A common misperception is that smoking is simply a habit and that if you can go 21 days without using you will break the habit . Video discusses how smoking is more than a habit, it is an addiction accompanied by associations with many events and activities encountered throughout life. Experience, not time is what is going to determine how long it is before you break all of the different associations that you may have with cigarettes.

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• Craves or thoughts that occur over time
• Smoking triggers
• The urge hits
• Does it take 21 days to break the smoking "habit"?
• Difference between physical and psychological urges
• "How long before I don't want a cigarette?"
• "Will I ever stop thinking of cigarettes?"
• How quitting smoking is like learning to ride a bicycle
• Predestined bad days after quitting
• "I'll have to use willpower for the rest of my life not to smoke."
• How holidays that result in three day weekends affect recent ex-smokers
• Change of season triggers – the fall
• Change of season triggers – The Spring
• Summer seasonal triggers
• Be prepared for holiday triggers
• Thoughts for cigarettes that may seem worse than when first quitting smoking
• Resources related to facing or avoiding triggers
• "Who wants to go back to smoking"
• Dreams of smoking
• "I want one"
• "I don't feel any better since I quit smoking!"
• "I have to smoke when I talk on the phone"
• "The only time I think of smoking is when I get one of your stupid letters"
• "I'll come for reinforcement when I need it"
• "Boy do I deserve a cigarette for that"
• The Terrible 3's
• Longer-term quitters who say they are still having bad days
• Just think of something else
• Everything you did as a smoker you can do as an ex-smoker
• You smoke because you're a smokeaholic
• Being locked up to quit smoking
• Smoking breaks
• Make a list of why you want to quit