tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637577035521955477.post5610419887983988667..comments2024-03-15T09:27:43.093-07:00Comments on keeper of wild places: Day 4 is slowly passingjozienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10212900310477832041noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637577035521955477.post-89216287333721867182010-07-23T08:13:55.878-07:002010-07-23T08:13:55.878-07:00Thanks again, all your suggestions do help, as i d...Thanks again, all your suggestions do help, as i don't really have a plan of my own, i try everything that is presented to me.<br />I feel good today, am going with the flow again; laundry, calls to A's collage, i might have breakfast, tidying and slowly getting ready for a slow painting, nothing too shocking, just laying in the sand in the sun letting life stroke the salt of my skin.jozienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10212900310477832041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637577035521955477.post-23671575238399064422010-07-23T08:02:36.060-07:002010-07-23T08:02:36.060-07:00Distraction is a completely appropriate way of dea...Distraction is a completely appropriate way of dealing with your addiction! <br /><br />I would like to say it will get easier soon, but it will probably take quite a while before that happens. Keep finding other things to do with your hands and your mind. <br /><br />It will come!! <br /><br />I will be gone for two weeks, but I cannot wait to check your blog after that time and see that you are still smoke free! Keep working hard at making yourself healthy!Matt, Kara, Hunter and Cavanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06324456976588255233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637577035521955477.post-52498064116252877542010-07-23T07:36:47.293-07:002010-07-23T07:36:47.293-07:00There was an advert on TV when I was giving up tha...There was an advert on TV when I was giving up that used the expression 'No Gary, No!'. All these cheesy looking guys in aerobics gear would jump in front of the smoker and say this. I used to repeat it to myself. I used to tell myself 'I don't smoke', 'I'm not a smoker'. Cravings do get further apart. Cravings - gap - cravings - gap. Count them from now. It's like listening to the thunder and seeing the lightening as the strom gets further away. Count the seconds. The storm is slowly, slowly, slowly drifting further away. It will be over, believe it. All the bestSpindrifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052520038521108511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637577035521955477.post-74524050074230808832010-07-22T22:59:14.144-07:002010-07-22T22:59:14.144-07:00It does get easier Joz, hang in there. Also really...It does get easier Joz, hang in there. Also really change the way you're thinking ... not easy I know but, every time you feel that "niggle" remind yourself that these are the claws of a trap trying to hold you back. You are well on your way to escaping completely! After about 6 days the nicotine is out of your system completely. Then it really is completely a mental game. The less you let it dominate your thoughts the easier it will become.<br /><br />Funny how great it is to swim in the sea, I love the waves, and sometimes still go surfing and more recetnly body boarding. But the salt drying on our skin, yes I do not like that itch either.<br /><br />Everything has it's cost I guess.<br /><br />xx JosJoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04681996675508746353noreply@blogger.com