How bad are the cravings after the first couple of weeks? Do they get easier? Or do you still get the mind fu:cking urge to light up?
I made a plan, and worked a plan.
Smoke your last one right before you go to bed. when you wake up, you already have 8 hrs of no smoking under your belt. I think what worked for me was being totally devoid of cigarettes, having no smoke around me and eliminating the smell triggers around me. You have to get away from it totally. wash all clothes, clean carpets, paint the walls. etc..
Oh yea, i pretty much gave up on drinking too, knowing that when drinking, ill want to smoke twice as much. Now, i can drink all i want and not having a heater, aint no biggie.
Now, I can smell smoker a block away, and cigarette smoke really smells terrible, to the point of getting me angry when i smell it. I honestly dont know how i went thru life smelling like that for all those years.
I can honestly say the cravings were not bad the first month. the less i thought about it the less i wanted one. but month 2-3 were the worst for me.
There is one downside about quitting smoking. the weight gain. I've got more Chins, than a Chinese phone book now. I have put on about 70 lbs. and lost 30 of it. Food smells soooo good now hahaha!
The doctor said im healthier with the weight gain than i was smoking, and i will eventually lose most of it.
Good luck to anyone who is trying to quit. its easy for some, and hard for others. this is just what worked for me.
