According to Carr the physical/chemical withdrawals are over in 3 days. After that it's psychological. But as you know, our minds are soooo powerful.
I can only imagine the challenge of being surrounded by smokers, because the smell is such a trigger, and the sight is another. You may find that you need to change your life a lot in order to stay free of it. For sure you need to make friends with some nonsmokers. There are lots of us out here!!
The other thing (I remember when my grandmother quit) is that you can take up some substituting habit that you can do around the smokers. My grandma started chewing on toothpicks. She ate a lot of wood, but she didn't relapse! Eventually she didn't need the toothpicks anymore, but for a while she really just needed something to DO with her hands and mouth.
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Date: 2009-08-04 01:42 pm (UTC)I can only imagine the challenge of being surrounded by smokers, because the smell is such a trigger, and the sight is another. You may find that you need to change your life a lot in order to stay free of it. For sure you need to make friends with some nonsmokers. There are lots of us out here!!
The other thing (I remember when my grandmother quit) is that you can take up some substituting habit that you can do around the smokers. My grandma started chewing on toothpicks. She ate a lot of wood, but she didn't relapse! Eventually she didn't need the toothpicks anymore, but for a while she really just needed something to DO with her hands and mouth.