The Celebration Trap

It's funny how we can tell ourselves that a cigarette will add to the pleasure of the moment.....it's part of the insanity of smoking addiction....I have something to be so happy about so let me celebrate by doing something that's eventually gonna kill me? How is it that our minds can go there so quickly and we can make it seem so rational?

Because we've lost our minds, obviously. Our minds are literally altered by nicotine. It adds receptors and connections that weren't there before. It messes with us. But WE have more power than IT!

Sue, my mind has been playing unfairly all day......... I think it's mostly because my mom-in-law is an ex-smoker of many years and she goes on so about the smell and stink and yadda yadda yadda........ maybe the urge to smoke is just to flip my thumb at her LOLOL but believe me, I know that not smoking is for me and no one else but my kids and hubby, living longer for them is part of my reason to remain smoke free........... but man, do I want to smoke today....... and it's only day 4 so far.

yea Giulia, you are my cheerleader, keep us strong, nic's a bad person, we DON'T WANT NIC AROUND!!! LOLOL

but man, do I want to smoke today....... and it's only day 4 so far\

Uh uh, get rid of that thinking right now. It's only day four so far, meaning "boy do I have a lot more days to suffer through.." NO. Change your thinking to this mode: "Boy, do I want a smoke today. But I'm on my 4th day, glory hallelujah!, and it's gonna get easier every day!" Try and catch the negatives when they happen and turn them into positives. Day four is fantastic!

hehehe, well, even with my way of thinking, I passed through yesterday with no smokes and today, day 5, I still smoke free and actually enjoyed being a non-smoker........ hallelujah!!!!

Yeeeeeaaaahhhh! Too cool.

Oh Dian... I'm so proud of you!!! You're doing GREAT!!!
Peggy


I have been quit for 3 Years, 3 Months, 1 Week, 1 Day, 13 hours, 57 minutes and 54 seconds (1,193 days). I have saved $4,475.92 by not smoking 35,807 cigarettes. I have saved 4 Months, 4 Days, 7 hours and 55 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 2/3/2005 10:00 PM - Not so much as one drag since!!

I went to my cousin's daughter's wedding a week ago. I was in a car going to the church with two of my other cousins, one of whom smoked. I LOVE the smell of cigarette smoke. She lit up in the car -asked me first if it was ok, 'cause she knew I'd quit. I said, "Sure, as long as you open the window."

And I wanted one SO BAD at that moment. At that moment. I'm a 2 year three month quitter and I still wanted one. It's the way it is. But I did nothing about that craving. And the moment passed. It would have been so easy to just say "Ah, give me one. Just one. I'll just smoke it in the car with you and then it'll all be forgotten." WRONG! I can imagine myself now, had I done that. First of all I would then have been thinking about cigarettes all through the wedding. And even if I did manage to smoke only that one, I'd be sitting here right now consumed with wanting another. It would be niggling away in my brain.

When you make smoking a non-option, life becomes much much easier. You accept the fact that you will occasionally have cravings, but that you will never ever give in to them. Because you don't do that silly thing any more. You have learned to always say NO to the teasing trickster in you mind. And you are free.