Effective Tips: How To Quit Smoking For A Better Healthy Living

Quitting the habit of smoking is one of the hardest things to do. The difficulties come from physical addiction and psychological attachment that happens with the whole process of smoking.

Remove the attachment to your everyday doings. Often when people smoke it is at the same times everyday. For example right when wake up or when they have the first coffee of the day, when their favourite tv or radio show is on etc. These are known as 'anchors' and the trick is first to break your attachment to these daily anchors by changing those regulated times you choose to smoke. Other thing you might want to try is making anchors to smoking less enjoyable. Find an awkward, uncomfortable place to smoke or smoke so much at a time you'll feel sick. If these are not strong enough ideas to put you off, try to make up some new ones for yourself! Also you can try to think it this way: "Every cigarette I smoke, will shorten my life by 5 minutes".

Don't quit on a nice day when everything is going just fine. Quit on a hard day when everything don't seem to work out. Quitting on a day when you are happy gives you a false illusion about your will power and as soon as something negative or difficult happens you will reach for the cigarettes again and this is exactly the thing we want to avoid.
Find pictures of damaged lungs and people who are sick with smoking related diseases and stick them where you can see them when you are smoking and maybe even elsewhere. If you have kids, place these pictures next to pictures of your children to make you feel bad about smoking.
One thing that works most of the time very well is adding up the cost of smoking. Then think what you could have done with that big amount on money else than ruin your own health.