Post by judyb on Mar 23, 2018 12:50:42 GMT -5
By: Meditations for Surviviing without Cigarettes
DAY 3
You have conferred tremendous benefits on yourself by quitting smoking. You've added not just eight
years (on average age) to your expected life span, but eight much healthier years than you could look
forward to as a smoker. Put to good use, they will be happier years, too. You are now in a position to
get more out of life than you ever could as a smoker. That cloud of smoke stood between you and
life's full experience.
At the moment you may be coughing or clearing your throat more than ever before--so much that
your chest may hurt. Be glad! You've recovered the ability to clear out blocked airways, which were
stuck full of mucus. The clearing-out process lasts only a few days, and your old smoker's cough (the
body's attempt to protect itself from the irritants in cigarette smoke) will be history in a few weeks.
Fatigue during the day and wakefulness at night are normal withdrawal symptoms, not likely to last
more than a few weeks. Intestinal upsents can also last weeks, but most of your other symptoms will
pass in a day or two. The worst cigarette cravings should now be behind you.
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DAY 4
Your worst physical withdrawal syjptoms should hav passed by now. if the only reason you smoked
was that you'd once had the bad luck of becoming addicted to nicotine, you'd be home free.
But people are not such fools that they smoke out of addiction alone. They smoke because smoking
is rewarding. Chances are, you have a number of hurdles still to cross in your metamorphosis into a
nonsmoker. In the past, smoking has helped you to regulate your moods, ignore pain, control
excitment, ward off anxiety, and medicate depression. But as smoking provides only a distraction,
not a cure, smokers tend to have a lont of unfinished business in their psyches.
When someone stops smoking, he or she is apt to suffer most from the intensity of emotions. The
uplifiting ones can be as intimidating as the anxious ones. Both scream "CIGARETTE"!!! The trick is to
let these feelings rush by without succumbing to them. In time, you will learn to tend your emotions
far more effeictely without cigarettes than you ever did with them.
From: www.amazon.com/Meditations-Surviving-Without-Cigarettes-Wanning/dp/0380769166
DAY 3
You have conferred tremendous benefits on yourself by quitting smoking. You've added not just eight
years (on average age) to your expected life span, but eight much healthier years than you could look
forward to as a smoker. Put to good use, they will be happier years, too. You are now in a position to
get more out of life than you ever could as a smoker. That cloud of smoke stood between you and
life's full experience.
At the moment you may be coughing or clearing your throat more than ever before--so much that
your chest may hurt. Be glad! You've recovered the ability to clear out blocked airways, which were
stuck full of mucus. The clearing-out process lasts only a few days, and your old smoker's cough (the
body's attempt to protect itself from the irritants in cigarette smoke) will be history in a few weeks.
Fatigue during the day and wakefulness at night are normal withdrawal symptoms, not likely to last
more than a few weeks. Intestinal upsents can also last weeks, but most of your other symptoms will
pass in a day or two. The worst cigarette cravings should now be behind you.
-------------------------------------------
DAY 4
Your worst physical withdrawal syjptoms should hav passed by now. if the only reason you smoked
was that you'd once had the bad luck of becoming addicted to nicotine, you'd be home free.
But people are not such fools that they smoke out of addiction alone. They smoke because smoking
is rewarding. Chances are, you have a number of hurdles still to cross in your metamorphosis into a
nonsmoker. In the past, smoking has helped you to regulate your moods, ignore pain, control
excitment, ward off anxiety, and medicate depression. But as smoking provides only a distraction,
not a cure, smokers tend to have a lont of unfinished business in their psyches.
When someone stops smoking, he or she is apt to suffer most from the intensity of emotions. The
uplifiting ones can be as intimidating as the anxious ones. Both scream "CIGARETTE"!!! The trick is to
let these feelings rush by without succumbing to them. In time, you will learn to tend your emotions
far more effeictely without cigarettes than you ever did with them.
From: www.amazon.com/Meditations-Surviving-Without-Cigarettes-Wanning/dp/0380769166