imageHi Ginger. Your post brought back so many memories for me of my early quit and I too as most of us, went through the chattering with the "junkie" inside. I thought the chatter would never end, but it did, very gradually as I faced each new trigger episode and got though it. I have gained respect for the cunningness of this addiction to nicotine. I think some of the threads below will help you Ginger. It is so important to keep a positive attitude as our bodies return to how they were meant to be...and keep things in the now.. Just remember that there is no such thing as just one puff or just one cigarette because that just one leads back to just one more until we are back into full time, all consuming smoking our brains out. It doesn't sound like that's where you really want to go.

One other suggestion...when the chatter would start up for me, I would have to actually say out loud, NOT NOW, and on to something else...if that didn't work, then I had to take the time to let that crave wash over me and look at it head on!! Just take it one crave at a time and one day at a time and NTAP!! Not always easy, but oh so simple and do-able.

VICKI - Free and Healing for Four Months, One Day, 16 Hours and 20 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 8 Days and 14 Hours, by avoiding the use of 2474 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $559.40.