Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 5, Issue -2, 1 August 2020 | Page 6

3. Keep your hands busy with a stress ball, or an object you can keep in
your hand like a pen or small stone.
4. Drink lots of water.
5. Take a Vitamin B supplement to help with stress.
6. Deep breaths.
7. Use the nicotine patch, gum or prescribed smoking cessation meds if
you need to, they are much more effective when used in combination
with the techniques I'm giving you here.
Use affirmations. Use positive self-talk such as "I am free!" or "I can do this"
or "I am in control" or I'm worth taking care of " or "I am healthy, happy and
free from addiction." Make it a habit to say them several times a day.
ON YOUR QUIT SMOKING DAY: Tell everyone what you are doing to make
yourself accountable. Pick your quit day carefully; a day when you have time
to focus on your goal.
After you quit smoking, avoid drugs like alcohol and marijuana which can
decrease your motivation. I suggest giving them up at least for the first month
of being a nonsmoker, longer if they are major triggers that make you want to
smoke. If coffee makes you want to smoke, cut down or eliminate it for a
while.
Get lots of sleep. Your body needs energy to heal.
Get your teeth cleaned and get checked for oral cancer.
Get your car washed and detailed if you smoked in your car.
Avoid situations that will tempt you. Stay away from bars and parties
where people will be smoking. Ask those close to you to refrain from smoking
in front of you.
Give yourself a reward. Have a plan to get a massage after 30 days of
smoke free. Or take a trip. Or buy something for yourself.