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Originally Posted by mores
Stay on course, repeat this mantra: I will not die of smoke-related cancer.
Good luck. After a few days it's just psychological, your body is way over the addiction.
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...And it really is.
As my wife mentioned earlier in this thread I screwed up once (one month smoke free as of this writing) and it wasn't because of the craving, it was just an old habit dying hard: When I get on the horn with family or get to talking shop (of the IT variety) it was an automatic thing; I went out on the porch and lit up. At work, about ten minutes before my break my brain expects...something. Right after I eat...well, that's kinda unavoidable
Get on here or your Facebook/Twitter/whatever account and do a post a day about how you went smoke-free for that day, even if it's only one sentence; it's a lot easier to stay off the leaf if you know the whole world's watching.
In my experience, the actual not-smoking part is easy; it's everything else that's hard. The proof is right here in my office; I have a box of the nicotine gum with only 4 or 5 pieces gone (out of 100) and a US$49 box of the level-two patches, with only 2 gone. I did on my own what modern medicine couldn't do for me.