Health & Medical Addiction & Recovery

Stop Smoking the Unconventional Way

Many have tried almost every plan, technique, and product that is on the market to stop smoking. In many cases it turns out that, this works out great for a couple of days and then we are right back at it. This can be disheartening and one of the problems is after a day or two you just give up.

Perhaps one of the problems is that any of the conventional ways that are available to help you stop smoking are all individual programs. It might be worth your while to try combining some.

No one program is perfect and going to help everybody quit smoking. If you can take what works from each of them for example a little bit from here and a little bit from there and combine them perhaps you are going to have the ability to reach your goal of stopping to smoke.

Let me give you some examples. Let us assume the one smoking program tells you that you must cut back your cigarettes by half a pack. The problem is planning when you should have those cigarettes and making them last throughout the day. The weaknesses are that you smoke that half of pack during the early part of the day and then the rest of the day you are having nicotine fit.

What you might want to try to do is with that program take the half pack that you are allowed to have and divide them into one third for the morning and two thirds for the afternoon and evening.

One thing you do not want to do is starting to watch the clock when you are planning you next smoke in an hour or two. What happens is that you start to stress yourself out because there is an hour to go before you can have your next cigarette.

What you might want to do is make a point that you have to go to a specific place to have that cigarette. Chances are if you live a busy lifestyle, it is going to be difficult for you to get the time to go to your smoking area. Many people find that what happens is that they go well past the allotted time for their cigarette because they are busy and are not concentrating on the time.

To try to stop smoking is a personalized problem because everybody's body is different and reacts to the nicotine addiction and the habit differently. A very simple method that you may want to try but it takes quite a while to be able to accomplish your goal is the weaning off method. Get up in the morning and go without that first cigarette for five minutes. Continue doing this until you feel comfortable and it becomes a habit for you to get up and not light that first smoke. Then start extending the time and each time you become comfortable with the time then increase it.

Soon you are going to find that you are up to twelve or one o'clock before you even think about having your first cigarette. Now is the time to start incorporating some of the traditional methods to take to the rest of the way.


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