Quit Smoking and Feel Calm

Often when you begin quit smoking plans, you are really trying to find a quick and easy way, and hope that the cravings do not get to you too much.  You try to envision what it would be like not to quit, and you get up one day, and you try not to smoke.

You find the morning is very hard, and you see the fact that you are really having some cravings and need some support.  You end up calling your best friend, and having a quick chat, and then go to work.  It seems to be OK after that point, and you feel a bit more brave.  You are hopeful!

You get in your car, and end up sitting there in the drivers seat being very upset about the other drivers and the traffic.  You are really searching around the car for something, and you can not find what you are looking for, and as someone honks at you to move, you realize that you are working on looking for cigarettes.

You breathe a deep sigh, and let yourself roll forward, and you realize you are craving a cigarette, but more so, you are feeling very uncomfortable and stressed.  It is hard, and you take some time to move forward to work, all the while focusing on why you are feeling this way, besides the cigarettes.

You know you are really ready to quit.  You have made a real plan on how to handle this day.  It is a day like any other, because you felt like a new ordinary day would be a good way to try your quit day.  You have been planning this for awhile, and you were excited to quit, many days ago.  The thing is, now that it is here, and you can still taste the nicotine on your hands from last night, you are reeling how you are going to do this!

You park the car, and get out.  The very fact that you made it to work without smoking calms you enough to feel happy again.  You get inside, and find your coffee, and work through the hour until 10 am hits.  This is a break time for you, and filled with consequences if you break.

You decide to break, and head outside, subconsciously searching for your cigarette.  You realize that you are not smoking, and you feel panicked.  Then you pick up your steps, and let yourself walk around the building until you feel better.  You did it!  Wow....

The next steps are not as hard.  The morning, the car and the break, well, those were your cigarette happy times.  Or were they?  You are not feeling so bad about not smoking, even though you have smoked for years and years.  You have found a new way of thinking, and do not feel stressed or unhappy about your decision.

It was your decision.  You made it yourself.  You decided that you were sick of following other orders, specifically nicotine's order of smoke now.  Smoke now.  It is a really great feeling to be free of this.  You worried that you would feel pressured to smoke, and that you would not be calm enough to be productive at work, or with your family and friends.

A busy day at work, you keep going, and end up going home pretty late.  You have had a day of ups and downs with your cravings, but you keep your happy edge really very easily with the fact that you have decided to do this, and you want nothing more than to be a non-smoker once again.

The feeling of stress and anxiety is only your smoking mind playing tricks on you.  If you continue to remember you are gaining everything by quitting, and losing  nothing, absolutely nothing by quitting, you will do very well.  You need to ensure you have time to remember these concepts, but continue your path forward with your positive mindset.