Participants: Raginée Edwards
Series Code: KTH
Program Code: KTH000002
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00:23 Hello. My name is Raginee Edwards.
00:25 Welcome to Kicking the Habit. 00:27 Today, we are going to explore the triggers 00:30 that surround smoking. 00:31 We'll hear from some former smokers 00:33 and follow their journey. 00:35 You may wonder why it's important 00:37 to know your triggers. 00:39 But triggers are something that kind of put you into autopilot 00:44 and you kind of go along the most commonly walked path. 00:48 Let me explain it like this. 00:50 Have you ever been driving 00:52 and you're just kind of day dreaming 00:55 and before you know you look up and you're at destination, 00:57 you don't even remember how you got there? 00:59 That's because your mind kind of went on autopilot. 01:02 And without even thinking about it, 01:05 you have driven that path to work, 01:07 to church or whatever so much 01:09 you just automatically going that path. 01:13 Triggers are kind of like that. 01:15 Sometimes something happens throughout the day 01:18 whether it's just waking up that morning 01:20 or just getting in the car whatever it maybe 01:24 and before you know it, you've smoked half a cigarette, 01:26 you're not even sure when you lit it 01:28 or when the person has lit it. 01:31 I think of all the stories of people 01:33 that I have worked with 01:35 and one whole week we work on discovering triggers, 01:38 being aware of triggers 01:40 before they even attempt to quit. 01:42 And so what they'll do is they'll pick out one trigger 01:44 like for one instance. 01:46 A person said every time I get in the car, 01:48 I light up and I smoke. 01:50 And so in his week of just trial and error, 01:54 before he actually plan to quit, 01:56 he want to just see 01:57 how can I get through that trigger of getting in the car 02:02 and not lighting up the cigarette. 02:04 So what he did was he put all the cigarettes 02:07 and everything he needed for lighting up 02:09 in the trunk of his car. 02:11 So that he couldn't automatically 02:13 pickup the cigarette and smoke it. 02:15 He would have to stop his car, 02:16 pull over to the side, get out, go to the trunk 02:19 and actually light up and do the cigarettes, 02:22 smoke the cigarette. 02:24 So that was something 02:25 that kind of got him out of his routine. 02:27 So it's very important 02:29 that if you are thinking about quitting, 02:31 to just take sometime before you even plan to quit. 02:35 Take some time to really explore 02:37 what your triggers are. 02:39 And what we did with our participants 02:42 is that we have them put a little slip of paper 02:45 that actually fit in their cigarettes' holder. 02:48 And they would, every time they took a cigarette out, 02:51 they would put their mood, they would put why they smoked 02:55 and they will put how they felt afterwards. 02:57 Just so they can get an idea 02:59 of why they were triggered to smoke. 03:03 Now we've asked our former smokers some questions, 03:07 so that we can kind of explore what their routine was about. 03:11 And as we ask them these questions, 03:12 I want you to ask these questions to yourself 03:15 so that you can start to explore 03:16 what your triggers are. 03:18 The first question that we asked our participants, 03:21 "What was your daily smoking routine?" 03:24 Let's listen to those responses. 03:27 Well, initially when I started smoking the pipe, 03:32 it was just something to do 03:35 so as long as I have some piped tobacco I would smoke 03:38 and really it wasn't really a big habit. 03:42 When I went to cigars, 03:47 it was, you know, catch-as-catch-can, 03:50 didn't really smoke that much. 03:51 But once I picked up smoking cigarettes, 03:54 I smoked, you know, like I said, 03:58 I was over in a service when I was in Vietnam, 04:00 so I smoked a lot, 04:02 you know, just when I got up, I smoked 04:03 and smoked throughout the day. 04:07 Well, my daily smoking routine was I get up in the morning, 04:12 I'd light a cigarette. 04:14 And all through the day I am smoking, 04:18 one behind the other, I just smoked all day. 04:24 When I smoked, I smoked on a very regular basis. 04:29 I smoked in the morning when I woke up, 04:31 I smoked after every meal. 04:34 I smoke before I went to sleep. 04:36 And I found excuses to smoking between the times. 04:42 Now you've heard those responses. 04:44 The ladies deferred somewhat from our gentlemen there 04:48 but their answers were very much the same. 04:51 They basically smoke when they first woke up in the morning 04:55 and they smoked basically all throughout the day 04:57 and the right before they went to bed. 04:59 Isaac, on the other hand, 05:00 he said he kind of just smoked when it was around. 