Simply put, the best way out is to ride the craves. Don't try and hide from them, accept them and realize you don't have to act upon them. Do not fear them, and they will come to respect the fact that you don't need them, and they will dissolve over time, knowing it is pointless to come knock on your door.
Adam
(RP)
Adam
(RP)
We addicts really don't like discomfort. Sure, we endure all kinds
of life stuff - divorces, hurt kids, job losses, bad bosses, etc. and
we'd like to think we're tough dealing with all that.
But the fact is, when we start to crave that next
sickarette we becoming really whiny babies on the inside. We can't STAND
the discomfort and wanting...and we do whatever we need to do in order
to have that temporary "fix."
Let me tell you a little secret about a successful quit for some of us.
ACCEPTING DISCOMFORT IS A GOLDEN TICKET OUT OF HELL.
Once
I said it's okay to feel like crap, I don't have to DO anything about
it, I don't have to react in any way to anything, I can lay here like a
slug and just let the feelings wash over me knowing I will survive the
discomfort (I mean, no one in history has ever died from a
craving....though people do die from smoking by the thousands every
day)....once I ACCEPTED that discomfort was a normal, natural part of
the process and I was going to brave it.......everything got a lot
easier.
You're not going to feel fabulous in 3 days. You're
not going to feel amazing (consistently) in 3 weeks. 3 Months down the
road you may have crappy days. Accept it and don't smoke anyway.
You WILL realize one day in the not too distant
future that you are no longer uncomfortable, you no longer crave, and
you made it to the other side.
ONLY if you don't take one single puff.
Hang tough....you got this!!!
Carly
d1066
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