My Third Day

Hello to all!
I'm now through my third day without smoking. Although it's still not smooth, it's been going easier. I have also been coughing less than yesterday, so I dropped the thought that I might have caught a cold.
Today, I talked to somebody who wanted to quit with me. I asked him on that when he lit up a cigarette.
He said: "So I was at work, totally stressed. my nerves were so wrecked, that I started to annoy other people. So they said, "Just get a cigarette, you need to calm down!". So I gave in. I just felt so uncomfortable anyway."
That's the problem that I already talked about: the first step is the hardest. Don't let yourself be tempted into giving in to your desire to feel "pleasant".
The biggest problem is actually that people talk themselves into the idea that quitting smoking is hard. It wasn't too easy, but I never actually thought about getting up, going to a store, buying a pack of cigarettes and starting again.
Don't bother yourself if you think about it. Just don't do it.
Because: If you really get up and get cigarettes again, is that the nicotine controlling you?
Is the nicotine taking control of your legs and forcing them to walk? Does it take control of your brain and figure out the next best place to get cigarettes?

That sounds ridiculous, doesn't it?

Well, some people believe that.
Don't be one of them.
That would all be you.
All your body does is detect a deficiency of nicotine and changing according to it.
Imagine that as something a child builds out of Lego. It builds a shape out of tones that are mostly yellow.
One in the middle is red. That's nicotine.
If the child wants to take the red stone out, it has to break the shape in order to get to the red stone (the first and hardest phase of quitting - parting with nicotine) and then, it has to rearrange the yellow ones so that the shape is complete again (the second phase of quitting - adjusting yourself to living without nicotine). The child sometimes finds it easier when it replaces the void with a green stone tostabilize the process (conveying your addiction to something else - be it listening to music, reading or some personal hobby. Just be careful that this substitution isn't unhealthy food or alcohol!).
However, some people think they are the shape. They aren't.
They're the child.
They have to control the shape.
If you would want to put the red stone back in because you find it too hard to rearrange the yellow stones, it would be your descision. Not anybody else's.
Just remember that.