Can You Step Down From Smoking Gradually
August 30th, 2009 | Published in Stop Smoking Tips
They say that stepping down from smoking is a great way for some people to be able to give up cigarettes. It is a tedious process that does draw out the end result a little longer than some methods of quitting, but a smoker is supposed to feel that they are more in control of the situation and it is supposed to be less stressful this way. Even if you do choose the step down gradually method, you will still need to employ your determination and willpower everyday if you really want to quit.
You have to learn to smoke fewer and fewer cigarettes each day. You might start with twenty when you smoke more than a pack per day and work your way down from there. When you feel like to can eliminate one more cigarette in a day, do it and do not allow yourself to go backwards. This is the only way this method will work. Even if you slip up and smoke one more in a day than you were supposed to, do not let it be what talks you into giving up. Just start the next day right where you left off and try it again. This is one instance when a quitter can not quit.
It will depend on you which cigarettes during the day you want to cut out first. Pick one time when you always smoke and eliminate that one time each day until you are accustomed to not having a smoke, perhaps at lunch time. For some smokers the easiest one to do away with first might be the one you smoke when you first get up in the morning. Breaking the habit of smoking a cigarette with that first cup of coffee in the morning could be a huge triumph for you. For someone else it might be not smoking after they finish a meal or not smoking while they are driving. Just pick one and get started.
You know before you start that even though you are going to try and stop gradually, it is still going to be a constant temptation that you will have to battle until you have weaned yourself off of cigarettes completely, and even then the desire to smoke will likely linger on for months to come. Some people say they still have the temptation to smoke even after they have been stopped smoking for years. It is all in how much you really want to quit. If you want it bad enough, you will do what it takes to be successful.
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