Stop The Smoking Habit.

I'd tried quite a lot of times to quit smoking.. It seemed like I was again and again waiting until the anxiety in my life was at a minimum to begin to quit and of course that did not happen.I used my smoking habit as anxiety reliever and I just didn't know what smoking control could do. Please note that "Smoking Control" is a branded product of the NOXO company. I was apprehensive about weight gain and it seemed like every time I stopped smoking I replaced eating with my smoking and when I saw a weight gain of more than eleven pound I was once again smoking.

So, I was sure I was going to have to find a behavior to replace my smoking or additional ways of dealing with stress. At home instead of taking a smoke break I would use some smoking control. In the morning instead of a cigarette with my hot drink I ate a healthy breakfast instead of my typical morning meal of a cigarette and coffee. After eating instead of a smoking I took a little walk or exercised or read the newspaper. In the car I listened to books on tape or music that took my mind off normal times in the car when I would smoke.

It was not an easy thing but I started replacing other activities and habits for times when I would usually smoke and I started using smoking control. When I decided that I had to break the smoking habit I started with a list of pros and cons for my decision to smoke or to quit. In other words what I was getting out of smoking and then the cons to keeping with my smoking habit. Certainly the pros far outweighed the cons. The monetary and health expenses of a smoking habit makes the decision to keep going one you can not really defend in any sense except for the fact that as a smoker this is a habit that you delight in.

After I made my list I hung this checklist up on my bathroom mirror and also on my kitchen wall. I wanted everyday to see my motive for changing my behavior this helped a bit since quitting smoking is a declaration one has to make daily day by day. When you stop smoking you have to count on some times when you may slip but in times past once I slipped I just accepted failure and began smoking full steam ahead but this time if I back slid and bought a pack of cigarettes or smoked one or two I begged from a friend I allowed myself forgiveness for not being perfect and started right back up.

As soon as I saw the scales go up I tried to exercise more and not to eat as much I also rewarded myself by pampering myself with something I habitually wouldn't do for myself. Maybe by a splurge on shopping or a videotape I wanted to see a nice dinner and an after dinner drink just something I enjoyed to remind myself that smoking wasn't the only enjoyable thing for me. I can not say I still don't think about smoking from time to time and perhaps always will but I also remind myself that what you save is money your health and generally just feeling superior. Your clothes don't smell like smoke your hair doesn't reek of smoke you can taste the food you eat. You can also put the cash you would have used for buying smokes into a saving account and watch it accumulate.