Build your give up smokin plan

  Giving up smoking requires determination, but it’s the preparation you do up front that can really h

Giving up smoking requires determination, but it’s the preparation you do up front that can really help. Complete the exercises below to give you valuable information about your smoking habit.

Know Your Reasons
What are your reasons for giving up? Are they your reasons or ones that someone else has given to you...your doctor, your family or friends, perhaps? In order to succeed you need to be sure of your own reasons. And these can range from negative ones, or things you want to avoid, like "I don’t want to risk dying young", to positive reasons, such as, "I want to be able to play football without getting wheezy and coughing". So make a list and be sure to get every reason down, no matter how small. The more the better, and keep your list handy to spur you on.

Here’s a few to help you get started...

* Physical/health reasons
* It’s bad for my health and I don’t want to risk dying young
* I want to be fitter

Financial reasons

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* I want to take my family on holiday

Social reasons

* Stopping smoking will make me more attractive to the opposite sex
* I don’t want my clothes, my breath and my hair to smell of cigarettes any more

Emotional reasons

* A relative or friend just died from lung cancer and I don’t want it to happen to me
* I want to be free of the need to smoke

Logical reasons

* I’m pregnant and smoking is harmful to my baby
* Smoking makes it harder for me to breathe and puts a strain on my heart

Replacing Old Habits
Smoking is a habit you’ve probably grown to rely on and enjoy over the years and stopping may create an emptiness emotionally as well as physically. For this reason it’s important to make other changes and try new things so you feel your entire life and self is moving forward, rather than concentrating only on sacrificing your smoking habit.

Try new types of exercise or social activities, experiment with new drinks and foods, listen to different music, get some new clothes or a haircut or treat yourself to a day at a gym or health spa. The key thing is broadening your experiences day-to-day and taking your focus away from just giving up smoking. Remember, you’re not losing something, you are gaining a new healthier existence, free of cigarettes.

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