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I am really doing it!!!

Oct 04 '03

The Bottom Line Consider cold turkey -- it seems to be working for me!

Hi everybody
It has been a while since I've dropped by this site as I have been very very busy.

Last Wednesday I decided that I did not want to be a smoker any more. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to quit many times. I have used the patch and the gum, but neither really worked for me.

As of today I have been smoke free for nine days and I feel confident that this time I am truly free...

What's different?

Well, for one thing, the way I came to the decision is a positive one -- I will become a non-smoker, I will be free of cigarettes etc.

Another is that I am going "cold turkey."

Finally, I tried acupuncture on Tuesday and it really seems to work!

Here are some of the things I did during the first few days (I was nearly through the first week when I went for the acupuncture treatment)

1. I wrote cue cards with a reason to stop smoking (benefit), some ways to augment the benefit, and a reward to treat myself with at the end of thirty days. For example:

Benefit:

My apartment will not stink of tobacco smoke

Augmentation:

Wash floors, clothes, rugs, sweaters (I listed everything and used the cleaning to occupy my hands)

Spray with Febreeze

Open windows

Reward:

A new throw rug


If I can do it, so can you (I was a smoker for 30 years)

Dee

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