Polygamy Porter wrote:Nephi wrote:heh... Guess its a lil different here in good ole Kentucky (the lowest tax on tobacco in the US, now). We all are familiar with the program, even if you are not a missionary. I went through this program when I joined the church, and it worked for me. If you have any questions, I am all ears.
Yeah but you still watch porn, cuss, and drink beer. ;)
Seriously, all you did was pray to sweet Jesus and your craving went away?
No, we don't watch porn, yes I do drink beer, and yes I f***ing cuss, damnit.
However, back to the lecture at hand, no I didn't just have to pray to Jesus and my craving went away. The craving was still there. The program worked on attacking the conditioned response to stimuli by eliminating or changing the stimuli. For instance, I desired cigs after eating, while driving, and before going to sleep. So, we changed these stimuli so that my response could be different. Think of Pavlov's dogs; its the same idea, and it WORKED. Praying, yeah, it helped, all the support I was getting helped A LOT, but most of all was to just break it down to the stimulus-response idea. Working at it from that helped me to get over the week long battle, and after that, it was just simple willpower.