The Easy Way to Stop Smoking

Do you want to quit smoking really bad but it just seems like everything you try doesn’t work?  I know how you feel.  I have been there also but about four years ago I figured out a way to kick the habit.  At that time I had people telling me what kind of prescriptions to get and what kind of nicotine gum to buy and none of that worked for me.  Finally I decided to just figure out my smoking habits and go from there.  I took it one day at a time and over a few months it all came together and now I am totally smoke-free and I love it.  Here are the steps I took to quit smoking:

The first step:  Write a diary of your smoking habits be sure to put when and where you smoke the most.  Do this daily until you can see your routine.   You need to carry a note pad with you and write when you usually smoke a cigarette, or when you really crave one.   This will give you insight on what you need to do in order to change this problem immediately.

Second Step:  Change your routine.  If you can stop one of your habits at a time it is easier than being ambushed all at once with total change that just makes you frustrated which then leads to wanting to smoke.  Do this one at a time.   Also if you don’t smoke around your family, certain friends, or kids, try to be around these people more, as it makes it easier not to smoke!

Step three:  Take it slow.  If you get in too much of a hurry to quit smoking, more than likely you will get discouraged with yourself because you feel like you can’t do it.  It’s really that simple all it really requires is patience and self obedience.

An example of how this works is, take for instance after you find your routine, you discover that you smoke constantly while watching television.  What you would do then is try to break that one habit first by no longer taking your cigarettes with you to watch television and making yourself get up and go outside when you crave one.  Over time you will no longer have the unconscious habit of lighting and smoking while watching television. You can apply this technique to any situation.  Such as sitting at the computer, driving, reading, or even in the bath tub.  You just replace that bad habit with something different.

I discovered that when I had the urge to smoke that if I got a drinking straw and held it like a cigarette that it helped a great deal because I could inhale clean air through the straw and breathing deep always helped those few moments to pass by a little easier.  It is never an easy task to break any habit you have had for years but if you take it slow and break one small habit at a time you can do it.

This process does take longer to complete, but for me, I felt more and more confident that I could quit with each small habit I stopped.  I had more ambition to be a non-smoker. Eventually, I had quit each habit I had wrote in my diary and therefore; completely quit smoking.  I am very proud of myself and hopefully, soon enough, you can be too.