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How To Quit Smoking By Looking At The Methods Of Attempts
Jan 2nd
Looking back at your attempts and let’s analyze what has seemed to work for you. At times, your attempts may have been just a short while, perhaps for months, weeks, days or even hours.Just because you didn’t manage to quit permanently doesn’t mean that you have entirely failed or that you have wasted your time.You can look what attempts that cause you to maintain smoke-free the longest and from there shape up a plan to quit smoking.
Your Support Groups
When you were trying to quit, did you have any support groups or friends that are willing to give their fill encouragement to you? This will be a great deal of help especially when things are tough and challenges get in the way.Take for example, a friend may bear or have more little patience with you when they know you are more irritable when you are trying to quit smoking. But be careful as this may only work for a short while.Your family is also another precious support group because they are the people you see every single day!
Their belief in your efforts to quit smoking may directly affect whether you succeed or not. In fact, their support is more important any of your friends or peers because you are most emotionally connected to them.It would be great to get a partner and a friend to quit smoking with you. There are many people who want to quit smoking and chances are, it won’t be very hard to find them.
All you have to do is ask. Also, no one would understand better than someone who is trying to quit and going through the same challenges as you are.
The Methods You Tried
During the course of trying to quit smoking, did you try to use nicotine replacement products over the counter such as the nicotine patch of gums? Or have you tried medication like Bupropion?If you did, how did these work out for you? Were they effective?Have you tried to quit smoking via hypnosis? Were you able to not think about smoking anymore after your sessions?Did you also try alternative methods such as herbs, acupuncture or any natural remedy?
Now what you can do is to look at what methods has helped you to go on not smoking the most time, you can then focus on the method most that helped you.But the rule is that you start by focusing on only one method first, and then slowly move on to the others.
Why Many Attempts May Be Good To Stop Smoking Forever
Jan 2nd
Most smokers who try to quit smoking will at least attempt a few tries before they are able to kick away the habit forever. Some of you may succeed in days and weeks, but some of you may only succeed after a few months and even sometimes, a few years.
I truly believe that smokers who make these quit smoking attempts for many times and not succeeded yet, are not prepared to quit smoking. They have not done any research on what it truly takes to quit smoking and are not well positioned both physically and mentally.
Of course, even the most successful ex-smokers will experiences relapses before quitting forever. But with proper preparation, when relapses happen, it will give you a good indication and help you to discover where you went wrong and to rethink your strategy for quitting.
Keep in mind even if relapses happen, you did not do anything wrong or that you’ve failed. It just means you’re not entirely ready at that point of time to quit. Besides just like anything in life, it’s hard to succeed during the first try.
There are a few questions below you can ask yourself during the course of quitting smoking like how many times have you tried to quit smoking?
My guess is if you’re like any smoker, the number of times you’ve tried to quit is at least 3 times.
The good news is that if you’ve noticed the amount of time you go on without smoking, the period of time that you go on without smoking becomes longer. This indicates that your body is slowly adapting for it to be without cigarettes.
However, the amount of times you’ve quit is more important that the time you’ve remained smoke-free. Why is that so?
It is because each attempt creates an opportunity to bring you a step closer for you to quit smoking and achieve your goal.Here are other questions that can help you to further reflect on your number of attempts to quit.What is the longest time you can go on without having a cigarette?Each time you attempt to quit, do you clearly know why you want to quit?I hope you will ask these questions each time you attempt to quit smoking.
