Pick Up New Skills and Behaviours for Quitting
Smoking
Find ways of distracting yourself from the urge to smoke, which will be
there within two days of quitting smoking but the urge will gradually
decrease over time. If the urge is very strong then take drops of ActiQuit
and if you really MUST, you can light up a cigarette, but you must ensure
that your tobacco intake consistently reduces daily by at least 20% when
you're using ActiQuit. ActiQuit will help you quit smoking by:
- Changing the taste of tobacco
- Stopping the kick from tobacco
- Reducing the craving for tobacco
- And controlling anxiety
Once you have started the quitting smoking programme, take up additional activities that will pull you away from smoking. Take up extra exercise, in accordance with your GP's advice or keep yourself occupied with activities to take you mind of smoking.
When you quit, add changes to your daily routine, such as traveling on a new route to work or drinking tea instead of coffee or having your meal at a different place. Be alert of the fact that your regular routines will trigger the urge for smoking. Typical situations that trigger an urge to smoke would be drinking tea or coffee, drinking alcohol, sitting in a bar or a pub socialising, being surrounded by friends who smoke or work colleagues and last but not least, after a meal.
Make a point to drink plenty of pure fruit Juices in the first few days. This will help you get rid of the nicotine in your body .
You will also need to drink plenty of water that will act as hydro therapy and will help eliminate the anti-toxins against tobacco which are present in your body. It has been observed by Doctors that one of the actions of ActiQuit is detoxification. Although this has not yet been proven scientifically, it has been observed that cravings for tobacco are reduced with the use of ActiQuit immediately.
Do something to reduce your stress. Start taking more deep breaths slowly and evenly all the time to help reduce your stress.
Avoid stressful situations and if you do encounter such a situation then don't react if you don't have to, just observe your emotions at that time and try to be watchful and also remember that you have stopped forever. Remind yourself that a cigarette is not the solution. This will just complicate the situation while creating another crisis, a relapse into the nicotine addiction.
Make time to have a hot bath, light exercise, or do some reading. Plan various leisure activities every day.
Tell yourself that you're a "smoke-a-holic". Taking just one puff can easily undo all the hard work that you have put in to stop and you can be on cigarettes again as you always were with just one puff.
Consciously start saving the money that you would have spent on tobacco to regularly buy yourself something so that you get used to the habit of having the money there. Buy yourself something weekly or monthly, or treat yourself to a holiday after a few months.
Meet friends who don't smoke.
