10 Effective Home Remedies to Stop You Smoking

Best Ways to Quit Smoking

The first step is to pick a day sometime within the next few weeks to entirely stop smoking. Between now and then, you can gradually change your routine to reduce smoking habits and set up a support system to help you quit. Avoid places where you are accustomed to smoking, delay cigarette breaks, smoke only half a cigarette, cut down on your daily packs, chew gum, exercise more, find something else to do with your hands, and check out some of the other ways to quit smoking detailed below!

Ask yourself  this “Am I going to wait until a Dr. tells me I have cancer… then stop smoking?”

This technique will impact on your pocket but that is the whole purpose.

Technique 1:
1. Determine how many cigarettes you smoke per day. [for me it was 20]
2. Determine how long you want to take to quit smoking. It could be a week, a month, or any number you want. It’s your choice. [I chose 20 days]
3. You are going to reduce the number of cigarettes you smoke by 1 every -blank- number of days. Choose what that -blank- number of days is. [I chose to reduce the number of cigarettes I smoked by one, every -1- days. For example: the first day I smoked 20, the next day I smoked 19, on the third day I smoke 18, etc. You could choose to reduce the cigarettes by one every day, every 2 days, every week, or whatever you want. It’s totally your choice.]
4. Buy a small pad of paper that is comfortable to carry with you wherever you go that you smoke.
5. Every single time you are about to smoke one of your cigarettes, first take a moment to write down in your pad of paper whatever you are feeling and doing at that exact moment. [What your feeling could be anything such as, “I’m feeling excited, happy, sad, stressed, angry, bored, hungry, frustrated, etc.” It could even be, “I’m feeling nothing.” What you’re doing could be anything, such as I’m at work, just had an argument, watching tv, stuck in traffic, at a party, having coffee, just finished dinner, etc.]
6. Lastly, you buy the same amount of cigarettes that you used to buy before you started this technique, and you destroy the extra cigarettes that you are not smoking and throw them in the trash. [Because I smoked a pack a day when I started this process, I had to buy a brand new pack every day, even though I was gradually reducing the number I would smoke out of that pack by one every day. For instance, on day 15, near the end of the process, I had to buy a new pack, I smoked 5 of them, and then I crumbled up the remaining 15 and threw them away. On day 16 I bought a new pack, smoked 4 of them, crumbled up the remaining 16 and threw them away, etc. This practice is to drive it home to you how much money you spend on cigarettes.]
If this is too expensive do this instead:
Technique 2:
Save your old empty packs and split one pack up into groups of 6,8 or 10 cigarettes. Do this with every new pack until you can quit for good. When you are trying to quit, never buy them by the carton. You are retraining your brain to be satisfied with a few which leads to none.

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