Comments on: CREATING POWERFUL POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS http://selftalk4success.com/blog Self Help Positive Affirmations To Create Positive Self Talk Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:00:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joel J http://selftalk4success.com/blog/comment-page-1/#comment-859 Joel J Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:00:43 +0000 http://selftalk4success.com/blog/?page_id=350#comment-859 CONGRATULATIONS!, that is an awesome accomplishment. Thanks for sharing your story--I'm sure it will be a great encouragement to others that have tried in the past to quit smoking but gave up the battle. Your story should be especially encouraging since you didn't experience the usual "withdrawal cravings". Thanks again for sharing your story and best wishes with your other lifestyle changes. Joel J. CONGRATULATIONS!, that is an awesome accomplishment. Thanks for sharing your story–I’m sure it will be a great encouragement to others that have tried in the past to quit smoking but gave up the battle. Your story should be especially encouraging since you didn’t experience the usual “withdrawal cravings”. Thanks again for sharing your story and best wishes with your other lifestyle changes. Joel J.

]]> By: Milliann http://selftalk4success.com/blog/comment-page-1/#comment-856 Milliann Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:11:21 +0000 http://selftalk4success.com/blog/?page_id=350#comment-856 I would like to share my experience with positive affirmations. After reading a couple of your earlier posts & a chat we had I decided to try to quit a 30 year smoking habit. I had quit at other times, once cold turkey on the Red Cross smoke out day, which lasted three months, I had crying jags, made my mouth raw sucking lifesavers & never got over the "want". I tried again several years later, while working for a Pulmonologist, who perscribed the patches. Indeed there was no physical craving, but I was a moron...my brain just was not functioning...to the point the doctor sent the nurse to buy me a pack of cigs & told me not to return until I had smoked them all. I am 53 looking at roughly 30 more years on this planet & I want it to be as good as it can be. You had sent me some sample affirmations & I came up with this one. "I AM A NON-SMOKER! I HATE THE SMELL OF CIGARETTES! I HATE THE TASTE OF CIGARETTES! IF I FEEL STRESS I WILL TAKE 3 DEEP BREATHS. I continued to smoke, but recited this to myself many, many times a day and fell asleep listening to or reciting this mantra. Just about two weeks into it I was in a high stress situation and before I could reach for a cigarette I felt my body automatically taking three deep breaths. I was very excited!! I set a date continued my mantras and quit October 24th, 2009. This time quiting was nothing short of amazing. I felt NO withdrawel, no munchies, no crying jags, no restlessness...nothing. Don't get me wrong I was not living in a cave on a desert island...extremely stressful situations challenged my new found freedom almost immediately, but I would laugh at the thought of smoking because I AM A NON-SMOKER & non-smokers do not smoke to handle stress..so I would repeat my mantra take my deep breaths & move on through the problem. Those times though were mental challenges, that you have to make the choice to follow through with the plan, not having the physical craving made that much easier. I just celebrated a year and I am still AMAZED at how easy it was! I have started a new mantra to change some other lifestyle habits I am not happy with & I will keep you posted. Thanks for the great articles! I would like to share my experience with positive affirmations. After reading a couple of your earlier posts & a chat we had I decided to try to quit a 30 year smoking habit. I had quit at other times, once cold turkey on the Red Cross smoke out day, which lasted three months, I had crying jags, made my mouth raw sucking lifesavers & never got over the “want”. I tried again several years later, while working for a Pulmonologist, who perscribed the patches. Indeed there was no physical craving, but I was a moron…my brain just was not functioning…to the point the doctor sent the nurse to buy me a pack of cigs & told me not to return until I had smoked them all. I am 53 looking at roughly 30 more years on this planet & I want it to be as good as it can be. You had sent me some sample affirmations & I came up with this one. “I AM A NON-SMOKER! I HATE THE SMELL OF CIGARETTES! I HATE THE TASTE OF CIGARETTES! IF I FEEL STRESS I WILL TAKE 3 DEEP BREATHS. I continued to smoke, but recited this to myself many, many times a day and fell asleep listening to or reciting this mantra. Just about two weeks into it I was in a high stress situation and before I could reach for a cigarette I felt my body automatically taking three deep breaths. I was very excited!! I set a date continued my mantras and quit October 24th, 2009. This time quiting was nothing short of amazing. I felt NO withdrawel, no munchies, no crying jags, no restlessness…nothing. Don’t get me wrong I was not living in a cave on a desert island…extremely stressful situations challenged my new found freedom almost immediately, but I would laugh at the thought of smoking because I AM A NON-SMOKER & non-smokers do not smoke to handle stress..so I would repeat my mantra take my deep breaths & move on through the problem. Those times though were mental challenges, that you have to make the choice to follow through with the plan, not having the physical craving made that much easier. I just celebrated a year and I am still AMAZED at how easy it was!
I have started a new mantra to change some other lifestyle habits I am not happy with & I will keep you posted. Thanks for the great articles!

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