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You Can't Win a Fight with Yourself!

Thomas3.20.2010
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We all have had Addictive Thoughts! The difficulty isn't when we have Addictive Thoughts.The problem comes when we believe our thoughts are true and that we must follow those commands to smoke! We become fused with the thoughts running through our heads! We don't step back and get a better perspective!

And fighting our thoughts or pushing them down just doesn't work! Don't think of a purple Zebra! It can't be done! You can try but the more you try not to think of purple Zebras the more they multiply like bunny rabbits in our brains!

But we can ask ourselves some necessary questions about this thought:

- Is the thought true?

- Is the the thought important?

- is the thought helpful?

Do I really "need" a Sickerette? In the scheme of things will smoking be the most important thing I can do? How will smoking really help me?

Then you can choose to hold onto that thought or to just imagine it in a balloon and let it float away! Then when you focus on something else you are not still clinging to the "I need a Sickerette" thought! You had this thought as well as thousands of thoughts today but that's all it was - just a thought! It isn't true. It isn't important. And it certainly isn;t helpful so I can think about something else that is! I choose to think about my Granddaughter! I get Miss Penny's picture out and look at her Dear little smile and I know that she is TRUE, IMPORTANT, and very, very HELPFUL! Who would want to contaminate her prescious environment? Certainly not this Grandpa!

Smoking is never the correct answer! It's just a thought - let it go!

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63 years old. 20 year smoker. 11 Years FREE! Diagnosed with COPD. Choosing a Quality LIFE! It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. -Galatians 5:1