TWENTY USEFUL TIPS TO HELP YOU QUIT SMOKING
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1. Taking 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda 3 times a day will help
you quit smoking. The soda neutralizes the body acids, retains
nicotine in the blood, and thus reduces the desire for tobacco.
2. Eat plenty of fresh lemons and lemon juice to reduce your
desire for cigarettes. Eating lots of salads and other fruits
will also help. Avoid meat and alcohol.
3. To avoid irritability: take 1 tryptophan (667 mg.) tablet 3
times a day, plus 1 Vitamin B complex (100 mg., time release)
with your evening meal.
4. Before breakfast, take 1/2 teaspoon each of Rochelle Salts
and Cream of Tartar.
5. Try chewing Ginseng Root; swallow the juice.
6. Dont keep cigarettes by your bed. When you wake up, breathe
deeply and brush your teeth right away.
7. Eliminate situations in which you normally smoke; for
example, give up one coffee break each day. Exercise or go for a
walk instead. After dinner, brush your teeth immediately or go
for a brisk walk.
8. Dont take your cigarettes to work or anywhere else.
9. Always sit beside non-smokers in public situations such as
meetings.
10. Always put away your cigarettes, lighter and ashtray so that
getting them will require an effort.
11. Change your brand of cigarette often. Each week smoke a
brand with a lower nicotine and tar content.
12. Switch to a brand of cigarette you dont like; change to
filter if you prefer non-filter, menthol if you prefer regular.
13. Cut back on drinks which encourage your smoking habits; for
example, eliminate lunchtime coffee.
14. Make a point of having your first cigarette a bit later each
day. Stop smoking a little earlier each night.
15. Alternate between giving up a morning, afternoon and evening
cigarette.
16. Avoid smoking in certain habitual places, for example, on
the telephone, while watching TV or sitting with the newspaper.
17. Make a list of the reasons you want to quit and keep it with
you all the time; whenever you feel the urge, read your list.
18. Always choose seats in No Smoking sections of restaurants,
trains and other public places.
19. Initiate a 3-day program, each day smoking 1/2 of what you
smoked the day before.
20. Limit your smoking to alternate hours; the next day or the
next week increase your no-smoking periods to 1-1/2 hours; then
increase them to 2 hours, etc., until you have stopped
altogether.
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