If you want to stop smoking, it may not be as straight forward as you may think. For most people, quitting involves a number of steps and often a number of attempts before finally succeeding, if they succeed at all. Stop smoking aids like nicotine patches, gums, and even prescription medications have a very small success rate, which goes to prove that nicotine is not the biggest part of the addiction here. The biggest part, believe it or not, is the mental addiction.
Mental habits are the most difficult habits to break and most people do not even realize that smoking is a mental addiction much more than it is a physical one. Nicotine is addictive, but it cannot go toe to toe with a mental addiction and win. The mind is a difficult thing to break, but breaking the cigarette addiction can be done with the right methods.
First, stop smoking in your car. This is the first step in gradually removing areas in your life you are allowed to smoke. Clean the ash tray out, have the inside detailed so the cigarette smell is gone, and you can even remind yourself with a non-smoking sign you can put in the car. Eliminating smoking from your vehicle should be fairly easy and once you get comfortable with not smoking in the car (in fact, when you do not even think about smoking in the car), it is time to move on to another area. Stop smoking in another area of your life that you spend a little more time in. Or even restrict a few hours of the day to a no-smoking time instead of removing smoking from a room of your house or from another location.
Most patches, pills, and gums have a very small success rate unless coupled with counseling. New e-cigarette products may be the answer for those who have a problem with the mental addiction, however, because they are extremely easy to put down as necessary. The less it is in your hand, the easier it is to forget you have it. Many e-smokers take a puff or two off of their e-cigarette and set it down for a long period of time because they get preoccupied with work or other things. In conjunction with mental weening techniques like the smoking restriction process listed above, this could be the answer for those who have already tried cessation devices alone.
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