5AlarmFire Once you have identified those triggers...which you have already done, rate them on a scale of one to five with five being the strongest...now, PLAN for what you will do INSTEAD of smoking when those triggers occur, believe me, they WILL occur. Plan jumping jacks, taking a shower, brushing your teeth, biting into a lemon, rind and all, calling a friend. coming to EX and blogging, READ blogs, read how OTHERS got through their craves. Read Allen Carr's book but don't expect it to really be easy unless you are an incredibly lucky person. I did not find quitting easy but I DID find it to be DOABLE, POSSIBLE, Make an unbreakable promise to yourself that if you have a crave, you will ask yourself what smoking a cigarette will do to change whatever you are feeling. Will it REALLY relieve pain? Will it REALLY take away stress? Will it REALLY take away anger? Will it REALLY make you less sad? Will it REALLY make ANYTHING BETTER????? I asked and my answers were ALWAYS NO. All that smoking could do was to make me feel like a failure, make me sadder, not happier, make me more stressed about how I was going to start over again after telling everyone that I failed AGAIN. Smoking does nothing FOR you but I am living proof of at least some of the things it can do TO you and believe me, none of them are good.
You CAN do this, you have to be willing to deal with whatever your addiction throws your way and know that you do not have to smoke, no matter what. Make NOPE your mantra, Not One Puff Ever. You are WORTH it, you are WORTH beating this addiction, one day at a time, one hour at a time, one minute at a time...whatever it takes! We are here to help you and we want to help you, please LET us.
Ellen
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