Hi Pattie,
Wow, you are singing my song! Desk 8-10 hours per day, long-time smoker (40+ yrs here), chantix user, stress, boredom... are we related ???
Allow the chantix to do what it does. Me? I smoked as much and as many as I could those last few days! Chantix didn't make them taste any worse...but I still quit on my quit date. (I even had a secret stash for emergencies that I threw out at about the 2 week mark)
At work I got up from my desk every time I would usually go for a cigarette, and I walked somewhere. To the ladies room, to the water cooler, to the soda machine, even outside to get some second-hand smoke (I don't recommend that one). For me, my stress ball was what kept my hand busy at my desk and even in my car.
At home it was the boredom...same old routine. Before my quit date I made little changes...I made myself to go to a different room to smoke, moved my computer, anything just to change up the routine. Within a week or two after my quit date, I had moved the computer back and my routine became normal again (yes, predictable and boring), except now my house and I are both smoke-free!
Read and post a lot on this site, and do what works for you. Many are afraid of that quit date, and most report that it wasn't as tough as they had expected (me included).
As someone once told me, just don't smoke! It's that easy, and it's the hardest thing many of us have ever done in our life!
You can do it, we can help.
Good luck!
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/14/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 78
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,360
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $378.3
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 10 [B]Hrs:[/B] 19 [B]Mins:[/B] 44 [B]Seconds:[/B] 40