How did you overcome the mental/emotional addiction to cigarettes?
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I want to quit smoking. I’m not as worried about the physical addiction as the mental one. I love my morning cigarette. I love smoking after I eat and in the car. I think I’d go nuts if I couldn’t.
How did you overcome this part of the addiction? What did you do in a stressful situation when you really wanted to smoke? I have such a high stress life, I don’t know what I’m going to do. Any pointers?
Tags: Morning Cigarette, Quit Smoking
August 11th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
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Your emotions influenced your smoking habit. Break your emotional addiction with smoking and there you go you won the battle. A simple formula is “stop smoking”. I know it’s better said than done but if there’ s a will there is a way.
August 12th, 2009 at 11:22 am
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Been there.
I always wondered what I was going to do with my hands if I quit smoking. Actually, that was made easier when smoking was outlawed almost everywhere.
So I treated one part of the addiction at a time. I used patches to handle the physical addiction while I handled the habit. After a couple of months, the mental habit was taken care of, and I could go off the patches.
You don’t have to use patches. There is gum and lozenges. There are some prescription drugs available, but I can’t speak for them, and the nice thing about replacing the nicotine is that you only have to deal with one problem at a time.
So you psyche yourself out and convince yourself that there is enough nicotine in your system (and there is), and that all you have to do is distract yourself some other way. You don’t need that emotional lift from the morning cigarette, because you (tell yourself over and over) have the emotional lift from the other nicotine source. Chew on something if you are not using lozenges or gum. If you are using those, you already have something for oral gratification. The old fashioned oral gratification is a button to suck on. Dream up your own. I used to gnaw on a cinnamon stick. If that doesn’t distract you enough, the cigarette would taste pretty awful with a mouth full of cinnamon, so that is another reason not to smoke. Try not to fill your needs with food, though. Go for a walk after eating, or find some other distraction.
Don’t lower your dose of nicotine until you can handle the mental/emotional part. Then you will be surprised how easy it is to get off the nicotine replacement. You just do it gradually.
Good luck. It is worth it.
August 13th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
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try CHAMPIX from your doctor, we (husband + self) are on day 12 + have not had a ciggie for 3 days (i was a 40 a day person) can’t believe how easy it is…whey hey, i’m excited this is the best way i’ve ever tried & i’m sure we’ll make it this time