When I quit, i didn't know about any quit smoking websites until i was 2 weeks quit.
I spent a month just telling myself to delay that next cigarette. there was no tension, no fear, no apprehension, no quit date. A friend asked if i would consider quitting to mentor his brother who also smoked. so i was just testing myself. i didn't necessarily want to quit and i had not yet decided to quit.
on the friday before the tuesday i quit, i was down from a pack a day to 5 a day and i had never once gotten uptight about quitting. that day, i knew i was buying my last pack. there was not a conscious plan, i just knew it.
I used the patch. I put my faith in the patch to help ease the physical withdrawal. that's all.
i used 10 during my first 14 days.
that means on my 14th day I used a patch and 4 days (not in consecutive order) i didn't.
i had put my faith in the patch to help me quit until i knew i didn't need it.
i even carried one in my wallet my first year and promised myself i would use it rather than smoke.
so it is what you believe that carries you through, not what you are using.
i also never went back to the store i bought my cigarettes.
use your common sense.
don't put yourself in harms way with bad choices.
and stay busy. i played guitar all day at that friends house those first two weeks.
