1. Believe in yourself. Believe you will be able to give up smoking. Recollect the most difficult challenges you faced and realize that you have a will power and determination to give up smoking. Everything depends on you.
2. Put in writing all the reasons why you want to give up smoking (advantages of life without smoking): to live longer, feel yourself better, for your family, save money, smell better, easier to find a partner, etc. You know what is bad in smoking and what you ll get resisting it. Write all these things on the paper and read every day.
3. Ask your relatives and friends to support you in your decision to give up smoking. Ask them for a complete support and patience. Let them know beforehand that you may be nervous or even irritating during the period of getting rid this addiction.
4. Set a date of your finishing of smoking. Take a decision in what day you will quit smoking forever. Put this date in writing. Plan it beforehand. Get prepared your brains to *the first day of your new life*. You even can hold a special ceremony due to your last cigarette or the morning of the date of your refusal of smoking.
5. Talk to your doctor about your refusal of smoking. The support and set received from your doctor is a proved method to enhance your chances for success.
6. Begin to do exercises. Sport is incompatible with smoking. Exercises distress and help your body to recover from damage caused by smoking. In case of necessity, begin with a short walks once or twice a day. Then increase these up 30-40 minutes exercises 3 or 4 times a week. Before you take up any exercises consult your doctor.
7. Do deep breathing exercises during 3-5 minutes every day. Breathe in through your nose slowly, then outwind for several seconds and breathe out through the mouth. Try to practice these breathing exercises with closed eyes.
8. Decrease the number of cigarettes gradually (if you decrease the number of cigarettes, certainly you should specify the date when you refuse of smoking COMPLETELY). Methods of gradual refusal of smoking are as follows: planning of the number of smoked cigarettes for every day up to the finishing of smoking, decreasing the number of smoked cigarettes daily, purchasing of cigarettes in the quantity no more than a pack, substitution by another brand of cigarettes in order not to enjoy the process of smoking.
9. Try to give up smoking forever. Many of smokers tried on themselves that the only way to resist smoking is to give up abruptly and completely without any attempts of decreasing of the number of smoked cigarettes. Nevertheless, find the very methods that will be the most convenient for you: giving up smoking gradually or abruptly. If one of the methods hasnt worked, try another one.
10. Find a partner for you another smoker who wants to give up smoking too. Cheer up each other, go to each other every time when you feel that you cant resist. Visit our forum or enter our chart, there you will find some help for sure.
11. Clean your teeth thoroughly. Pay attention to how quickly their state is enhanced and how there are whitening. Imagine yourself and enjoy the idea of how they look in a month, three months or year.
12. Drink a lot of water. In any case water is good for your health and the majority of people dont drink it in enough quantity. Water will help you to *wash out* nicotine and other chemicals from your body; moreover it will help you to lessen your desire for cigarettes, satisfying your *mouth demands*.
We wish to succeed in your determination to give up smoking! This is worth it!
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