Sixteen weeks day before yesterday.. Lots of jolly ranchers but no patches or chantix or nicogum. Haven’t been too cranky but yeah, I still want one. Guess it’s supposedly in the psych stage now and not physical. ;-)
Keep at it.
I quit in January 2003. Smoked my last 1/2 pack and refused to buy any more.
Cravings subsided over time. However, at 6 months they hit again. I resisted. After about a month, they subsided and have not returned.
I do get an urge — but not a real craving — when I see someone smoking. But I do not give in to the urge.
One leads to 2, which leads to a pack, which leads to a carton, which leads to the habit. So, I avoid that first one.
Five weeks. Lots of mints. Prior to that two months of smoking Lee on Friday nights - lots of nicotine lozenges. But you can overdose on the lozenges and have problems.
16 weeks? You’re in the home stretch. I could have written this out in crayon. Smoked 1 1/2 - 2 packs a day for thirty years, my doc put the fear of God in me one day, so I chucked the last pack and went to e-cigs. That was five years ago next week. No more hacking up pieces of gray phlegm the size of chicken livers and lung tissue every morning, no more heaviness in my chest, food tastes and smells infinitely better, and I can smell a smoker from twenty feet away. That stale ashtray smell. I still keep thinking to myself, “My God, did I walk around smelling like that all the time?” It’s a matter of motivation. I went through several brands of e-cigs until I found the one I like. But, it’s the best of both worlds. I can vape at work, the house doesn’t stink like a run-down dive bar, no holes burned into my clothes, car seat, or furniture, but I get my fix. It’ll get easier. I’m to the point now where I walk away if someone is blowing smoke. Mind you, I not one of those reformed smoker zealots - they’re as full-on nuts as Scientologists, Hare Krishnas, or Moonies. I just know what it did to my body, how much money I spent over the decades feeding the habit (I coulda bought a house and a boat with the money I spent), and how much better I enjoy life now. If they wanna smoke, go for it. I still miss a Marlboro after dinner, in a bar with a cold one, after a good session with a wife or girlfriend, but the e-cig has been a godsend, and really helped curtail the initial withdrawal. I told my doc that I went to an e-cig after he told me to quit, and I figured he was gonna give me an earful. All he did was smile, and told me that he’d had more patients quit smoking with e-cigs than all the Chantix he ever prescribed.