Hey Nik,
Hope you're feeling better.
Keep in your mind that one cigarette will never satisfy you. Within half an hour you will need another and then another. I say need because you probably won't want the next cigarette because the first one will make you feel terrible but there will be that driving nag again to have one. ONE really does mean ALL.
I found doing this exercise helped. How many cigs did you smoke a day, times by number of days if you lived to say 70 (because if you smoked you probably wouldn't live much older than that). When you think of wanting a cigarette, picture all the others behind it. The number of packets lined up in your room and you have to smoke them. How much tar and chemicals and the sheer effort and time taken of your life to have to smoke them. For me, provided I kept my intake to roughly 15 per day - I have saved myself smoking over 186,000 cigarettes. Can you imagine???? When I think of taking that on and what that will do to my body it gets easier to fight the urge and to really truly not want to smoke "a" cigarette!
Stick with it Nik, you're doing great and your body is really healing now.
Chicken Licken
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 5/2/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 51
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 672
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $561
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 8 [B]Mins:[/B] 20 [B]Seconds:[/B] 0
