 10
TIPS TO HELP YOU QUIT SMOKING
1. Get the right mindset
If you really want to give up you have to get the right mindset
to succeed.
Firstly, write down all the benefits you will derive from
giving up, from saving money to being full of health and vitality.
2. Spend a week preparing yourself
When you smoke consider think what its doing to you and how
it makes you feel with blocked nose, sluggish health etc and
visualise the new you without it.
In this week you can cut down in preparation.
The fact that you can cut down (and most people can) gives
you confidence for the day when you quit.
3. When you stop if you can't do it don't beat yourself
up about it
Many people who stop relapse first time. Don’t consider you
have failed simply try again, we very often can’t achieve
things first time round so there is no shame in trying again.
4. Prepare for the day by making several changes
Fill your day to keep your mind of smoking.
Take up a new hobby and get some exercise to accelerate the
feeling of wellbeing and each week treat yourself to something
with the money you have saved.
5. Don’t take herbal remedies hypnosis or acupuncture
There is no proven medical evidence they work. If you have
the mental willpower you don’t need them, You only need help
with the physical addiction and the above will not help at
all you need something else.
6. Use NRT
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) gives you a dose of nicotine
outside of cigarette smoking and although nicotine provides
the physical addiction, it is not harmful when removed from
cigarettes.
It’s a proven fact that NRT increases chances of quitting
by up to double, when you don’t have to cope with nicotine
withdrawal symptoms.
There are many products available including: Gum, patches
puffers and inhalers.
7. Nicotine Change your view of it
Keep in mind there is nothing wrong with taking nicotine in
organic form ( it’s actually part of the food chain ) In fact
nicotine in organic form is actually good for you and its
proven to improve mood memory and attention.
8. It only lasts for a month
The physical withdrawal symptoms (if you decide not to use
NRT) are toughest in the first week or so but the craving
to smoke should be gone within a month.
It then simply becomes a mental battle.
9. You were not born a smoker!
This point is very important — You decided to smoke you
were not born a smoker and you lived without it before and
you can live without it again.
Smokers view cigarettes like a friend who comforts them,
but just as you get rid of friends throughout your life, you
can get rid of cigarettes.
10. Tell everyone that your giving up
This will give you an extra incentive to stop and also tell
them not to tempt you (if they are smokers) and in the first
week stay away from friends who smoke, or areas like pubs
and restaurants where you may be tempted to smoke.
In the early stages it’s important to remove temptations.
If you want to give up smoking the above 10 tips will help
and if you are serious about giving up you will.
One final point: Don't be afraid to seek help with the physical
addiction side, if you don’t feel you have the willpower and
try alternative nicotine sources, it makes giving up easier
for most people.
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