Tips for Giving Up Smoking

Every man and his dog can give you tips for quitting smoking, I will give you only one.

Never think of it as "giving up". This is a a very popular term and I have a big problem with it. Why? Because it has a real negative vibe, when in fact stopping smoking should be a really positive experience. I think this is a major reason as to why thousands of people fail to quit, they go into the process with negative thoughts and feelings right from the beginning.

I was once a smoker and just like a lot of you out there I was always saying to myself "I will give up soon". Unfortunately "soon" didn't arrive until 4 long years later. Why, because I kept telling myself that I needed to give up, I was putting myself into a negative frame of mind right from the start.

It wasn't until I eliminated the thought that I was giving something up, that I actually did quit.

This may sound strange at first but in order to successfully quit you need to be 100% positive about it. The fact of the matter is being smoke-free is a really positive experience and it needs to be thought of in this way. You are not giving anything up at all, it is in fact the exact opposite, you are gaining by no longer smoking.

What do you gain by no longer smoking:

• Your Health: It has been proven that overtime the health affects of smoking can be reversed, adding years to your life compared to if you kept smoking.
• Improved Hygiene: You and your clothes no longer reek of disgusting cigarette smoke and your fingers and teeth lose their yellow tinge.
  
• Money: If you are a pack a day smoker at a cost of $10 dollars a pack, you will save yourself $3650 in the first year alone.
  
• Time: A cigarette takes about 5 minutes to smoke. This may not seem like a long time but it all adds up. If you smoke 20 cigarettes a day thats 100 minutes taken up by smoking. What other productive things could you use that time for, work, play, time with friends and family.
• Pride: This was a big one for me as I wanted to be able to tell my friends and family that I had overcome this obstacle. I wanted them to be proud of me but most of all I wanted to be proud about myself.
  

The best tip I could ever give you about how to quit smoking is to not think of it as giving up at all. Instead think of everything you will gain and you will succeed.