I know that I can go cold turkey. I've gone, the longest since I've started, three months of cold turkey before a major trigger, a girl I knew since I was in my teens, that I thought I loved, pressured me into it. However, going cold turkey is a very good way for me. I can go days, through the first three days to the first week is definitely the hardest. Also, the triggers begin to lose their strength over me after about two weeks. But it takes a rare trigger, one I haven't prepared myself for, to set me off. Going cold turkey, for me, allows me to immediately feel the significant change in my body once the nicotine and carbon monoxide are out of my system and once the oxygen returns to my blood, which is after eight hours without a cigarette. I begin to feel as if I can feel my entire body again and that I am in total control of it. I do find that I am easily influenced by my triggers though. With no steady rock to lean on, I begin to ask myself, how can I? or what's the point? I recently entered into a relationship witht his amazing girl, though she's over ten years older than me, she is an amazing source of strength. But, when she's not around and the triggers are all around me, I begin to lose positive focus on my long term investment in not smoking. So yeah, damn triggers, I am a little happy over you.
