Tips For Stopping Smoking Part 4

Lastly, be aware of the symptoms of withdrawal. Some of these are grumpiness, restlessness, irritability, hunger, headache, anxiety, and drowsiness or insomnia. Write them down and be aware when you're not feeling your normal self. Look at the list, do any of them fit?

Before you start, write these down and devise a plan for how you will deal with it. If you're feeling grumpy, hungry or have a headache, eat some low calorie snack, like a small handful of nuts. In the early days of quitting, you may want to have some hard candy to suck on to keep the mouth busy or try chewing gum. Have a plan in mind before you start.

Tips For Stopping Smoking Part 3

Before you start, identify some activities to help yourself. These are activities that will make you feel good, healthy and energetic. For some of you it may be exercise, for others it will be something else, but think about what activities make you feel good, healthy and energetic.

Write them down and keep the list handy so that you can refer to it. Especially in the early weeks of quitting.

Tips For Stopping Smoking Part 2

Now that you have made the decision to stop smoking, set yourself up for success. Work with other family members who smoke and friends who smoke to join you in quitting. For your home, you will need to make it a no smoking zone. This may difficult if you have family members who smoke in the house. That's why it's critical to get them to join you in the decision to quit.

People who were successful at quitting, had smoke free homes. If others are smoking in your home, the likelyhood that you will succeed is very slim.

Tips For Stopping Smoking

Over the next couple of days, I will be giving you some tips to stopping smoking. You might be interested to know that there are actually more ex-smokers in the US than there are smokers today.

In my practice, I found that those who were successful in quitting, did it by quitting cold turkey and not relying on any smoking substitutes. Here are some of the things that helped them be successful.

First and foremost, tell your family and friends about your plan to stop. Set a quit date and let them know what that date is. This is really your decision piece, but by sharing it, you are letting all know what your decision is.

#2 Healthy Habit

I have said this multiple times before, but the eating health is essential to produce a longer life. A British study showed that inidividuals who eat at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day live longer healthier lives. This should be no surprise.

Also included in those studies was the fact that drinking alcohol in moderation, exercise and not smoking contributed to an extra 14 years of healthy life.

So there is more than just eating right.

Lung Cleansing

We might not think about cleansing the lungs, but they too need to get rid of as much toxic waste that builds up there as well. You probably know what the next thing is that I'm going to say. If you are a smoker, you deserve to stop and help your lungs to cleanse. If you live or work with a smoker who smokes around you, you deserve to get away. Second hand smoke is as bad as smoking. The free radical damage from just one cigarette is astronomical.

Whether you are a smoker or not, there are ways to help cleanse the lungs. If you live in the city, this is more difficult, because cities are rife with air polution and other toxic chemicals. Finding the cleanest air that you can in your environment and taking several deeps breaths will help you remove polutants from the lungs. This will not take a great deal of time, but you need to take a few minutes and really concentrate on breathing deep and exhaling just as deeply. If you can get into an environment where there is less or no polution that is even better.