Sarava
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Thanks. And yeah, I've quit before, and cold turkey was the way to go. It's just a rough 3 or 4 days while the nicotine is flushed from your system. Once that's done, the physical cravings go away, and it all becomes reprogramming the mental triggers, like cigarettes after meals, with a drink, when you get in the car, etc. I've never had any luck with the whole minimizing myself slowly type of thing. Like... if I have cigs, I smoke them. I can't just go from twenty a day to five a day, or three a day. Just not how it works for me.
And then it'll just be a matter of never touching one again. I had quit for a year and a half before, then went through a divorce. The cigs didn't take long to come back during that whole ordeal.
The f***ing things should be banned.
Very good man, keep it going!
I quit smoking in December of 2011. Chantix did the trick for me. I've heard the physical addiction to nicotine lasts about 2 weeks. So once you hit that point, it's purely a mental battle from there onward. But the mental part is hard with smoking. There's so many triggers that smokers often have to light up, and you gotta break them at every point. For me they were largely after eating, stepping outside, especially getting in my car, and most of all, stress. If something stresses me out, be it at work or elsewhere, I always ran to light up a smoke. My former boss used to yell at me to go have a smoke when I get crabby.