Reach for something else then. You are replacing nicotine, so reach for a smell-good something, a hard candy that tastes good, a healthy juice drink, licorice stick, blow through a straw. You are changing your life and it might be hard to get excited about it, but get excited about it. You already know where the road to nicotine leads, so start by changing your thought patterns. You aren't giving anything up, you are getting your life BACK and you are healing. Allen Carr's book, Easyway to quit Smoking taught me that. The first week sucked, cos my brain was stuck on a loop and it took some work to ignore the nicotine thoughts. Writing out my feelings helped immensely, coming here and sharing my pain with others and finding out they went through it too, also helped. You can do anything but smoke, all the healthy things you always wanted to do instead of self harming with nic, you can do now.
