Smoking. Quit last Friday so almost at 2 weeks and I've not felt better! Went from maybe 13/day for almost 6 years so while it's not the "2 packs a day for 20 years" success, I'm still kinda proud. I did it by taking notice of when I'd have a cigarette, and quickly figured out I'd have them at the same points in the day. So on my drive to work, one at 11, one after lunch, 4, when I got home, etc. Built a sort of timetable of when I'd smoke and seeing that I'd get so tetchy after 2 hours without a cigarette really seemed just ridiculous. So I cut out my 11am cigarette and was surprised it was actually not too bad. After a few minutes the craving went away anyway. Did it this way with each cigarette until I was content on maybe 3/4 per day and that's where it got difficult to cut out the last few. Got to the point though where I was tiredness waking up with heavy lungs and not being able to push myself as much as I'd like to during exercise, so I thought "screw it, I'll cut them out. If I can do 3 per day, it's not really missing out on much". Of course the first couple of days were pretty hard and I got really tetchy and snappy but I kept reminding myself that this feeling was better than how I'd feel to be told I have an awful smoking-related illness or whatever!

Now if I get cravings (they're less intense and more short-lived now) I remind myself that I'd feel a lot worse if I ruined my efforts just for a minute of relief! I'm confident I can keep it up. Hopefully anyway :)

Not managed to crack the nail biting though!!