Today you’re going to do those badly needed repairs to your roof. You start by putting all your tools and supplies together. You do this before you climb up the ladder onto the roof. You do this because you do not want to take that long trip to the top and discover you did not have all of the necessary tools at your disposal. Nobody wants to start a task from the beginning again.
Becoming a non-smoker can be a very isolated and lonely voyage if you let it be. The good thing is that it doesn’t have to be. Not when there is support available. This is one of the keys to success – whether you find your support via a local group, through your family or friends (be cautious here), or finding it online, it is crucial to your success.
It’s the first three days that people find the most difficult regardless of the smoking cessation method they’ve chosen. This is due to the fact that it is in those 72 hours when the nicotine leaving your body is felt the greatest. This can lead to feelings of irritabililty, fatigue, and a persistent headache – all perfectly normal symptoms of withdrawal.
What would you do when your house is on fire? Would you sit and think, plan and come up with a solution or just jump out of the window? But the truth is that unless you consider your smoking habit as dangerous as a house on fire, you are not going to jump. That is for sure. So, the obvious answer to the question ‘what to do when you are sick of smoking?’ would be – just quit! But this answer you’ve already heard from Many who don’t smoke or those who have never successfully quit themselves.