| 50 Things You Should Know |
About Quitting Smoking...
- Quitting is tough, but you can do it.
- Quitting is NOT as tough as dealing with lung cancer.
- Make a plan for quitting.
- Pick a quit day. Mark it on your calendar.
- If you have tried to quit before, consider it practice.
- It takes some smokers two, three, or more tries to quit for good.
- Quitting often takes more than willpower alone.
- Nicotine is more addicting than cocaine or heroin.
- GET HELP with physical withdrawals.
- Hypnosis and acupuncture work for some people, though they are expensive. If you are rich, go for it!
- Withdrawal symptoms usually start within a few hours and peak 48 to 72 hours later.
- Using an aid to quit smoking can DOUBLE your chances of success!
- There is no right way to quit - DO WHATEVER IT TAKES
- Ask your friends and family members for emotional, positive, active support.
- Ask a friend or family member to quit with you, 'the quit buddy system'.
- Join a quit smoking class/program. Attend quit smoking seminars. Quit smoking programs can give you support and help you learn to handle cravings.
- Expect cravings. At times you may feel desperate for a cigarette.
- When you want a cigarette, distract yourself by taking a walk or reading. When cravings hit, call a friend.
- HANG IN THERE, cravings most always pass within minutes.
- THE FIRST DAY OF QUITTING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT.
- If you can make it through the first day, you are TEN TIMES more likely to succeed!
- Avoid places where you used to smoke. It will make quitting easier.
- Avoid other smokers like the plague. Down the road you will be able to be around them, but not now!
- Focus on the positive things you feel happening to your body. You will feel steadily stronger, physically, mentally and emotionally.
- Within 20 minutes, your blood pressure and heart rate drop (That's a good thing!).
- Within weeks, you will be able to breathe easier and deeper, and your circulation will improve (you can FEEL it!).
- When you quit, you dramatically reduce your risk of lung cancer, heart attack, stroke and other horrible illnesses.
- A year after quitting, your risk of heart attack is cut in half.
- Fifteen years after quitting, an ex-smokers risk of heart attack is the same as a nonsmoker's.
- Not only will you be stronger and happier, you will probably live 10 to 12 years longer!
- When you quit, you will no longer be hurting your friends and family with secondhand smoke.
- Right after quitting, people are often emotional. You may feel depressed or anxious.
- Talk to others openly about how you feel. Don't keep it bottled up inside, or you will explode and smoke again soon.
- IT'S NORMAL to be afraid or even convinced that you won't be able to quit for good. Knowing this simply takes away the power of that fear!
- It's O.K. to feel sad or lonely without a cigarette. This crutch was with you through much of your life experience. These feelings do pass!
- KEEP TRYING! If you smoke again, don't panic. Think about what specific things failed this time, and learn from the experience. Adjust your strategy accordingly, for the next time you try.
- Make a list of all the reasons you want to quit - your health, your family, your future. Keep the list handy. These will light your way when the path gets dark and scary. Trust God to get you through to the other side, He will.
- Pray HARD!
- Reward yourself with the money you save by not smoking.
- Exercise and eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and popcorn to help minimize weight gain (you will gain weight, it is unavoidable. You can take it off next year, do NOT worry about it now!)
- Quitting may be one of the hardest things you ever do. It is also one of the BEST THINGS you ever do.
- Yesterday is gone forever, tomorrow never comes.
When tomorrow gets here, it will be today.
Today is all we have. -Alcoholics Anonymous-
- If you're going though HELL, keep going! -Winston
Churchill-
- We imagine we would be all right if a big crisis arose, but the big crisis will only reveal the stuff we are made of, it will not put anything into us. Crisis always reveals character. -Oswald Chambers-
- "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself." Luke 10:27
- "Most blessed is the man who believes in, trusts in, and relies on the Lord, whose hope and confidence is the Lord." Jeremiah 17:7
- "Forget the former things, do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up, do you see it? I am making a way in the desert, and streams in the wasteland." Isaiah 43: 18-19
- "For I am God, I alone! I am God, and there is no one else like Me. Only I can tell you what is going to happen even before it happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish." Isaiah 46:9-10
- "For the Lord God is a sun and shield. The Lord will give grace and glory, no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly." Psalm 84:11
- "For the message of the Cross is foolishness to those
who are perishing.
To us who are being saved, It is the Power of God." I Corinthians 1:18 - More than 40,000,000 Americans have quit smoking - You can too!
- These people are no different than you, they set a quit date and walked through the door!
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