Tips to help you stop and stay stopped

• List the reasons for wanting to quit,
• and then prioritise them
• Make it difficult to smoke.
• For example, don’t carry cigarettes,
• smoke only in some uninteresting place,
• don’t carry matches or a lighter
• Make inside the home, car and/or any enclosed space
• a ‘smoke free’ area
• Do more things that can not be easily done whilst smoking.
• For example, exercise such as swimming,
• time in smoke-free shopping centres and movies etc.
• Find other things to do with the hands [and mouth],
• such as squeezing a stress ball,
• doodling,
• chewing celery sticks
• Try to visualise yourself as a non-smoker,
• with the associated benefits of being healthier
• having more money to spend etc.
• Most important of all,
• discover for your self
• the tips that will be of most benefit to you.
• Sit down, think about it and make a list

On the next page I discuss various strategies and programs available to help you stop and to stay stopped.

Web Design Ian McKenzie

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