afriedh1 Annette,
How about heading back to your hotel with a PLAN, a nice long bubble bath, a movie that makes you laugh, relaxation through breathing, it's the associations that get ALL of us, that is the psychological addiction and it takes time and effort to get over...you need to make NEW associations, if the bath and movie don't appeal, how about a walk, or a work out, most hotels have work out rooms and there is nothing like exercise to get that dopamine hit. Even if you have to do some sort of work out in your room, seriously, it HELPS. Your addiction is talking to you...you do NOT have to listen. This is all within your control, you can do this and it will get easier, I promise you that if you stick with your quit and this site, it WILL get easier. There are no shortcuts...we grow with every crave we get past. No crave EVER killed anyone, no one can say that about smoking and if you are COMPLETELY honest with yourself when you want to smoke for whatever reason: pain, stress, depression, anxiety...smoking does NOT help with any of those things. Smoking feeds your nicotine addiction. Any temporary relief you get is gone almost as soon as you put the cigarette out because you will need another fix...your addiction will need another fix. Once I accepted that COMPLETELY, I had no problem with keeping my quit. I KNEW smoking would not really help ANYTHING.
Plan ahead...it will help. Get on the site and read blogs...read how others got through stressful times. I think you will find that the MOST stressful times people go through are not the times when they smoke.
We are here. Blog if you need help, put the word HELP in the subject line. Someone will try to help...we are all here for the same reason.
Ellen
