Cognitive Quit Smoking

Hi all, I just wanted to introduce myself, I am Mary, I am on day 3
of my last quit I will ever live though. I am doing OK I am doing the
timing paper,as requested by Steve yesterday in chat. I can really
see how this will keep me quit. When I think about 32 years of never
really experiencing or dealing with all those little feelings,
problems, stresses, urges properly, It really makes me sad , I was 15
yrs old when I started smoking,, I have smoked more then half my
life, wow do I have a lot to learn, but I am working on it and with
some patience and work maybe I can get Warren to be retrained!! No
Warren will be retrained. I need to close all back doors! Thanks
Steve for all your words of wisdom:) so far I am very proud of
myself:)
Mary

(To the newbies, it really does make sense, and although you have
to do the work, it is really quite simple, once you have worked
out what your body really needs, and you respond appropriatly it
all falls in to place.)

HI. Can I have examples of how to respond appropriately…Ways that

have really come in handy for you non-smokers…

thanks!

Sheila

Hello all;

I’ve been lurking around, like every day since October, and am now working on my timer exercises. I have a my quit date on January 14, 2005. My husband is a smoker, but he will be polite when I quit (as he has been the last jillion times I’ve tried to quit, and smoke outside of my presence). I believe that he will follow my lead when he is ready. I also agree that when smoking is not an option, it makes other choices more attractive. I am optimistic, and the support this group offers, is very comforting.

Tracy

Hi there,
Just checking in to say that I have now been smoke free for 1 month
+ a few days. I now don’t really think about smoking as I don’t
consider smoking to be an option now.
To the newbies, it really does make sense, and although you have
to do the work, it is really quite simple, once you have worked
out what your body really needs, and you respond appropriatly it
all falls in to place.
One more thing I would like to add, the THOUGHT of giving up, is
much harder than actually doing it. I used to “reward?” myself
with a cigarette when I had completed a task, or whatever, but now
think how stupid I was. But I had convinced myself that I
had “earned” my reward.
Thanks to Steve and Pam for their help, although I do not want to
smoke ever again, neither do I want to become complacent.
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Hi folks,
We’ve got a quite a few new people, several returnees, and the rest of us
an various stages of cognitively quit.
Can we get a check in roll call and get things moving?
If you’ve recently joined are you working the timer exercise? Have you
tried to put together any ABCs? Are you working on increasing your
awareness of the physical elements that are such an integral part of
routine days?
If you’ve returned for another run at quitting what have you learned? What
will you do differently this time?
If you’ve settled into a cognitive quit how are you doing with it?
Hope to hear from some of our 640+ members.
Steve

My quit date was also the first as it was last year, I did make it 67 days last year and had hoped to go for it this year. I stopped on the first and went to my car only to discover I had the three packs that had been under my seat for some time well I did smoke those and thought of myself as a failure but then I thought of all the reasons I had to quit and decided to think of those times as only a slip not falsie so I started starting again it has been two days now with none and I am feeling better One thing that did help me was a friend 6 years quit asked me what is the benefit of smoking I was stumped there is no benefit The only thing that smoking does is lead to more smoking. You can do it so many others have and are proof that it can be done and I can do it Lori

But I am trying to retrain my Warren to ALWAYS use a nonsmoking
response. I am really excited about this approach to not smoking.
Hope I can help someone else do this thing too.

I was suppose to quit on the 1st and I didn’t. I just didn’t feel ready. If that is possible? I have been writing all kinds of things in my notebook that I found in other’s emails, in the files…the foundation statements, how to do the abc’s…

But I have not practiced the abc’s. So I can see I am not doing the work. Is it possible I’m not ready? I feel like I can’t wait until I’m ready because of health reasons. And its so easy to always ‘not’ be ready.

Maybe if some of you wrote in some actual abc’s that you are using I could make more sense of it. My last 2 attempts were years apart. The last time I quit was May of 2004, for only 2 1/2 weeks. I don’t want to wait 5 years to try again.

Sheila

I need help desperatly.
I’ll be 51 y/o in a few days. I smoke between 2-3 packs a day. I’ve
been smoking since i was in the 6th grade.
I was all ready to quit today,and i did. It was only for 12 hours. My
mind and nerves got the best of me and now i’m right back to smoking
a whole pack since noon. It’s now 4PM.
I really need your help! Help me too understand why i smoke so damn
much.
Thanks for letting me join your group.
Robin

I’d like to thank Steve, Pam and everyone here for my first smoke-
free New Year’s Eve. I do not have to decide whether to buy one pack
or two packs of cigarettes today since I don’t have to drown the
reamining ones at midnight. That stress is gone and I feel fantastic
about it.
It has been rough this season but I promised myself to make it til
Christmas and then New Years. Thinking and reading the posts this
month has kept me quit but I have had to choose to stay quit a lot of
times lately. I’m so glad I did because smoking, not only would not
have solved anything, but it would have really messed up my hard
work! I am soooo grateful for your words of wisdom this holiday
(horriday, tee hee) season.
Happy New Year Everyone!
Linda