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Originally Posted by Christinee  |
And for when urges to put something in your mouth to busy it just get overwhelming, I kept strongly sour dill pickles, sugarless chewing gum and rice cakes for low calorie crunching and drank water until I almost drowned. In my case, very quickly the urge to smoke became associated with walking on my treadmill or my low cal snacks rather than a cigarette and in my case, my mind began to anticipate getting one of those things when it craved a cigarette, rather than the cigarette itself! And as the nicotine cleared my body, the urge to smoke did too. Be sure you don't drink so much water you get low on sodium as I did once or twice so if you are going over 8 glasses a day, have blood tests from time to time to have your sodium chloride checked.
I keep forgetting that I did smoke almost 1/2 of a cigarette the March or April of 1989 when I learned our office accountant had quit and I was going to have to add her duties to mine for how ever long it took to interview and hire another - but that was only after my boss handed me a lit cigarette, I guess to ease the blow. After those puffs and putting it out, I was horrified that I had let myself slip up like that and made myself a promise that that would never happen again and it never has. I've had many worse shocks and my share of bad news since and not once have I smoked. So even should you slip up, don't let is deter you - use it to reinforce your commitment never again.