The key to successfully battling any disease or addiction is to identify what it is that afflicts you, educate yourself about your disease or addiction to get a better understanding on how to proceed on your road to recovery. In the following article you are going to discover 5 powerful smoking quit tips that work, and understanding that nicotine addiction is two fold, will better help you to incorporate these tips into your quit smoking plan.
Without further delay here are the 5 smoking quit tips that will make quit smoking a breeze and make your life much better.
tip #1.If you are trying to quit smoking for any other reason than for yourself, it might make quitting a little more complicated and harder to stop for good. You have to want it without reservations or any ideas thinking that if you quit now you can stop any time, because each time you stop and go back quitting smoking becomes harder and harder, so make sure you want to stop for you.
tip #2.Here's a smoking quit tip that will almost positively ensure your stop smoking success, and that's, knowing what your potential habitual triggers are and doing what you have to do to avoid them, at least until you become strong enough to deal with being in contact with whatever it is that makes you want to light up. Remain consistent and you will succeed.
tip #3.Introduce new productive habits that will help you get through the initial stages quitting smoking. Believe it or not you have before you an excellent opportunity to explore some of the things and projects that you have been wanting to do and get to for a long time, what better time to explore those other areas in your life than now. Your mind will be preoccupied with your new projects and you won't have time to think much of any thing else to include smoking.
tip #4.Take the time to read educational information about the addiction of nicotine and how it effects the human body, trust me you are definitely in the right frame of mind for this and it will have a profound effect on your ability and wants to stay stopped. When I was smoking the last thing I wanted to do was pick up a pamphlet or anything that had something to do with not smoking, or the effects of long term smoking, I had convinced my self that it was enjoyable and that's all that concerned me about smoking.
tip #5.Set small goals for yourself, the choice to not smoke is not just simply choosing not to pick up a cigarette, it's a lifestyle change, and not smoking is going to present other opportunities because your going to have more energy to want to do more things. Take the time to embrace your new life and revel in the fact that others can see something different in you, and they will acknowledge it too.
Bonus tip.Don't look back, the longer you stay stopped the better things will get for you, your senses will begin to awaken and you will start to enjoy what may seem like brand new sensations. So take these powerful smoking quit tips and put them into action today.
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Thursday, 4 February 2010
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
quit smoking plan
Want to know how to quit smoking cigarettes and have long term success (i.e to stop and stay stopped)? There is only one price to pay: You have to want to do it!
Really want to! Stop, stay stopped - QUIT - completely.
Why? Well, just for the moment, forget about willpower, products, aids and programs. If you attempt to do anything half heartedly, the most likely outcome is failure.
It takes far less effort to make a determined effort to stop when you want to do it and you're in the right frame of mind, than a half baked attempt when you don't really want to. You just can't get your head around it.
Don't waste time and effort going through the motions if you don't want to stop. It's like waiting for a bus you know is unreliable to get you somewhere on time - setting yourself up with a lame excuse to blame for failure.
Find real reasons to quit that mean something to you and you will be well on your way. This is so important, as these reasons will help motivate you through difficult moments of craving, stress, social situations and peer pressure.
Common Reasons For Quitting
Below are some of the most common reasons ex smokers give for quitting. Apply these to your circumstances, try to picture how they affect you and those around you and personalise them. You may find hidden, constructive and real reasons to stop.
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I want to stop feeling ashamed. My clothes, car and house smell because of it. The ceilings in my house need repainting and my curtains look grimy. Even my fingernails and teeth are stained.
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I want improve my health. Stopping reduces the risk of serious illnesses such as heart disease and lung cancer. My family will suffer and their feelings will be hurt if I get ill.
*
I can't afford it. The money I spend on cigarettes could buy a nice used family car every few years. When I don't have enough money I think about how much I'm wasting.
*
I don't want to smoke around my non smoking family and friends. It's unfair. They don't smoke but face increased risk of ill health because of my smoking.
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It's anti social. Finding places to smoke in public is becoming increasingly difficult. It's an unecessary strain when I eat out, go to the cinema and even shopping.
Identify and understand the reasons why you smoke and you will find it easier to form a personal quit smoking action plan.
Don't underestimate the value of this important step. The process will help you develop practical solutions for combating many of the issues you will face while quitting. For example withdrawal symptoms and coping with stress.
The most common reasons smokers give for smoking are:
* Pleasure: 'I enjoy smoking', 'Relaxation'
* For a boost: Mental or physical
* Habit: The being used to doing things while smoking
* Addiction: to satisfy nicotine cravings
* Peer/Social: Pressure or to feel part of the crowd
* Emotion: Feelings such as stress, anger, upset, anxiety etc.
Beginnings Of Your Quit Smoking Action Plan
To get a good idea of what makes YOU smoke, think about the reasons above every time you light a cigarette for the next couple of days.
It is also useful to rate how much you need each of them e.g
1. I don't really need it
2. I need it
3. I have to have one
Keep records in a notebook and tally how many cigarettes you could have gone without and how many you really needed to smoke. You will begin to see which cigarettes you are likely to miss the most.
Try to picture yourself in the same situations without a cigarette.
With just a little perseverance the cigarettes you rated with a "1" should be quite easy to eliminate. Most likely the cigarettes rated "2" and "3" will also be the ones that will tempt you back to smoking once you have stopped.
Make a note of what specifically makes you want to smoke. Maybe something like:
"The cigarettes I really have to smoke are through habit, first thing in the morning and after meals".
Really want to! Stop, stay stopped - QUIT - completely.
Why? Well, just for the moment, forget about willpower, products, aids and programs. If you attempt to do anything half heartedly, the most likely outcome is failure.
It takes far less effort to make a determined effort to stop when you want to do it and you're in the right frame of mind, than a half baked attempt when you don't really want to. You just can't get your head around it.
Don't waste time and effort going through the motions if you don't want to stop. It's like waiting for a bus you know is unreliable to get you somewhere on time - setting yourself up with a lame excuse to blame for failure.
Find real reasons to quit that mean something to you and you will be well on your way. This is so important, as these reasons will help motivate you through difficult moments of craving, stress, social situations and peer pressure.
Common Reasons For Quitting
Below are some of the most common reasons ex smokers give for quitting. Apply these to your circumstances, try to picture how they affect you and those around you and personalise them. You may find hidden, constructive and real reasons to stop.
*
I want to stop feeling ashamed. My clothes, car and house smell because of it. The ceilings in my house need repainting and my curtains look grimy. Even my fingernails and teeth are stained.
*
I want improve my health. Stopping reduces the risk of serious illnesses such as heart disease and lung cancer. My family will suffer and their feelings will be hurt if I get ill.
*
I can't afford it. The money I spend on cigarettes could buy a nice used family car every few years. When I don't have enough money I think about how much I'm wasting.
*
I don't want to smoke around my non smoking family and friends. It's unfair. They don't smoke but face increased risk of ill health because of my smoking.
*
It's anti social. Finding places to smoke in public is becoming increasingly difficult. It's an unecessary strain when I eat out, go to the cinema and even shopping.
Identify and understand the reasons why you smoke and you will find it easier to form a personal quit smoking action plan.
Don't underestimate the value of this important step. The process will help you develop practical solutions for combating many of the issues you will face while quitting. For example withdrawal symptoms and coping with stress.
The most common reasons smokers give for smoking are:
* Pleasure: 'I enjoy smoking', 'Relaxation'
* For a boost: Mental or physical
* Habit: The being used to doing things while smoking
* Addiction: to satisfy nicotine cravings
* Peer/Social: Pressure or to feel part of the crowd
* Emotion: Feelings such as stress, anger, upset, anxiety etc.
Beginnings Of Your Quit Smoking Action Plan
To get a good idea of what makes YOU smoke, think about the reasons above every time you light a cigarette for the next couple of days.
It is also useful to rate how much you need each of them e.g
1. I don't really need it
2. I need it
3. I have to have one
Keep records in a notebook and tally how many cigarettes you could have gone without and how many you really needed to smoke. You will begin to see which cigarettes you are likely to miss the most.
Try to picture yourself in the same situations without a cigarette.
With just a little perseverance the cigarettes you rated with a "1" should be quite easy to eliminate. Most likely the cigarettes rated "2" and "3" will also be the ones that will tempt you back to smoking once you have stopped.
Make a note of what specifically makes you want to smoke. Maybe something like:
"The cigarettes I really have to smoke are through habit, first thing in the morning and after meals".
