My biggest difficulty

[TransitJohn]

...is while driving. I live out in Wyoming, and work in the field as a geologist, and so necessarily do many long hitches behind the wheel. It's so goddamn hard to not have some with me. I'll pull over at the first truckstop I see and buy a pack when the cravings hit.

[caty]

1. Put on a good radio station,

tape,or CD---and sing along. A great replacement to cigs.

[TransitJohn]

2. Oh I definitely do that.

Subscribed to XM just for the tunes. Like I said, I do lots of driving. It's just hard cravings while I'm driving.

[lizerdbits]

3. That was hard for me too

but I only have about a 30 minute commute. At first even a 10 minute drive was hard.

I'm not sure I have good advice. Have you tried hard candies? I used sugar free (they are not calorie free and excessive consumption of sortbitol can have a laxative effect). Snacking on carrot or celery sticks when you're driving?

[TransitJohn]

4. Thanks for the tips.

It's just suck an ingrained habit to light up while driving. :(

[54anickel]

5. Driving was one of the hardest times to overcome. I was a menthol smoker

so sugar-free peppermint lifesavers worked pretty good. Also used mint flavored toothpicks or coffee stir stick straws. I'd find myself tapping them on the steering wheel just like packing a smoke. Also found that "flickin' a bic" or clicking a retractable pen helped with some of the hand "stuff".