So an update on the morning of day 3. I have been having small craves but nothing that is really worrying me. I have had a thought of 'buy some, you can stop again next week' but that was immediately pushed out of the mind - I'm not falling for that trick. I really want to be free and just keep reminding myself that any thoughts of smoking have been caused by the previous cigs.
At the moment in finding it relatively easy, with a few bumps in the road. I have my spray (which I still haven't used) and I know that I can rely on all you fabulous people for help, support, understanding, or a good old fashioned rant if I ever need it.
Again, I'm not going to get cocky because failure tends to follow. I am still going forward one day at a time which is all I can ask of myself.
Happy non smoking!!!
There is absolutely no room for cockiness or complacency here and even those things are tricks played on you by the nicotine monster; he has many ways of trying to lure you back. I found it helped if I laid the blame for every bad thing on the monster and his tricks. One day, after a particularly frustrating 'phone conversation with British Gas, I told myself that he was even working for them now, deliberately trying to aggravate me and make me smoke! He also manifested himself as my boss and changed my working hours, making them a bit awkward. Anything that was bad was blamed on the monster and so rather than treating those times as craves, I treated them as a battle of wills and no way was I going to lose that to the scraggy little git.
