A lot of research has been done to help people quit the smoking habit. Stop smoking, that's right. No matter how much research, how many products to help, how many aids etc, the decision is yours, you have to make that decision, you decide to stop smoking.
Tip #1 Plan, set a date to quit. By making your plan to stop smoking you will have something to work to. Decide what you need to do, things like when do you enjoy smoking the most, with coffee, with a glass of wine or a cold beer. Talking on the phone, do you reach for a cigarette? List out your habit of when and where you smoke most, when and where you enjoy a cigarette most.
Tip #2 Co-operation, getting that from your friends and family who smoke. Change your habits, if you had your coffee and a cigarette in the mornings, then try tea instead of coffee or whatever you can enjoy without having a cigarette. The way you start your day will have a great bearing on how the day will go.
Tip #3 Learn something new, keep your hands busy. The first few months could find you doing something else to replace having a cigarette in your hand. Learn something new, go for walks, do things that you normally didn't smoke doing. Think about all the things you did without smoking and concentrate on these.
Tip #4 Water is good. Whenever you feel the need to light up, take a drink from your water bottle. It will help. Reduce your talking time on the phone. Do anything that you used to do without the need to have a cigarette. Water is very important, it has something to do with the nicotine that your body has stored. Drink plenty of water even if you aren't really a water drinker.
Tip #5 Be confident. Confidence is a wonderful thing. Having the confidence in yourself that you know you can stop smoking and not for just a couple of days but long enough to feel so much better in yourself, smell much better in yourself and your clothes and be so much nicer to be around.
These tips all helped me when I made the decision to stop smoking. I had a great incentive, a heart attack. The medical staff in CCU were so wonderful that if I had left their care and went off and continued smoking, then if I suffered another heart attack, they would have every right to refuse to nurse me and that would be fair too.
The tips above were what I used, I didn't drink coffee for a long time, drank lots of water, if I felt like a cigarette, I would take a sip of water, it worked. I could enjoy a glass of wine with my meal at night but it took a while for me to be able to enjoy a beer without a cigarette. I didn't smoke in the street, the car, while taking my walks or while gardening so these things I did often.
I smoked for about 35 years, I smoked at my job because in those days it was acceptable. So that was hard to do my job without having a cigarette. During those 35 years, I had never even thought about quitting the smoking habit, I had cut down from time to time but never tried to kick the habit.
I didn't want to use any aids to quit, like the patches or gum. If you feel you need something to help with your decision then by all means seek out what will work for you.
When I made my decision to quit smoking, I still had a packet and a half. I kept these in the back of my pantry. I did this because I knew that if I didn't have a cigarette at hand, I would want one all the more and would probably go to the store, buy a packet and I would be hooked again. I didn't want that. I left those cigarettes there for about 10 years, I had actually forgotten they were there.
Today I am so glad I don't smoke, so pleased I was given a second chance because today I would hate to be a smoker. I don't miss it and can be in a room of smokers and not even think about lighting up. I can tell you it is a wonderful feeling.
Seek support if you need it, when it comes right down to it, no one can quit your smoking habit but you. It is your decision to stop, make sure you are prepared to follow through with that decision. Do it now before you too, finish up in the Coronary Care Unit or worse, no longer with us. I was fortunate, I sincerely hope you will be too. Your body will thank you for it.
About the Author:©2007 CTBaird. Carmel Baird as an ex-smoker, contributes to Stop Smoking a site dedicated to helping people obtain hints, tips and information about stop smoking guides and much more.
What would you do when your house is on fire? Would you sit and think, plan and come up with a solution or just jump out of the window? But the truth is that unless you consider your smoking habit as dangerous as a house on fire, you are not going to jump. That is for sure. So, the obvious answer to the question 'what to do when you are sick of smoking?' would be - just quit! But this answer you've already heard from Many who don't smoke or those who have never successfully quit themselves.
So here is some advice from a smoker of twenty years who quit 10 years back.
Though for you to come to this point of wanting to quit smoking may be a major breakthrough in your life, you need to know that the desire to quit alone is not strong enough for you because it is not enough for most people - 97% to be precise. So, unless you belong to that minuscule minority, don't do it, even if you are desperate and want to quit right at this very moment.
Before you attempt to quit, you must first remove as much emotion from the process as humanly possible for although you are depressed or emotionally charged at the moment, it is not possible to maintain that level of anger or desperation long enough to see you through the quitting process.
You may want to quit because you have smoker's cough; a serious health scare; desire a better environment for your children; or just want to quit for yourself because you know it is the right thing to do. Look at your reasons and write down all the emotions and reasons you want to quit. These reasons will help you on your journey to becoming a non-smoker.
Use your reasons instead to help you on your journey to becoming a non-smoker; your emotions will only keep you wound up.
Note your reasons for quitting and then strengthen them with information. Search the internet for as much useful information as you can find. The more you know about the task at hand, the less hold the nicotine monster will have over you. Information will prepare you for all the hurdles on the way so that you are strong enough to face them and overcome them.
No matter which program you ultimately choose, you must do one all important thing - YOU MUST USE IT!
Buying a program and then leaving it in the package will do nothing other than keep you smoking because you have a stop smoking kit available that you will 'get to someday'. Someday is too late. Get the information you need - order a program - and use it. You'll be glad you did.
Get the information you need, order a program and start using it at once. You'll feel gratified as quitting smoking is one of the most rewarding things you will ever do in your life.
Happy journey,
Darren Warmuth
About the Author:Do the various quit smoking pills work? - read some independent reviews of zyban, chantix, hypnosis etc. Also, click here to discover the stop smoking method Darren himself used.This article is available as a unique content article with free reprint rights.
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