subject: Tips To Help You Quit Smoking Once And For All [print this page] You know that smoking is bad for your health, and to an extent bad for the health of those around you. You have been a smoker for a very long time, and you have noticed that smoking has taken a major toll on your breathing, your taste buds, and your overall quality of life. You wish you could quit smoking, but are somewhat intimidated by the very high number of smokers who have attempted to quit and failed. You know you do not want to fail, but at the same time know that if you simply continue to smoke that it will eventually take a major toll on your health. Do not worry, because here are some tips that should make it much easier to get nicotine out of your life once and for all.
The first thing that needs to be done is for you to tell yourself that you are no longer a smoker and that nicotine is no longer allowed in your life. This way you have begun to remove the mind set of being a smoker and instead swap it out with the mind set of being a non smoker. You need to remember that half of the fight against nicotine is a mental battle to not want to smoke anymore. Another thing you need to keep in mind is that if you consider smoking to relieve stress that smoking actually raises the stress levels of a person, so you are really only fooling yourself.
As a means to curb cravings, you should do anything necessary. If you are considering using nicotine gums and patches, keep in mind that while these can be very helpful to curb individual cravings, they should not be solely depended on to get rid of the cravings altogether. Instead, you will have to focus on building up your own will power to resist the nicotine cravings. One method that many people use is to replace the time you would have normally spent smoking with a different, menial activity, such as doing crossword puzzles and things like that. Anything to get your mind of the craving is a good thing.
You also need to keep in mind that if you succumb to a craving to not beat yourself up over it. Instead use it as a learning experience. Write down the scenario that led to the craving, and write down how you felt when it came on, and use that for future reference so that you know how to better deal with it.
