Cognitive Quit Smoking

I am a nictone addict… it’s true. But I also have this bad “habit”
of smoking too! I smoke when i’m bored, upset, happy… you all know
the drill! I’ve smoked for over 20 years of my life and I have allowed
it to be a part of me! I am going to begin the cognitive program in the
morning… got my timer ready! I tried cold turkey with no behavior
modification or understanding and failed in day 1! I just tried Chantix
(the so called miracle pill) and took it for 5 days… had not
difference in my smoking and had HORRIBLE side effects to the point
that even my doctor said I should stop that medicine. Heck, I figured
that if I had to have all those side affects, cold turkey wasn’t any
worse and I wasn’t replacing one drug for another… then I found this
site. Wish me luck!

I wanted to check in on my progress.
All is well and I’m not smoking.
Posture changes, deep breaths, stretching fingers a drink of water - all
are effective strategies.
I still keep my little snacks handy but use them very rarely.
Some others- putting on hand lotion (stimulates those tactile senses too),
teeth brushing, applying lipstick- well, those wouldn’t work for everyone
but they’re effective for me.
Steve, I did try the timer but really wasn’t very successful. It ticked and
I would zone in and stress over the passage of time- I’m better off not
having a time devise……. Depending on what I’m doing, time either goes
much too fast or much too slow.
I changed jobs yet again- I’m the office admin at a church now and that is
really a wonderful place to work when one is quitting smoking. Lot’s of
support and a ‘very’ non smoking atmosphere. I can easily avoid smelling
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Hi, I stumbled upon the cognitive quit program while I was on google
researching the levels of nicotine in different brands of
cigarettes. I’m planning to try to quit (again) soon and decided I
should smoke a brand with the lowest nicotine level I can find to
hopefully take some of the bite out of my withdrawal symptoms as I
go cold turkey. I’m going cold turkey because it seems to me that
all the medications out there basically lead the same thing, cut
down the nicotine and then cut it out completely. Besides that I
don’t care for taking medications much. Anyay, I’ve quit so many
times now that I honestly don’t know how many it is. My last quit
lasted 3 months and then I went back to smoking right around last
Thanksgiving. I can make it through the physical symptoms even
though its a tough ride, my problem is staying quit and when I read
through the cognitive quit website just now I totally related to
what it said, it explained me! And the reasons I can’t stay quit! So
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I’ve find this lady’s site (Kathy Sierra) very informative,helpful &
reputable. So if you have ANY stories you want to share please contact
her at - ProjectX@…
While I try to have at least 90% of this blog’s content be something
useful for you, sometimes I need your help. Like now. I’m looking for
stories, photos, statistics, and–if possible–video clips, along with
the permission to use them in a presentation that’ll be seen by a
large number of people. The overall point is to find success stories
about people whose lives have been affected by the web or software
apps. I’m particularly interested in places where there is an
intersection between live (face-to-face) interaction and online
interaction (like people who’ve met online then forge off-line
relationships). But even purely online experiences are important to me
as well.
I don’t need much detail — just the basic scenario and what it has
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Hi. I’m Steve’s wife. Since CQ is 10, we thought it would be fun to
contact all our quitters & find out how they’re doing. We’d love to
hear from you - Thanks - Mairead & Steve

These are some notes from someone about to quit.
If you can do some like these on your time, with your situations, and
your body … you can take control of your smoking urges.
” 11:10 a.m. - working
- pain between shoulders
- chest hurts when I inhale
- slight sinus headache
- pain & tension at from between shoulder blades until base of head/neck
- toes numb/tingling
Stretched & deep breathing
12:10 p.m. - working
- pain & tension between shoulders & lower neck
- slight sinus headache
- tension/discomfort in lower back
- toes tingling/numb
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Perhaps this group already did touch the effects that smoking
does about the energy level of the body.In case you did not,that
is one of the worst effects.If nations understand how lazy a smoker
may gets,had banner smoking for good,any tax they get from cigarrets
ever compensate for the bad it creates in super low productivity,did
ever occur to you that there is something very particular to the
homeless comunity,all them,all them smoke.
I did some research,its a fact that nicotine robs the oxigen from the
blood stream,that is what makes people letargic.

For some reason all my formatting got filtered so words I bolded to stress
their importance didn’t make it through so I want to repeat this another way.
A cigarette:
· Relaxes muscles = Calms me
· Fires synapses = Wakes me up
· Increases blood sugar = Stops me from feeling hungry
We rarely consciously experience our lives on a physically level. We
primarily experience it on a emotional level.
Something scares you.
You don’t say to yourself -” Adrenaline is surging through my body.” You
just say -’I'm afraid’.
If you live in a state of chronic fear a therapist will validated your
experience then teach you to take a moment & start objectively assessing
the source of your fear to determine if it is valid.
So take a moment & ask - “do I really need nicotine or do I need to deep
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This is one of the articles I’ve been working on for the website but I
think it’s important to share it now.
The Pay Off
You know that Nicotine is a drug and that it acts on your body. But what
you may not realize is that you have two physical connections to nicotine.
The first - physical addiction - is obvious. But the second physical
conditioning - is easily overlooked.
Nicotine stimulates the brain, relaxes muscles and suppresses hunger - an
extremely useful drug. Ask yourself which is faster and easier:
· Deep breathe to clear your head - or smoke?
· Stretch to relax tense muscles - or smoke?
· Eat properly - or smoke?
Because you ‘like’ how smoking takes care of your needs and simplifies your
life, you form a strong emotional attachment to it. Why should you care how
it works when all you need to know is that it does - fast and
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When I quit in 91,one of the fears was drinking,that is when one
more smokes,so I quit drinking for 2 yrs,until fill more confident.
When I got my first drink without cravings,that was when I really
felt had vanquish my ciguies demons,Iam sober now for health reasons.