It is so sad and I know about that habit from when I smoked but eventually, all of those pictures of black, diseased lungs and things got me so motivated I just never bought another pack of cigarettes and thought if I walk around the house screaming and beat my head on the wall, I'm not buying anymore cigarettes ever ever ever. If I die craving, I will stop this and not wind up sick and diseased because I had a habit and let IT run my life. I prepared for a horrible time and it wasn't. I prayed and asked God for help how to avoid cravings. I would get on that treadmill(which I just happened(?) to have bought 3 weeks before and was delivered to my home the DAY I quit smoking at the Courthouse!) and would walk off the jitters and breathe, breathe, breathe. I focused hard at work and started the next project instead of taking that smoke break and got up and went for a walk after lunch rather than having a smoke. Same after dinner. Driving was one of the times I smoked and that was hard but I would turn on Rock N Roll music and actually sip on an icy Diet Cola or chew mounds of Bubblegum as a pacifier as I'd drive to and from work. Soon my body gave up the urging and forgot about it. If you have made it this far, you can make it another day. Just get through the next 24 nicotine free. Go to a movie tonight and then another after if you have to. Shop and spend money or do whatever it takes to not ever pick up another of those nasty things and kick that drug from your body. Your mind and your body is stronger by far than is the craving, especially when you can get immersed in movies or running/walking and shopping shopping shopping and things that can keep your mind and body busy busy busy. Stay busy until you drop. Heck, it's only for a day - you can get through a day. And tomorrow, you can get through that.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |