The Best Preparation Before You Stop Smoking
You have to be mentally ready, before you stop smoking. If you are not ready, it will be waste of energy and time to try.
You might also have to handle the physical nicotine withdrawal symptoms. If you take care of this part, the mental part might be easier.
Willpower alone will often not do it. You will probably need a little help too. You can find a lot of products that will remove the worst urge to smoke. Those products (like e.g. from Nicorette and Nicotinell) dampen the nicotine withdrawal symptoms.
The most popular products are nicotine plaster and nicotine chewing gum; but also nicotine tablets, nicotine inhaler and nicotine nasal spray are options.
Many of the cigarettes you smoke is probably more a matter of habit than a desire. The cigarette after lunch or at the bus stops; is it because you want a cigarette? Or has it just become a (bad) habit that you do not think about?
Look critically at your smoking situations. Then you will be able to reduce your cigarette consumption significantly. This way you can take deliberated choice, when you decide to light a cigarette.
Do you have any dreams that you cannot afford today? If it is within reasonable limits, you will probably be able to afford it if you quit smoking.
Give yourself (or maybe your family) a reward, when haven't smoked for a week, a month, a year etc. Thereby you have a great motivation to continue to fight, when everything seems a little hopeless.
A good way to make the reward present is piggy bank. Every day without smoking you put the amount you normally would have used for cigarettes in the quit smoking piggy bank. Then you can see how much money you save. And after a few month there is probably enough for a nice vacation.
Another great preparation before you quit smoking might be to write down your thoughts about your future smoking cessation project. Write your reasons to quit smoking, what you think will be the hardest etc.
When the crisis comes (and it probably will sooner or later), you can read to what you've written to get a little encouragement and new motivation. You can also write a quit smoking diary, where you confidentially can write about your ups and downs.
You might also have to handle the physical nicotine withdrawal symptoms. If you take care of this part, the mental part might be easier.
Willpower alone will often not do it. You will probably need a little help too. You can find a lot of products that will remove the worst urge to smoke. Those products (like e.g. from Nicorette and Nicotinell) dampen the nicotine withdrawal symptoms.
The most popular products are nicotine plaster and nicotine chewing gum; but also nicotine tablets, nicotine inhaler and nicotine nasal spray are options.
Many of the cigarettes you smoke is probably more a matter of habit than a desire. The cigarette after lunch or at the bus stops; is it because you want a cigarette? Or has it just become a (bad) habit that you do not think about?
Look critically at your smoking situations. Then you will be able to reduce your cigarette consumption significantly. This way you can take deliberated choice, when you decide to light a cigarette.
Do you have any dreams that you cannot afford today? If it is within reasonable limits, you will probably be able to afford it if you quit smoking.
Give yourself (or maybe your family) a reward, when haven't smoked for a week, a month, a year etc. Thereby you have a great motivation to continue to fight, when everything seems a little hopeless.
A good way to make the reward present is piggy bank. Every day without smoking you put the amount you normally would have used for cigarettes in the quit smoking piggy bank. Then you can see how much money you save. And after a few month there is probably enough for a nice vacation.
Another great preparation before you quit smoking might be to write down your thoughts about your future smoking cessation project. Write your reasons to quit smoking, what you think will be the hardest etc.
When the crisis comes (and it probably will sooner or later), you can read to what you've written to get a little encouragement and new motivation. You can also write a quit smoking diary, where you confidentially can write about your ups and downs.
About the Author:
Martin Elmer is writing about quitting your cigarettes on the website rygestop dag for dag. You can also learn how to minimize your nicotine withdrawal symptoms in the section Nicorette priser.