Tips And Tricks To Quit Smoking For Good

Are you ready to stop living your life by a nicotine habit? Each year, thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer and other smoking-related illnesses and it can be prevented by quitting smoking right now.  Here are some tips and tricks I personally used while quitting smoking. 

Make a smoking journal a week before you want to stop. How are you feeling to make you want to smoke? Are you stressed out? Write down the things you do before you have a mandatory cigarette. For most people, it’s either before or after a meal.

Herbal patches are the way to go to quit smoking. Why you ask? Nicotine patches contain the very stuff you’re currently addicted to so it makes it ten times harder and more frustrating to quit if you’re only getting your nicotine fix in some other form.

Create a list of things you’d like to accomplish being smoke-free. Do you want to save up for a new car or go for a mile long hike? Do you want to live long enough to see your kid’s graduate? These are the top reasons why being smoke-free is so important to you.

If you want to ease your way out of cigarette addiction instead of going cold turkey, go to your journal and see how many you smoke per day. Smoke that amount one day and every day after that, smoke one less and so on. Ask your family or friends to hide your cigarettes and tell them your daily allowance. Another tip is to put your pack of cigarettes on the opposite side of your home so you go longer without smoking.

Set the date for your new life as a non-smoker.

If you have a friend at work who wants to quit, plan to quit together. Like most lifestyle changes, support groups are an option to help you quit.

When you crave a cigarette, do something else.  Some people knit, some write long letters or poems.  Find something that you enjoy that you can replace habit with another habit.  If you’re worried about gaining extra weight, when you crave a cigarette, go for a walk. Even if you’re on your lunch break at work, walk around a parking lot or the building in which you work. For an even better overall feeling, getting a pedometer and out-walking yesterday’s previous steps will make you feel accomplished.

Rewarding yourself after a set date will surely keep you from quitting.  Take the money you would have spent on a pack or carton of cigarettes and splurge. 

Drinking lots of water will flush out the nicotine from your body faster.

Some people don’t believe in hypnosis but hypnosis can offer you a way to relax the cravings, even if it’s not specifically for smoking cessation.  If you’re not a big fan of hypnosis, try breathing techniques.

Remember, the third day of being smoke-free is the hardest and if you can get through that, you can get through the rest of your life being smoke-free.