Some of the other things to trick your body. Give up coffee for at least a year. Drink hot tea with just a little sugar. Favorite flavors are Constant Comment and Earl Grey. I mean it. Coffee will start to taste nasty for awhile. But once your off long enough to get rid of the poisons in your system, coffee will taste much better.
Another thing, if you go have a brew
sky with the boys at the tap. Don't go. Don't set foot in a taven for at least a year. If you got to drink a cold one, do it at home.
Lemon drops can help a bunch.
Think of that car payment going up in smoke each month. That's what it is worth. Most smokers underestimate just how much they spend on smokes.
Break some other habits. Don't stop every morning for that paper, smokes, coffee and donut at the gas station. In fact, don't even go in the nasty place, do a pay at the pump and get your paper elsewhere.
Your best friend that smokes, is quitting with you, or you just don't see him much anymore. Enforce a No Smoking area in your work place.
Everytime you want one, just take a deep breath, relax, and remember why your quitting. So you can be there for your loved ones and those that love you. Smokers will never understand that's it's a nasty addiction until they are EX-smokers that are still living.
That's the key, to still be living. One of my grandfathers, smoked cigarettes, cigars and chewed. He got older and found that he simply wasn't able to do many things anymore. No surprise there. But when he could not catch his breath, we told him to take it easy, he was an old man. He got to where he was becoming what we call senile. I know now that it was simply a case of not being able to breathe. So we thought he was senile. It was sad to see him go, but he just gave up. I am positive that if he could have simply caught his breath, he would still be here today.
We had a neighbor lady. You know the kind, a mother to everybodys child in the neighborhood. A super nice person, who also knew when she needed to keep these young ones in line when they thought nobody was looking. She smoked. She died before she could have retired from most jobs because she could not quit the cigarettes that were killing her. She could not get her breath. In her last years, she lived in the little travel trailer next to the house. The trailer that she and her husband were supposed to go see the country in when he retired. Being on oxygen, the mask and hose would reach the little bathroom, coffee pot, and chair she tried to sleep in. She was unable to lay down to sleep. It was appalling, even dangerous. Mask in one hand, cigarette in the other. One day she decided her quality of life was more than she could bear. She had her husband take her to the hospital, strap her in bed and do nothing for her. Her heart raced as she tried to get enough air in her lungs. She did not last the day.
You only need to be close to a few people like this to make you really hate tobacco products. I wish you all the success in breaking your addiction. Keep in mind that at the 6month point, you will be patting your pockets. That is when the last of a long term chemical is working out of your system. Get past that and you have it made. Do it one day at a time and before you know it a year will have gone by.
