‘Quitting For Life’
How would you interpret ‘Quitting For Life’?
Something positive that you’re doing to support and nurture your being?
Or something ongoing and tedious that you’ll be doing for the rest of your life?
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May 30th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Marki,
What a wonderful post. Thank you.
I see 3 variations on ‘quitting for life’.
1- quit once, quit for life.
2- quit to nurture and sustain.
3- quit day in day out for the rest of your life.
I wish #2 was the more common view, but I don’t think reality reflects
that. As much as we’d like to take care of ourselves by changing life style
and basic routines to something healthier and more life affirming, I at
least, find that too often I’m having a rough time just putting one foot in
front of the other let alone doing it with a positive outlook. My guess is
that there are lots more like me, but I could be wrong.
I think #3 is probably the one that most of us will have struggled with
getting to a quit. I think that until we start to look at smoking and
quitting in body terms and address those body cues, we may find ourselves
too often feeling as though the process of staying quit is a constant effort.
I’d like to suggest that #3 is more doable that some of you realize. Marki
has told you of how there’s no constant struggle in her quit. She
incorporated cogquit concepts and practices and now for her… it’s all
just ‘life’ and gets dealt with as it comes at her. If you look through
some of the archived posts you’ll see posts from others who have been quit
either for months or years who have echoed Marki’s words that quitting can
become a comfortable experience. When you’ve taken the time and put in the
effort to understand the cues that were associated with smoking, it all
becomes ‘life’ and you have the tools to maneuver your way along without
struggling to stay quit.
Are you going to set a timer? Contact me if you’d like some help.
Steve
May 31st, 2007 at 3:10 pm
The sole ‘raison d’etre’ of Warren is to relieve the conscious ‘you’ of the
on going daily tedium of routine existence. You practice any new skill
until it becomes second nature. Then the conscious part of your brain
delegates it to the automatic part of your brain & moves on. The conscious
part of you finally feels securely quit because your automatic part has
been trained to diligently do the body work effectively.
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