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Tricks Of The Trade? Simple Thinks?

JonesCarpeDiem
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      Have you considered ways to change how you perceive things and how you might change your perception?

Example:

      I wanted some cinnamon toast for breakfast. All I had was sourdough bread, the huge slice type.Two slices are too much and one slice is not enough

      It seems once you prepare it and put it in your hand, it's hard to not eat the whole piece at one time and then, the other

      I wanted to slow down and enjoy it so I cut it into triangles.

It worked. I still have half a piece of toast on my plate, and I'm full.

"Simple thinks to bust a crave"

  • Self talk: I don't do that anymore
  • Bite into a lemon skin and all
  • Stick your head in the freezer and count backwards from 20.
  • Pack your mouth with ice cubes and try to avoid brain freeze. 
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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.