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What You Can Do BEFORE You Quit 

Quitting smoking is changing a part of your identity.   Take a moment to realize you are going to have this wonderful opportunity to create a NEW YOU!

• Tell your friends and family

• Get together a suport group

• Make a comparison chart of the pros and cons of smoking

• Identify your triggers to smoke like certain emtions, habits and patterns

• Imagine what you would be, feel like and look like as a non-smoker

• Schedule and make time for some kind of relaxation technique or therapy like acupuncture, hypnosis, yoga, qi gong, the gym, psychologist etc.

• Start a savings account/fund to put all the money you would spend on cigarettes

• Learn a deep breathing technique

• Get your teeth whitened

• Throw out all lighters, ash trays and get rid of all hiding places

• Purchase nicotine replacement product if desired

• Set a date

• Do It!

Tips To Help You Through Cravings

•  Change your habits around your triggers like driving a different way to work or going for a walk after dinner 

• When you do crave a cigarette, wait ten minutes, drink a glass of water and ask yourself if you really want to have a cigarette or if you are experiencing a trigger to have one 

• Chew nicotine gum or use another replacement product

• Do deep breathing

• Exercise

• Call someone in your support group

• Do anything else but light up!

Each day you make thousands of choices!  Choose not to smoke every moment of every day!

Change in Belief = Change in Behavior + Time = Change in YOU!