Good morning all! Well, I sure learned my lesson about smoking and ruining a good quit. These last nine days have been so much rougher than they needed to be. I've been staying away from beer, which is helpful. But the nicodemon tells me if I smoked once, why not do it again? And sometimes I even have crazy thoughts of giving up on my quit. But then when I walk Fred in the morning, the morning smells are so sweet! And it's so nice to be able to watch a whole baseball game without missing innings to go smoke on the front porch! And I have no cough and no chest pains anymore. Yesterday, I even got my teeth cleaned--something I have really been looking forward to. My family and my EX-friends would be so disappointed if I smoked again...that helps me stay on the straight and narrow. In trying to adjust my attitude, I am thinking about Allen Carr's book and about how I can't seem to get myself out of the willpower method--the thinking that I am giving something up that I want. I think that's part of what messed me up last time. I have to remind myself, too, that if I have cravings now, smoking only makes them worse and more frequent--the craving is never satisfied when we smoke. An important reminder that smoking causes the cravings--it doesn't satisfy them. N.O.P.E! N.O.P.E! N.O.P.E!
