Hints and Tips for breaking free from smoking.
..My Story...
I had been smoking heavily since first taking up the habit at 14 years, back then it was not advertised nor considered a health risk, like drinking, a lot of young people took it up as it was acceptable.
Now 40 years later after my elderly Mother had died from throat cancer caused by smoking, I didn't stop straight away after she had died, it was actually 6 years later after dozens of attempts.
Like a lot of countries, we here in NZ are offered GOVT sponsored nicotine replacement therapy to assist in quit smoking goals..many times I had taken up the offer of the heavily subsidised nicotine replacement patches and lozenges, for the most part they were successful, but it had to start with a change within! for which there was still a part of me that still wanted to smoke.
Finally 2 years ago I had decided there was so many negative reasons to keep on smoking, apart from financial, there was also being a heavy smoker, I was always broke, bludging when I had ran out, coughing fits..it was all getting to much.
After making the decision I no longer wanted to smoke, I set a date to start my non-smoking journey..10th of November 2011, at 11am, now nearing 2 years.19/09/13, I have not looked back, and will never go back to smoking again.
How, after many attempts to quit did I finally break free..this is how I did it:
***Set your date to quit
***Make your car and homes etc smoke free.
***Change your attitude towards smoking, you are no longer a smoker
***Use the replacement therapy as directed, but as a temporary measure in helping to quit.
..My Story...
I had been smoking heavily since first taking up the habit at 14 years, back then it was not advertised nor considered a health risk, like drinking, a lot of young people took it up as it was acceptable.
Now 40 years later after my elderly Mother had died from throat cancer caused by smoking, I didn't stop straight away after she had died, it was actually 6 years later after dozens of attempts.
Like a lot of countries, we here in NZ are offered GOVT sponsored nicotine replacement therapy to assist in quit smoking goals..many times I had taken up the offer of the heavily subsidised nicotine replacement patches and lozenges, for the most part they were successful, but it had to start with a change within! for which there was still a part of me that still wanted to smoke.
Finally 2 years ago I had decided there was so many negative reasons to keep on smoking, apart from financial, there was also being a heavy smoker, I was always broke, bludging when I had ran out, coughing fits..it was all getting to much.
After making the decision I no longer wanted to smoke, I set a date to start my non-smoking journey..10th of November 2011, at 11am, now nearing 2 years.19/09/13, I have not looked back, and will never go back to smoking again.
How, after many attempts to quit did I finally break free..this is how I did it:
***Set your date to quit
***Make your car and homes etc smoke free.
***Change your attitude towards smoking, you are no longer a smoker
***Use the replacement therapy as directed, but as a temporary measure in helping to quit.
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