It took me several years of trying. I used nicotiene gum which i became addicted to. But that was part of the process, i had managed to transfer my addiction away from the act of smoking. After a year on the nico gum i crossed over to ordinary gum, thus transferring my addiction elsewhere again. A year or so later and the laxative effects of my fave minty gum was becomming a pain in the A*** ! so i started to ween myself off. If I could offer constructive advice it would be this
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- Your physical addiction is far easier to deal with than your mental addiction. Use a substitute to keep your cravings happy whilst you deal with the psycological withdrawl.
When you inhale smoke, you inhale deeper thereby you inhale more air as well as smoke. Try breathing deeply (without the fag !) you will find that half of the sensation from smoking is in fact.........fresh air !
The more you talk to people about how you are doing during you current attempt, the more it becomes a topic of conversation, the more it is in your mind, the more you have to think about it, the more likely it is that you will give into temptation.
If you fall off the wagon and start smoking then really go for it ,,,,,,,,seriously,,,,,,puff away till you puke. If you managed to stay off them for 2 weeks chances are if you go directly back to your usual 40 a day habit you wont like it one little bit and wont want to smoke the next day. Have 1 or 2 and you will just slide gradually back into full time smoking.
Dont feel guilty about falling off the wagon, this will just raise you anxiety level and tell your brain to demand nicotein. Accept what you did, understand why you did it and move on.
If you go back to smoking full time, dont tell yourself that you
failed, you just have'nt achieved your objective yet

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