Can you use the patches?
They have helped most of my friends quit. You have to change your routine for a while to quit. like even a different route to drive to work, to keep your attention on that not the smokes and on your breaks, don't go out where the smokers are, go for a walk or the cafeteria and have a healthy snack and large glass of water. Avoid the phone for a while, I had to change most of my routines to cope, but with perserverance it worked. You can do this, you have to want it or it won't work. Give it your best effort, crunch on hard candies, walk hard and long, after meals, sleep when you can, it takes your mind off the smokes, read, it puts me to sleep after a while, stay away from smokers or it gets too hard.
Good luck sweetie.

Thank you jazzkeys -- great tips which I will absolutely try!

Hi LAG, for some reason, day 3 can be especially hard. Like Jazz's wonderful advise, drink TONS of water. It keeps your mind off them and helps flush all the toxins out of your body. Try keeping your hands busy, I am not sure if you are working or not. If at home, keep those hands busy. Try play dough or take up a craft. I taught myself how to crochet by following YouTube tutorials. I now have a little business of it, making baby stuff.
Chew gum, suck on hard candy, use straws cut in half for that hand/mouth habit. I ALWAYS had a straw on me for the first full year. They really helped me. Lots of luck and Good for YOU. Next time, try going to the board and not just the Advise. It will reach more people. Here for you.

Thank you. Will try the straw. This is new to me as I don't do social media in general. What exactly is the board? Not sure how to post general update on how I am doing etc.

This too shall pass.It will get better each day.My prayers are with you.

I am so sorry dear but really most of this is in your mind, just hang on as soon as the nic gets out of your body you will start to heal.

It's not a job for sissy's that is for sure.

Hang on.

go to good posts and read. if you want to post here (this is the board)
you can ask for help or just anything. click on this link in those posts will tell you what to expect in the coming days ad will keep you busy.
you can do this!
http://www.dailystrength.org/groups/good-posts

this link to good post group, if you join it then you will have access to it in your My Groups list on the left with support groups, profile, ect.
talking on the phone really bothered me for awhile, and the rewards, which really was not a reward just a break. everything will be different and will take awhile to get used to

oh what mayberry meant was when you click on add a topic to post, don't click advise just discussion. the advice sometimes don't come up like the discussion I guess

Oh plz hang on my dear. I have my crisis and so long as I stuck close to write about that I felt better. Blank is right ihis is not for sissies'

Just say to yourself I will not smoke for one min sec. or hour at a time. I did that and at 37 days sometimes I feel like that too.

Oh and I did not say I was in a class where we took all of our cig paraphernalia and put them in a coffin.. I cried yelled screamed because I felt those thing were my friends. They never let me down they were there when I felt low they WERE MY FRIENDS> oh my gosh what was I to do??

The BOARD is RIGHT HERE TO POST HOW YOU ARE DING ETC>