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A Good Night's Sleep?

Ex_Nancy
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Why should we over-think if we get a perfect night's sleep or not? Especially early in a quit? I quit almost 10 years ago but for me, I still wake up at least twice a night sometimes only once but that's rare so when I wake up at 2-4AM, I decided to not fight it but Instead work with the thoughts, or block them with deep breathing exercises, looking inside the thoughts, staying in bed and telling the thoughts that this is a form of soothing. I mean, if a cat jumps on my roof at 3AM should I get upset or let the thought pass? I have other things like pinecones that decide to drop on my house at the same time... soothe, quiet, calm yourself and know you are safe and secure in your quit.  🙂    

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Hello to all newbies and all oldbies and ALL that are still here helping others quit and STAY quit. I can remember over 10 years ago looking for a 'quit smoking group online' and found this amazing site of fantastic, dedicated people willing to help me quit and started to post, then prepared, did the reading of the Allen Carr book and another online ebook called QuitSmokingOnline .com. After about a week I realized that I could actually DO this, that quitting smoking wasn't even hard for me at all... (I know, you hate to hear about easy quits, lol). But I'm SO happy to be healthy and FREE from that big mind-game. Maybe I can help some of you understand this addiction and how to beat it too... who knows?