Learning To Resist The Temptation To Smoke Cigarettes
September 6th, 2009 | Published in Stop Smoking Tips
Boy, it seems like the very minute that you decide to stop smoking tobacco cigarettes is the very time when the cravings seem to double. The thought of quitting will put the cigarettes at the forefront of your mind and it is going to be harder than ever to resist the temptation to light one up. This is where your willpower and determination will have to come into play. You are going to have to be able to resist most of these temptations if you want to be successful in quitting.
There will be suffering associated with quitting. Of that, there is no doubt. You will likely feel like you are wanting one more often since you have decided to start the quitting process. Actually this might not be true. All of the times that present you a temptation to smoke are probably just how often you were smoking before. If you are used to smoking once an hour and you skip an hour, you will think of that cigarette several times during the hour you do not have one. This is where your strength comes in. You must resist, resist. Once you have passed the time you were not supposed to smoke and reached the time you set to have a smoke, go ahead and have it then. Do your best to put it out a puff or two sooner than usual.
There are certain times of the day when you will want to smoke for sure. When you get up, while you drive to work, after you eat, and a lot of other times during your day. You have to learn to put off smoking for as long as you can especially during the peak times of your smoking, so to speak. If you can wait at least half an hour to smoke when you wake up in the morning, this is great. It is progress. If you can wait half an hour or an hour to smoke after you eat, this is progress. Not smoking a cigarette right before you go to sleep is progress. Set a time at night when you are going to have the last cigarette of the day and stick to it. It needs to be at least an hour before you lie down and try to make it a little earlier every few night so you continue to make progress.
How fast or how slow you choose to get the tobacco out of your life is up to you. The entire process is not going to be any fun or easy, but you can do it if you make your mind up to do it. Keep up with the number you smoke each day and try to reduce it by one more cigarette everyday if you can and if this pace works for you. Some might be more comfortable cutting out an additional cigarette once every two or three days. As long as you continue to reduce the numbers of smokes and work on waiting to have those smokes for as long as possible, you are making progress and that means you are still on your way to quitting.
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