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Quit The Cigarette Habit.
I never believed I would be able to end my smoking habit. It seemed like I was always waiting until the stress in my life was at a better place to begin to stop and of course that just never seemed to happen.I used my smoking as stress reliever and I just didn't know what smoking control could do. Please note that "Smoking Control" is a branded product of the NOXO company. I was concerned about weight gain and it seemed like every time I stopped smoking I replaced eating with my smoking and when I saw a weight gain of more than ten pound I was once again smoking.
So, I was positive I was going to have to find a behavior to substitute my smoking or additional ways of dealing with pressures. At home instead of taking a smoke break I would use some smoking control. In the mornings instead of a cigarette with my hot chocolate I ate a good breakfast instead of my routine morning meal of a cigarette and coffee. After eating instead of a smoking I took a little walk or worked out or read a book. In the car I listened to books on tape or music that took my mind off routine times in the car when I would smoke.
It was not an easy thing but I started replacing other activities and habits for times when I would usually smoke and I started using smoking control. When I decided that I had to break the smoking habit I started with a list of pros and cons for my decision to have a smoke or not. In other words what I was getting out of smoking and then the cons to keeping with my smoking habit. Obviously the pros far outweighed the cons. The monetary and health expenses of a smoking habit makes the decision to go on one you can't really justify in any sense except for the fact that as a smoker this is a habit that you enjoy.
After I made my list I hung this list up on my bedroom door and also on my mud room door. I wanted everyday to see my reason for changing my behavior this helped some since quitting smoking is a resolution one has to make daily day by day. When you refrain from smoking you have to assume some times when you may make a mistake but in the past when I messed up I just accepted the fact that I had failed and started smoking full steam ahead but this time if I back slid and bought a pack of cigarettes or smoked a single I bummed from a buddy I allowed myself forgiveness for not being perfect and started right back up.
When ever I saw the scales go up I tried to exercise more and not to eat as much I also rewarded myself by pampering myself with something I normally would not do for myself. Maybe by a splurge on shopping or a movie I wanted to see a nice dinner a cup of coffee just something I enjoyed to remind myself that smoking wasn't the only enjoyable thing for me. I will not say I still don't think about having a smoke from time to time and most probably always will yet I also remind myself that what you save is money your health and generally just feeling much better. Your clothes don't smell like smoke your hair doesn't stench of smoke you can taste the food you eat. You can also put the bucks you would have used for buying cigarettes into a bank account and watch it accumulate.
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