I'm a not novice at this - but hey, that means my "craves" can be pretty tough! So, I do the deep breathing bit (because that's the firt thing we all do when we smoke a cig!), I sip water and if those fail, I actually hold my fingers as though I had a cig between them and "smoke" by sucking air through the small gap between them. Maybe that's nuts but I just figure, well in my case, I was smoking over 30 cigs a day. Say it took 10 drags to smoke a cig. That means I was making that sucking motion over 300 times a DAY! To NOT being doing it at all must make the body ( a great creature of habit) woder what the Hell is wrong. And so I look on this as reassuring it in a way.
Actually, I am starting to think that my craves aren't really craving anything so much, as the discomfort of missing the whole routine I was doing so often. Nothing is going to fill that really. But since it WAS learned behaviour, I just have to wait until my body learns it's not behaving that way any more.
Hang in there. You have done so well. Tell yourself you don't want a fag. it's just a bit of strangeness while you teach your body a whole new and better behaviour.
S
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 8/20/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 4
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 152
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �24
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 10 [B]Mins:[/B] 29 [B]Seconds:[/B] 33