Love Not Smoking by Karen Pine

Author:Karen Pine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Substance Abuse & Addictions - Tobacco
Publisher: Hay House, Inc.
Published: 2011-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

Today you’re simply going to put ten minutes between wanting a cigarette and having one.

You’ll disrupt the automatic habit of lighting up, and again tell your brain to wait. It can be done. YOU are the one who’s in control now, not the nicotine master.

One technique you might like to try is: when you are about to smoke, stop and note the time on the clock. Then delay lighting up for as long as possible. Ten minutes should be the absolute minimum. Try setting the alarm on your phone or using an egg timer. It’s not long to wait at all (especially now you know the craving only lasts a couple of minutes) and if you go and busy yourself doing something else, you’ll hardly notice it passing. Whenever the urge creeps up on you, say to yourself, ‘Just hang on a few minutes,’ as you would to a persistent child. After ten minutes you may find the urge has passed and you don’t light up at all. As you go through the day you may be able to delay for a little longer, 11 minutes then 12, as you realize the craving does subside and other things can intercede and fill the vacuum.

Sheila, 39: the first time I did this I grabbed an apple instead of a cigarette and made it last the full ten minutes. It was a really strange experience, eating it so slowly and dragging it out, chewing for ages. But I found I enjoyed every bite and it really calmed me down, too! Afterwards I felt much more relaxed; I couldn’t remember the reason I’d reached for my cigarettes (someone had wound me up, I think) and then felt quite proud of myself so didn’t even have that cigarette afterwards. I got through a load of apples when I was trying to give up, but kept telling myself it was better than smoking!

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