10 Unusual Ways To Quit Smoking And Not To Start Again
You must admit that smoking is a bad habit both for you and your surroundings. I am sure that you have already read many quit smoking tips and methods and tried to stop smoking, but… you are still smoking. In my opinion first and main option to quit smoking is your will. Once, I asked my friend why he don’t want to stop smoking, he answered: “I like it”.
Don’t even try to quit smoking if you just don’t want to stop. It won’t have effect. Of course, you can have a critical motivation to quit smoking, such as your baby birth or your doctor’s last warning. The best way and chance to quit smoking appear when you have motivation, want and know how to quit smoking.
For those who never smoked, this is a befuddling fact. Don’t smokers understand that cigarettes are the number one killer in America, that they dramatically increase risk for heart disease, stroke, cancer, high blood pressure, and almost every other health concern, small or large? How could any habit be worth this?
Let’s see some unusual ways to quit smoking.
1. Know Your Motivation.
Always remember about motivation of stop smoking. Like smoking can cause family problems, hurt your child health (learn how to keep your child from ever smoking), kill good breath, make teeth yellow (or even brown), cause cancer and heart problems. Remember these nice morning times when you don’t smoke and fill yourself strong and happy. You can save very much stopping smoking, find out how much you can save when you don’t smoke.
Associate cigarettes, nicotine with all bad aftereffects what can happen with you: anxiety or nervousness, lowering sexual energy, difficulty of concentrating, restlessness, headaches, insomnia, increasing of coughing, bad skin, bad teeth and breath, fatigue, constipation or upset stomach, depression and so on.
2. Change Your Cigarette To Something Else
Many people continue smoking, because they don’t have what to do or have to much free time. They need something to keep in mouth, before it was a cigarette, now try to use something else, like apple. Eat apple in break on work. If you are home you can brush your teeth every time you want to smoke. Or drink a lot of water.
3. One puff - one dollar
Find someone whom you will entrust to take away from you a fee or something precious if you’ll start to smoke. Or say you’ll present something dear for you to any person.
4. Peace a cake
Inform all your friends, colleagues, family members that quit smoking is so simple that only weak people can’t do it, and think yourself “It’s very easy to stop smoking”. And it will really be. Or start blogging about your quit smoking steps, as Marcus Williford has made or Eve has wrote.
5. Eat Your Cigarette When You Want to Smoke
Just eat cigarette when you want to smoke. First, second, third… you’ll create antipathy to cigarettes and theirs smell.
6. Find Examples to Follow
Find people you like who don’t smoke and ask/learn why they don’t smoke? Put them as examples. Or make inversely find out 227 famous people who died because they smoked. Also did you know about Anti Smoking Campaign by American Top Models? - they point to smoking side effects.
7. Just Ask Yourself “WHY?”
Think global what are we doing while holding cigarette and puffing. It’s a strange ritual, it’s a great mistake ever invented on which some people earn billions dollars.
8. Use Online Quit Smoking Support
Find the easiest way to be connected with the same people as you. Subscribe all newsletters or remind letters, let them remind you about your decision. You can check out here or here for an online quit smoking support.
9. Create Free-Smoke Area
Don’t let others to smoke in your area. Just remember you take a 70% of nicotine they breathe out. I am glad that many people, like Karen, want to breathe clean air.
10. Bookmark, digg, stumble or fave this page to remind yourself every time that you are strong to stop smoking.
I smoked too, but, happily, I have easy stopped this bad habit owing to tips above. You can also watch a video about “how to quit smoking or something” by Pink Sphinx.
What are your unusual quit smoking tips?
By jeremy on Mar 28, 2008 | Reply
Take a few cigarette butts, and place them into an empty baby food jar. Fill it about halfway with water. Let it sit for about a week. Then, anytime you get a craving for a smoke, take a whiff from the jar. The smell is so foul, you’ll most certainly never want to light up again.
By Alex on Mar 28, 2008 | Reply
Good tip, Jeremy, thanks! I think it can work. Have you tried it?
By dextro on Dec 11, 2008 | Reply
Well take a look at the face of people around you when you smoke. Remember that 90% of all the smoke you make are going to your surrounding. would you mind if people risking your children family, or loved one with cancer, asthma,or other respiratory problem. If you don’t then stop smoking. People around you are also a children, a family, or a loved one to somebody else.
otherwise whenever you are going to smoke then find a box, put it on your head then you can continue smoking inside it.
By Jason on Feb 18, 2009 | Reply
Its also good to get rid of any reminders like lighters that you around the house. Thanks for the article