What You Can Do To Smoke Less Cigarettes?
August 30th, 2009 | Published in E-Cigarettes, Stop Smoking Tips
When you smoke cigarettes, you have to be very careful because before you know it you could join the ranks of the chain smokers pretty easily. When you catch yourself lighting one cigarette after another. You know your habit is getting bad. Well, actually it is bad in the first place, but the more you smoke the worse it is without question. Studies have shown that one of the best ways to quit smoking is to gradually step down. Some people can manage to do this, while others have not been able to. If you would like to give up smoking all together, here are some things that you can do to begin the process a little less painfully.
Some of the hardest times to not smoke a cigarette are the ones you depend on the most. When you first get up in the morning. Right after meals. When you are on the phone. When you are driving. When you are watching television. On your breaks at work. Some people are even addicted to them after sex. These are likely to be the times that are hardest to break. What might be a good idea to start with first is setting some new ground rules for your smoking.
If you smoke more than a pack of cigarettes a day, the first step down is not to allow yourself to smoke more than a pack a day obviously. If you are only about a pack a day smoker, then cut out your smokes by five the very first day. This will still be enough to allow you to have the smoke breaks you want the most, but you can eliminate the smokes in between these times.
Give yourself a few days or a week at this level. If all goes well and at the end of a week if you have decreased the number you smoked by five every day, eliminate one more. Try a few days at that number. How fast or slow you eliminate another cigarette per day is up to you, but try not to allow yourself to get stuck on a certain number too long without removing one more.
Eventually you will get to the times when you have to eliminate a smoke when you get up or skip one on a break at work. You might learn to do without one on the way to or from work. This system can work if you are really serious and it is much less stressful than trying to quit all at once. What have you got to lose by trying it? The only thing that can happen is you end up smoking less for a while even if you do not quit completely.
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