subject: Stop Smoking Plan - Your Step By Step Guide To A Better Life! [print this page] Stop Smoking Plan - Your Step By Step Guide To A Better Life!
In this article I want to give you the stop smoking plan I used some years ago, and after a few cravings at the start I'm now happier than I have been since my teenage years.
Step 1
The first step is all about desire...
You're biggest weapon in the fight against smoking is wanting to quit more than anything else in the world, and knowing that it's the most important thing in your life at the moment. Without this you will have a tough battle ahead because the addiction will work on your weaknesses.
This is the reason that people diagnosed with lung cancer find it easy to give up because suddenly they have a massive reason. Try to visualize being told you have a terminal disease and knowing that you could have avoided all that pain. Build up those reasons in your mind.
Step 2
You should get a book called "Easy way to stop smoking" by Allen Carr. I listen to the audio book version and it was the best thing I ever did. I know you won't believe me now but it does make giving up fun.
Step 3
You want to get a stop smoking hypnosis CD, this will help you each day with your willpower.
Step 4
Now you have to get past the first week, here are some of my top tips:
1. Let your friends and family know that you're giving up and that you may need a little bit of support. Make sure that your smoker friends don't offer you any cigarettes because deep down that will want your faliure to validate their own smoking.
2. You will need to fill up that little hunger inside with some Healthy snacks like nuts, apples and raisins. If you just eat crap all the time you will be depressed and want to smoke even more.
3. I want you to also have a craving plan. This means that you make a pact with yourself that even if things get really bad and you are just about to light up, you will do something else first like go for a 10 minute walk. By the time you get back you will usually be over the hump.
4. Drink a glass of water every hour. If you have a dry mouth the cravings will seems worse.
5. If you do have cravings take in four deep breaths and hold them for as long as you can. This is a great way to give yourself an energy boost because flooding your body with oxygen makes you feel great.
6. Visit a website with pictures of people who have contracted smoking related disease. This is sad but good motivation.
