One Way to Stop Smoking Gradually

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Preparation is necessary when you feel you are ready to stop smoking. Think this through, list on a piece of paper why you want to quit smoking. Put them in the places that you smoke. (Ex: on the table beside your favorite chair) Hang your lists on the refrigerator, cabinets or any where you will see this throughout the day and leave them there. This will help with the mind set of quitting.

One Way to Stop Smoking Gradually

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.