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I've got to disagree with the people who say cutting back absolutely won't work. I tried everything and that was the only way I managed to quit. The trick is not to do anything too dramatic and to fill in those holes in your schedule. I approached fixing my smoking habit the same way I did fixing my eating habits, I watched myself for a week, taking note of when and why I smoked. I was smoking about once an hour, so I told myself to go an hour and a half between breaks. Once that became an easy habit, I went to two hours between cigs, and so on. I filled in those old smoke breaks by finding extra stuff to do in the office or taking a walk (exercise works especially well because it makes you breathe deeply and kicks your brain into gear). If I got stressed and antsy and felt like I absolutely needed a cigarette before the scheduled time, I'd smoke half, clip it, and smoke the other half on schedule. I lapsed a couple of times, but never went back to smoking as much as before and I managed to give it up totally in six months. Declaring "smoke free zones" helped too. Once I decided to quit smoking in my car and my bedroom, it definitely limited the times I could smoke. grammagoulis fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Nov 25, 2009 |
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