I just read this elsewhere on FB and thought it really needed to be here. I too did teh whole just one thing, and woudl have a pack in my pocket within 2 days after I did. The last time I did that I realized what was happening, enjoyed it since the damage was done and that little light bulb lit up allowing me to recognize that trigger, and that was that. Anyways.... the post I came here to share (not mine) Mitchell E. Tocher Cigarettes. Well, I used the meds and patches. But, the best way to describe what made the real difference, is to say that I flipped a switch in my mind. I owned the identity of being a non-smoker. However, that meant that I had to embrace the loss, the withdrawals, and the horrible emotions AS WELL AS the positives. To do this correctly and effectively, I had to buy into it 100% and act on it *despite* how I felt, instead of letting my feelings dictate what I will or wont do. When my resolve would falter, I would remind myself that I was thinking like a crazy person and I would tell myself, its normal to feel like this, but why would I want to put the shackles of slavery back on myself? Then I would always reassure myself that the bad feelings will pass in time, and then allow myself to go through the withdrawals as long as my body and mind needed to throw its little temper tantrum. Then at about 3 months of being smoke-free, my brain would start telling me, youve lasted this long- you deserve a reward. Just smoke one. This was the time that I historically always relapsed. And now I know that I always used to consider going back to smoking, in the back of my mind. They call it having reservations. I also had to think of it another way. Can you imagine a slave of the 1860s actually thinking that he or she might want to put shackles back on their wrists and ankles as a reward for being emancipated for 3 months??? No way, right? But that is EXACTLY the crazy (albeit very normal) thinking of an addict. 12/31/14 at 11:45pm, it will be 3 years. I hardly ever think about it now, but when I do, I have to still ask myself, do I really want to shackle myself again? Wow- maybe I can do this with other things in my life. Unlike · Reply · 4 · Yesterday at 8:14pm
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 01:31:27 +0000
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