TIPS TO QUIT SMOKING
Century Smoking Cessation Treatment Program
 

• List specific personal reasons to stop smoking and set a concrete day to quit.
• Speak with your doctor about programs and products that may help.
• Get rid of all cigarettes, ashtrays, lighters and matches right before your quit date.
• Avoid places where you used to smoke, places where you used to buy cigarettes and people with whom you used to smoke.
• When going out to eat, sit in nonsmoking sections or go to restaurants where smoking is prohibited.
• Spend time in public buildings, such as stores, museums and theaters where you can’t smoke.
• Get away from the table immediately after you eat and do something incompatible with smoking, such as taking a walk, washing your hands, doing the dishes or hobbies.
• Keep handy a range of low-calorie and nonedible smoking substitutes to use when you have an urge to smoke. Ice water, sugar-free candies, gum, and mints, toothpicks, worry beads, hand-held computer games work well.
• Tell everyone you know that you are now smoke-free, and thank them for their support.
• Be good to yourself. Do something special and if possible try to reduce undue stress and demands for a few days.
• Review your reasons to give up cigarettes, and stay smoke free for tomorrow.
• Start a money jar. For each day that you do not smoke, place in the jar the amount of money that you would have spent on cigarettes. Keep this money for yourself for a special reward.