DAY 19 ~ Typically, I’m ahead of the apps weaning schedule, ending the day with a couple of the allotted cigarettes unsmoked. Of course I should be happy about that right?
A few days ago, having perused the weaning schedule, it suddenly sunk in that an end of my smoking is actually going to occur, and that I have a real “quit date” of July 10th. This had an effect on me I wasn’t expecting. I’m suddenly feeling skeptical that I can do this. As a developer of the app though, I’m allowing myself to feel it fully, so that I can figure out exactly what to do about it.
My opinion so far is that we should put full awareness of the looming quit date at the beginning… to hit the user hard with the subject immediately “day one” so as to avoid anxiety of this sort to suddenly occur at some random point in the weaning. This seems to me to be the obvious answer, but I do feel I need to ride it out, observing as best I can, as it is happening now, and consider if there might be any value in placing exposure to the quit date at some strategic point other than the very beginning. I must say right now – I don’t think so!
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Try not to generate anxiety about the end date, because you are going to be so much further in the weaning by then. It’s like a freshman worrying about graduation. Focus on today. Think about picking a meaningful date, maybe there is one close to that?