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KellyJean



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PostPosted: June 3, 2005 2:51 PM    Post subject: Embrace your craves! Reply with quote

This has also helped me through my worse craving. I found it on whyquit.com. I copied a small part here....

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Reach out, TOUCH your crave. It won’t injure you! It’s ok to be afraid but be brave for just one moment! Wrap your arms around your crave. Clear your mind for just one moment so that you can feel the true anxiety of your healing. Make sure that you feel your tummy rising as you take slow deep deliberate breaths into the bottom of both lungs. Clear your mind of all chatter, worries, fears and thoughts so that you can sense and appreciate exactly what this crave is like.
Touch it, hug it, feel it, sense it! You won’t make the anxiety one bit more intense than it otherwise would have been. You’re witnessing part of the most beautiful healing that your body and life may ever experience. Yes, there is anxiety there but for the very first time it’s not being fed and fueled by you. Feel it’s strength slowing begin decaying. Take pride in your healing. It can’t hurt you, only you can do that! Enjoy your recovery don’t fear it! Embrace your craves! Enjoy your journey home! There is a very special person waiting at the other end!

During my craves, I do just that. I STOP, shut my eyes and take a deep breath. I say to myself "I'm Healing" and the crave is gone. It only takes a few seconds to do this.

I hope this will help ... Surprised
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jahunta



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PostPosted: June 3, 2005 3:51 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wonderful and tru words!! It actually helps!! Congrats on your battle with the crave. I know this will be helpful to others young in their quits!!

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kevin
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PostPosted: June 4, 2005 12:24 AM    Post subject: Reply with quote

that's very good advice; thanks for sharing it. Smile
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Barbara K.



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PostPosted: June 4, 2005 4:29 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very Happy KellyJean,

Thank you again for sharing.

Blessings,
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Pamela



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PostPosted: June 5, 2005 7:55 AM    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're so right Kelly Jean. I've found that acceptance of quitting makes it so much easier than if you fight Laughing Demon kicking and screaming all the way. You go girl!
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chrystalized



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PostPosted: July 16, 2005 10:42 AM    Post subject: Reply with quote

thats what i did!! well really close to it, i dont know if everyone started to feel there lungs when they had a craving, but thats how my cravings started out, I dont know how to word it other then i felt them, after my 2nd day of quitting i forgot what it felt like to have lungs as if they had been there, they were just numbed out by the poisin. But when ever i "felt my lungs" i would tell myself to calm down this is how my lungs are gonig to feel for the rest of my life cause im not smoking any more, so i kind of did the same thing i realized that because i had the craving and i was going threw the hell of withdrawl i was doing my body good and i could physically feel how my body was healing. I hated going threw the withdrawl but honestly breatheing and feeling my lungs on a constant basis for the first time is one of the best feelings ive ever had Wink
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PostPosted: July 16, 2005 8:25 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

good for you, chrys - this is really the key to long-term success in staying free - resistance is futile, because you will have craves, and resisting them only makes them harder to bear - acceptance is the way to get through them. keep up the good work! Smile
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