05:02 That's interesting 05:04 and we're gonna go into why that's interesting 05:06 a little bit later in this program. 05:08 But again, you want to take note of that 05:12 because now they realized that they smoke 05:14 when they first wake up in the morning. 05:16 Kathleen realized that 05:17 she smoked after every single meal. 05:20 So now that she has that as a routine 05:23 that's just her remote path to follow, 05:26 she's gonna have to start considering that 05:28 and making new paths. 05:31 So the more, again, the more that you discover this routine, 05:34 the more successful you'll be 05:36 at trying to break that routine. 05:38 Let's move on to the next question. 05:40 Again, make sure that you're asking this question 05:42 to yourself and you're answering this 05:44 and you're just getting as deep as possible 05:46 because the more you know about your routine, 05:48 the more successful that you're gonna be 05:50 in breaking that routine. 05:52 The next question that we asked our participants, 05:54 "When and why did you have extra cigarettes 05:57 outside of this routine?" 05:59 Let's see what they have to say. 06:02 Well, smoking was a social experience, 06:07 you know, we're going back 40 years ago 06:09 and smoking was more of a social experience then. 06:13 And so, if you had cigarettes, I had cigarettes, 06:18 if I had cigarettes you have cigarettes, 06:20 so it was thing that they were shared. 06:26 I had extra cigarettes outside of my normal routine 06:31 when I was involved with other people. 06:34 For instance, if I was at a party, 06:37 then it was community property, 06:40 everybody was smoking, so that was extra. 06:44 If I just happened to be 06:48 just in the company of somebody else, 06:51 and we just smoked, that was the thing to do. 06:55 We just smoked. 06:57 And when I smoked, 06:59 you know, in between all throughout the day, 07:01 it was always because somebody else was smoking 07:02 that I was talking to 07:04 or because I was stressed out or because I was happy. 07:09 There's just always a good reason to smoke a cigarette. 07:13 Okay. 07:14 So they gave some explanation 07:17 as to why they smoke cigarettes 07:20 outside of their normal routine. 07:22 And you heard what the lady said that there was basically, 07:26 any reason was a good reason to smoke an extra cigarette. 07:31 I really want to pay a close attention 07:33 to what Brenda said, 07:35 she said, parties, social settings, 07:38 if somebody else was smoking, 07:39 that was what she was going to do. 07:41 And Isaac mentioned that too 07:42 that if somebody else was gonna light up, 07:44 they're gonna light up too. 07:45 It's just kind of a social connectedness there. 07:48 I remember once working with a group 07:50 because sometimes I would do a class 07:53 that was just for one particular business 07:54 or one particular organization. 07:56 This was actually a medical clinic, 07:58 a medical facility where quite a few 08:01 of the healthcare professionals were, 08:03 believe it or not, smokers. 08:05 And a lot of the women 08:07 under the age of 30 in this particular clinic, 08:09 they were like one or two a day cigarette smokers 08:13 and they smoked a lot on the weekend at parties 08:15 and with their friends. 08:17 And talking with some of our more experienced 08:20 tobacco association specialists, 08:22 they were saying that often times, 08:23 these individuals aren't necessarily addicted 08:27 to the nicotine per se 08:28 'cause usually you'll want that 08:30 when the nicotine wears off 08:31 but just smoking one or two a day 08:33 isn't necessarily a nicotine addiction. 08:36 But they were really addicted to that camaraderie 08:40 and their friends and that social setting 08:42 that they were in, encouraged the smoking. 08:45 So if this is where they had their fun, 08:48 then that was something 08:50 that they had to consider as their trigger. 08:52 How are they gonna overcome these triggers? 08:54 'Cause these are their friends, this is-- 08:55 what they do for fun on the weekend. 08:57 Do they want to take away their fun? 08:59 These are things they had to consider 09:00 and have new ways of having fun 09:03 and trying to break that routine on the weekend. 09:06 It's definitely something 09:07 that if that is something you struggle with, 09:09 you want to consider as well. 09:11 Let's look at the next question. 09:13 What I asked them was, 09:15 "Did you mostly smoke alone or with others?" 09:18 Let's listen to them. 09:22 Equally the same, 09:24 uh, smoked just as much by myself or with other folk. 09:29 Just pretty much equal. 09:32 I smoked not only alone, 09:35 I smoked with others and more so, with others. 