A practical trick that works is to take your pack of cigarettes and lighter right now, and carry them preferably to another floor of your home. If you are in a one story home, place them on top of the refrigerator. If you have 2 floors and you are on the top, the smokes stay on the bottom and vice versa. In short, stop keeping them within an easy reach! When you get that desire and do the automatic reach, you will remember that you are quitting and they are not there. The first few times you resist walking to the fridge, you will be rewarded with a dose of hooray brain juice and you are firmly on the road.
Eventually, you'll hold out longer than ever and have one more in the pack and you'll butt it out. Now you have to remember that you're not buying them anymore. If you are dying then raid an ashtray, smoke one of your butts. Pretty gross, so do it until you dont have anymore tobacco anywhere in the house. You should be done with it by now, so hold a mock funeral for all of your smoking gear. Throw your ashtrays in a shoebox and say goodbye to your old "friend" by tossing it in the dumpster, or bury it in the yard. Seriously. Those things have been part of you all these years, and you should mark their permanent passing.
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