Originally Posted by misty_dayz

Just before I quit I read this article that said that the average "nicotine fit" lasts 10 seconds. So...when you are dying for a cigarette....get up...take a 10 or 20 second walk...breathe deeply. At the end of the 20 seconds you can handle things again.

Seems over the first few days doing this I convinced myself that I would only be bothered by it for 10 seconds and it didn't feel "forever" so I was able to handle the quitting ....10 seconds at a time.