How Do You Quit Smoking Cigarettes?

How many times have you attempted to stop smoking but have failed to do so? Yes I thought so – not good is it? No doubt – like many of the people who read this article I tried, and failed, numerous times to quit smoking before eventually managing to find a top quality stop smoking technique that worked for me.

I am speech therapy coach; I basically sell budget package holidays to achieve fluency. I am also involved with other projects including offering affordable external doors and providing training for foster carers.

As for my attempts to stop smoking; or my failed attempts. I would at times do quiet well before falling off the wagon, or is this saying solely in? Well who cares at the end of the day? I am confident that you understand what I mean here.

I would then have a voice in my head, what I call “my demons”, who would speak to me and would say something along the lines of:

“You are doing really well, why don’t you have just one cigarette for old times sake? You deserve it. Just smoking that one cigarette is normal; there is no reason that you will go back to smoking twenty a day.”

Now I have no idea why but for someone reason I would listen to this voice and would have that “one” cigarette. The problem being that one would lead to two and two would lead to three etc.

So how did I eventually learn to stop smoking? Well a friend of mine, Tony, advised that I needed to focus on two things at the same time, not just quitting the fags. He stated that when you just concentrate on attempting to stop smoking your whole focus and thought process is always on “smoking”. He stated that I needed to focus on something else as well as attempting to quit smoke smoking and suggested that I also went on a diet; charming; I know that I am overweight but a diet.

I decided to give it a go and it worked like a dream. I now have the belief and confidence that I could run a half marathon!

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