Monday, 1 February 2010
10 Powerful Tips To Stop Smoking
Whether you are using Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Hypnosis or just Cold Turkey, these strategies and hints are for aiding you to stop smoking and are sure to assist you in helping your neurology change and thus enable you to stop smoking with ease. It is up to you to ensure that you do these things to really enhance what you are doing, the more effort you put into these exercises, the easier it is to stop smoking for good.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 1.
Being a smoker is like cycling with stabilisers attached to the wheels, you can find it hard to be balanced without smoking. Now, when you cycle freely again, the natural balance returns.
When people smoke, more than half of what they breathe is fresh air - pulled through the cigarette right down into the lungs. So if you feel any cravings you can instantly overcome them by taking three deeper breaths. Imagine breathing from that space just below your belly button. Whenever you do this you put more oxygen into your bloodstream. This means you can use deep breaths to change the way you feel instantly and give you power over the way you feel and help you let go of those old cravings and thus making it easier to stop smoking.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 2
Next, think now of all the reasons you don't like smoking, the reasons that it's bad and the reasons you want to stop smoking. Write down the key words on a piece of paper. For example, you experience breathlessness, it's dirty, filthy and your clothes smell, your friends and family are concerned and it's expensive, unsociable and so on. Then, on the other side of the paper, write down all the reasons why you'll feel good when you've succeeded in stopping. You'll feel healthier, you’ll feel in control of your self, your senses are enhanced, your hair and clothes will smell fresher and so on. Whenever you need to, look at that piece of paper.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 3
Next, we are going to programme your mind to feel disgusted by cigarettes. I want you recall 4 times when you thought to yourself "I've gotta quit", or that you felt disgusted about smoking. Maybe you just felt really unhealthy, or your doctor told you in a particular tone of voice 'You've got to quit' or somebody you know was badly affected by smoking. Take a moment now to come up with 4 different times that you felt that you have to quit or were disgusted by smoking.
Remember each of those times, one after another, as though they are happening now. I want you to keep going through those memories and make them as vivid as possible. The more vivid you make those memories, the easier it will be to stop smoking. See what you saw, hear what you heard and feel how you felt. I want you to take a few minutes now to keep going through those memories again and again, overlap each memory with the next until you are totally and utterly disgusted by cigarettes.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 4
Have a think to yourself about the consequences of you not stopping smoking now, if you just carry on and on. Imagine it, what will happen if you carry on smoking. What are the consequences? Imagine yourself in 6 months time, a years time, even 5 years time if you do not stop smoking now. Think of all the detrimental effects of not stopping right now and how a simple decision you make today can make such an impact on your future.
Next, imagine how much better is your life going to be when you stop smoking. Really imagine it's months from now and you successfully stopped. Smoking is a thing of the past, something you used to do. Keep that feeling with you and imagine having it tomorrow, and for the rest of next week. In your mind, imagine stepping in to that non-smoking version of you and feel how it feels to be a non-smoker.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 5
Also, your mind is very sensitive to associations, so it's very important that you have a clear out and remove all tobacco products from your environment. Move some of the furniture in your house and at work. Smokers are accustomed to smoking in certain situations. So, for example, if you used to smoke on the telephone at work move the phone to the other side of the desk. Throw away ashtrays, old lighters and anything that you used to associate with smoking. Make your environment conducive to stopping smoking.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 6
Smokers sometimes use their habit to give themselves little breaks during the day. Taking a break is good for you, so carry on taking that time off - but do something different. Walk round the block, have a cup of tea or drink of water, or do some of the techniques on this programme. In fact, if possible drink a lot of fruit juice. When you stop smoking the body goes through a big change. The blood sugar levels tend to fall, the digestion is slowed down and your body starts to eject the tar and poisons that have accumulated. Fresh fruit juice contains fructose which restores your blood sugar levels, vitamin C which helps clear out impurities and high levels of water and fibre to keep your digestion going. Also try to eat fruit every day for at least two weeks after you have stopped.
Also when you stop, cut your caffeine intake by half. Nicotine breaks down caffeine so without nicotine a little coffee will have a big effect. Drink 8-10 glasses of water (ideally bottled) to help wash out your system.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 7
You were used to using cigarettes to signal to your body to release happy chemicals, so next we are going to programme some good feelings into your future. Allow yourself to fully remember now a time when you felt very deep ecstasy, pleasure or bliss, right now. Take a moment to recall it as vividly as possible. Remember that time - see what you saw, hear what you heard and feel how good you felt. Where abouts in your body were those feelings, imagine turning them up and spreading them through your body to make them more intense.
