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Gradual Smoking Reduction: Skip One

by Anonymous

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Canada

If your a pack a day smoker, you never started out a pack a day. It was something you gradually built to. This in my opinion, is the way to get out of it. Quitting cold turkey may work for some, but not all. The method I'm detailing here is, setting smoking goals and achieving them by getting off the habit gradually. From the starting day you choose, for every smoke you would generally have through out the day, skip one. Do anything to keep your mind occupied, exercise is an excellent one. When your body becomes comfortable with this, skip one again. continue this process until you get to the point were your comfortable just dropping them altogether. Keeping your mind occupied is the trick. I have found that the obsessive thoughts of smoking when quitting, led to my demise in the past. An example. Picture right now that there is a large yellow anvil, hanging above you on a string, picture it just slightly swinging on that string, above you. See this picture in your mind now, for one second. And now, stop thinking about it all together. Still thinking about it? Then you understand what I'm getting at now. This is what you have to combat, if you can successfully do this, the battle is over. I have used exercise to help eleviate cravings. I have found that at the end of a good exercise period, I don't feel like a smoke. And its my mental habits that makes me have one. Heavy smokers are usually heavy smokers because of an underlying issue. Whether they are stressed, anxious or depressed about something, they usually grab a smoke, because they think it is going to calm them down. Exercise in this case is the best method. It is one of the best methods to eleviate stress, and depression.