Comments on: Responsibility and Smoking http://www.adamspeace.com/blog/2007/02/23/responsibility-and-smoking/ Fear, more than anger, is the enemy to peace Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:23:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Jennifer Lynn http://www.adamspeace.com/blog/2007/02/23/responsibility-and-smoking/#comment-20 Jennifer Lynn Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:04:42 +0000 http://www.adamspeace.com/blog/2007/02/23/responsibility-and-smoking/#comment-20 Hi Adam, I'm a smoker too (currently from, like, two cigarettes a day to upward of half a pack). If you need support, let me know. I'm battling this same exact demon as well. =^..^= * c o u g h * Hi Adam, I’m a smoker too (currently from, like, two cigarettes a day to upward of half a pack). If you need support, let me know. I’m battling this same exact demon as well.

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]]> By: Adam Alexander http://www.adamspeace.com/blog/2007/02/23/responsibility-and-smoking/#comment-22 Adam Alexander Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:14:03 +0000 http://www.adamspeace.com/blog/2007/02/23/responsibility-and-smoking/#comment-22 Thank you very much for the support. I have set a date when my last cigarette is going to be... Friday will be the end of it all. I have read Allen Carr's book The Easy Way to Quit Smoking, and it pointed out quite a few things that I have been doing wrong in the past. Whenever I would try to quit before, I would cut down just before. This has the opposite effect of making each cigarette even more precious to my subconscious mind, which of course makes it harder to quit. Also, Allen Carr talks about how just one cigarette is the bane of every attempt to quit smoking. Finally, whenever I have actually succeeded in quitting smoking, I've been waiting for that moment when I become a non-smoker... The moment is when you put out the last cigarette, and it doesn't feel any different from being a smoker, except that the cravings start to go away. Finally, instead of feeling like you are giving up smoking, it is important to look at it as though you are freeing yourself from smoking. The nicotine doesn't give you any pleasure, it simply takes pleasure away from your future... much like a person wearing tight shoes in order to feel the pleasure of taking them off. Right after you smoke is when you feel 'normal.' At least, you feel as normal as your poison infected body can feel, which as a person smokes more and more, it becomes worse and worse. Well, I need to take this week to get back up to a pack-a-day smoker, so that I don't feel deprived as I'm waiting for the next cigarette, so that when I do quit Friday night, I'll have a realistic view of exactly what I'll no longer be missing. Thank you very much for the support.

I have set a date when my last cigarette is going to be… Friday will be the end of it all.

I have read Allen Carr’s book The Easy Way to Quit Smoking, and it pointed out quite a few things that I have been doing wrong in the past. Whenever I would try to quit before, I would cut down just before. This has the opposite effect of making each cigarette even more precious to my subconscious mind, which of course makes it harder to quit. Also, Allen Carr talks about how just one cigarette is the bane of every attempt to quit smoking. Finally, whenever I have actually succeeded in quitting smoking, I’ve been waiting for that moment when I become a non-smoker… The moment is when you put out the last cigarette, and it doesn’t feel any different from being a smoker, except that the cravings start to go away.

Finally, instead of feeling like you are giving up smoking, it is important to look at it as though you are freeing yourself from smoking. The nicotine doesn’t give you any pleasure, it simply takes pleasure away from your future… much like a person wearing tight shoes in order to feel the pleasure of taking them off. Right after you smoke is when you feel ‘normal.’ At least, you feel as normal as your poison infected body can feel, which as a person smokes more and more, it becomes worse and worse.

Well, I need to take this week to get back up to a pack-a-day smoker, so that I don’t feel deprived as I’m waiting for the next cigarette, so that when I do quit Friday night, I’ll have a realistic view of exactly what I’ll no longer be missing.

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