Stop Smoking Tips

Handling the emotional as well as the psychological urges to grab a cigarette can be difficult – but never impossible. There are several tips that you can use and when planned they work wonderfully.

Do NOT wait until the urge is so great that you can’t figure out how to stop yourself. Instead choose several of these tips and keep them with you at all times.

1. Don’t fantasize about the cigarette but instead visualize what life would have been like as an addicted smoker, clothing filled with stench and lungs slowly turning black with tar.

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Remove all cigarette products and reminders from your home or your environment. Take 48 hours to clear the nicotine from your system (or use nicotine patches, gum, lozenge, spray, inhaler or straws) and stay away from anything that reminds you of cigarettes. That might be friends, television, alcohol, or stress. If you can pack up and go camping for the weekend that is the best option available.

Smokers often use breaks at work to grab a cigarette. Instead grab a walk or exercise of some nature. Get your body moving and keep it moving. During your work break you will crave a cigarette – it’s a psychological event, not physical. You have to break the associations that go with the craving by developing a new association.

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Smoking is a habit that most find difficult to quit. This can be because of the psychological symptoms one experiences after quitting or nicotine addiction in which the person has become dependent on nicotine. That is why it is very difficult to suggest the best way to quit smoking. What may work with one smoker may not work with another.

Using a Nicotine Replacement Therapy to Quit Smoking

However, this does not mean that a smoker cannot give up smoking. The best way is to choose a stop smoking program that suits you specifically. Nicotine replacement therapy, also known as NRT, is one of the most effective and commonly used methods. You can also opt for counseling, emotional therapy or medication or a combination of these methods.

Much depends on how you deal with the withdrawal symptoms. For nicotine replacement therapy, the smoker is provided nicotine in low quantities in the forms of gums, patches, inhalers or nasal sprays. They reduce the craving by releasing nicotine at low levels.

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