Post by judyb on Mar 23, 2018 12:49:48 GMT -5
DAY 2
Don't feel sorry for yourself. People moan about the pain of quitting, but what about the pleasure?
Things are looking up already. You've cleared out those vile ashtrays. You smell better. You don't
have to look for your cigarettes.
You probably don't feel your best today. You crave a cigarette, naturally. You expected that. But you
may also be bowed down by headaches, nausea, sweatiness, aches, and digestive upsets. Not to
mention irritability, restlessness, anxiety, and difficulty concentrating. These are normal nicotine
withdrawal symptoms, and they pass quickly. You can ignore them, or if you prefer, declare yourself
sick and go to bed. It's best to stay away from smokers; this is a perfect time to haunt museums,
movie theaters, parks, and mountain trails. one woman spent the first two no-smoking days on her
bicycle miserable and depressed. On the third day she felt wonderful. Withdrawal is a nasty
business. Wouldn't care to repeat it, would you? Even if you're on a nicotine patch, you're unlikely to
be feeling wholly yourself. Observe your feelings, as if they were a passing parade. They will retreat,
and so will the urge for a cigarette, unless you smoke. Tomorrow will be different.
Excerpts from How to Stop Smoking
First Day: You will have a great feeling of excitement, a kind of adventurous feeling. You will constantly be tempted to smoke, but the knowledge that you are doing something revolutionary for yourself will carry you through. You will feel a bit overemotional an perhaps—today or tomorrow—will begin boring your friends with talk about what it means to go four or six or eight waking hours without smoking.
That’s fine. Keep telling them, whether they like it or not. You’re engaged in a major project, and you have the right to take a few liberties.
Your lunch today will taste as it hasn’t for a long time, and so will your dinner.
Second Day: In some respects, this day will be a little easier. You will have the experience of one day’s trials and temptations behind you, and the knowledge that you licked them. At the same time you may become aware that you laugh more easily and at less funny things, you get mad or irritated more easily. The normal emotions, which your smoking kept under warps, are now beginning to emerge. Don’t let that bother you. Before, you occasionally became irritated or otherwise emotional, too, and for less healthy reasons. This will presently pass, not to return. In the meantime, you may feel a little uncomfortable about your short temper. Just bear your temporary failing in mind, check it as much as you can, and don’t worry about it.
Occasionally your hand will stay unconsciously to cigarette box or pocket for a cigarette. When you realize that you can’t have it you will feel a pang. Sweep this out of your mind as fast as you can by thinking of something else.
Remember that by tonight you will have gone two days without smoking, longer than you have gone tobacco-less in – how many years?
And with two days won you are well on your way. From: www.amazon.com/Meditations-Surviving-Without-Cigarettes-Wanning/dp/0380769166
Don't feel sorry for yourself. People moan about the pain of quitting, but what about the pleasure?
Things are looking up already. You've cleared out those vile ashtrays. You smell better. You don't
have to look for your cigarettes.
You probably don't feel your best today. You crave a cigarette, naturally. You expected that. But you
may also be bowed down by headaches, nausea, sweatiness, aches, and digestive upsets. Not to
mention irritability, restlessness, anxiety, and difficulty concentrating. These are normal nicotine
withdrawal symptoms, and they pass quickly. You can ignore them, or if you prefer, declare yourself
sick and go to bed. It's best to stay away from smokers; this is a perfect time to haunt museums,
movie theaters, parks, and mountain trails. one woman spent the first two no-smoking days on her
bicycle miserable and depressed. On the third day she felt wonderful. Withdrawal is a nasty
business. Wouldn't care to repeat it, would you? Even if you're on a nicotine patch, you're unlikely to
be feeling wholly yourself. Observe your feelings, as if they were a passing parade. They will retreat,
and so will the urge for a cigarette, unless you smoke. Tomorrow will be different.
Excerpts from How to Stop Smoking
First Day: You will have a great feeling of excitement, a kind of adventurous feeling. You will constantly be tempted to smoke, but the knowledge that you are doing something revolutionary for yourself will carry you through. You will feel a bit overemotional an perhaps—today or tomorrow—will begin boring your friends with talk about what it means to go four or six or eight waking hours without smoking.
That’s fine. Keep telling them, whether they like it or not. You’re engaged in a major project, and you have the right to take a few liberties.
Your lunch today will taste as it hasn’t for a long time, and so will your dinner.
Second Day: In some respects, this day will be a little easier. You will have the experience of one day’s trials and temptations behind you, and the knowledge that you licked them. At the same time you may become aware that you laugh more easily and at less funny things, you get mad or irritated more easily. The normal emotions, which your smoking kept under warps, are now beginning to emerge. Don’t let that bother you. Before, you occasionally became irritated or otherwise emotional, too, and for less healthy reasons. This will presently pass, not to return. In the meantime, you may feel a little uncomfortable about your short temper. Just bear your temporary failing in mind, check it as much as you can, and don’t worry about it.
Occasionally your hand will stay unconsciously to cigarette box or pocket for a cigarette. When you realize that you can’t have it you will feel a pang. Sweep this out of your mind as fast as you can by thinking of something else.
Remember that by tonight you will have gone two days without smoking, longer than you have gone tobacco-less in – how many years?
And with two days won you are well on your way. From: www.amazon.com/Meditations-Surviving-Without-Cigarettes-Wanning/dp/0380769166