[August]

Good advice Platapus.

In my case though I found that i just had way to many triggers to change even a small portion of them! Getting up in the morning would be a trigger, getting ready to leave for work. Picking up coffee, getting close to work, morning break, start of lunch, just before the end of lunch, when i wanted a moment to consider something, when i ate a good meal, while i was waiting for dinnertime - I'd work through it and it'd start getting easier but then the season would change and all the old triggers would come back. Apparently waiting for dinnertime in the winter is a different smoking trigger from waiting for dinner in the spring, summer, or the fall.

So quitting smoking, i think, tests ones stubbornness more than anything else. The jones has been like that scene from the Simpsons where Bart and Lisa pester Homer with "Can we have it?, can we have it? can we have it?" over and over until he cracks and gives in. Continuing to ignore it, apparently for years, takes serious commitment but I believe the end result is worth it. So far i've been right.