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Solutions For Sleeplessness

JonesCarpeDiem
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solutions for sleeplessness

you may have bouts of restless sleep or insomnia after you've quit.

this happens more often as we age, and, we're all doing that  aren't we?

If you aren't, you're already dead.

When I can't sleep it's usually because my mind is full of thoughts of the next day or the near future

what i do is get up and write down everything my mind brings up

it can take 10 minutes or 2 hours to declutter it but when i am through

my mind has no excuse to keep me awake.

By setting an alarm, i eliminate the worry of not waking up by a certain time the next day.

if you are tired the next day, take a 10 minute nap or whatever you can get away with

on an old smoke break allowance or on your lunch break.

as you get older, you'll find its easier to nap.

i often go to bed and wake up with a completed song in my mind.

melody, lyrics and chord progression never consciously thought out.

your mind is amazing thing. use it to your advantage. turn it loose.

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About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.