I decided to make a subjective track of the strength of my urges during the whole period.
I am at day 4 and my goal is 15 days. I am going to register the tension according to a particular day in the journal and will edit it every day.
I started from the abstract number 5 as a basic point. There is no cap in this tension scale and 10 doesn’t mean top tension, it can be anything. It is just a subjective way to express the extent and the dynamics. Thus, at the moment it looks like this:
Days - Tension (abstract subjective scale)
1-5
2-6
3-7
4-9
5-11
6-10
7-10
8-
9-
10-
11-
12-
13-
14-
15-
I put numbers till the end of the period right away in order to have a better focus on the timeframes.
It seems it can be a useful analytical and motivational instrument for you as well so consider trying it - adjust this one or enhance it to something similar. I guess it may illustrate your personal slope and make your struggle more conscious.