It really doesn’t matter if you have smoked for 6 months or 6 years. You have decided to quit smoking but you have a fear of quitting cold turkey. You know that this is not going to be easy and but you really want to quit. Here is a suggestion that will work regardless of how many cigarettes you smoke a day. But you have to have the determination to quit.
- For 5 days keep track of how many cigarettes you smoke, what you are doing when you smoke and the time you smoke. Don’t do anything different at this point.
- After you have kept track of your five days, combine your information and make a schedule of the time and activity of when you smoked.
- Now take your schedule and cut out three cigarettes a day. The same time every day. Do this for at least a week or until you get to that time of day and you don’t want those three cigarettes.
- Make a new schedule leaving off those three cigarettes. (Example: if you smoked a pack a day that is equaled to 20 cigarettes, your new schedule would only include 17 cigarettes a day.)
- Cut out three more cigarettes, you are down to 14 cigarettes a day.
Keep reducing the nicotine intake and your body will need less nicotine. This may take you several months and the withdrawals symptoms will be there, but much more tolerable.
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