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Dropping A Bad Habit For Good, Excellent Advice To StopSmoking

Only good things will come of your willingness to give up smoking. Remember those advantages asyou apply helpful tips like these. Keep the advice you learn here handy, so you are able to use themas needed when you need that extra helping hand in your path to becoming a non-smoker.

A support group can help you follow up on your decision to stop smoking. It can help to network withothers who understand your physical and emotional symptoms, as they're experiencing the samething. You can receive support and guidance from former smokers who've successfully quit, as wellas good tips for dealing with the process. It is possible to find support groups at many places likechurches, colleges, or rec centers.

If you are ready to stop smoking, try hypnosis. Hypnosis has helped many people to successfully quitfor good. The hypnotist will induce a deep trance, and then repeat positive affirmations that willlodge themselves in your mind. It can make cigarettes seem less appetizing, leading you to neverwant to smoke again.

Make sure to get adequate sleep while you try to stop smoking. For many individuals, staying up lateat night leads to increased cigarette cravings. There are usually fewer people around late at night tohelp you stop yourself from taking just one more smoke for the day. Eight hours of sleep each nightwill allow you to remain mentally focused, which keeps you in better control of nasty cravings.

Get lots of support. Get some support from your loved ones. Inform them of the reasons why you'reattempting to quit, and let them assist you. You might also want to consider joining a support group.Simple discussions with other individuals who go through the things that you are going through willhelp you in stopping this unwanted habit.

If you reach a milestone while quitting, congratulate or reward yourself for your accomplishments.An example intermediate goal may be to go a week without having a smoke. When you do so, go outto see a new movie or play you've been meaning to watch. After you make it a month, give yourself anice dinner at a restaurant you don't usually go to. Build up the rewards until you are completely

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free of cigarettes.

Stop smoking now, not only for yourself, but for any loved ones that you have. Secondhand smoke isdangerous, and a known cause of many types of cancer, and other serious health conditions. Byreducing the smoke that you generate with your cigarettes, you are reducing the amount ofsecondhand smoke that you have exposed your loved ones to. Not only will you be healthier whenyou stop smoking, but your loved ones will also be healthier, too.

Motivation and a positive attitude are key points when you are trying to stop smoking. Try toimagine how good your life is going to be after you quit. Your breath will not smell like stale tobaccoany longer, nor will your home. Your teeth may even be whiter! Although knowing the negativeaspects of smoking can scare some people into quitting, thinking about positive changes can bebeneficial as well.

Get a calendar and mark off the milestones you're looking to reach and which rewards you'll receivewhen you get there. Write a list of gifts to give yourself for reaching every milestone. Stick your liston the fridge or another place where you will notice it often. That might be just the thing that keepsyou motivated when you feel temptation.

Plan ahead, so that you are prepared to deal withstress without resorting to smoking. Avoid thetemptation to light up when you're stressed; this isa common response of those who smoke regularly.If you make a plan and have strategies in place,you can better avoid smoking. Have more than oneidea in case the first idea doesn't help enough.

You are already aware of the advantages of givingup smoking. However, the simple knowledge thatsmoking is bad is often not enough to kick thehabit. This is where the article you have just readcomes in handy. The above advice should be ofassistance to you as you ward off the initialphysiological cravings that come with quitting. Inno time at all you can be happily announcing

yourself as a non-smoker.