Ok, here I am, ready to quit smoking. NY has added yet another tax on cigarettes and the price has gone higher than I am willing to pay. Did some research on line to choose a method to deal with this madness and decided to use the tips on http://www.quitsmokingonline.com/.
Just had my last cigarette and am technically starting my life as a non-smoker. The upshot of the method on that website is that the good benefits that you think are coming from smoking are not because of the cigarettes but because of feelings that you've associated with smoking, that you can create just as well without the actual cigarette.
It encourages you to just be there with the feelings that arise and see them as energy, a kind of meditation-like attitude. Observe what comes up without having to react to it. This has a strange sort of familiarity with the edge exercise that we've been doing in Tai Chi class this past year. Taking in the energy without resisting, running away, or reverting to old habit-machines of how to deal with things.
It says that it takes three weeks for the nicotine addiction to run out. I'll try to update daily with how things are going.
Wish me luck!
Sunday, July 4, 2010
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