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Old 01-01-2015, 08:45 AM
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Saskia
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1day, yes! I've found in the past that something short and simple can be pounded into my brain so I always remember it. When I quit smoking (was doing 3 packs a day - I don't do anything by half measures!), I had 3 words that I could easily distill into something shorter that for me distilled my reasons to quit smoking ... FFF - for family, finances and faith. When I'd crave a cigarette, I would just think "FFF" and then think about each one and why that was important to me in quitting. By the time I finished that exercise, the craving was always gone. I continued that in gradually decreasing fashion for the first year after I quit. It has now been over 30 years and I still remember that :-)
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