‘every stressful situation in life’ vs about 6 ‘body cues’
You smoked for a lot of years.
Think back and list all the situations, times, places, people, and
things that would have sent you reaching for a cigarette. While you’re
at it, see if you can include a few that you know will happen in the
future, you just don’t yet know exactly when.
If that’s when you smoked, then you need to think ahead and prepare to
do something different in each of those situations. Otherwise, you may
get caught off guard. (You know, the nicodemon is always waiting to get
you so you better think ahead and be prepared. 
How difficult do you think it might be to:
1- think about all the different things that would/could stress you or
upset you in some way and then
2- change your smoking habit i.e. figure out what you’ll do instead of
smoke when each of those situations occur.
If you’re going to look outward at life and try to head off smoking by
anticipating life, get to it… you’ve got a LOT of situations to
prepare for. (and hope that they don’t sneak up on you and catch you off
guard)
However, if you want to look inward at your own body cues, chances are
you won’t be able to list more than 6. Anyone who has developed the
skill of recognizing their body cues has discovered that there are only
a few cues that are tied to almost all of their ’smoking situations’.
What this means is that in order to deal effectively with all of your
smoking situations, you only have to be able to recognize and deal with
a few body cues.
So… it’s your choice, be prepared for the rest of your life on a
situation by situation basis or learn to deal with just a few body cues
that are a part of almost every situation.
If you’re not sure you believe me, ask yourself this… “How angry can I
be if my breathing is deep and slow and my body is calm and relaxed?”