09:40 When I was with-- 09:41 in the company of other people, I smoked more. 09:45 I smoked regardless of who I was around, 09:48 I always would, you know, sneak off 09:50 if there's people around me who didn't smoke, 09:52 but when they were people around me 09:54 who did partake in cigarettes, 09:56 it just made it all the more easier to chain smoke 10:00 and smoke a lot of cigarettes. 10:03 Now we've heard their responses. 10:05 The question was, 10:07 do they mostly smoke alone or with others. 10:08 It seemed like they smoked alone or with others 10:13 but some smoked more with others. 10:16 Interesting. 10:17 So again, if that's something that you do, 10:20 you want to really consider, 10:23 if maybe having a different group of friends, 10:27 hang around people that are nonsmokers, 10:28 which is very difficult because you are, 10:31 you know, where you work, I've known it, 10:32 like I said whole work places where they all smoke together, 10:35 it's just something they do on their break. 10:36 I know people, health professionals 10:38 that started smoking 10:39 because their fellow nurses smoked as well. 10:43 So that can be very difficult but having a group of friends 10:46 that are nonsmokers and can be very beneficial. 10:50 And then, I just wanted to touch on this a little bit. 10:53 I remember a time where I was with the young lady 10:56 and we were at a function where you couldn't smoke. 10:59 And I've remembered sitting there with her and her just, 11:02 you know, looking kind of agitated 11:04 and I really didn't know why. 11:06 Eventually, she got up and she just walked out. 11:08 And I was concerned about her. 11:10 So I went to look for her. I couldn't find her. 11:12 And I walked all the way to the car 11:13 'cause we came together 11:14 and I remember as I was walking back to the building 11:16 where we were staying, 11:18 she was kind of on the side of the building putting out, 11:21 you know, the cigarette 11:22 and just trying to get the smoke away 11:25 and I was like, I didn't want her to be embarrassed. 11:28 So I just quickly rushed in 11:30 and didn't make, you know, big deal. 11:31 But she comes in, she smells like smoke, 11:33 she probably doesn't think anyone notices. 11:35 But I thought about that like how hard must it be 11:39 to be a kind of "undercover smoker" 11:42 so to speak 'cause I didn't even know she smoked. 11:44 And I knew her very well. 11:47 It must be difficult 11:49 because she has to now be thinking about it 11:52 when she's with people who don't smoke. 11:54 And then she has to go and sneak away 11:56 and I can think of other stories 11:58 that are very similar of people 11:59 who just kind of having to hide in. 12:01 And that's got to be very stressful 12:03 to have to deal with that. 12:05 So, you know, that's also something that's a benefit 12:09 when somebody becomes a nonsmoker who is a smoker 12:11 that's kind of a stressful situation 12:12 that you get to come out of. 12:14 Another thing that I wanted to mention 12:16 as we're looking at smoking alone or with others, 12:20 you know, a lot of times people who are smokers, 12:23 and this is something I want to make sure everyone understands, 12:26 most people who smoke, don't want to smoke. 12:29 If they could quit, if they were something 12:31 that was super easy that they could do 12:33 that could help them to stop quitting, 12:34 boom, just like that they would quit. 12:37 So again, we want to have sympathy 12:39 for those who are smoking 12:41 because we have to realize 12:42 that they mostly likely want to quit. 12:43 Now if you have friends that smoke 12:46 and you don't want to be the downer, 12:47 you don't want to be one that's to sort them 12:49 as Isaac said that he's the one smoking, 12:52 talk to your friends, let them know, 12:54 "Hey, I'd like to quit smoking. 12:56 If you want to quit with me, that's fine. 12:58 If not, would you mind not smoking around me 13:00 and not lighting up around me, not even offering it to me?" 13:04 You know, when I found 13:05 that people who have friends that smoke, 13:06 a lot of them are very encouraging. 13:09 And they are very cautious 13:11 about not smoking around their friends 13:13 who want to become nonsmoker, not offering them anything. 13:16 So you'll be surprised. 13:17 And if you quit smoking and your-- 13:19 non your smoking friends 13:21 may even be encouraged to quit smoking with you. 13:24 So just ask. 13:26 Don't assume that they'll be upset with you. 13:29 Now we asked them this next question which is, 13:33 "Did you use smoking to deal with stress?" 13:38 Now let's hear their responses and listen carefully. 13:43 Smoking was a thing that I did when I was stressed. 