We start smoking for various reasons. But we keep smoking for totally different reasons as well. First of all, we most of us get addicted. tobacco is one of the most addictive substances known to man. But there are a whole array of emotional reasons why we continue to smoke, especially when we know all about the harmful effects and continue anyway. This video will provide insight into the reasons why you smoke, and it's this to to develop successful strategies to quit based on the reasons why you smoke.

Remember to use your anchors as a reminder of why quitting is important to you. Please download and print out the why test. Once you have filled out and added up your why's to smoking, return to the video to uncover strategies for each why these strategies will be incorporated right into your personalized quit plan. So have that available as well. If you score too high score in smoking stimulates You feel that smoking gives you energy and keeps you going. What you'd want to do is come up with a list of other healthier ways to create energy like washing your face with cold water, going for a brisk walk, going for a bike ride or doing some jumping jacks.

Plan and organize your day so you don't need a cigarette to get going. This might mean getting up a little earlier, changing your routine, chewing sugars down, brushing your teeth, drinking cold lemon water, and avoid fatigue. get lots of sleep. If your why is I want something in my hand. There are lots of things you can do with your hands instead of smoking, like doodling, painting your fingernails using a straw, handle a rock or a coin or even a paperclip do puzzles. Take up knitting or cross stitch or learn how to play an instrument.

If it feels good was one of your highest scores. You will need to find other pleasurable activities like Keeping a list of the pleasures of being tobacco free, like you smell great, you have extra money to taste better. enjoy time with friends or go to the movies or reading. Take up a hobby, or try a new sport. Treat yourself to something special at the end of each week. By putting the extra money saved in a jar.

You will definitely want to review the video included here entitled to breathing pleasure into being tobacco free. If you scored a high score in it's a crutch. You likely use smoking as a crutch in stressful times or situations. So things like guided meditation, yoga or squeezing a stress ball might help relieve stress. So being in a bubble bath when you're at home might work. Deep breathing is awesome and movement or exercise is a useful strategy in this category of why is your stress, good stress or bad stress?

Again, please refer to breathing pleasure into being tobacco free video. If you read it at a high score in I'm hooked. Smoking is a powerful addiction, you're likely physically addicted to the nicotine and have developed habits around smoking that can be difficult to interrupt. Triggers to smoking have been established. For example, when you drive, drink coffee, talk on the phone at breaks during work. Great when you drink alcohol after a meal.

Well, it's best to disconnect these triggers by altering those routines. For example, declare your car as tobacco free. declare your home as tobacco free doodle when you're on the phone or go to public places where smoking is not allowed. find new things to do on on break that work. withdrawal from the physical addiction is the worst and the first three to five days and then it starts to get better. Nicotine has completely cleared your body in two weeks.

Now nicotine replacement therapy may get you through some superstition Have your cravings if needed. If you score too high number and it's part of my routine, I would encourage you to be more mindful of each cigarette that you smoke before you light the cigarette rate, the importance of it, and write it down in a in a journal somewhere, start to eliminate the cigarettes that are less important that you could live without. change up your smoking area, which to a brand you might not normally smoke, smoke with the opposite hand, makes smoking start to feel less familiar. If you do light up, stop everything else and just think about your smoking. Where are those chemicals going in the body? What are they doing to your organs and tissues and change up your routines of smoking just doesn't fit in anymore.

If you've identified that you're a social smoker, think about this. About 80% of the population are tobacco free, and so often smokers are actually out there smoking alone, often a quiet corner somewhere very isolated. When people around you are smoking, it's important to remind them that you are now tobacco free. rehearse your escape line, and escape route when offered a cigarette you may need you may need to change your social habits for a while to avoid tempting situations or think them through ahead of time so you have a plan and can stay on track. I'd encourage you to pick strategies that will work for you. I've given you a few examples here, but you want to install them right into your quit plan.

Whatever you think will work, come up with some of your own and then they are sure to work. You might have rated high scores on more than one category on more than one Why? And that's okay, and quite normal. Pick the top two or three and add those to your personalized quit plan. thinking it through will really solidify your goals to quit