I am working on day three. I am not having fun. To be honest, truly honest, once I lost the quit, each time I tried to re-start, I was rather lax about the commitment. In the back of my head I even figured "yeah, I'll probably give in and smoke, and if I don't, woo hoo for me." Well of course there were no woo hoos, and of course after gritting through the first couple of big bumps I did smoke each time. This time, I am treating it like the first time. Smoking is totally and completely NOT an option. I am not using the patches this time. I did the 4 weeks for each of the 3 steps, and this time, I am cold turkey*. I do have nicotine gum that is going to be the seawall sandbag if I am headed to the cigarette store. I haven't used any yet, but my brain has been told repeatedly that she gets a cigarette only when Never! and that to prevent that cigarette, the best she can hope for is a piece of nicotine gum. However, I have had so much drilling in my teeth the last 3 Mondays, that all I would be able to manage is to suck on the gum. One tooth is so sensitive to cold that my all time favorite distraction, ice water is like some Inquisition torture. So in summary, that is my day three and SINAO. And I can't have cigs in my hands. No beg, no borrow, no buy.