13:49 Smoking was a thing that I did when I felt good. 13:53 Smoking was a thing that I did no matter what I was feeling. 13:57 It was just what I did. 14:00 Smoking was like a really big comfort to me 14:03 when I was stressed 14:04 or when I was angry or when I was depressed. 14:07 It always seemed to take away that emotion 14:11 I did not want to feel or at least to leave it. 14:18 I don't know if I smoke to deal with stress per se. 14:22 I smoked because it was the thing to do. 14:30 Yeah. 14:32 Now you heard those responses. 14:35 The question was, "Did you use smoking to deal with stress?" 14:39 Now Isaac, 14:41 basically went back to it just being a social thing, 14:44 it's just something to do. 14:47 And you heard the ladies. 14:48 They basically said that they smoked no matter what. 14:52 Yes, they smoked to deal with stress. 14:54 They smoked to deal with everything. 14:56 Whatever it was, smoking relieve that situation. 14:59 And I want to take a moment here 15:01 because this is something that I've seen over and over and over 15:05 with male versus females. 15:08 When we get, 15:09 you know, males and females coming into our classes, 15:12 what you hear Brenda and Kathleen saying 15:15 is very typical. 15:18 And this was just something I thought in my mind 15:20 and what we would have our meetings as facilitator, 15:23 we would discuss, you know, it's interesting 15:25 that women tend to be a bit more relational. 15:29 And that smoking was something you did if you were upset, 15:34 if you were depressed, if you were stressed. 15:37 But if you were happy, if you were excited, 15:40 it was just something that you did 15:42 and it was like your best friend, 15:45 like it was a part of you. 15:47 Where for males, it was like they have this smoking box, 15:52 you know, smoking was just something that they did 15:53 and it was independent 15:54 of everything else in their life. 15:56 So they were compartmental with their smoking 15:59 and the cigarette, 16:00 whereas, women seemed to be more relational. 16:03 It really related to everything in their lives. 16:06 And this was an encouragement for males. 16:09 I find that once a male was ready to quit, 16:13 they could quit. 16:15 But, you know, their wives couldn't nag them 16:17 and force them, "Hey, honey, you really need to quit. 16:19 You got to quit." 16:20 I mean, if they weren't ready, 16:22 they weren't ready and they weren't gonna quit. 16:24 Whereas, for females they could be very ready, 16:27 they could be very serious but because of the relations 16:31 that they had from cigarettes and everything else, 16:34 it seemed to be a little bit more, 16:36 not as simple as how the guys could just put it in the box, 16:39 close it and throw it away and it was done. 16:41 And not to be discouraging for the females, 16:43 but what this does bring out is that again, 16:46 we have to look at these triggers. 16:48 For females, we just might have more triggers 16:51 that we need to consider. 16:53 Again, looking at your need, 16:57 the need of your family member or whoever it is that smoking, 16:59 to really look at those triggers 17:02 and make a game plan for how you're going to tackle that. 17:05 Now the next question that we asked is, 17:08 "How well did it work? 17:10 What were the benefits?" 17:11 I know that sounds like a silly question 17:12 but the reality is there are some benefits to smoking 17:15 or else a person wouldn't start 17:17 and they wouldn't continue to do it. 17:18 There must be some relief that they're getting. 17:20 So let's listen to that answer, well, the benefits of smoking. 17:25 Well, it-- as far as, yeah, smoking, you smoke it, 17:28 it worked because everybody else was smoking. 17:31 So if you didn't smoke, you pretty much were, 17:34 you know, like a sore thumb hanging out 17:37 and, you know, you did not mix, 17:41 not that there was a stress that, 17:43 you know, I wasn't really worried about fitting in. 17:46 But it was something that I did, 17:48 not because of the crowd that I was with. 17:51 It just what I was doing 17:52 and everybody else did the same thing, 17:54 birds of a feather flock together. 17:57 It's kind of crazy how you let yourself believe 18:00 something is changing something when it really isn't. 18:03 It was a disguise to, 18:08 it was a disguise. 18:11 I felt like, I felt like I was feeling better 18:16 but then after the cigarette went away, 18:18 I was still left with the same problem. 18:21 Nothing ever really changed except for the fact 18:24 that I had an addiction on top of everything else. 18:27 The benefits of smoking, as a smoker, 18:31 it's just something to do with your hands. 18:34 It's relieving that craving 18:39 that the nicotine brings. 