Keep going through the memory, as soon as it finishes, go through it again and again, all the time squeezing your thumb and finger together. In your mind, make those images big and bright, sounds loud and harmonious and feelings strong and intensified. We are making an associational link between the squeeze of your fingers and that good feeling.
Okay, stop and relax. Now if you have done that correctly when you squeeze your thumb and finger together you should feel that good feeling again. Go ahead do that now, squeeze thumb and finger and remember that good feeling.
Now we're going to programme good feelings to happen automatically whenever you are in a situation where you used to smoke but now you stop smoking.
So, next I'd like you to squeeze your thumb and finger together, get that good feeling going and now imagine being in several situations where you would have smoked, but being there feeling great without a cigarette. See what you'll see hear and take that good feeling into those situations without a need for a cigarette.
Imagine being in a situation where someone offers you a cigarette and you confidently say 'No thanks, I don't smoke'. And feel fantastic about it!
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 8
Get social support. Your commitment to stopping smoking for the rest of your life can be made much easier by talking about it to friends and family and letting them support you. They will congratulate you on doing so well too! You really did stop smoking.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 9
Be aware of making excuses for yourself. Some people talk themselves into smoking, especially if they encounter a stressful situation and in the past they used to deal with it by smoking. If those old thoughts pop into your head, shout the word “STOP” in your head, to stop the thoughts from progressing. Nicotine just stresses your body more and is like that itch that can never be properly scratched; the more you smoke, the more you have to. So say “STOP” and steer clear of old slippery slopes.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 10
Reward yourself. Congratulate yourself. Feel how good it feels to stop smoking and be a non-smoker. Treat yourself each time you get past a certain milestone; the first week or first month, the six month target. Let yourself know that you did something really special here.
Keep on using your brain, stretching it and helping your self, by running through these exercises time after time; you are sure to be able to make it easier and easier and successfully stop smoking for good.
Copyright 2005 Adam Eason All Rights Reserved.
Visit Adam Easons website today for a free mini series on how to stop smoking delivered to you by email. You can also visit his homepage to sign up for his free bi-monthly newsletter because it is packed with insightful tips, latest techniques and insightful strategies for personal development and receive a unique and amazing hypnosis session for free.
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Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 1.
Being a smoker is like cycling with stabilisers attached to the wheels, you can find it hard to be balanced without smoking. Now, when you cycle freely again, the natural balance returns.
When people smoke, more than half of what they breathe is fresh air - pulled through the cigarette right down into the lungs. So if you feel any cravings you can instantly overcome them by taking three deeper breaths. Imagine breathing from that space just below your belly button. Whenever you do this you put more oxygen into your bloodstream. This means you can use deep breaths to change the way you feel instantly and give you power over the way you feel and help you let go of those old cravings and thus making it easier to stop smoking.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 2
Next, think now of all the reasons you don't like smoking, the reasons that it's bad and the reasons you want to stop smoking. Write down the key words on a piece of paper. For example, you experience breathlessness, it's dirty, filthy and your clothes smell, your friends and family are concerned and it's expensive, unsociable and so on. Then, on the other side of the paper, write down all the reasons why you'll feel good when you've succeeded in stopping. You'll feel healthier, you’ll feel in control of your self, your senses are enhanced, your hair and clothes will smell fresher and so on. Whenever you need to, look at that piece of paper.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 3
Next, we are going to programme your mind to feel disgusted by cigarettes. I want you recall 4 times when you thought to yourself "I've gotta quit", or that you felt disgusted about smoking. Maybe you just felt really unhealthy, or your doctor told you in a particular tone of voice 'You've got to quit' or somebody you know was badly affected by smoking. Take a moment now to come up with 4 different times that you felt that you have to quit or were disgusted by smoking.
Remember each of those times, one after another, as though they are happening now. I want you to keep going through those memories and make them as vivid as possible. The more vivid you make those memories, the easier it will be to stop smoking. See what you saw, hear what you heard and feel how you felt. I want you to take a few minutes now to keep going through those memories again and again, overlap each memory with the next until you are totally and utterly disgusted by cigarettes.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 4
Have a think to yourself about the consequences of you not stopping smoking now, if you just carry on and on. Imagine it, what will happen if you carry on smoking. What are the consequences? Imagine yourself in 6 months time, a years time, even 5 years time if you do not stop smoking now. Think of all the detrimental effects of not stopping right now and how a simple decision you make today can make such an impact on your future.
