Tip #8 - Stay Positive

Tips To Quit Smoking

Quitting smoking will be a very difficult ordeal. Having a positive attitude will help you overcome cravings, urges and frustrating days. Positive attitudes will improve your mood, health, limit stress and heighten your focus.

Be aware of when you start to become negative or pessimistic. When you catch yourself having negative thoughts, stop and ask yourself if this is truly a negative moment or is this just my first reaction. Most situations are not nearly as bad as people think they are.

Once this positive way of thinking is adopted you will notice the little things not bothering you anymore, you will become much happier and coping with hardships will become easier. 

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible. William Arthur Ward

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Tip #7 Make A Plan

Tips To Quit Smoking

As with any goal in life, a well thought out plan will increase your odds of success dramatically. Without a plan of action you may never reach your goal. Plans give you stability and direction. If you wanted to make $100,000 a year you would have to map out a daily, weekly and monthly tasks to finally achieve your ultimate goal of earning more money. Just wishing for it will not make it so. So start planning.

First part of the plan should involve creating a support system. Tell friends and family that you are quitting smoking. Make a doctors appointment. Join a support group. Enlist all the people you think you will need to get you through what will be a difficult process.

The next step should include a list of your "triggers" and places that have a high risk of enabling your cravings. Adjacent to this list should be alternatives to smoking. You should have done this already if you've read Tip #1.

Third, obtain everything you will need for enacting the alternative to smoking. If you want to go to the gym to curb your cravings, make sure you have a workout schedule and routines. If you want to ride your bike, ensure that it is in good working order. Don't go in blind.

Once everything is in place, then you can pick the day you will quit. It is imperative that you have all that is needed at your disposal. When those cravings come you will be happy that you did so.

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. Bill Copeland

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