holiday greetings
Greetings to Steve and Pam and everyone else who reads this.
This cogquit program got me thru the holidays in fine shape it did. I’ve been so busy making major life changes all very good.
I missed my 2 year Anny 
That was Dec 1. It has been quite the ride, made very sane without all the struggle so many have. I took this cogquit way of thinking and made it my own. I did all that was suggested and my quit became so natural and without struggle. There is no struggle in this way of going about the quit. I don’t come around much anymore, I do read every newsletter that comes in tho. Do the work here and you will know a comfortable and secure quit. This way of thinking in cogquit also filtered into other areas of my life. It is a great pattern for dealing with many things. Take this and use it for all it is worth. Steve and Pam really love doing this with all of us make use of them also. Steve spent many hours with me in the beginning guiding me, Pam was always there explaining things so clearly also.
Sending courage and wishing you joy filled holidays, smoke free, and standing tall.
much gratitude
ionronrote 2 years and a little change:)
August 31st, 2006 at 7:46 am
Thank you, and same to you, Steve. I am going to quit smoking in 2005 and do a lot of other things too. I let the cog quit fade off, and haven’t done much with it lately. This year, I am focusing back on myself and not a million other external things. I hope this will enable me to succeed.
Linda
February 23rd, 2007 at 8:01 am
Just thought I’d pop in here and say hello and hope everyone is doing
Ok over the holidays (I know these can be difficult times!). I havent
posted much recently, as my energies have been elsewhere (read on,
dear readers!)
I’m now a year, a month and a week (or a little more) without smoking
thanks to Steve and Pam. For those of you just starting…. this
really works if you put the time in. I smoked for about 25 years
before this quit….
Just so that those of you who might be hesitating on the brink and
wondering whether it is the “right time”.. I have to say its both
never, and always, the right time. I have found that for me, the tools
and approach of cognitive quitting has helped me to face all sorts of
situations which would in the past have promted chain smoking.
And it has not been, for me, what most people would consider the
“right time”. In fact I’ve had one of the most difficult years of my
life… my other half and I have had a hellish year and finally have
just separated (in fact he left at my request on Christmas day morning
to go and live with “the other woman”). Confronting your lovers’
infidelity after 24 years together is one of those acute life stress
situations, I can tell you.. but I was fully able to find alternatives
to smoking even in the midst of major life crises. In fact the idea of
a cigarette rarely entered my mind, to be frank.
It may seem hard to beleive, but its true… this appraoch has taught
me much more effective alternatives than the little white stick!
Here’s to the future and especially to those of you who may be
planning to give up as your new year’s resolution! If you start the
timer work now you will be wonderfully prepared for January the first….