Welcome. When that smoking thought comes in, you must immediately change your focus. I don't know what you've read specifically in the past month on here, but the following has helped many re focus: Craving Buster Technique Other ways of changing your focus is to get your mind occupied with a challenge. Like doing a jigsaw puzzle, learning a new language, plugging your brain into a subject you've always been fascinated with, trying something like Oragami. We have to take some kind of ACTION when those smoking thoughts come in. Exercise is a good tool, because it helps to replace the endorphin rush. It's not easy, I grant you. Those thoughts ARE just gonna be going through your head, a lot in the beginning. But through continued practice, and acceptance of those thoughts, it will become easier and easier. The one thing you don't want to do is dwell on them. Keeping a journal is good idea.
Another tool that might help: /blogs/Giulia-blog/2013/09/02/replay-the-relapse
The real and true only way to get the thought out is through staying the course. Time is what heals the thinking. Glad you've joined us.
