I remember you saying this, and this helped me.docellis wrote:I was a really bad smoker. The obnoxious kind. I smoked constantly and I constantly used smoking as an excuse to get away from things or people.
One day I quit because I was disgusted by how I looked when I caught a glimpse of myself smoking in a mirror.
My strategy was: It can't physically hurt, can it? To quit, I mean. It can't hurt. I looked for the pain. I was like, bring it on. I waited for it to hurt. I almost wanted it to hurt. It never hurt though. It was more like fruit flies....annoying
But I definitely needed to put things in my mouth.
Baby carrots, sunflower seeds, gum....I kept those on hand all the time.
I guess it has been 3 years since I bought a pack of smokes? I still want to smoke when I am drunk and hanging out with smokers. Luckily I don't know that many smokers anymore.
My difference? It hurt. Seriously hurt. Physical pain as in cramps etc... Terrible.
Aug 13, 2007 was my last chew. I found an entire, unopened can of chew in a rain jacket just this weekend and threw it away without a thought. Actually, I opened it and threw sprinkled it in the garbage to avoid any ideas of rooting through the garbage later on. You never know what I would have tried.
