Hello! Tomorrow morning is day#1 for me.
Hi, I’m Tom. Tomorrow morning is my quit day. I have quit a number of
times in the past, most recently for 5 days about a week and a half
ago. Got in a fight with my wife and folded up like a deck of cards,
though. How do you deal with emotional stress when quitting? That seems
to be my biggest stumbling block. Thanks.
January 22nd, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Hi Nancy,
It’s true that putting some physical space between our selves and a
stressful situation is a useful way to reduce that stress, at least
initially. However, simply creating a ‘cool down’ distance doesn’t
necessarily help us develop more appropriate and immediate responses to the
body cues that come with stress. The cognitivequitting program has some
fairly simple exercises that seem to work very well in helping us begin to
establish new responses that are not only effective, but will quickly
become as automatic as smoking was.
Steve