Never thought it could happen

[vitw]

I never thought it could happen, but I'm starting to really feel the
cravings making a definite decrease over time. I can now actually see
myself in the future having entire days, weeks, months without even
thinking about smoking.

--
Non-smoker for 9 months, 1 week, 5 days, 18 hours, 43 minutes and 53
seconds
Cigarettes avoided: 4000, Money saved: $1562.50
Life Saved: 1 week, 6 days, 21 hours, 24 minutes and 37 seconds

[DavidL]

Great news..... a non-smoker you is.

[Gracenote]

Yep, what David said.

And you are right, I go forever without thinking about smoking and
then it might be a quick pang or it more likely might be extreme
gratitude. I smell good, I look even better, there is absolutely
nothing bad about quitting.

Annette

[Karen B]

Good on you! Keep up the good quit!

Karen - Free and healing for Three Days, 1 Hour and 41 Minutes, while
extending my life expectancy 3 Hours, by avoiding the use of 43 death
sticks that would have cost me $10.75.

[FlatIronMike]

Thanks for sharing this, Vit! It is so true that the craving does die
down and the longer you stay smober the more the 'new non-smoking you'
is the norm! Just keep on kicking butt!

FlatironMike
Two years, four months, three weeks, five days, 14 hours, 4 minutes
and 1 second. 17551 cigarettes not smoked, saving $5,265.27. Life
saved: 8 weeks, 4 days, 22 hours, 35 minutes.

[Eldon]

On Jul 7, 4:02 am, vitw <nos...@somewhere.com> wrote:
> I never thought it could happen, but I'm starting to really feel the
> cravings making a definite decrease over time. I can now actually see
> myself in the future having entire days, weeks, months without even
> thinking about smoking.

In the spirit of mindfulness, I encourage you to notice three things
about those cragings:

1. The intensity of the craving, or yearning for a fix;
2.. The duration of the craving (you may need to time it with a watch,
since they mess up your sense of time);
3. The amount of time that passes between successive cravings.

These are the factors that determine how much your cravings are
diminishing. At least the important ones.

[Lynn]

awesome!
--
:) Lynn OOF+ Leaper

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end
of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

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[Sue]

4000 not smoked. What a fantastic number. If I didn't spend so much
time here and work with smokers I probably wouldn't think about
smoking for days at a time. You will get there.
Congratulations and don't get complacent.
Sue

[FlatIronMike]

I agree with you, Ed. Timing a crave only keeps the focus on craving
when that is really the last thing needed. When a crave does pop up
do your best to change your outlook to something that is healthy and
healing instead. For me, that usually meant a long slow deep breathe,
as craves always made me tense up and my breathing would either stop
or be very shallow. The deep breathe breaks that up and the
relaxation you get kicks the crave in the butt.

FlatironMike
cravekicker
Two years, four months, four weeks, 16 hours, 48 minutes and 40
seconds. 17594 cigarettes not smoked, saving $5,277.95. Life saved: 8
weeks, 5 days, 2 hours, 10 minutes.

[Eldon]

On Jul 9, 9:18 pm, FlatIronMike <FlatironMike...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with you, Ed.  Timing a crave only keeps the focus on craving
> when that is really the last thing needed.  When a crave does pop up
> do your best to change your outlook to something that is healthy and
> healing instead.  For me, that usually meant a long slow deep breathe,
> as craves always made me tense up and my breathing would either stop
> or be very shallow.  The deep breathe breaks that up and the
> relaxation you get kicks the crave in the butt.

I don't agree with either of you, because I found that analyzing and
"processing" the craves in the NLP sense was helpful to me. But that's
just the way I do things. Distraction and extroversion may well work
better for y'all.