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So Let's Talk About Distractions?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎01-06-2016 11:04 AM

there's a list of 100 things to do when you get a craving that circulates around here.

It's a "get busy and do something" list.

I am more into sensory shock

Not the bad ones like fire and electricity

The safe ones.

Cold, Taste, etc.

If you get a craving you can't shake:

Bite into a lemon skin and all!

Stick your head in the freezer and count to 20!

Pack your mouth with ice cubes and try to not get brain freeze.

There is a reason these will instantly divert the crave.

It is because our senses take priority over our thinking mind in those times.

If you will do one of these, you may find you think of them the next time you get a serious crave and may not actually have to do it again. Just gotta get out of the smoking mindset and these are some ways to do it immediately!.

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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.