Wednesday, 13 February 2008

Stop Smoking Day 32 - Tuesday February 12th 2008

A few more pangs again today. I'm not sure if it's my imagination, but the pangs seem to be getting stronger lately. I thought this was supposed to get easier!

I was driving home from a football match this evening, and thinking about getting home. Then I got that horrible feeling that I think we all know about. There's something missing! It was like the "looking forward to getting home" feeling was meaningless, because ... there's something missing. "There's no treats to look forward to" I thought to myself.

I'm sure that this must be one of the main reasons for people failing in their quests to stop smoking. I mean, it can't be the nicotine can it? I'm not taking any Nicotine Replacement Therapy (Champix is not NRT) and all the nicotine is supposed to have gone in a few days and I haven't had any for a month now!

So what is it that causes this horrible feeling of emptiness? I'm afraid I don't know the answer, but I'm going to have a good think about it. The only thing I can think of for now is my "ex-girlfriend analogy" that I first mentioned in this blog some time ago. I suppose we get used to something and when it's suddenly not there we get an empty feeling, or a feeling that something is missing. I'm sure it will disappear over time, but I wish it would hurry up get a move on!

If I can think of anything else then I'll obviously post it on here. In the meantime has anyone got any ideas about it and how best to handle it?

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