subject: If You Are Going To Quit Smoking, You Might As Well Make It Interesting [print this page] Even before you begin to try and stop smoking tobacco, you know it is not going to be any fun, so the least you can do is to somehow make it an interesting and rewarding process. How you go about doing this is entirely up to you since you are the one in control. You might want to make a bet with a friend or family member where you will end up the winner not only because you quit, but because you will be healthier too. You might want to set a certain time limit to be quit and when you reach it, reward yourself in some way. Perhaps you can save your reward until you have been quit for a certain amount of time.
Quitting smoking with a friend or loved can sometimes help a person to stick to their guns a little easier. You will need all the help, encouragement and initiative you can get to be successful. Letting yourself become weak and discouraged are two of the main reasons that smokers trying to quit are not successful. It is much easier to overcome the temptation to sneak and smoke when you have a friend or family member to call on to give you encouragement. Maybe even the fact that you will be able to tell them I told you so when you have reached your goal can be enough to help some people stay strong.
The one thing you can be sure of when you are trying to quit smoking is the fact that temptation will come. Oh there are some people who have quit smoking that will brag and say they just laid their cigarettes down one day and never wanted them again. Those people were probably either lying or were never addicted to tobacco and smoking in the first. Hardly ever will you find an ex smoker that will say they had an easy time of it. This is why you have to have some sort of goal or reward to reach when you start the procedure.
Just imagine that if you save all of the money you would have spent on cigarettes for even six months, you could have enough money to reward yourself with a three or four day cruise! You could buy yourself a new big flat screen television. You could take all of your friends out to a celebration dinner! There are so many things you can do with the money you waste on tobacco, that in itself is a reward you will begin to reap right away!
