Digest Number 1216
Hi Sue,
Congratulations on the 4 weeks, that is great…. you are doing well, and
you should be just about over the physical withdrawal effects, the worst of
it. Now you need to concentrate on learning how to avoid the cravings, and
CogQuit is great for this.
Before I found CogQuit, I had quit several times, sometimes for many
months, but even though it did get better, I never really felt comfortable
with the quit, I was just hanging on, and each time it didn’t really take
much to persuade myself to have “one” which rapidly became a pack a day
again.
This most recent quit started again as the “hang on til it gets better”
method, and after a month, I was seriously wondering if it was worth it…
so I know where you are coming from right now….
It was then that Steve persuaded me to really do the work with this
cognitive quit method.. I had read the site, agreed with it all, and
thought that I was doing it, … but… he persuaded me to actually do the
timer exercise….
I did the timer exercise…. and I listened to how my body felt….
I wrote out the foundation statements….. there was something about the
actual physical action of putting it down on paper that made it stick…
I did ABCs, trying to formulate plans to avoid being in the situation of
craving a cigarette.. trying to give my body what it really needed instead.
I learned that to make this method work, reading about it is not enough,
you must DO the work.
I no longer think about smoking, it is a non-issue…. and I can honestly
say this was the easiest quit ever, and the first time that I am really sure
I will not smoke again…. I don’t need it, physically or emotionally.
Give CognitiveQuitting ( www.cognitivequitting.com )
a real try, I am sure you will be happy with the results.
Ozipam
Comfortably quit since October 2003…