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Insomnia And Mind Clutter

JonesCarpeDiem
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      I found it difficult to sleep when I quit smoking as so many others do, so, I'm going to give you a way to get around mind clutter that may help.

      To me mind clutter is when you are thinking the same thoughts over and over because you don't want to forget them in the morning.

         My solution was to get up and write out everything that was on my mind.

It may take 5 minutes or 30 minutes but what it does is remove those thoughts that are keeping you awake and allows you to give yourself permission to sleep and address them in the morning.

Simple Solutions Work Best

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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.