We humans are creatures of habit, we are all unique but as individuals we have our own habitual rituals that may have been engraved of numerous years
Some wake up and get a shower straight away
Some may head for the coffee pot or tv remote to watch the news
Some log onto here or Facebook to see what's been happening overnight
Some get a drink of water, brush teeth, put on their training shoes and run etc etc the list is endless but I'm sure we all have our own routines and habits
Smoking was one of those habits that fit somewhere within our daily routines
I found in the begining of my quit that I wasn't just fighting the nicotine withdrawal but also the habit and it was like a missing piece of the daily puzzle and my brain knew this was missing and I'm convinced it brought on the craves!
It may not be part of a daily routine either but of something you do on rare occasions but too it had a Habit or ritual, this is especially in evident when you have been quit nicotine for months and months or even years?
That's why I am totally convinced that it's mind over matter, once the nicotine has left the body
How did you change your habit?
What have you incorporated into you routine now you dont smoke anymore?
They say it takes 21 days of continuously doing something to form a new habit or break an old one do you think that's true?
Initially I changed my habit by keeping busy with my hands or mind, from exercise, showering, posting here, preparing food and eating loads, housework or walking
Eventually when it settled down my new habit is food prep for the day, have a good breakfast and then prepare food for the rest of the day it became my new obsession