Welcome back to reduce to quit. Reducing to quit can be just as effective as picking a quit date to stop smoking. Improving your success means adopting strategies that will be doable strategies that you think might just assist in the reduction of daily smoking, and the intention to reduce to zero cigarettes per day without getting stuck along the way. Here are some tips that will make it easier to reduce your smoking. Many of these strategies will assist you to reduce smoking by a half or a third almost immediately. Start by keeping a smoking log.

Write down when you smoke where you are, who you're with, or whether you're alone. Be more mindful of every cigarette includes thinking about the importance of each and every one. There might be some cigarettes, they can easily be eliminated because they're deemed less important. Let me give you an example. That first cigarette of the day is feeling the need to top up the nicotine levels in our body. They'd have bottomed out from an eight hour sleep cycle.

It might be rated as a nine or 10 on the importance scale, but the bigger at that you would normally smoke at 1030 during coffee time might only be a five or six. Assessing each cigarette throughout the day will help you determine which ones can easily be cut out without much impact on your day. Create some mindfulness around the number of cigarettes you purchase, or roll ahead of time. If you normally buy a carton, you are more likely to smoke all of them. And so I would encourage you to buy just one pack at a time. It is less convenient, but that is the whole idea.

If you normally roll cigarettes, then just roll one at a time. Again, not convenient, but it might help you to be more mindful of what you're doing when the urge to smoke comes on. Set a daily quota of cigarettes and place that amount in your pack in the morning when you leave for the day. This will ensure that you stick with your plan to reduce. Consider drawing a line on your cigarette and just smoking to that line. If you think about it, this will help you to reduce your smoking almost immediately.

Delete each cigarette for about 15 minutes whenever you feel a craving Come on or exposed to a trigger. And we'll talk more about triggers in another video, but it takes longer to actually smoke a cigarette then for craving to pass. Try one of the four DS which are drink water, deep breathing, distracting yourself or doing something else. Keep your package of cigarettes in an inconvenient place making it difficult to grab a smoke without some work. change up your smoking areas well. If you smoke inside Reclaim Your home is tobacco free and move the smoking outside only.

If you only smoke outside right now. Move your smoking area away from the door. Make it less comfortable if you sit outside Take away the chair. If you usually use matches, which to a lighter, make subtle changes that makes smoking anywhere less comfortable. Stop whatever you are doing even driving when you light up a smoke and just concentrate on what you are doing in the moment. Think about where the chemicals from the cigarette are going.

Think about what they are doing to your body. Think about what emotions you might be feeling. Think about who you are with where you are. gather as many details as you can. Try having a practice quit day. Stop smoking for 24 hours.

Try it on and see what it feels like. Odds are you will be surprised about how easy it is despite what you might have thought. Another tip is to avoid situations and places where you would normally smoke. For example, go to the library or the gym. If you would normally smoke on it. Coffee Break do something else like going for a walk around the block.

Another effective strategy to the reduced to quit is brushing your teeth often, especially during a craving. Your dentist will love this idea but your mouth will feel too clean and you won't want to smoke. We've already mentioned drinking lots of water is one of the four DS but this will keep your mouth busy and will assist your lungs to cleanse quicker. Make it your pledge to make smoking unfamiliar, firebrand you wouldn't normally like smoke with your opposite hand. Wrap your cigarette package in cellophane, use matches instead of a lighter, put in place strategies that will make smoking feel really weird. And that will make reducing and quitting feel familiar.

Keep your hands busy by doodling or giving yourself a manicure, painting your nails or knitting or playing an instrument. These are all really effective as well. The key is to think about quitting as a huge opportunity. To build on your strengths, try out all of the strategies listed here, and just adopt the ones that really work for you. If you get stuck at three to five cigarettes per day, and can't quite get past that, then it's time to refocus and reformulate your personalized quit plan. Perhaps drug therapy can be used to help you eliminate those last few, or perhaps revisiting your main reasons for quitting will provide the boost of motivation.

You require to finally get this done and to succeed like never before. Most importantly, take charge. Don't let those last few cigarettes control your life or you're planning to quit. No matter what just keep going. Just keep moving in the right direction. Refer to the algorithm provided to decide on which videos will best suit your plan.