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Tips to Help Someone Quit Smoking


Many non-smokers are interested in learning how to help someone quit smoking. If you have a friend or relative who smokes, you may not realize how hard it is for them to give up this habit. Even though the smoker knows how harmful smoking is, wanting to quit and being able to quit are two entirely different matters.

You may have already quit smoking yourself, but that doesn’t mean that you can advise another smoker. Each person has their own reasons for smoking and faces different challenges in overcoming the habit. A smoking cessation method that worked for you will not necessarily work for someone else.

Figuring out how to help someone quit smoking requires you to be patient and understanding. Offer compassion, and remember that you can never completely know what the smoker is experiencing. It’s not particularly helpful to tell someone that you understand how they feel. Such statements can even be perceived as patronizing. Every smoker’s experience is unique, just as every person is unique.

Here are some suggestions for you if you want to help someone quit smoking:

1) Don’t expect the smoker to quit cold turkey
2) Encourage even the smallest steps to cut back smoking
3) Tell them that you have confidence in their ability to quit
4) If you go to a restaurant or bar together, sit in the non-smoking area
5) Encourage them to take up an exercise program — and then exercise with the smoker
6) Acknowledge their efforts to quit and give them positive reinforcement such as praise and hugs
7) Don’t tell them that you know how they feel
Be available if they want to talk about what they are going through
9) Help them find other activities to fill the moments during the day when they would normally smoke
10) Ask the smoker what kind of support they need from you

Stopping smoking is often a frustrating and painful task. The smoker truly needs all the support and encouragement they can get during this experience, in order to quit successfully. Even if the smoker relapses, you can continue to encourage them to try again.

Tips to Help Someone Quit Smoking

So what if it is really that easy? What if all your beliefs about how hard it is going to be to quit are completely false? What if, after just one session of hypnotherapy or NLP you find it incredibly easy to become and remain a happy, confident non-smoker for life? The reason why hypnotherapy NLP are so successful is because both our beliefs about smoking and our habitual smoking behaviours reside within your unconscious mind. So whilst consciously we may wish to quit, all too often our all powerful unconscious mind simply would not let us.

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Supporting your friends, relatives, and co-workers in their bid to stop smoking is very considerate on your part. As everyone knows, smoking is a deadly habit that is fiendishly hard to quit. Your support might be the deciding factor that helps the smoker give up smoking permanently.

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Best Ways to Quit Smoking


Best Ways to Quit Smoking

Best Ways to Quit Smoking

Best ways to quit smoking are what lots of people are looking for when quitting. There are many ways to quit smoking but regardless of your reasons you will need to either quit by tapering off or quiting cold turkey.

There is of course a good strategy for both of these methods of quiting smoking. And I would like to flesh out these two methods to quit smoking and then I will let you decide which is best with my bit of ideas.

Best Ways to Quit Smoking

So If you want to know the best ways to quit smoking and want to try tapering off to quit smoking here is how to do it. First take a day and answer a few questions. When do you smoke? How many cigarrettes do you smoke in the morning? In the afternoon? In the evening? When do you have a real urge to smoke? Now that you have this list you need a plan. You want to start your first day with a victory so you will plan the first day cutting down by not feeling guilty about smoking but instead smoking when you really need it. Make a goal of how many smokes you will have that first day and then you can go to bed on that first night knowing that you did well.

Every day after this you wnat a goal and you will start to need a way to cope with not smoking during the days and nights that you really have a nic fit and an urge to smoke. Eventually you will be down to just 5 cigarettes or so a day and one day you will have to make that leap to being a non smoker.

Best Ways to Quit Smoking – Cold Turkey

The other of the best ways to quit smoking is to just quit cold turkey. To quit cold turkey you need to do the same as above. You will start with one day where you just smoke as usual and write down when you smoke and why. What are your triggers and when are you times that you really struggle and feel the stress of needing to smoke.

Once you have figured this out you set a date and get rid of all of those smoking paraphernalia. You need to get rid of all cigarettes, ashtrays, lighters, actually anything that reminds you of smoking or makes you more comfortable to smoke. Also it is important to stay away from smoking situations like bars, smoking restaurants and in those smoking spots that we all see and look for when we look for a place to smoke.

On that first day without tabacco, cigarettes and nicotine expect to have conflicting emotions about your decision to quit. Quitting is hard but if you give yourself the chance you will be able to quit smoking easily enough and after just a few weeks you will have the confidence to not think of yourself as a smoker anymore and then you will really be a non-smoker.

If you want to know a product or two I have also written a page on the best way to stop smoking as well with some things that will make the struggle easier.

So what is the best way to quit smoking? I have tried a few times and was always unsuccessful but finally I stopped smoking by going cold turkey and have now been quit for 12 years. Realistically, as you may have figured out the best ways to quit smoking are really to quit the best and most convenient way for your lifestyle.

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