Just for you, an article on the methods to set your mind to the right place so that you make a very conscious judgment to stop smoking. This is really a decision that if you use your head it just does not make any sense to continue with your smoking habit at all. By creating a plan and following it and by knowing what you are going to get as a reward for stopping this habit you will cause yourself and remind yourself even when you are tempted that the goal is so much more for breaking the habit than to carry on with a way of life that is costing you dearly both financially and health wise.
I did not think I would be able to stop my smoking habit. It seemed like I was always waiting until the pressure in my life was at a minimum to begin to quit and of course that just never seemed to happen. I used my smoking as a stress reliever and I just didn't know what to compensate it with. I was frightened of gaining weight and it seemed like every time I stopped smoking or even attempted smoking control, I replaced my smoking with eating and as soon as I saw a weight gain over five pound I was once again smoking.
It was not effortless but I started some smoking control by replacing other activities and habits for times when I would usually smoke. When I decided that I had to quit the smoking habit I started with a list of pros and cons for my choice to smoke or to quit. In other words what I was getting out of smoking and then the cons to keeping my smoking habit. Of course the pros far outweighed the cons. The health and financial costs of a smoking addiction makes the decision to continue on one you cant really argue for in any sense except for the fact that as a smoker this is a habit that you get pleasure from.
After I made my list I hung this list up on my shower mirror and also on my bedroom door. I wanted everyday to see my reasons for changing my behavior this aided a lot since quitting smoking is a decision one has to establish everyday. Whenever you stop smoking you have to presume there will be times when you will error but in the times past that I backslid, I just accepted failure and started smoking full steam ahead. This time if I slipped and bought a pack of cigarettes or smoked one I begged from a friend I allowed myself forgiveness for not being perfect and started right back up.
When ever I saw the scales go up I made sure to exercise more and not to rearrange eating with smoking. I also rewarded myself by pampering myself with a little something I usually would not do for myself. In the event I pay attention to careful smoking control my cigarette consumption always goes down. I shall not say that I don't think about smoking occasionally and certainly always will but I always prompt myself that what you save is both money and health. Your clothes don't smell like smoke your hair doesn't reek of smoke and you can taste the food you eat. You can also put the money you would have used for punching smokes into a saving account and watch it add up.
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