Next, imagine how much better is your life going to be when you stop smoking. Really imagine it's months from now and you successfully stopped. Smoking is a thing of the past, something you used to do. Keep that feeling with you and imagine having it tomorrow, and for the rest of next week. In your mind, imagine stepping in to that non-smoking version of you and feel how it feels to be a non-smoker.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 5
Also, your mind is very sensitive to associations, so it's very important that you have a clear out and remove all tobacco products from your environment. Move some of the furniture in your house and at work. Smokers are accustomed to smoking in certain situations. So, for example, if you used to smoke on the telephone at work move the phone to the other side of the desk. Throw away ashtrays, old lighters and anything that you used to associate with smoking. Make your environment conducive to stopping smoking.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 6
Smokers sometimes use their habit to give themselves little breaks during the day. Taking a break is good for you, so carry on taking that time off - but do something different. Walk round the block, have a cup of tea or drink of water, or do some of the techniques on this programme. In fact, if possible drink a lot of fruit juice. When you stop smoking the body goes through a big change. The blood sugar levels tend to fall, the digestion is slowed down and your body starts to eject the tar and poisons that have accumulated. Fresh fruit juice contains fructose which restores your blood sugar levels, vitamin C which helps clear out impurities and high levels of water and fibre to keep your digestion going. Also try to eat fruit every day for at least two weeks after you have stopped.
Also when you stop, cut your caffeine intake by half. Nicotine breaks down caffeine so without nicotine a little coffee will have a big effect. Drink 8-10 glasses of water (ideally bottled) to help wash out your system.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 7
You were used to using cigarettes to signal to your body to release happy chemicals, so next we are going to programme some good feelings into your future. Allow yourself to fully remember now a time when you felt very deep ecstasy, pleasure or bliss, right now. Take a moment to recall it as vividly as possible. Remember that time - see what you saw, hear what you heard and feel how good you felt. Where abouts in your body were those feelings, imagine turning them up and spreading them through your body to make them more intense.
Keep going through the memory, as soon as it finishes, go through it again and again, all the time squeezing your thumb and finger together. In your mind, make those images big and bright, sounds loud and harmonious and feelings strong and intensified. We are making an associational link between the squeeze of your fingers and that good feeling.
Okay, stop and relax. Now if you have done that correctly when you squeeze your thumb and finger together you should feel that good feeling again. Go ahead do that now, squeeze thumb and finger and remember that good feeling.
Now we're going to programme good feelings to happen automatically whenever you are in a situation where you used to smoke but now you stop smoking.
So, next I'd like you to squeeze your thumb and finger together, get that good feeling going and now imagine being in several situations where you would have smoked, but being there feeling great without a cigarette. See what you'll see hear and take that good feeling into those situations without a need for a cigarette.
Imagine being in a situation where someone offers you a cigarette and you confidently say 'No thanks, I don't smoke'. And feel fantastic about it!
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 8
Get social support. Your commitment to stopping smoking for the rest of your life can be made much easier by talking about it to friends and family and letting them support you. They will congratulate you on doing so well too! You really did stop smoking.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 9
Be aware of making excuses for yourself. Some people talk themselves into smoking, especially if they encounter a stressful situation and in the past they used to deal with it by smoking. If those old thoughts pop into your head, shout the word “STOP” in your head, to stop the thoughts from progressing. Nicotine just stresses your body more and is like that itch that can never be properly scratched; the more you smoke, the more you have to. So say “STOP” and steer clear of old slippery slopes.
Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 10
Reward yourself. Congratulate yourself. Feel how good it feels to stop smoking and be a non-smoker. Treat yourself each time you get past a certain milestone; the first week or first month, the six month target. Let yourself know that you did something really special here.
Keep on using your brain, stretching it and helping your self, by running through these exercises time after time; you are sure to be able to make it easier and easier and successfully stop smoking for good.
Copyright 2005 Adam Eason All Rights Reserved.
Visit Adam Easons website today for a free mini series on how to stop smoking delivered to you by email. You can also visit his homepage to sign up for his free bi-monthly newsletter because it is packed with insightful tips, latest techniques and insightful strategies for personal development and receive a unique and amazing hypnosis session for free.
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