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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
An exciting plan, Tea Supremacist! I hope it goes more smoothly than you predict. An advantage of quitting all at once may be that you'll combine all the awful feelings together at one time, so you'll reduce the total length of time you feel crappy.
Since you're drinking decaf tea, is there something you can use besides cigarettes to create a new variation of the smoking habit? For example, instead of a cigarette you could have decaf tea and...pretzel sticks? Perhaps you can become a mini-pretzel stick baton twirler to give your fingers something to do.  Would that help, or is it advised to just change habits entirely so that you do nothing that triggers the urge for things you crave (caffeine, nicotine)?
Please give updates, if you want to. I've often wondered what withdrawal feels like and would like to hear about it. It must be hard, since people have such a difficult time quitting...but they *do* quit, so it can be done. I knew about headaches and jitters, but I didn't realize that stopping smoking can make someone feel like vomiting. I imagine you just have to say to yourself, "I'm going to feel awful, I'm going to hate it, and I'm going to be grumpy as hell," but then you remind yourself this WILL pass, this WILL pass. Because it will. (That was supposed to be a little pep talk.)
Oh! One more question about your day: since you aren't drinking caffeinated builder's tea anymore, have you branched out into herbal flavors yet? Like some nice mint tea?
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Actually, I have a bag of carrot and celery sticks here and various dips and weirdly enough it seems to be working quite well as a substitute for a cigarette and ashtray. But, it's only been less than a day so we'll see how long that works for. I'll be pretty miserable, but I've made up my mind, I've got a bigger picture to look at now so it's making it all a bit easier, actually having a good reason other than the usual "Oh, it's to save money" or whatever. Those excuses never worked for me cos I would just spunk my cash on something completely unproductive anyway
As for builders tea - you can get de-caff substitutes which actually aren't that bad. Giving up 'proper' tea is not an option for me! Saying that, I have also got a really nice raspberry fruity tea which is ok.
Perhaps I should make my own journal on quitting the only vices I have left in my life!
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Originally Posted by mojopinuk
Do you think stopping the habit is just as difficult, if not the most difficult thing about quitting smoking? For me, i really believe this to be the case. Stopping the nicotine craving is just one small part of it.
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Yeah, it's definately the habit itself more than the nicotine. I really like habit and routine (almost obsessively so) so it's going to be quite difficult to change that.