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Well it feel like its been a month. I basically done with craves, but the fighting off the urge to smoke at all of those moments that a usually do is proving difficult. Each and everytime I reach a stopping point while coding something at work the first thing that runs through my mind is going outside to smoke a cigarette. As a matter of fact everytime I need to take a break from coding I think about smoking. I still havn't found a way of taking a break to replace the old smoke break. So far all i've come up with is to take a walk to the conference room and pace around a bit, but it seems like such a waste. Any ideas for replacement breaks that take roughly 10 minutes?

I'm not normally a quiter, as a matter of fact sometime I just don't know when to let things go even when its pointless. (i.e. Beating a dead horse) But, here I am again trying to become a quiter in a big way. I'm 30 now and i've been smoking for a long ass time. My lungs are probably already a nasty sticky tar clogged cesspools. Which is exactly why i'm trying, once again to quit. Life is catching up with me at an incredible rate. I'm tired of growing old, putting on weight, and slowing down. I want to do healthy things for myself. Such as

1. Stop drinking so much damn caffeine. (Coke and coffee)
2. Stop smoking cigarettes.
3. Exercise and get my early/mid-20's body back.
4. Take better care of my aging skin before it become leathery and wrinkled.
5. Fast food should be a rarity in my life. Most of it makes me feel like crap anyway because of all of the free glutamic acid (MSG) added to them to make you think it taste good.

Well, i figured if I was going to quit smoking then I was going to need a life style change to go with it. You can't stop being a crack head and still hang out in the crack house. It just doesn't work. So i'll be avoiding situations associated with smoking. Everything else on the above list is good for me, but its mostly supportive behaviour that will hopefully encourage me to keep on being a quiter. You would be suprised to find just how much time each day is filled with smoking and smoking related task. When you quit all of these chunks of time suddenly become voids…big gaping voids that need to be filled with something. I've decided to fill these voids with exersice of some sort. And i'm going to compile a list of all of those little things around the house that never seem to get done and take less time to do than smoking a cigarette. Another tough area is work. I need to take a 5 minute break each hour or so to stretch and let me mind process things away from the keyboard. I traditionally filled this time with smoking, and finding something else to do while i'm at work will be tough. (wow i just reread this and it hardly makes sense, and jumps all over the place…I suppose i'll become more coherent as the craves subside.)