettes, lets instead work on some
more ABC’s. Anyone want to do some ABC’s along these lines?
Pam