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I just returned from a 10 days vacation. Nice side effect was that I quit smoking during this time, and don't actually want to continue now. I had cravings se
by coolvision 11y ago
I just returned from a 10 days vacation.
Nice side effect was that I quit smoking during this time, and don't actually want to continue now.
I had cravings several times during this 10 days, but I had too much stuff to distract myself with, because I packed my vacation with as much activity as possible -- road trip, visited 5 countries, spent time on beaches and in the mountains, etc...
There are few reasons for which vacation is needed for quitting:
- much less stress when on vacation, so less reasons to smoke (for me smoking was in some regard for dealing with stress).
- often smoking is for stimulation and out of boredom, less need for that if having fun on vacation
- often smoking is associated with daily habits (morning coffee with cigarette for me), and on vacation you break out of daily routine, and can skip that
- being physically active (trekking, cycling) during quitting is cool because you start feeling effects of quitting on your endurance immediately (after few days of non-smoking), so it's a good motivation
- even better would to go hiking/camping far from any sources of cigarettes, I did not do it this time, but would do in future if i would relapse into smoking