Thanks, The second smoke free weekend passed. I was with non smoking people all day Sunday so I went patchless, I actually felt much calmer than with the patch. Tomorrow I am starting the lowest dosage patch. Thanks again for the support.

This was a bad weekend. An old friend from Europe visiting the US came for dinner on friday. He was smoking outside but each time he was coming back inside the smell of cigarette was driving me insane. Last cigarette he had I asked if I could light it! Then he realized I had not been smoking all night and that I had stopped. He took the cigarette away from me and apologized for the temptation. The lesson learned is that I should warn everybody I stopped smoking. The short term result is that I erased the white board I was keeping with the days spent not smoking. This sucks but i learned another way of avoiding temptation. ...... Patarch1

try not to be too hard on yourself, many many people have bigger set backs then you. You didn't go and buy a pack of smokes and start up again, be proud of yourself!

My husband used to not only stop, stare but then take a huge deep breath! it's amazing how time goes on and it's less and less noticeable! I still will perk when I smell it but it's not a I want one perk it's a eww smoke perk!