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Quit smoking

1. Find Your Reason

Why you smoke. You need a powerful reason to quit: May it be to protect your family, to lower your chance of getting diseases, to look and feel younger. Choose a reason that is strong enough to outweigh the urge to light up. Remind yourself why you quit. Focus on your reasons for quitting, improved appearance, enhanced self-esteem.

Prepare yourself by reading lots of materials stressing both the negative effects of smoking, and the psychology of habits and craving. The former will bolster your determination to stop, while the latter is essential to help you prepare for the challenge.

2. Nicotine Replacement Therapy

Nicotine is a drug. The craving for “just one drag” is tough. Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) can curb these urges. Nicotine gum, lozenges, and patches.

3. Behavioral therapy

Tell your friends, family. Behavioral therapy helps you stick to your quit-smoking strategies.

4. Avoid triggers and replace it with other habits

Smoking is also ingrained as a daily ritual. It may be an automatic response for you to smoke a cigarette with your morning coffee, while taking a break at work or school, or on your commute home at the end of a hectic day. You’ll need to address both the addiction and the habits and routines that go along with it.

When you drink, it’s harder to stick to your no-smoking goal. Likewise, if you often smoke when you drink coffee, switch to tea for a few weeks. If you usually smoke after meals, find something else to do instead, like brushing your teeth, taking a walk, texting a friend, or chewing gum. Try a new hobby.

Distract yourself. Do the dishes, turn on the TV, take a shower, or call a friend. The activity doesn’t matter as long as it gets your mind off smoking.

5. Punishment

Once you’ve smoked your last cigarette, toss all of your ashtrays and lighters. Wash any clothes that smell like smoke, and clean your carpets, draperies, and upholstery. You don’t want to see or smell anything that reminds you of smoking.

6. Reward

Remember, after only 20 minutes, your heart rate goes back to normal. You can breathe easier. The levels of poisonous carbon monoxide in your blood drops, so your blood can carry more oxygen. Within a day, your blood’s carbon monoxide level also falls back into place. In just 2-3 weeks, you will start to lower your odds of having a heart attack.

https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/ss/slideshow-13-best-quit-smoking-tips-ever
https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/quit-smoking#2
https://www.helpguide.org/articles/addictions/how-to-quit-smoking.htm/


https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/2153688/how-quit-smoking-five-tips-smoker-who-stopped-after-35