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How To Get Through The "Catmouth" Crave

JonesCarpeDiem
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      I took Hoggie out this morning.

I'd been to the lumber yard to pick up one piece of wood and 16 bolts for the casters for the BBQ cart I'm still building, and, then to one other store, so, my bad foot was already sore and I sat down under the persimmon tree.

      It was an hour earlier than I normally take him out and there were lizards just out and sunning themselves. Hoggie spied motion on the base of the loquat tree and off he went.

The first one got away

                                          but not the second

So you know how cats do, right?

They like to play with their prey.

      Hoggie had it in his mouth as he sauntered my direction with a lizard grin. It already looked dead to me.

(Now, imagine you're at your wits end with your quit and you are that lizard)

      So, he just sat there with a lizard in his mouth and then he set it (you) down.

You don't move. He picks you up again in his mouth and takes you 7 feet away into a shady spot on the lawn and sets you down.

YOU MAKE A BREAK FOR IT

He's got you again.

      He sets you down on the lawn again and WHAM

A water bottle slams into the ground beside Hoggie. He runs, you're safe.

(It was me saving the lizard)

      I pick you up, you don't move. I set you on a flat tree limb where Hoggie can't reach you.

                           You jump down and run under the fence.

Sometimes you just have to still yourself

Still yourself and not panic

And the crave is over

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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.