How do I Stop Smoking

The last ten years there has been increasing attention to the negative side of smoking: smoking is unhealthy, it makes you look older, it may significantly shorten your life and it's just very very dirty. It is therefore not surprising that one in three smokers want to quit and are in most cases already has attempted. Quitting smoking is not as easy: when your body begs for a cigarette, you have to be very firm in your shoes to be there no answer to give. Fortunately, quit smoking now also not impossible, especially with these tips!






   1. Decide whether you're ready

Many people intend to make on 1 January of the new year to quit smoking. In many cases all that is wrong in a few weeks. Why?Because you have not checked if you were ready to quit . When you're ready to quit, you want to begin immediately and not one day as January 1. To find out or you're ready to quit smoking, it is useful to first figure out why you even smokes. You think to yourself when and why you started, but also about the role that smoking plays in your life now.

    2. Orientate yourself on the possibilities

Do you feel that you are ready to quit smoking? Orient you look at the possibilities . Read books about smoking, about what it does to your body and any possibilities to stop. It's not that they're all going to follow, the point is that you know what is available and that you insight into what works and what does not. So you can get yourself a lot of trouble and frustration later. Try during your orientation to find a way that appeals to you. That can 'cold turkey', but may also tools.

    3. Choose a day
    A day to pick itself makes sense: it is good if you prepare yourself for what's to come. So choose a stop              
    day out, write in your diary, tell him against your friends and family and remind yourself regularly: it is                
    that which you are going to quit smoking.

    4. Make a stop plan

Quitting smoking is difficult enough in itself, so make sure you have a plan. In this plan you take in any       case:

• You just invented quit date
• The most difficult situations as a non-smoker, for example, the break at work or a party. Think about how you need a cigarette in these difficult situations you can avoid
• You fixed smoke moments and alternatives: you took earlier after dinner always a cigarette? Try for a few weeks half an hour later to eat and the food sports. You rhythm changes and thereby exercise creates more demand for healthy stuff
• Reward : If you stop smoking, you deserve a reward. Think of something and introduce yourself in the prospect. Make sure that it is special, because it must of course be worth it!

Alternatively you can look the benefits of stopping even bring in your plan. Think of better health, fewer wrinkles, live longer, fresher breath and more money.

     5.  Come the first days

The first days are the hardest: your body is still very much getting used to, you're very busy with the (non) smoking and you actually need more cigarettes than before. How did you get your first dayson? Make sure in any case that you have no more cigarette at home.Hide ashtrays and lighters and avoid the difficult moments and situations you stop plan. Go do something, such as a bike ride. Try your mind off things and if that fails, think back to the benefits of not smoking and your reward. If you are in this way at least the first week but can get, you already have a first threshold over.

6. Trust your support group

Stop smoking, you do not have to do. There are usually people around you that you like to hearten stabbing. Relatives you like to talk with them, or colleagues who are trying to quit. Try a group of people who put together that you supported during your stop process. You will find that it is easier to maintain, even during those difficult moments!

7. Search help

Can you not even to get rid of smoking? Seek help. Today there are many programs that can help you quit smoking. Think of courses, workshops, but also special treatments or acupuncture for example. Please also always at the GP, but it would be something reimbursed by your health insurance!

8. Do not be afraid to make mistakes

It would obviously be the most beautiful when you are in a time completely from smoking are. The probability that this happens exists, but is not for everyone the same size. So do not be too hard on yourself if you do your very best, but once fall back into your old behavior. Give it did not, but just start again, possibly with outside help.

Do's

Tell people that you have stopped smoking. This makes the threshold for yet another cigarette packs a lot higher

• Calculate at what you could save if you do not smoke and see what you can do for that amount. It could very well be that you annually a big, luxury cruise wegpaft
• Speak with your roommates / family members on that within no more smoking. That is fresher and makes it less easy to get one anyway to stabbing

Don'ts

• Do not stop because others want you to stop, but because you yourself are up
• Do not be too negative, quitting is difficult, but you will not be the first who after the first attempt (or just after the hundredth attempt) is stopped
• Save the staging of 'inferiors' rather about, otherwise you will still preoccupied with smoking, making it harder to actually reduce

Source

Stivoro engages with and provides information on smoking cessation support