First night is the toughest, no doubt about it. You will start thinking about it constantly, the more you think about it the more you find yourself week and in need. Oh, the NEED, even now after almost two years sometimes I still feel it. If you survived the first night your need get worth and worth until the forth night after that it starts to let go and its grip over you starts to get loose.Worried huh! I’m not going to lie to you that quitting smoking is easy because it’s not. Some experts in the field even said that quitting smoking is harder than quitting heroine! But the good news is that good doctors and scientist are here to help you.
The need for a smoke is more physical than you think the tobacco companies make sure of it by adding addictive substances to their products; Nicotine is just part of the trick, the most addictive added substance to tobacco is ammonia which also you can find in the toilet cleaner products! Most smokers believe that smoking is more like a habit than addiction, which I think that is the reason they cannot quit.
Before I quit smoking for good I had several failed quitting attempts, what I learned from my failure was that first I was screwed, second I need to somehow distract myself from thinking about smoking and third I also need some chemicals to help with the cravings.
It’s easy to categorize what you need to do on a piece of paper, but in practice you’ll find that not thinking about smoking is the hardest part. My solution was not easy I had to change almost everything.
First I abandoned all my smoker friends and hangout places where I used to smoke. Second I started to list my triggers, which was a long list. By triggers I mean the things that happen before you start to crave for a smoke. After I listed my triggers I tried to replace the smoking part with something else. You can’t do this for all of your triggers.
I will explain more in future posts. To be continued …
