[Andy]

Cheryl, Greetings and salutations.

Good for you on your decision to quit smoking. I hope you succeed in stopping.
I don’t know if this will help, but I recently stopped a bad habit myself. I have had this bad habit all of my life, and was not able to stop myself. This bad habit was a comfort action that I had developed early on in childhood. But, I managed to stop it a few months ago.
The way I stopped, was to make myself do other things. I mean whenever I caught myself about to ,or doing, the bad habit. I would focus on other actions instead. I tried to set up other habits and activities to take my mind away from the habit itself. I would not stay
with one thing, so I did not set up a new habit instead. In this way I was able to break the cycle. Don’t get me wrong every now and then I catch myself trying to start back up. I quickly put a stop to it. And so far I have not resumed. I realize your smoking has a chemical as well as a psychological dependency. And may not be quite the same thing.
Just wanted to let you know how I stopped a lifelong habit.

Hope this helps

Andy

"I never look back, darling. it distracts from the now." Edna Mode