Hi MM
I don't know when our smoking toughts will cease to exist, but I can only tell you what I read about.
Allen Carr writes in his book that every smoker looks for a moment of revelation, or the time when this smoking thoughts will cease to exist; he says that if we are constantly thinking about this moment, we will become anxious or deppressed and then prone to a relapse. He says that everysmoker has his time, and that it is not bad to think about smoking, the bad thing is to smoke; he says that we should welcome this toughts and look at them as an chance to retrain our brain!
It has helped me a lot, so every time a smoking tought comes by, I laugh at it and say, o it is my addict brain trying to fool me; my body doesn't need the nicotine anymore, and I'm free of the nasty slavery!! And I think about something that makes me feel happy.
This is my coping strategy;it took me a while to make it almost automatically but now it is easer for me to do it.
I guess that the moment of revelation Allen Carr writes in hi book is about the hapiness and freedom we feel being smokefree for one day at a time!
We are not going to run and have some heroine because we don't need it , our body and our mind doesn't need it' I guess it is the same with cigarrettes; if we don't put nicotine in our bodies, we will not have the need to get another cigarrette, so the trick is to convinve our mind that we don't need the first cigarrette, because there is not such thing as one cigarrette!
Marivi
My Milage:My Quit Date: 1/23/2009
Smoke-Free Days: 53
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 795
Amount Saved: $79.50
Life Gained:Days: 6
Hrs: 2
Mins: 56
Seconds: 16
