Hi Nines
There is no easy way to quit. Took me many attempts, I tried all the gimmick methods: patches, gums, tablets, etc. Nothing seemed to work.
In my desire to find a sure fire method to quit, I studied my habit and the habit of friends. And I eventually found the secret to quitting, and I quit. It wasn't easy, and it wasn't fast. Took me two years to achieve it, but I did achieve it.
This method requires self commitment, and the willpower to abstain as long as you did yesterday. Then you can smoke as much as you want for the rest of the day. And it only has 2 rules.
- The first cig you have after you wake-up, must be at the same time or later in the day as your first one yesterday.
- Your day starts from the time you normally wake up, not midnight (as this is often part of the night before)
Applying the rules.
- Say I wakeup most days at 7am.
- We start our program on Monday
- This means my first cig cannot be before 7:00am on Monday.
- But I shower and dress before I go out to have a smoke, the time is 7:51am
- Now I cannot have my first smoke on Tuesday until 7:51am.
- At 7:45am Tuesday I am ready to smoke, but I have to wait until 7:51am
- I can wait 6 minutes to have a smoke
- But I waited 8 minutes, it's now 7:53am
- So on the next day, the first smoke cannot be before 7:53am; which I do
- Then again at 7:53, and again and again
- And then I overslept. I didn't wake until 9am, then spent 26 minutes rushing to get ready. First smoke is at 9:26
- Next day, I cannot have a smoke until 9:26am
- and so on.
Eventually you are going to run out of daytime ... and my first smoke of the day was nearing dinner time. At that point, I was quite happy to go through the whole day without smoking, and just stopped. Sure the cravings persisted for awhile, but they too soon passed away into memories forgotten.
Good luck.
SB
