Re: Hello Again - LONG

waiting for the next crave to hit is normal .we imagine it will be horrible
and "will this be the one I lose it?" but once you keeping beating down
those craves the less they will become. I think it is a good thing to be
wrapped up into our quits in the beginning, to really focus on what is going
on.

I take it you have about a month into this quit- cold turkey right? I don't
think a NRT would of any benefit for you. it is not like smoking or slapping
on a patch and the crave disappears POOF!it doesn't work that way. for me
it was just taking the harder edge off so I could deal with the crave ( I
even used to rub the patch to see if I could get an extra dose) and when I
gave up the patch the first few days were torture then it was like I was
still wearing it. I found I had some tools to deal with my craves.
Where did the tools come from? here and at www.quitbuddies.org add those to
your book and you will make it.
--
:) Lynn VOF Leaper
"Everyone seems normal until you get to know them."



<bozzzza@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I don't know if anyone remembers me, but I posted on this newsgroup
about 10 years ago as Fezzzza.

My quit only lasted for about a week, then I carried on smoking until
december 2007.

What happened was I has a bought of flu, and I could feel the cigs
were not making it any better, so I picked up my copy of Gillian
Riley's how to stop smoking book, that I have not looked at for 10
years (I bought in the hope I would start a new quit and read it
through to quickly and failed) and set my quit date for 10 december
2007.

Well apart from the usual two days, it hasn't been as bad as last
time, only problem I find is that I sit around waiting for the next
craving, rather then getting on with my life.

By my own nature I always look for the negatives before I find the
positives, so naturally will dwell on negative things. This is where I
always fail in my quits. I have read quite a few books on the
subjects, and most of them are all in agreement up until the
psychological withdraw.

This is where things get tricky, because my mind makes them worse then
what they are. The other day I had a really bad morning, I was
thinking of chucking in the towel, I kept repeating all the techniques
in Gillan's book, but I was still feeling badly deprived, and was
struggling to change my thinking.

Anyway I *thought* of getting some NRT in the form of inhaler ,
immediately the symptoms went, I never bought the NRT, because I am
sure its not going to be as good as I think it will be, but my point
is I told my mind it going to be like a cig and imagined it giving me
a buzz, and we could inhale loads of these without any worries, then
the symptoms went.

Strange how something psychological can seem so real, because I guess
it seemed to my mind I was no longer deprived.

Not sure what it all means, but I thought I would share it with you
all, and hopefully someone can tell me!

Thanks for reading my rant.


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