Just Had A Run In With A Lecky Scooter...
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First, you should be congratulating yourself that you haven't smoked since Friday - that is an achievement. If you have made up your mind that you want to stop you've obviously done well to get this far. (There is no more nicotine in your body after 48 hours).
However, you are now back at work and in an environment in which you are used to smoking - it is inevitible that you will make the association with your first fag break. Just keep up with the chewing gum, keep yourself busy and just think of the money you're saving - if you used to smoke 20 a day, then you will have saved over �1,500 by this time next year! You'll also smell a lot nicer!
Perhaps you could treat yourself to some fresh fruit to nibble or fruit juice/Fruit smoothies to drink.
Be inspired by some other peoples' stories at the following link (there are also some othe helpful suggestions):
http://www.nosmokingday.org.uk/smokers/testimonials.htm
Good luck!!
Well done!!! I quit 5 years ago after smoking since I was 15 (was 30 when I stopped) and looking back I realised a lot of it was just habit - that memory will dimish over time. The one thing that did help was a smaill piece of paper in my purse that I had written all these little mantras. One was
YOU ARE NOT GIVING ANYTHING UP. THERE IS NOTHING TO GIVE
YOU ARE A NON SMOKER
YOU WILL NOT BECOME ANY LESS OF A PERSON
Good Luck!!!
I gave up 2 and a half years ago after a chest infection.I know we all die with lack of breath but living with it - no thanks.Been t 4 funerals in past 8 mths all smoking related.I also had the good fortune of spewing up the poison every morning for a few months and wont go there again.I'm sorry to be so graphic but these are facts.
You are doing wonderfully well - please persevere -u might have a hiccup - I did one mad night but just kept going and boy am I glad.I am now a one woman crusade but cant get hubby to stop but I wont give up.
All the very best.
P.S I smoked for 30yrs since I was 13.
Congratulations Floss, you should feel really proud of yourself!I know I've mentioned this before on other threads but you should get Allen Carr's Easyway To Stop Smoking book. I swear by it! I had no intention of trying to stop smoking but read the book anyway to satisfy someone else and I havent smoked since. That was 5 months ago and I honestly didnt even have a single craving and I smoked for 14 years. I didnt use any substitutes (gum, patches etc) and didnt take myself out of my usual smoking situations (being around smokers or drinking alcohol). Give it a shot, might help!
Whatever you do, best of luck xx
Congratulations! As others have said, just keep yourself busy and don't think about it so much; eventually the desire will go away. I've just given up after 20 years and even though I bought some patches I never actually used them (I want my money back!). So far I don't miss them, and have passed my first real test by having a few cans of beer the other night without so much as looking at a fag.
Try saving away what you'd normally have spent on cigarettes, then treat yourself to something useful!
Best of luck!
Well done floss! Hope you made it though Tuesday too. It will get better, honest. It seems that you have quite a large association, as ceebee says, with smoking and work; perhaps many of your friends there are smokers still. You need to lose that association quickly - hopefully your friends will be supportive. Find something to do in your lunchbreak which will become a new habit (no, not crack cocaine or alcohol!!) but do it away from the smell of smoke.
A lot of the addiction is to the habit and "what else can I do with my hands??" but after a few days or weeks you will realise how daft that is. I wish you nothing but good luck; you won't regret a bit of this. x