Let’s say that you buy a brand new car, and true to Murphy’s Law, instead of the signal lever being on the left, as with your old car, it is on the right. You know it’s on the right, but for a couple of weeks, until you become accustomed to it, you occasionally put the windshield wipers on whenever you want to signal. Stopping smoking is similar. During the early days of being quit, certain events may trigger the thought, ‘I want a cigarette.’ This is because for all of the years you were a smoker, you associated this specific event with smoking. In such situations, ‘I want a cigarette’
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