Quit Tips #5
Quit Tips #5
Change your thoughts about cigarettes. This will be the biggest help of all. My wife made the repetitious suggestion that I would no longer want to smoke. This idea, repeated while I was falling asleep, I believe, penetrated the ruling part of my mind and accomplished what I previously thought was impossible.
I stopped by making a pact with my eleven-year-old son. "I'll quit smoking if you'll quit nibbling at your fingernails." We shook hands on it. I believe my strongest incentive was not to let the boy down.
Fill those cigarette gaps with other things. Find something that requires concentration--like fine needlepoint, memorizing a poem, etc. It's amazing how fast your mind can be turned from your need to smoke.
Every time I lit up I immmediatel created in my mind's eye a picture of all the cigarettes I had ever smoked--reaching to California. I I said to myself, "Here I am, puffing at this end and I've got to smoke the whole thing down." This thought became so repulsive that I became so disgusted with myself that I finally stopped.
Talk to yourself! When the urge comes say--"take it easy now, calm down old boy." This worked like a charm, that is until they dragged me off to Bellevue.
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