It does happen sometimes and bring out your bag of tricks to overcome the urge jeanne!!! 48 Days is HUGE and you should be very proud of yourself! Hang in there, read posts, I just bumped a really good one "little things" by LankyYankee, read through those and other uplifting positives to assure you that you have the POWER to remain FREE! Hang in there!

Jeanne those urges will pass. Drink your water. Have some carrots or celery sticks. Suck on a cinnamon stick. Stay here and read. Good luck.

First off, find some way to distract yourself. Don't focus on the crave/urge/whatever. That makes it worse, like a spoiled brat wanting attention - give it to him and he will just want more and more. Do whatever you need to do to shift your focus. Go take a shower if it will help.

You smoked for years. Don't expect to recover from this addiction in a few weeks or months. Likely something you may or may not be able to identify has occured that triggered these feelings; something that hasn't happened since you quit. These things will happen through life, but they will become less and less frequent. Each time you get past one without a smoke, you weaken or destroy that link between the event and smoking.

What you are experiencing is temporary and it is doing you NO HARM! Stay strong, don't smoke, and extreme progress will be made in your quit.

Blessings to you, Jeanne. Stay very close to us, ok?
Shevie

Hi Jeanne,
Try inhaling deep and slowly thru a cut straw. It always worked for me.
Love ya, hang tough
Deb

Jeanne- Shevie always says it best- but I agree- distraction is so important. If you are giving in the urges- do something else. Go to a movie if you can, eat popcorn sand laugh- maybe that would help. Take a nap- go for a drive- do something thbat makes you feelgood and soon you will realize that smoking does not make you happy- it brings you down... good luck and be strong.

Ok Jeanne, everybody says you need to "distract", so I got it, I got it...ok,..... go put your bathing costume on and do cartwheels around your living room. When finished with that, I want you to step outside and belt out a few Negro spirituals at the top of your voice. Alternate betwixt the carwheels and spirituals until the cravings pass. Please let us know how this works for you ((GRIN))

I'm struggling with those things today too! I'm following the advice here and drinking alot of water...downside is the drinking/potty ration goes up! Hehe!

Anyway--I also do things like browse the aisles at Costco (across the street from my work) to distract myself.

I like to smell things like candles, baked goods.....remind me of the beauty in the senses.

BarenEss, just use all the advice that I have been getting. As for you Bill, that would definitely be a distraction. Unfortunately, my neighbors wold call the cops and they would commit me.LOL,LOL And you know mental hospitals and smoking goes hand-in-hand.LOL
tHEY YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH FOR SEEINNG ME THRU THIS. I have surely felt the love and the support. I can happily say that the urges have passed. Thank you all so very much....

COOL!

Jeanne- I'm so glad the urges passed.... just goes to show you are much stronger than you realize at times. And also, the support here is invaluable,, what a great place DS is- and good job Jeanne- smart thing to lean on us instead of your old crutch that would have destroyed you...... hugs to you my friend... Debbie

Well done, Jeanne.

(((((hugs)))))

Shevie

I spent the day driving my friend, ill with MS, around to appointments in her car. She smokes. The car stinks. She took her smoke breaks out of the car. I told her, its all her fault. When she asked me to attend a smoke cessation seminar back in May, I was't ready to quit, but agreed to go with her. Neither of us made it, but quit suggestions kept coming my way & I took the bait.(I knew I'd never be ready to quit.) Now, I don't smoke & she is still smoking and apologizing to me. Yes we have to use her car because of her disability. Has nothing to do with 48, just offering a distraction, LOL.

This happens to me especially when I go to restaurants (I think because the food is so salty). Thank God we don't eat out much! I never smoked in the car so that's not a problem. Car smells like dogs! I went out and bought raw sunflower seeds with no salt. They are delicious and help take crave away. I deep breath and exercise a lot. Also, cinammon gum and sugarless tonic water (tonic water seems to take craves away-I mix it with sugarfree snapple). LOTS of fruit. I got all these tips from this site. Thanks everyone!