How to stop these cravings.

[ICanSeeTheSun]

Day 5 and omg the cravings today have been bad.

I feel like crap, throat is killing, chest is hurting and due to lack of sleep as the cravings are keeping me awake very tired.

When will this hell end.

Food or smoking?

I'm on health eating and day two of not smoking. Tonight I am treating myself, HUGE pot of hummous, loads of chopped veg for dippy nibbles to keep my hands busy and two squares of dark chocolate and a teeeny glass of low alcohol wine.

It's keeping my smoking and fat cravings at bay.

What else do you like? What can you treat yourself to?

Smoking

You're so nearly over the worst now, if you have one now you've gone through all this for nothing. Most people I know who've managed to quit have felt like shit, then it does get better!

I'll be where you are in a few days.

Just had a cool bath. My house is spotless.

Do have a rather large bottle of JD.

It's just so hard.

Judy's right, you're so nearly there. What about some crazy hard exercise tonight to keep you busy? If you're sweating gallons and muscles are screaming then your brain has less capacity to think about cravings... that's what I tend to do these days when I feel like caving.

Can't excerise due to knee problems.

The main reason for giving up is that I have an op to fix my knee and I know smoking increases unnesserary risks.

That's my plan, never been abroad.

Have a really hot drink, the hottest you can tolerate.
I'm really struggling to cut down on sugar and this seems to knock the cravings on the head. It also worked for DH and DM when they were giving up smoking. I don't know why it works (maybe the terror of the chance of scalding my tonsils and burning a hole in my gullet keeps my mind off the sugar) but by the time I'm finished my cuppa the craving has gone.

DH used sugar free chupa chip lollies. Hand to mouth action and something for the sweet he was craving as a result.

Icanseethesun.

off cigs as pregnant but using patches (on smoking cessation through hospital) so not cold turkeying it.

i went on exercise bike when craving but see you cant.
i stocked up on sugar free chewing gum
frozen grapes.

it does get easier. honest.

Got patches and spray.

I am ok in the day time it's the evening.

I would take a paracetamol and go to bed. If I am so pissed off or giving something up, I end up thinking "fuck it.." And go to bed as I am too grumpy to bother staying awake!