SOOOO glad you are back at it. It took lots of successful folks a bunch of tries before a quit finally took.
What will you do differently THIS time? I hope you've done some reading; made plans what to do if you find your mind taking you to that smoking place again ( EXCEPT smoke!), gotten your list of things to do when a crave hits, written down your reasons to quit to review when the going gets tough, figured out how to change up your routines so there are less associations with smoking.
Let us help you get it done THIS time!!!
Putting your cards away from you for safe keeping is a good stop gap, I guess. What, exactly, are you romancing? What you might be doing is wanting to get the feeling of contentment you felt at one time. Since you almost always had a cigarette when you had downtime and were relaxing, you might be thinking that a cigarette is required to get that feeling back. At the beginning of a quit, that may be true - so you have to treat it just like a crave and get busy. Don't think about recreating that feeling just yet - withdrawal will not allow it. As you get further along, you CAN recreate that feeling and it won't require a smoke. But - you need to be patient until those receptors die off - which they will do as long as you don't re-energize them.
All a cigarette will do is quiet the brain sensors from niggling for their next fix - until they start to fire up again and you need yet another one to quiet them and another, and...ad infinitum.
You are going to have to give this the time it takes, knowing it will get easier, and I promise it WILL.
Until it does you just have to hang in there!