18:43 It was making you feel better 18:46 because you are satisfying the hunger for the smoke. 18:52 Okay, so you've heard the benefits of smoking. 18:57 Now Isaac, again, he talked about the social setting 19:01 and social connectedness that he found and being a smoker. 19:06 And you heard again from the ladies. 19:08 I really want to bring out Kathleen's point. 19:10 I thought that was very interesting. 19:12 She said, she thought she was feeling better 19:15 but nothing really changed except that, 19:19 on top of all these problems, 19:21 she was also now drug-- 19:23 dealing with the struggles of being a smoker 19:26 and wanting to quit. 19:29 Brenda, she said that something to do with the hands. 19:32 I thought that was interesting. 19:34 It also relieved the craving. 19:37 I like that she brought that up 19:39 because when we facilitate quit smoking classes, 19:43 we give them a little survival pack 19:45 when it's time for them to quit. 19:47 And one thing that we put in the survival pack 19:49 is a pencil or a straw or something 19:51 because it's actually, 19:53 you know, they're used to doing something with their hands, 19:55 bring it to their mouth. 19:56 And when they have something 19:58 that they can just do with their hands, 20:00 it can actually distract them from wanting to, 20:03 to basically breaking that routine, 20:05 again, we're talking about triggers. 20:07 So again, we want to look at all of these perceived benefits 20:12 that you might be getting when you're smoking 20:16 so that you can now find healthier alternatives, 20:20 healthier ways, healthier routines of living. 20:23 Now what I want you to do is, 20:26 if you're a smoker, if you smoke, 20:29 and you have not thought about what triggers you to smoke, 20:34 I want you to, as a homework assignment, 20:38 get a piece of paper. 20:39 I want you to write down a list of everything 20:43 that triggers you to smoke. 20:45 Again, if you want to do the little card 20:47 that I was talking about earlier in the program, 20:49 where you have it a piece of paper folded up, 20:52 put into the pack of cigarettes 20:54 and every time you take out your cigarettes 20:56 and you're gonna lighten up, 20:58 I want you to write down why you're doing that cigarette. 21:00 What was the trigger, 21:02 whether it was just waking up in the morning, 21:04 whether it was right after you ate, 21:06 whether somebody made you mad? 21:08 You want to write those things down 21:10 because what we're going to do 21:12 when we talk about planning to quit in the next segment, 21:15 you're going to start making game plans 21:17 for how to change those routines, 21:19 how to either avoid those triggers 21:21 or turn those triggers around to now trigger something else 21:24 that's a more positive behavior. 21:27 It makes me think of a couple of different stories. 21:30 One of my stories is I remember one time we were, 21:33 I was out of the country actually, 21:35 and there was a young man who said that he had quit smoking 21:39 and in place of smoking he started exercising. 21:43 So every time he got the urge, he would exercise 21:46 and he became like I mean, he was just Mr. Buff you know. 21:49 And we were again, in a different country 21:53 and he wanted to get to the gym. 21:55 And there was one day where he couldn't get to the gym. 21:58 I remembered he was so agitated. 22:00 He was just like, "I need to get to the gym, 22:02 I need to get to the gym." 22:03 And it was just so interesting 22:04 how he had basically substituted 22:07 that urge to smoke with a urge to go to the gym 22:12 and it was almost having similar withdrawal effects 22:15 or anxiety like attack 22:17 because he couldn't get out to the gym. 22:19 I think also of another lady who was in our class 22:26 and she was saying that she was doing very, very well, 22:32 she had quit smoking. 22:34 And her daughter moved back into her house. 22:38 It was an adult daughter that moved back into the house. 22:41 And her daughter drove her nuts and she said to me, 22:44 "Raginee, if I didn't smoke a cigarette, 22:47 I was going to kill her." 22:49 And I just laughed I said, "Come on." 22:51 She said, "No, really." 22:52 She said, "So it's either I kill her 22:54 or I smoked that cigarette." 22:55 Now I don't think 22:56 she was really going to kill her daughter, I hope not. 22:58 But sometimes it can seem that drastic 23:02 and that was a trigger for her 23:03 and she began to smoke again because of that. 23:06 And so, you know, we want to make sure 23:09 that when situations like that happen, we have a game plan. 23:13 But we don't know to even make a game plan 23:15 if we don't recognize what our triggers are. 23:18 So that again is why it's very important 23:20 to have an understanding of what our triggers are 23:23 so we can make a game plan, 23:24 so it doesn't surprise us and we go into remote 23:28 and autopilot 23:30 and then we just automatically start smoking the cigarette. 