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Let's Turn Mood Swings Into "Musings"

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎11-26-2014 05:10 PM

If you'll keep turning things around when you feel like you've hit a brick wall you will succeed.

Next time you get a craving say this out loud

"I am having musings of smoking, I am having musings of smoking, I am having musings of smoking"

Seriously. MUSINGS  It's a word we don't use much and the ridiculousness of hearing yourself say this to get your thoughts off smoking is priceless. It will probably make you laugh which is exactly what you need to do and the word takes the power out of a crave and keeps you in control. Make quitting a game. Always one up the crave with something more powerful than those thoughts.

This can be right up there with "I don't do that anymore"

Biting into a lemon, rind and all.

Sticking your head in a freezer, breathing the cold air and thinking about how ridiculous you look.

Packing your mouth with ice cubes.

Don't forget. They are not cravings, they are musings, just thoughts of smoking, not commands.

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.