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Triple A

c2q
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1 4 30

Day 4. Still doing pretty well, except for not sleeping. I must have gotten at least, what - 3 hours? I lay in bed and thought up new strategies for dealing with cravings. Here's one I call "triple A." Acknowledge it, animate it, annihilate it. Here are a couple examples:

1. How big are you? You are small. You are a cockroach sneaking out of the dark. I'm not afraid of you. I am going to step on you and pick you up with a tissue and throw you in the toilet.

2. How big are you? you are big. You are an angry gorrilla stomping around with your fists clenched. I am not afraid of you. I am going to stomp around, too, with my fists clenched, and yell "I don't want a cigarette!" until YOU go away.

3. What are you doing here? You are here to seduce me. You look over your bare shoulder at me and say, "just one more time, Baby, for old time's sake." I'm not afraid of you. I lead you out onto the hotel balcony and push you over the railing into the pool below. Which is full of mucus from my diseased lungs, you creep.

feel free to add your own! I'm off to work.

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