Hello, I just passed my 8 days of being smoke free. I feel so figity and nervous.
It seems that the hardest part; is breaking the 'habit.' I have cravings, yes - but I battle more w/ "what I should be doing, now that I'm not smoking."
My work hasn't been very nice lately - I used to regularly take 2-15 minute breaks to smoke, now they assume I don't need a break. I tell (and not ask) that I'm going on break; I try to walk around the hotel, avoiding the break-room, or go visit a friend in the sales office, just anything to break the habit of sitting down for a smoke & reading the paper.
When I quit once before (I lasted 10 months) I would tell myself "well if you still want a cigarette in a hour, you can have one," which actually worked becuz in an hour - I would have forgotten about it. But now - I'm living hour-by-hour, I just have to stick w/ the NONE approach; not one, not ever.
It's SUCH a demon, isn't it? :mad:
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 5/14/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 8
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 126
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $22
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 19 [B]Mins:[/B] 6 [B]Seconds:[/B] 40
