If you are wondering how long will cravings last, you need to be aware that there are a number of issues unique to you that will determine the time frame. Before I help you discover the answer to that question, let me first congratulate you on your decision to quit smoking. You may find that your decision to quit smoking will rank as one of the most important, self empowering life changing decisions you have ever made.
How severe the cravings you personally experience in the very near and distant future are, depends entirely upon what steps you’ve taken to address the psychological reasons that have kept you addicted to smoking. As you will learn, nicotine is not the cause of your addiction, nor is it the source of future cravings to take up smoking again.
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Cold Turkey is the challenge! If you want to take this route, be of strong mind and absolute resolve. Going Cold Turkey is pretty brutal, literally. The all or nothing approach. Instead of cutting down and making it easier with the help of medication, patches and pills, you rely alone on your brute force and willpower! No support, no excuses. Just you and your challenge which may be seen as an advantage because you’re not introducing nicotine and other suspect chemicals to your system. You have to remember that smoking is an addiction and your body will be telling you (that little voice in your head) that it’s OK to have just one. Will it hurt just to have one! You can bet your bottom dollar that if you give in you will fail and then it’s all down hill.
OK, enough of the doom and gloom. So, the answer is to quit smoking and because you think you can handle it you’ve taken the Cold Turkey route. What you have to do now is sort your head out and give yourself some help. Get that real reason to quit smoking by cold turkey. And I mean a real reason. Not “they say it’s bad for your health”. Not “If you don’t quit you’ll get cancer”. If you’ve chosen the cold turkey route you’ll be able to think up some real reasons that are good for you. Forget the comments like “I remember my grandmother living to well into her ‘nineties and she smoked like a trooper”. That’s a classic negative, throw-away comment used by smokers who who cannot face up to the challenge to quit smoking. That’s not you!
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