Tips for Becoming a Non-Smoker
Many of our clients have found these ideas useful, both to loosen the grip of the smoking habit and to stay free of it once they've been helped to quit.
1. Break The Smoking Trance
How many cigarettes a day do you actually notice smoking? Very often it's only one or two, and the rest just sort of sneak in behind them. Identify these key cigarettes, as these are the ones to knock out first.
2. Disrupt The Smoking Pattern
Linked to the above, anything that you can do to interrupt the often unconscious pattern of smoking will help. Try keeping your lighter or matches in a separate room from your cigarettes, or in the garden shed, or in the attic...
3. Reward Yourself
Cigarettes have hijacked your brain's natural reward mechanism. Take back control with something that you truly enjoy, something that engages and occupies you (eating doesn't count, that's just swapping one hijacker for another). Walking, running, sudoku, crochet - whatever takes your fancy.
4. Make Friends With Your Cravings
Each time you experience a craving, it's a sign that the nicotine parasite is dying within you. And it's getting weaker by the day. Hasten its demise by drinking plenty of water or fruit juice.
5. Expect The Best
Do you remember how it felt when you were at school, waking up on the first morning of the long summer holiday? Knowing that the weary burden of school was behind you at last, and that life had all of a sudden opened up? The possibilities seemed endless, didn't they?
Becoming free of cigarettes is like that.
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