Trick yourself into not Smoking

Smoking is a great stress buster- it makes me calm!

I am not a baby- I will quit when I’m ready!

I smoke because I want to-I have a choice!

I smoke because my life is so complicated!

I am not strong enough- I don’t have the willpower to Quit !

Heard somewhere?? ya all these are the general excuses by smokers

Someone once famously said “If you can teach a person to quit smoking, you can teach him anything”.

If statistics is anything to go by- one human life is lost to tobacco use somewhere in the world every eight seconds. That translates to approximately 50 lac deaths annually. A research suggests that one in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age i.e. between 40 and 50 years of age. Another research estimated that adult male smokers lost an average of 13.2 years of life and female smokers lost 14.5 years of life because of smoking. 

With the average life expectancy of the average Indian male and female being 65 and 67 years respectively that leaves you gentlemen conveniently dead at 52 years of age and ladies at 53 years ,more so!! 

With this amount of killer statistics available in the public domain smoking still seems to be the favorite pastime of the old and the young. What then is the culprit????

While browsing I found these trick to quit smoking, I thought it would be greate if I share this piece of information. So here it goes...

Trick 1: Don't Buy a Pack

If you buy a packet of chips, you'll want to eat most of it (if not all). While it's not chip-addiction we're cracking down on, the formula is the same. If you buy one cigarette , you'll channelize your laziness (into buying another one) to actually reduce your time between cigarettes.

Trick 2: Smoke only Half a Cigarette Each Time
I don't have to explain the 50% off on your health.

Trick 3: Remove the ashtrays

The tradition of easing into your comfy chair with a cigarette and a ashtray- nix it. Throw away your lighters too. Make smoking a chore, an annoying bodily necessity.

Trick 4: Enlist Fellow Quitters

Peer pressure got you into smoking, now use the same devilish social conditioning to have the pressure of your fellow man's expectations of you. You can pool in your anti-smoking resources and motivate each other. 

Trick 5:Exercise

It's a simple chemical reaction. Smoking => Nicotine => Dopamine in your brain => Happiness. If you're already feeling good after enjoyable exercise (it can even be jumping with your kids, as long as you love it)

Trick 6: Change your Brand
You're overriding the love you have of a specific blend of tobacco with something your throat will chemically dislike.

Trick 7: Smoke Alone
If smoking was bonding time with fellow addicts, smoking alone will force you to have less of a reason. On a deeper level, it will show it's reality as an addiction.

 
Trick 8:Write down each Cigarette Smoked

"Pressure" motivates a lot of clicks of the lighter. Write down the things that made you want to light up in the first place. Start addressing those.

Trick 9: Smoke Free Zones
Libraries, cultural centers and cinema halls are all places where smoking is banned. Hang out at such smoke-free zones - the entertainment options will distract you from smoking.

All of us know, smoking habit just ruins one's health and life.A conscious and educated effort by the user will help him  to get out of this habit. Though this post may not be a life changing one, but definitely will caution/remind  the smokers..

Stay Healthy  Stay Happily!!!  

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