This document provides tips and information for quitting smoking. It recommends avoiding situations where others are smoking and not going to places where smoking is common. It warns that alcohol can make resisting cigarettes harder. The first weeks of quitting may involve feeling terrible with headaches or stomach issues as nicotine leaves the body. Walking or chewing gum can help with cravings. Within days, health risks start to decrease, but it remains difficult to stop smoking permanently.

1. KEYS
• Try to stay away from people
smoking.
• Do not go to public places where
people smoke.
• Being under the influence of alcohol
can also make it harder to resist
smoking.
• Many experts say it is best to stop
smoking completely.
• One cigarette can make a smoker
again.
• In the first weeks you probably will
feel: terrible, be angry, sad, may
have a headache, or your stomach
may feel sick.
• Tell yourself that you will be
happier as a non-smoker.
• Tell yourself that nicotine should
not control your life.
• Move around as much as possible.
• Walking or running will make you
breathe deeply.
• Breathe deeply will help clear the
nicotine from your body.
• When you want a cigarette you
could chew a gum, or eat a piece of
fruit.
• One day you will recognize that you
have won the struggle against
smoking.
• The American Cancer Society says
there is no one right way to stop
smoking.
• There are several kinds of nicotine
replacement products that provide
small amounts of the substance.
• After one day the chance of heart
attack decreases.
• The blood pressure returns to
normal twenty minutes after
smoking the last cigarette.
• The American Cancer Society says
the sooner smokers stop smoking
can reduce their chances of cancer
and other diseases.
• You also will protect the health of
family members.
• If you stop smoking, you will feel
better and look better.
• Doctors say you probably will live
longer if you stop smoking.
• It is not easy to stop smoking
permanently.