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The Power Of Your Mind......Shifting Your Focus

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-29-2016 09:12 AM

Thoughts are what foil long term quits after being off nicotine for a couple months.

You have more control than you realize.

  
   
    
     Have you ever turned off your taste buds when you knew something was going to taste bad before you put it in your mouth? (Yeah I know, why would you eat something you knew didn't taste good?)   
    

I take a number of medications plus vitamins, 3 of which are huge.

   
   

90 percent of the time I have water ready to slug them down.

   

The other 10% I forget and, throw the vitamins and medications in my mouth, all at once.

   

Often, I realize I did it before I taste the vitamins and I'll make a conscious effort to switch off my taste buds (by shifting my focus) until after I've had my slug of water.

  
What does this have to do with smoking?

Smoking is a hazy world and a monotonous routine. This post has to do with being aware then shifting your focus.

Time to wake up and put yourself in control. 🙂

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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.