23:32 And before we know it, half of it is done, 23:34 and we don't even know how it got into our mouth. 23:36 That is another reason why it's okay, 23:40 if you're not successful at your first attempt, 23:44 second attempt, third, fourth, fifth, even sixth or seventh. 23:47 The average amount of times of quitting is it can-- 23:50 is seven. 23:52 So if you have tried that many times, 23:55 don't feel like you have failed. 23:57 That is where you have learned a new trigger 24:00 that you might not have recognized before. 24:02 So what I want you to do is, 24:04 if you are just doing so, so well, 24:07 and then something happens and you relapse, 24:11 make a mistake and you take a cigarette, 24:13 take that moment to write down, 24:16 this is a trigger that I didn't recognize before. 24:20 Once you do that, 24:21 you are more likely to be successful the next time, 24:24 because now you have identified a trigger 24:27 that you didn't know before. 24:28 So again, triggers are very important. 24:32 You don't want to wake up one morning 24:33 and just say, today is the day I'm gonna quit, 24:35 though it has worked for people. 24:37 So don't get me wrong. 24:38 If it works for you, that's fine. 24:40 But if you have tried that before and it didn't work, 24:42 I want you to try that this time. 24:46 And another thing that I want to mention 24:49 since we're going this program 24:51 is that sometimes just thinking about not smoking or smoking, 24:58 basically our thoughts in general, can be a trigger. 25:01 Now these are deeper triggers. 25:02 We're talking about our self taught, 25:05 the triggers that are going on within our mind. 25:08 Thoughts like, "I can't imagine being a nonsmoker." 25:12 You know, thoughts like, "Oh, it's the end of the day. 25:16 I deserve a cigarette." 25:18 Thoughts like those can be triggers as well. 25:22 So that those are little bit harder to pin point sometimes 25:26 because it's not something that you're doing, 25:29 you are not doing is not necessarily 25:31 part of your day-to-day routine on the outside. 25:34 But on the inside we have a lot of these different thoughts 25:38 going into our mind. 25:39 So how do we deal with that? 25:41 One thing that I want you to do as well 25:43 as you're doing your list of triggers, 25:45 start paying more attention to your self talk. 25:49 Start paying attention to what you're thinking to yourself 25:52 before you have that cigarette. 25:54 Is it that, oh, this will be the last one? 25:58 If there's any excuses that you're making for yourself, 26:02 oh, I know so many people who, you know, grandpa, 26:05 he smoked his whole life and he lived a long life. 26:08 And I know people who never smoked 26:09 and they died of, you know, x, y, and z. 26:12 You know, think about those things 26:14 and when you, now that you, as a human being 26:17 you actually have the ability to think about 26:19 what you're thinking. 26:20 And that's something that nothing else on earth 26:23 really has the ability to do. 26:25 So I want you to start thinking about 26:27 what you're thinking so that you can combat 26:30 those negative self talk thoughts in your mind, 26:35 because those can be triggers as well. 26:37 Write those down, start making more correct statements 26:42 in response to those, that self talk. 26:45 But you know it's kind of hard to know, 26:48 Lord, what should I be thinking? 26:50 How do I know exactly what is true and what is not. 26:55 And different people tell you different things. 26:58 And what I want to leave you with you today is, 27:01 we want to really commit that to the Lord 27:04 and have the thoughts that He wants us to think. 27:06 It reminds me of a scripture. 27:11 This is found in Proverbs 16:3. 27:16 And it reads, "Commit thy works unto the Lord, 27:21 and thy thoughts shall be established." 27:29 It's such therapy and I say therapy 27:34 maybe loosely because I'm no therapist. 27:36 I'm not a psychologist. 27:38 But with our negative thoughts, with our thoughts 27:42 that we're not sure if they are accurate, 27:44 we want to compare that 27:45 to what we have here in the word of God. 27:47 And one thing that I know has worked for a lot of people is, 27:51 just actually committing scripture to memory, 27:54 committing new thoughts, positive thoughts to memory. 27:57 And that can no longer 27:59 or no longer has to be a trigger for you. 28:01 So let's consider our triggers and ways to overcome. |
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