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Stop smoking in the New Year just around the corner! Quit smoking in the season of giving and renewal and give yourself the gift of life when you make a New Year's resolution to stop smoking! This can be the last year you promise yourself that you will give up smoking cigarettes for good!
Commit to Quit Smoking
Making the commitment to quit smoking is quite different than actually following through. How many times have you resolved to stop smoking cigarettes in the past? What happened?
Did you
Keep your decision to yourself?
This is the absolute worst idea if you want to successfully quit smoking! The battle with tobacco addiction is no joke, and it is not easily fought. If you are trying to win it alone, you are destined to fail. It is important that you notify everybody in your life of your intention to stop smoking. It is even more important that you notify non-smokers of your intentions to kick your nicotine habit, because this is most likely the extent of support you will get from some of your smoker friends and family:
"You won't succeed; I don't even know why you're trying," "Quitter," or "Yeah right, I give you a week."
These are highly defeating statements that will convince you that your friends are right if you let them interfere with your plans. This is exactly the type of mentality from which you need to escape to make the commitment to stop smoking.
Promise yourself you would quit when the carton or pack was gone?
While this resolution to stop smoking works for some, it is generally nothing more than a continuation of the disease of tobacco addiction that will result in another purchase of a pack or carton until the resolve has long been forgotten. If you need to commit to a future date, it's best to set an actual date that you intend on quitting. You could decide once and for all that December 31st will be your last day smoking cigarettes.
To some smokers, though, this is just another way to put off responsibility for making the decision to quit smoking. If you are going to set a date, join a stop smoking program online or in person before the arrival of the date so that you get the necessary support to help you keep your commitment to quit.
For some smokers, the best possible course of action is to make a firm decision to stop smoking and act on it! Break your cigarettes and flush them down the toilet! This is a bold and symbolic move that offers many the strength and courage they need to break free from the addiction of smoking for good.
Successfully quit for some time and a craving for 1 cigarette started you back at square 1?
The disease of nicotine addiction is a progressive illness! What that means is that even though you stop, your addiction is growing and becoming stronger with every passing week, month, and year. The only way to beat your addiction is to completely refrain from smoking.
Taking the first drag is like making the decision to get into a cage with a dancing gorilla. It may seem fun at first, but you don't get to choose when you're done dancing! You aren't done until the gorilla lets you go; and that could be the point at which you're being diagnosed with emphysema from smoking cigarettes!
The very first step in the fight against tobacco addiction is not only the hardest, it's the most vital for you to keep your New Year's resolution to stop smoking.
