Hello. I haven’t smoked for 40 days now, but I still feel very strongly about it, most likely because of the environment, almost everyone in the team smokes and I look at it every day. I keep telling myself that I don’t want to start again, but i want to smoke so bad. What can i do about it?

I've stopped smoking for 5 months now its such quality of life improvement, no cravings or moodiness whatsoever. My longs work better and everything around me smells nice.

its very refreshing to me similar to getting a haircut or taking a shower

Hey really good job first of all. I have been there too, quit smoking 3.5 years ago. Almost started again the first couple of weeks. But the urges and the things that triggered them became less and less. At first I thought about it every day or when I was with my friends who smoked or I felt bad and smoked in such a situation normally, etc., but then it became only every couple of days, got used to not smoking with my friends, etc. Sometimes the urges were stronger and more frequent again, almost as if I have just quit yesterday, but that's normal and part of it I guess. Most of it is psychological, especially after quitting for more than a month. Try to look at those psychological mechanisms that happen inside you and understand them, also try to seperate them, the addiction, from yourself. This was also the first step I had to do with anxiety and ocd issues for example, going from thinking "I am afraid of this and I have to do this and that in response" to "There is this illness (or parasite, demon, etc.) in my head that makes me anxious and tries to get control of me. It's not myself, I don't want this and I want it gone." This change in mentality was also always important for me with addiction. You shouldn't think "It's me who wants to smoke so bad" but "It's my addiction that wants to smoke so bad and it's trying everything to manipulate me and make me do it." See it as an enemy instead of part of yourself. It's especially tricky with smoking, because you attach so many life experiences to it, as you smoke every day for years in all kinds of situations and the people around you smoke, etc., so it kind of feels like giving up smoking is giving up all of that or not being able to live those things out to the fullest, etc. But it all isn't like that, you will learn that with time. My life kept going on, good stuff has happened, bad stuff has happened and me having ever been addicted to smokikg just faded out of my life. Very rarely I still get an urge or dream about smoking (and in those dreams I instantly regret it usually), but it's so easy to not do it at this point, like it's not a real consideration at all anymore and the urge quickly passes. You will get there too, 40 days is already a lot, big congrats, but that's also a pretty dangerous point I think, almost slipped up there a couple of times. Just keep going, you definitely have it in you when you have done it for so long already and maybe you don't feel as great about it, but if you slip up, you will feel totally disappointed and stupid and all the problems that come with smoking. Thinking back, how I felt back then (easy to oversee as getting better is a fluent process) and comparing it to now, I am so glad that I have quit, as other anon has said, immense quality of life improvement. So many shitty things physically, cognitively and mentally, that became were the norm, just gone. Was totally worth it quitting and not slipping up. You have this!

relevant video on this topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zji4ppIdx0

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reminds me of this image with this cowboy: i smoke malboro, you smoke dick

see you later, space cowboy
uhhh, i don't smoke marlboro (ykwim?)
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