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Proactive Action for Session Seven
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1. Now that you've kicked the cigarettes out of your life, use your success as a milestone. Use it to demonstrate to the entire world that you can do it! Remember, though, that the entire world exists only within you. It is therefore you that needs to be notified of the marvelous change you have made in your life. And it is you that has to be constantly discerning and not allow addiction to voice its seductive propositions and false temptations in the form of an 'I'.
2. When the suggestion comes, become alert. When the thought of a cigarette invades your head, be alarmed. If you are going through a tough time, if you feel intolerable craving, you'll give the world for a smoke … but stop and relax for a second. Remember that this torture will not last for long. In a matter of eleven to fourteen days the brain will adjust itself to life without nicotine and you will be fine. You are not far off now, so be strong.
3. Nicotine addiction is a disease in itself, a disease that further inflicts many other diseases. The last thing you want in the world is to smoke again. If the thought comes into your head, it's the insidious work of addiction - it is not you. Don't listen to addiction - be strong and addiction will decay and die.
4. The next Session is also the last. It will be thirty-six days since the program began, including sixteen days of total abstinence. By the time you reach the next Session you will have already surpassed the last of the withdrawal symptoms. addiction is pretty much defeated, but like a dry seed in the ground it will wait a hundred years for a fire to burn the bush so it can re-emerge.
5. Don't taunt addiction any more, don't abuse its corpse, let it be, but make your mind strong. Stress is the pit where most relapses occur, so make sure it won't happen to you by practicing in advance.
6. Remember that one is never enough. One cigarette might cost you a full-scale uncontrollable relapse. So close that door, lock it and never open it, not even the slightest crack. You are a non-smoker. | |
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