Hi Jane! Welcome aboard the train, so glad you found this site because you will get wonderful support and encouragement from the people here. I know it's so difficult in the beginning but with each day you stay quit, the withdrawal symptoms will become less and less until you don't have them anymore. It takes a while but, like you said, this is your final quit because you don't want to go through withdrawal again. Ohh you are so right! This is my 2nd time quitting and I definitely don't want to go through withdrawal a third time! I have 2 pieces of advice for you that I have been telling people who just started their quit. In those beginning weeks and months, I would take a cinnamon stick and pretend that it was a cigarette sucking air in through the hole and pretending to blow smoke out. I also kept one in my pocketbook, if I needed to use it when I was not home. The cinnamon sticks really do help, but if you don't like cinnamon, you can use cut up straws. The 2nd piece of advice is stay very close to this forum because I truly believe staying close will lead you to success. Do the daily nope pledge as well. If you are having an urgent caving in moment there is an SOS section. Since we are a group of people from all over the world, someone is always bound to be online. We are here to help you Jane! Good luck to you and I hope to see you again soon!
