Doodles,
You may want to slap me for saying this, but here goes anyway.
What great opportunities to break those associations with smoking. Most of them have to do with stress, so what else can you do to reduce the stress? Get some exercise? Take a walk? Watch a funny movie or TV show? Read a joke book? Meditate? Pray? Do some yoga? Ride a bike? Get a massage? Trade massages? Point being, if you begin to associate stress with doing something else, one of these days every time you are feeling stressed about something you will think, "Oh! Time to take a walk/trade massages/meditate" or whatever works for you. Instead of, "Oh, I'm stressed, I wish I could smoke."
In that thread about smoking associations, This is Why You Think About Smoking, I think I estimated I had at least 10,000 after meal smokes, so it is no big surprise that I would associate finishing a meal with smoking. Funny, though, once I figured that out, it hasn't been much of a trigger any more. I think because it seemed so bizarre.
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]3/22/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 221
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 8,840
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,502.80
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 30 [B]Hrs:[/B] 20 [B]Mins:[/B] 45 [B]Seconds:[/B] 24
