Quitting Smoking Again – Week 6: Getting Cocky
Posted on December 7, 2007
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The interesting thing now is that I really don’t think about “not smoking” all that much. In fact somewhere around a month in I noticed that smoking isn’t all consuming anymore. I don’t mean quitting has been agonizing or hard, in fact quite the contrary.
One of the things I did was change focus from that of previous attempts. It’s hard to just “quit” anything because quitting leaves a void. It’s easier to “do” something. So instead of “quitting smoking” I reverse the thinking into positive things, like “I’m going to get healthier”, or “saving money”, or even better, “I’m going to breathe deeply again”.
By the way, this was one of the areas covered in the book I mentioned before - The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
It’s one of the best stop smoking resources I’ve seen because it teaches that quitting successfully starts and finishes in the mind. The physical part of smoking, including the addiction to nicotine is not where the real difficulty lies in quitting.
I titled this post “getting cocky” because I’m sort of at that point where I’m confident I won’t start smoking again. But as I said before, I’ve quit many times, and one thing that happens is all of a sudden you realize, hey, I did it! At that point is the very real danger of over-confidence.
You either make the mistake of thinking one smoke won’t hurt, or you think that having quit this time, it will be easy enough to do again. Having done both these, I can attest, it’s dangerous thinking. Cigarette smoking is basically drug addiction, and it will absolutely hook you again.
So although I’m feeling cocky, I also know the experience of playing with fire and getting burned every time. Having “been there, done that, got the t-shirt”, I’ll pass.
I’m also feeling a lot better, energy is coming back, and because I’ve got a lot of damage to undo, I’m staying focused. I actually felt a whole lot better after the first couple days being quit, and improvements seem to come in spurts.
Shortness of breath is the big thing. It’s not as pronounced, and I can overcome it even during exercise, but from talking with other long-time ex-smokers, I suspect it could take as much as a year to get to where I no longer ever notice any difficultly breathing.
Next quit smoking post: Week 10
Previous quit smoking post: Day 20
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