Concentrate on the Craving
The most cases that you feel you HAVE to smoke are short lived. They build up and reach their climax within a few minutes, just to fade again within ten to thirty minutes thereafter.
As soon as the urge starts mounting, it’s imperative to remember that you must concentrate on your craving like you are experiencing it in THAT moment, and not on how bad it will become in the near future. In reality people are better able to control their present urges and tend to exaggerate how bad it will become in the future.
And by exaggerating the urge, you worsen your level of stress to the point where you feel like you’re out of control. Thus, tune yourself in to how you feel in the moment and try to handle and control your craving to smoke as quickly as possible. In following posts I will discuss strategies that can help you with this.
