Tips for Staying Smoke Free
- Get rid of all cigarettes and ashtrays before your stop smoking session or as soon as you possibly can after the session.
- Drink plenty of water.
- Enjoy some gentle exercise.
- Play your CD/MP3.
- Focus on the benefits of being smokefree – health/finances/self esteem.
- Change your routine – if you always smoked at break do something else.
- Avoid smokers at least for the first 3 weeks.
- Avoid nicotine patches, gum etc. – you could become addicted to these instead!
- Find something else to do with your hands.
- Choose to become smokefree when you are unlikely to become stressed.
- Brush your teeth if you need to distract yourself.
- Reward yourself for being smokefree for a week, two weeks etc. Motivation helps.
- Remember the reasons why you became smokefree.
- Remaining smokefree will not be easy but it will get easier each day that passes.
- Have a “sponsor” in place for times of need. The best person may be someone who used to smoke. They know what you are going through.
Hypnosis makes it easier to quit.
A trance a day keeps the cigarettes away.