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7 proven ways to resist the urge to smoke

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

When you stop smoking the most difficult part is to resist the invitation’ There is no doubt that every desire is only 3-5 minutes’ It is still a struggle with 5 minutes of your will! 7 tips will help you resist the urge to smoke one to two calls’

1′ Remember why you left

When you experience a desire to remember why you quit’ This is an excellent idea to take a blank sheet of paper and list all the reasons why they decided to quit’ List everything you can, the more the better’ If necessary, take the second card’ Bring with you all the time’ Every time you feel the urge to smoke the map and the index slowly read all your reasons why you decided to stop’ After you finish reading your urge will pass! (If not, read again, or find more reasons’)

2′ Reward yourself’

Make it a habit to reward at the end of each week of non-smokers’ Think of something you want (that? T something expensive, a nice hot meal or bath home working)’ Take the index card and write what you want at the end of the week’ When the urgency of just look at the card with your reward’ Is not a face value of 3 minutes? :)

3′ Be prepared to invite you!

Preparing for the urge to smoke in advance’ In most cases the cause of something like (certain feelings, people or places)’ You should know what triggers the impulse’

Allows a very fast year’ Take a piece of paper and divide it into 2 columns’ On one side list your triggers (such as congestion? Drink your morning coffee? Discuss ?”’) and colleague in the second column, type the replacement of the action’

For example, instead of smoking while drinking his morning coffee, you can read a newspaper’ Instead of smoking after a hot conflict with a colleague, you can take a walk around a block or write what you think of this person, then the levels of this piece of paper to pieces and discard’ Do not be lazy, write it down! This exercise really works!

4′ Call your friend’

This method works very well’ Call someone who can help, they can speak with you for a couple of minutes’ You can call your friends for non-smokers, or someone trying to quit too’

5′ Distract yourself with a fast computer’

Think of a small group you have to do something you 5-10 minutes’ Make a call, send a fax, make a cup of coffee, water the plant in his office’ N’importe quoi! Your task is to distract yourself until the urge to spend’ (Hint: Try to find activity that makes smoking impossible!)

6′ Drink a glass of water’

Take a glass of water and drink through a straw’ First you have something in your mouth to allow Macher, secondly you need a few minutes to drink the whole glass and I want that to happen’ Also, remember they are supposed to drink 8 glasses of water every day!

7′ Hint power’

What? S disgusting, but it often works’ Print a small picture of the lungs of the smoker (you can find here: http://www’quitsmokingsupport’com/lungphotos’html) and put it in your wallet’ I know that view is not enough, but something like this can stop you dead in the path to enlightenment in his place’ Take a look! Really! This could be your lungs! Like you, and you respect your body’ Why damages?