1 Ask yourself why you wish to prevent smoking.
2 Write your answers on a chunk of paper and carry it with you.
3 Use it to remind yourself of why you wish to prevent, whenever you're feeling like smoking.
4 Fill out a "stop smoking contract" and have a loved one or friend sign it. Throw away all of your cigarettes, lighters and ashtrays.
5 Change your schedule to avoid circumstances during which you always smoke. Walk round the block or chew gum after you would normally be smoking.
6 Put up "no smoking" signs in your house and work space, and even in your automobile.
7 Prepare yourself to feel the urge to begin smoking once more. The yank Cancer Society suggests four ways that to affect the urge to smoke: delaying, deep respiratory, drinking water and doing one thing else.
8 Carry around "mouth toys" like candy, gum, straws and carrot sticks.
9 List the nice things that have happened since you stopped, and keep the list with you wherever you go as an idea.
10 Reward yourself for quitting; you'll take the money you would possibly have spent on cigarettes and purchase yourself one thing nice.
