Hi there! For the first 60+ days, I kept cinnamon sticks and Hall's cough drops in the car. I fiddled with the cinnamon sticks with my hands and my mouth, and though I didn't pretend it was a cigarette, it did ask as a cigarette substitute. I popped cough drops all the derned time.
Now, at day 78, I still have a spice jar of cinnamon sticks in the car and now keep honey drops instead of the minty drops available to me at all times. I haven't reached for a cinnamon stick in a very, very long time.
By the way, I have a jar of cinnamon sticks next to me where I sit to watch TV and work on the computer.
Lastly, I drank a ton of water in the beginning and did deep breathing.
Those are the things that worked for me. I've taken some hour-long trips in the car without smoking and will be driving a three-hour trip soon, again without smoking. I'll keep the cinnamon sticks around just in case. Urges are nasty little boogers.
Donna
Day 78
