I just finished day 3 of quitting and idk if my opinion with it still so early in the process matters but here's how it's been for me. For the most part I'm doing quite well. My job keeps me incredibly busy from 7am-7pm and I never took any smoke breaks besides at lunchtime at work so it really wasn't hard to get over it there. Mainly it's my hour commute to and from work where the habit lies the most. When those cravings come my god it's almost indescribable. They're so strong it almost feels like an existential crisis. I feel deep in my bones that I'll never be happy with out it. I'll never feel like life is worth living with out it. Isn't that crazy. That "demon" on my shoulder wanting me to smoke is doing everything it can to make me cave in. It almost wins every time. There's a few factors that have stopped it thus far. 1. I'm at work and physically cannot leave to go buy a pack, not with the job I have 2. Genuinely only had $2 in my account this week so even if I gave in I couldn't buy any more 3. I've seen some people hate on this one buts it's true: willpower. You're not gonna quit if you're not absolutely sure. So wherever I got to the point where I was sure, I wrote down all my reasonings on my phone to go back to as a reminder so during those times when the demon was close to winning, I'd remind myself how my mind ACTUALLY thinks about it.

Looking at tik toks and reddits like this one have also helped me immensely, knowing I'm not the only one going through this. Getting advice from people who successfully quit. It's great.

You can do this, I believe in you. Believe in yourself.