This document provides tips and strategies for stopping smoking cigarettes. It begins by acknowledging that most smokers want to quit but have difficulty doing so due to physical and psychological addiction. It then outlines a complete plan for quitting smoking that includes strategies like exercising to avoid cravings, eating a healthy diet, telling others you've quit for accountability, and using natural remedies to reduce cravings and eliminate nicotine from the body. The document emphasizes that successfully quitting requires changing one's mindset and accepting life without cigarettes.
2. Do you want to learn how to stop smoking cigarettes?
How frequently have you declared to yourself or
somebody else, "I really need to give up cigarettes," only
to do a flip-flop and smoke yet another cigarette? In the
event that you are similar to many cigarette smokers,
your answer will be: "A great deal more times than I am
comfortable with." You are certainly not alone. Research
shows that about 90% of current smokers have a desire
to kick their smoking addiction. The lucky reality is: By
putting forth a little bit of effort and a lot of devotion,
anyone could ultimately figure out how to stop smoking
cigarettes and lead a more healthy life as a recovering
smoker. If you are dead set on
3. quitting, here is a complete quit smoking plan to help
you kick your nicotine addiction to the curb and stop
smoking cigarettes forever.[]
4. When people think about trying to quit cigarettes, they
realize it's in the best interest of their health to quit.
They understand the health and fitness hazards of
smoking. They know how expensive it is to smoke. They
have every smart valid reason to quit cigarettes. Yet,
many can't do it! What is the reason for this dilemma?
Because smoking the cigarette is the end to a means.
That ends to a means is to satisfy a physical craving,
calm your nerves, keep you from eating, whatever
reason you use to justify the smoking. It is really the
mechanism, the suppression of the body's defensives,
that the smoker has spent so much time creating that
allows for them and now causes the smoker to
5. experience the urge to smoke. If you are able to quit
cigarettes but don't remove this body suppression
trigger, the best you can hope for is to be an ex-smoker.
What exactly is an ex-smoker? An ex-smoker is a person
who has smoked in the past and has taken a break from
smoking, but will probably resume smoking in the
future.
6. The defense mechanism that you spent years building up
remains functioning. It has become your ogre that
you've forgotten how to be in charge of! You've erased
from your memory why you created the ogre initially,
because it was so long ago! You may overcome it and
banish it for awhile, but it's constantly pushing to break
free. Eventually it will break free and you will resume
smoking again. The cigarette is not the ogre. It is the
mechanism you've created within your brain that
compels you to smoke the cigarette that is the ogre.Tips
To Stop Smoking,There are physical addictions but, in
addition there are also the psychological triggers that
make giving smoking up difficult. Cigarette
7. smokers become so used to smoking that they maintain
regimens where they will smoke cigarettes at certain
times of the day and when they do certain activities.
8. When I smoked I always looked forward to the after
eating smoke and the first smoke in the morning. So
when you try to break your addition and you are in the
situation where you would usually smoke a cigarette,
you find yourself craving one just out of habit. The
activity has conditioned your brain to associate smoking
with the activity. So as well as breaking the physical
addiction you also need to break the psychological
habits that have been set up.
9. You really have been brainwashed. Question everything
you think you know about smoking, see a cigarette for
what it really is. NOTHING.Virtually every smoker in the
world would pay a good price for the answer to "how to
quit smoking easily". Whilst studies have indicated that
as many as 80% of smokers yearn to quit, unfortunately,
they spend very little time or money on trying to quit.
10. Add exercise to your new life activities. It occupies you
and gets you through those moments when you are
experiencing cravings for a cigarette. When you really
are craving a cigarette, put on your running shoes or get
out your yoga mat and go to it.Try to eat a low-fat, high-
fiber diet to increase the speed of detoxification and to
help you preserve energy. These food items circumvent
weight gain.Tell your non-smoking friends and co-
workers that you have quit smoking using naturally
using natural methods. The idea of your coworkers
catching you smoking and the associated
embarrassment may be enough to keep you from
lighting up a cigarette.Save your cigarette money in a jar,
then reward
11. yourself - a visit to the spa, a good book or a weekend
trip away will give you the reward you've earned.
12. Look for an all-natural remedy for stopping smoking
naturally to help reduce the cravings to smoke. There
are some excellent stop-smoking formulations to help
you quit smoking naturally. Natural products containing
the herb echinacea are known to help your body resist
cravings. Sarsaparilla helps prevent the weight gain and
passion flower aids in reducing tension and anxiety.
Burdock root, kelp and hyssop are good for eliminating
nicotine deposits from the body. Aromatherapy oil can
be used at times when the desire to smoke becomes
almost unbearable. Rub the oil under your nose; the
action and the aromatherapy vapor together will help
you overcome the urge. Flower essence therapy, using
Dr.
13. Bach's Emergency Extract can be used in times of intense
stress that may cause you to smoke. These flower
extracts may be found at health food stores or Whole
Foods, and they really work!
14. Secondly, if you want to know how to quit smoking
easily, telling you that you are killing yourself smoking is
not going to make it any easier. Of course all smokers
these days know that they are doing harm to themselves
- that is why they all want to quit smoking. The "health
police" go around reminding smokers that they are
doing all this harm to themselves does not help them
quit smoking.In fact, it doesn't help smokers in any way
quit smoking by telling them what damage they are
doing to themselves. The only way to help someone in
such a predicament is to tell him or her HOW to quit
smoking. After all, every smoker in the world knows
WHY he or she should quit smoking. The 'health
16. Thirdly, if you want to know how to quit smoking easily,
you have to change your attitude towards cigarettes.
That is all done in your head - by changing the way you
think about cigarettes. Taking pills or taking more
nicotine in another form does not do it - changing your
mindset does.I know people who have said they will quit
smoking cigarettes and only 'have a cigar or two once in
a while'. Within a couple of weeks of giving up
cigarettes, they are smoking 10 cigars a day that
probably do more damage than the 20 cigarettes they
used to smoke. This is because they are addicted to
nicotine and will get it in any form they can Fourthly,
possibly the most important means of how to quit
17. smoking easily, is to accept your life without cigarettes.
After all, you weren't puffing away on a Marlboro when
you were born. It just might be possible to spend the
rest of your life without cigarettes.As ever, my final
piece of advice is to never quit trying to quit smoking.