You Will Quit

How To Stop Smoking Permanently

You have made the decision to stop smoking and you are confident that you will be able to do this. You are a strong and independent person who has always accomplished their personal goals-failure is just not a word in your vocabulary.

Talking to people that recently stopped smoking and broke their addiction to nicotine you begin to realize that this might be a bit more difficult than you anticipated. You are not scared off by the challenge and you know that it might take some very hard work and a very strong disposition in order to accomplish your goal.

One way to stop is to go 'cold turkey' and you decide that this might just be the way to go. No extra time spent taking medication, weaning your cigarette consumption down to a few days, wearing a patch, doing acupuncture or hypnosis-you are tough and you will just stop. Now, you begin doing a bit of research on what and how your body will respond to the sudden withdrawal of nicotine from your system. This does not bother you as much as realizing that the habit of picking up and smoking the cigarette itself is part of your overall persona.

Once your friends realize that you selected going cold turkey as how you would stop smoking, as a joke they go out and get an old movie with Dick Van Dyke where an entire town enters a contest where they can win money if, and only if, everyone in the town goes cold turkey. The comedy continues through the trials and tribulations that everyone goes through during this period of time. While the movie is funny, the actors are just showing exactly what it would be like for people going through withdrawals. There are many different ways that people will react in different circumstances and the majority of them are covered in this comedy.

Now that you have decided how to stop smoking, you let everyone around you know that you are going to quit smoking. As the saying goes, forewarned is forearmed-let everyone know about how you may be responding to them for the first few days. It is very normal to be irritable and short with people around you. Little things that may have never bothered you before could possibly become a major annoyance.

How to stop smoking-the answer to this question is easy! Take it one minute at a time, eventually working your way up to one hour at a time, to several hours at a time, to a day at a time. Eventually, you will have stopped smoking and you will not even be thinking about having a cigarette.