Checking in daily to maintain focus #74

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Cravings & how to beat them, Isolation vs. Connection, H.A.L.T

You all know what the acronym H.A.L.T. stands for? Let me tell you. H.A.L.T. represents four causes for craving, as I learned on Quitnet, the now obsolete forum that helped me quit smoking nearly 8 years ago. Here they are: Hungry Angry Lonely Tired Of course there are many more reasons to crave our DOC, or our addictive behaviour of choice, but these are four main big ones. Please think about it what your other reasons to crave are or can be. Knowing and recognising the reason is the battl…

H.ungry A.ngry L.onely T.ired

For those who don’t know halt is an acronymn for Hungry Angry Lonely Tired. The idea is to use this acronym as a tool to recognize what is troubling you and likely causing you to relapse or putting yourself at risk of one. If you have one or many of these symptoms left untreated for too long you likely won’t be feeling very happy or healthy. For myself this was a tool I used heavily earlier in my recovery and worked quite hard at ridding myself of the anger part. Lately as I close in on 700 day…