You mean what you say. After hearing yourself say it over and over, you take action.
Choose your words wisely and you win.
Choose the wrong words and you go back to smoking.
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You mean what you say. After hearing yourself say it over and over, you take action.
Choose your words wisely and you win.
Choose the wrong words and you go back to smoking.
I certainly don't have any qualms about yelling out "I don't smoke anymore, so get the hell out of my head!" Works too...people sometimes look @ me like I'm having a nervous breakdown, but I don't really care. When the moment passes, and I didn't have to reset my quit clock...then I have had a great day!
Fortunately, I am experiencing much less of the thoughts of smoking these days. Early (as in days 1-12), I was getting an urge to throw away my quit time for a couple of weeks, and to start my quit again later...This cycle was happening about five to twenty times a day. Now, I might get a zinger thought that comes into my head, and then goes away usually in about 30 seconds later. I might get those zingers once or twice a day...(I'm on day 29 today)
This is truly what freedom feels like...to not have a nagging voice in my head telling me to go ahead and kill myself every 15 minutes or so...Damned addiction...I can't believe our government let this murderous cycle go for so long before they actually started passing laws that limited the tobacco giants stranglehold on our lives.
Pops 29 DOF
Self talk works, I know for me I talked myself into being a happy quitter shortly after exiting NML because of self talk.
"I don't do that anymore."
Repeat as needed.
Worked for me. : )
Positive self talk always helps us to improve of self image. And with an improved self image comes a new sense of accomplishment! Great message Dale, thanks.
"if you think you can or think you can't, you are right." - Henry Ford
One of my favorite quotes!
Nancy
"OH JUST GO AWAY!!!" Was mine. And you know what? The bugger DID! Self talking your way out of a craving is a skill that can be learned. And the more you do it, the more proficient you become at it. And the sooner you remember to do it each time a craving comes in, the soon it will depart. (Love this blog!)
Great blog. Very true. Self talk saved my quit and myself from doing other impulsive and not-so-smart things many times. Self talk is what bore my user name when I came here after failing at my first quit attempt... i hate it (smoking)! If we could have an endlessly long user name, mine would be " i hate it. i dont like smoking. i dont want to smoke." Thanks for reminding us about the power of the words we tell ourselves!
Agreed.
If I tell myself that I will not smoke.... I don't.
If I tell myself I want to smoke... I probably will...
If I tell myself I might smoke... I will smoke..
There were days when I yelled at myself... STOP THAT BRAIN... I don't smoke.. I won't smoke. I had to tell my brain what to think.... nicotine had a program of lies running and I had been brainwashed. You have to take control of your mind.