Day 9
The craving will pass whether you smoke or not. Avoid even a single puff.
By now you will have found ways to help get you through the urge to smoke when it hits. Hopefully you also will begin to notice that the number of urges have decreased. You are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. You know that you can successfully control your urge to smoke and your cravings for cigarettes. You will find that the longer you stay off cigarettes, the less often the urge comes.
The further you get from the urge to smoke, the more you may feel as though you’ve beaten the habit. After all, if you don’t really crave it all that often, how much of a problem can it be? It’s that kind of thinking that has led many smokers back into their old habit. They think that if they have so few urges, then they only need a few cigarettes to satisfy them.
It’s the rare ex-smoker who is able to take just one or two smokes without falling back into the old habit. As a former smoker, your past habit is always there, just waiting to be lit. All it takes is one cigarette. As long as that old smoking habit is still inside you, you run the risk of it coming back full strength. The simplest and easiest way to prevent this from happening is to avoid even a single puff on a cigarette.