do you eat breakfast?

chubbachub

I have you tried reading the Allen Carr Quit Smoking book. I quit smoking this week, granted its not a long time. I've been smoking for about 3 years about 10 cigarettes a day. granted not loads but it was a habit I could not stop and I smoked more during times of stress or socialising. I have tried to quit on numerous occasions but this is the longest I've gone without smoking. I didn't even read the Allen Carr book properly. In fact I had just gone out and bought a new ten pack of cigarettes unopened. I thought, i'll just randomly pick a page and it started talking about this idea of willpower and how smokers believe they have none. This was me, everytime I had tried to quit, I had this nagging feeling in the back of my mind that this was just a temporary thing until I failed and had my next cigarette, or until the next argument I had or stressful situation and 'needed' a cigarette. Everytime I tried to quit, it didn't feel like I was going to be successful because deep down I felt like I had no will power. Anyway, so i'm reading the page and it says:

It's conflict not a lack of willpower:
At our clinics: We ask smokers who think they are weak willed: If you ran out late at night, how far would you walk for a packet of cigarettes?
A smoker would swim the channel for a packet. It takes a strong willed person to block their mind to the terrible health risks and continue to smoke.

So I stood there and I thought, I would and have walked entire festivals to find a packet of cigarettes, I've walked in the middle of the night to find an open petrol station for cigarettes, I've ransacked my house for the last cigarette, I've driven miles out of my way for cigarettes. The moment I started to think that actually I was strong willed, I just started to think differently about the whole thing. I walked over to my unopened cigarette packet, opened them and poured water all over them. It's been a week. I'm going to keep reading little bits from this book - but I really think its about an attitude change.

I started a diet around the same time. So perhaps being focused on not eating has in a way masked the cravings. I do eat breakfast, although as a smoker it tended to be a redbull and a cigarette, as awful as that sounds! I find it hard to think of appetising food in the morning and things that are low carb and don't make me feel hungry. I've started eating things, that aren't even breakfast items, like mackerel and tuna....because I know that I will feel full. Instead of carbing out on cereals that are full of sugar!