• Is there any magic advice...

    Apparently each physiological craving lasts about 6 minutes. You just have to ride it out for that long, and then you get a fair bit of respite till the next one. And best not to think of them as concatenated. They're individual challenges.

    I knew I'd cracked it when, on being offered a fag, I replied, "no thanks, I don't smoke," rather than, "no thanks, I've given up."

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