Quitting smoking is just like anything else that you would like to succeed at in life.
You need a plan to follow and you need to do some planning beforehand to ensure than you can manage and succeed with the plan.
This involves making the process of not having a smoke easier to follow.
Obviously one of the first steps that you will need to take is to remove all possibilities of having access to cigarettes from the day you start your program.
You need to get rid of all the cigarettes you have in your possession.
Many people like to retain one pack of cigarettes as something to fall back on 'just in case they need one' but this is setting yourself up for failure before you start.
There needs to be no thoughts in your mind that you will even need another cigarette.
You should have also worked out what causes you to want to have a cigarette and be ready to avoid such circumstances or the possibility of such emotions when you start your process to stop smoking.
Avoid anything that will make you feel like having a cigarette and make arrangements to do things that will keep you occupied and help you to keep your mind off the cravings that are bound to happen.
Do things that will change your regular routines as this will help to break the habits that cause you to smoke.
Arrange to be with people who can offer you support and try to avoid those who are smokers as this can lead to unnecessary temptation.
In the initial stages of your program you won't want these temptations and socializing with certain people will need to be postponed until you are in a position where you can handle having them around without feeling the need to have a cigarette of your own.
Anything that you can do to make your life easier during this period will help you to get the results that you are after and ensure that you will be able to finally quit for good.
No matter what type of program you use to kick the smoking habit is isn't going to happen unless you have the motivation to succeed.
A larger portion of the people who try to quit smoking do so because they know it is bad for their health but they really don't have the right mindset to succeed.
They really don't want to stop because the addiction makes them feel good and almost everyone knows that quitting smoking is not something that is easy to do.
People will always seek pleasure and avoid pain and all quitting offers initially is more pain than pleasure.
If only those same people could understand the potential for pain that they will suffer if they continue to smoke and get the health problems such as lung cancer that are associated with smoking.
The chance of successfully quitting smoking is considerably more if you have the desire to quit and the motivation to do so.
Before you even consider starting a program to stop smoking you should be concentrating on getting your plan in place and getting motivated to start and follow through.
If you aren't ready to do that then it is probably better to delay for a very short while until you really are ready as then you will have a chance of success.
Set a specific date when you will start and let others know that is what you are doing so you can also get some support structure in place before you start.
It might even be worthwhile to tell friends and family that you might be a little bit grumpy around that time and you can apologize in advance and ask them to understand it is something that is very difficult to do.
By setting a specific date and creating your plan of action you are affirming in your mind the course that you will follow.
Even powerful mind techniques like hypnosis that have proven to be highly effective at stopping people from smoking will have little chance of success if you don't want to stop.
You have to have the desire and the motivation.
With those two you will have a very powerful force against the evil of tobacco smoking.
You need a plan to follow and you need to do some planning beforehand to ensure than you can manage and succeed with the plan.
This involves making the process of not having a smoke easier to follow.
Obviously one of the first steps that you will need to take is to remove all possibilities of having access to cigarettes from the day you start your program.
You need to get rid of all the cigarettes you have in your possession.
Many people like to retain one pack of cigarettes as something to fall back on 'just in case they need one' but this is setting yourself up for failure before you start.
There needs to be no thoughts in your mind that you will even need another cigarette.
You should have also worked out what causes you to want to have a cigarette and be ready to avoid such circumstances or the possibility of such emotions when you start your process to stop smoking.
Avoid anything that will make you feel like having a cigarette and make arrangements to do things that will keep you occupied and help you to keep your mind off the cravings that are bound to happen.
Do things that will change your regular routines as this will help to break the habits that cause you to smoke.
Arrange to be with people who can offer you support and try to avoid those who are smokers as this can lead to unnecessary temptation.
In the initial stages of your program you won't want these temptations and socializing with certain people will need to be postponed until you are in a position where you can handle having them around without feeling the need to have a cigarette of your own.
Anything that you can do to make your life easier during this period will help you to get the results that you are after and ensure that you will be able to finally quit for good.
No matter what type of program you use to kick the smoking habit is isn't going to happen unless you have the motivation to succeed.
A larger portion of the people who try to quit smoking do so because they know it is bad for their health but they really don't have the right mindset to succeed.
They really don't want to stop because the addiction makes them feel good and almost everyone knows that quitting smoking is not something that is easy to do.
People will always seek pleasure and avoid pain and all quitting offers initially is more pain than pleasure.
If only those same people could understand the potential for pain that they will suffer if they continue to smoke and get the health problems such as lung cancer that are associated with smoking.
The chance of successfully quitting smoking is considerably more if you have the desire to quit and the motivation to do so.
Before you even consider starting a program to stop smoking you should be concentrating on getting your plan in place and getting motivated to start and follow through.
If you aren't ready to do that then it is probably better to delay for a very short while until you really are ready as then you will have a chance of success.
Set a specific date when you will start and let others know that is what you are doing so you can also get some support structure in place before you start.
It might even be worthwhile to tell friends and family that you might be a little bit grumpy around that time and you can apologize in advance and ask them to understand it is something that is very difficult to do.
By setting a specific date and creating your plan of action you are affirming in your mind the course that you will follow.
Even powerful mind techniques like hypnosis that have proven to be highly effective at stopping people from smoking will have little chance of success if you don't want to stop.
You have to have the desire and the motivation.
With those two you will have a very powerful force against the evil of tobacco smoking.
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