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My Beliefs, Your Beliefs?

JonesCarpeDiem
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(this post has nothing to do with religion)

My Beliefs>>They are my thoughts based upon what I've heard from others and what I've seen for myself.

      Have you ever heard people who say, "I can't nap during the day?"

      Have you heard people who say, "Once I'm awake, I can't get back to sleep?"

      I was both of those people and now I know both of those beliefs were false.

They were simply what I had heard from others and what I had DECIDED for myself.

      Hoggie woke me up at 2:30 this morning and I had gone to bed lateer than normal.  I know I need 6 hours to function properly and that meant I needed to sleep until 4am. instead, I got up at 2:30 and I went back to bed at 4 and slept until 5:40.

How?

I've learned I can allow myself to do it.

I've learned I can nap during the day because I can allow myself to.

THIS HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH QUITTING SMOKING BECAUSE WHAT YOU TELL YOURSELF MATTERS AND THE THINGS THAT FORMED YOUR BELIEFS ABOUT SMOKING WEREN'T CAST IN STONE.

THEY WERE THOUGHTS YOU MADE INTO BELIEFS.

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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.