Everyone knows that smoking is a terrible habit. Aside from the obvious health risks, smoking makes your teeth yellow, makes your clothes stink, and it turns you into a social outcast. If you’ve already made the decision to stop smoking, good for you! Now it’s time to take the next step and establish a support system to help you maintain your smoke-free lifestyle.
People who stop smoking by way of techniques like hypnotherapy often think that they’ve kicked the habit for good. It’s important to know that even the most proven stop smoking programs aren’t guaranteed to last. You need to have help you can turn to on a daily basis.
It’s time to assemble your personal stop smoking support group. Establishing this group is easy. You already have a network of friends and family members who are anxious for you to quit. The help you need is waiting for you; and best of all, this is a free stop smoking resource!
Anyone who has tried to quit knows that one person can’t do it alone. You need help to stop smoking and to stay smoke-free, and the best help you can have isn’t sold in any form.
Believing that you are harming yourself, and exposing your loved ones to the dangers of second-hand smoke, is enough to make you want to quit. If those who care about you are ready to help you through the process, you may find that it’s easier to make it happen. Read on to learn how the support of friends can really help, and how to make your group as helpful as possible.
Seek the Naggers
Partners, coworkers, family and friends will often nag about smoking until the smoker is ready to scream. The problem with nagging, however, is that can backfire. The pressure causes the smoker to become more angry, nervous and anxious to be able to escape with another smoke. Quitting smoking is hard enough without incorporating the stress of arguments over the subject. Explain your concerns to all of the “naggers” in your group. Tell them that if they truly want to help, they should offer support and not sniping.
Be Responsible to Someone
Smoking cessation is more difficult when you try to sneak in a cigarette now and then without anyone knowing about it. By making yourself responsible to another person, you are going to have to actively lie about your smoking. It’s one thing to sneak in a smoke, but quite another to tell an outright lie when someone you care about asks if you’ve had a cigarette. Make yourself responsible to one person, and make sure it’s someone who will check up on you every day.
Hypnosis Support
The stop-smoking product or method that you chose to use isn’t important. What matters is that you are becoming smoke-free. For this reason, it’s important that the people in your group also support your methods. If you chose to use hypnosis, you may encounter people who question its effectiveness. Those who doubt that hypnosis treatments (or whatever method you choose) really work should be asked to keep their opinions to themselves. If you lose faith in the hypnosis process because you hear negative comments, it’s only going to serve to make the process less effective.
Take Advice With Caution
As soon as you announce that you’re quitting, you’ll be bombarded with advice from other smokers and non-smokers on how to kick the habit.
Remember that not every system is effective for every smoker, and what works for some may not be best for you. Listen to the advice and show your friends that you appreciate their input, but don’t discard your own common sense. You are the best judge of what you can or cannot accomplish.
Your friends and family will be thrilled that you’ve made the decision to stop smoking. Remind them that your value their patience and support, and will need to rely on their help and encouragement along the way. They’ll be happy to lend a hand.
Jennifer Taylor
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How do I stop smoking with no support from friends or family?
I am almost 7 months pregnant, and I have tried many times to stop smoking. I am attempting once more. I get alot of pressure from my fiancee who also smokes. Also, he seems unwilling to even try to support me through this. My "friends" still light up right in fromt of me, to the fact where I have to leave the room just to not be around the smoke. Isit even possible to quit with all this going on? Any suggestions?
good for u to quit
of course u can
quit little by little
every 4 or 5 days give up a cigarette, (it worked for me)
i doubt u can use the patch cause ur pregnant..
have a very honest talk w/ ur fiance about him not smoking around u. or even better giving it up with u
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My husband went to a hypnotist. It actually worked.
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Yes, that is tough. People around you should have more respect to smoke right in front of you especially since you are pregnant. Your fiancee should know better too, hopefully you guys don’t smoke in front of the baby or even in the house. I guess the only thing I can say is try to avoid places or people that smoke but I guess that is kind of hard being they are your friends. Tell your fiancee to go outside when he wants to smoke. For yourself try buying some suckers instead of the cigarettes.
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7 months? You should really stop smoking. Do it for your child at least. It’s very tactless of others to smoke in front of you. Perhaps you should meet your friends in smoke free zones. Get your fiancee to try and quit too. Honestly, don’t you want to be alive to watch your child grow up?
Smoking does kill you. Really it does. It also destroys the alveoli in your lungs which causes emphysema. Don’t believe the rumours about lungs being repaired. That is not true. I learnt this in Biology this year which is obviously an attempt to get prevent us from smoking at an early age. Your lungs can also get infected because of your affected immune system.
Nicotine will paralyse the cilia hairs that normally sweep up mucus. This causes a build up of mucus and causes the person to cough continually. The continual coughing will eventually damage your lungs.
I hope you do eventually stop smoking.
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I quited smoking 4 years a ago because my wife didn’t like me to smoke and when she got pregnant I felt its important that our child grows up in a smoke free environment.
So I just simply quit, it was not easy, I started to have such a mode swings and anger as soon as I talked to anyone, but I did not use anything to quit.
I just stopped one day.
What is important is to think about your child in this situation, you really can’t continue to smoke and step down each day, you need to quit now as really you won’t be able to forgive your self if any damage would be done to the child because it was difficult for you to stop smoking.
I am not judging you, I am just telling the hard fact here, sorry but thats how it is.
I found also this product recently when I was going through to find products to promote for my online business.
I have not tried it, I have not bought it my self, it was simply a product I thought looked good to try to sell as it at the same time will help people to stop smoking.
If you care, take a look
http://stop-smoking.finedeed.com
Best of wishes for you and your family
ps. remember that it is unhealthy for you and your child if you husband smokes near you ds.
Tell him to stop as well
Hank
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