You will certainly need some quit smoking help when the time comes to give up your cigarette habit.
Going cold turkey has a poor success rate and can be very stressful.
Why make life hard for yourself when you can easily get the help you need to become a non smoker.
Firstly you need some accurate knowledge.
You need to know what works and what doesn't work.
The fact is that most quit methods don't work very well, and when they do they don't work for long.
The only way to achieve long term success is to ensure all of your emotional connections to smoking are severed.
You also need to set in place strategies to help you cope with stress and manage your life in all the areas that a cigarette would have been a part of.
This includes creating new rituals, e.
g.
if you relax on your balcony with a drink and a cigarette at the end of a busy day, it is important that you don't forgo that relaxation.
Your new ritual could be the drink on the balcony while noticing the aroma of the drink and the fresh air you are breathing.
What you do isn't important; it's creating a new ritual to allow you to relax that is important.
It is important that you don't stop doing the fun things in your life.
Don't avoid your smoking friends.
Remember becoming a non smoker is about enhancing your life not restricting it.
You want your life to expand into the non smoking world, which is now includes the vast majority of people.