Breath-of-Power

I guess i decide to continue smoking. Option 2.

Failed smoked one now. Telling myself i will not smoke more today. Totalled 7 hours without smoking. I am not disappointed. I am disapointed.

So far, so good. No overwhelming urges, What would get me would be reward myself for not smoking with the typical reward which Was the cigarette. Im bent to make it simple that is the quitting. Am not thinking about smoking.

Im avoiding doing whatever because then i feel good about myself and then reward myseldf with cigarettes.

Thought about drawing/paint a drawing of a turkey with cold temperature. Approaching one hour free New addiction being me being here. Still dont know if im actually gonna do the artwork of thr turkey for the sake of it.

Ok 20 minutes have passed since last cigarette Cold turkey

NOPE!! @

I'm reading Machiavelli. The book name is "The Prince". Planning to read a book that is The World As I See It Albert Einstein. I finished read ing a book by Italo Calvino. Title is O Visconde cortado ao meio. (In portuguese) = (PT) I have read Allen Carrs's book easy way, in my native pt language

Nope.

Hello Stopping smoking doesnt change anything Was there anything to change? Yes. Stopping smoking. What this means is If i think of allen carr's reputed feeling of being happy and stopping smoking for sure without any symptons of abstinence, i think I know how that feeling is in the case of applicati9n to me. Nothing really is different, its just the same. Hm i dont know how to say it. Just a vague feeling that im indiferent to life and i prefer not to smoke. I feel i stopped smoking. The mind tries to come up with reasons why i stopped smoking today, I notice that. May be true, may not, maybe i dont care. Odd but not odd at all. Something sunk in. It makes sense without making sense as I understand or try to understand. It maoes sense to help my reality as. A . MAN. I admire allen carr because i guess first i like ti admire people from affar, lol hm, but i guess his choice is what i admire. He stopped smoking and helped a lot of people stop. That is gut ful. I never wanted to help others stop smoking, just wanted myself to stop. So I asked for help and i found help. It has been near or far from me all these years. Im not supposed to feel any diferent now that i dont smoke!!! One thing that helped i guess can be the dismantle of the ideia of 'enlightnement'. You know those gurus from the east feel it because they never knew about smoking ? So they had to indulge in 'enlightenment' while we smoked cigarettes as an indulgence.

Congratts @DenaliBlues

From what Iv3 gleaned reading some stuff, i think that in order to quit smoking I have to pick a strategy, and as much as Id like to be rational or intelectual, as I understand those qualities, I cant use those as a manner to quit smoking. It seems I have to feel my way out of it. Whatever it is. Id like to say one thing. People fear themselves and dont want to have willpower. What makes me say this? Observations and personal experience. One time i gathered willpower and I remember vividly that when I went to smoke, my body jerked and convulated(?), my willpower felt the tobacco and refused to smoke. That lasted a bit, a bit of not really want to smoke

Self reminder that Quittrain exists when I get to the realization that somehow i wont be a slave to cigarettes.

I havent read all the replies but i want to dive in and tell my experience. Twin brother who also smokes. Lots of people I know that smoke. One time i was 2 weeks quit and venting to a neighbour. This was away from home. As I venting out I see my twin brother coming from affar down the road and that was the end of that quit, to spare the details I smoked right there and then. So, what gives!! There is a lot of psicological thing with me and the fact that I have and share time smoking with my twin.

I read in Allen's Carr book, the easy way method, that if the instructions are followed, one feels happy during the withthrawal phase. So how come is people here going thru 'hard times' when quitting? I've read in this forum quiting is hard, but doable. Do you see my point? Also read in the same book thats as to follow the instructions to escape the trap of tabagism. One step that i feel strange about, and insecure, is that one should 1st get rid of all doubts and fears. I am in that step. I think all the doubts and fears is what people here call 'the rationalizations' . Yes So to say that i'm planning to post my 'rationalizations' to be aware of them and shed off the brainwash that is the thing one should get aware of to kick the habit. I am starting to actively think about smoking, the issue. For example I realize that I smoke and one of the rationalizations that was seen was thst I think 'I got it all figured out'. Like I believe myself to be possessor of knowledge that has a by product of making feel myself important person. And so strange makings make me fall into self celebratory mode and when I smoke i sometimes think before lightning up : "I deserve ..."