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- Stop buying cigarettes by the carton! Basically, come up with ways
to make your access to them more difficult; wait until you've smoked the
last cigarette from a pack before you pick up another pack from the
store. Also, try switching brands to your least favorite.
- If you're going to smoke, try smoking only under circumstances that
you generally wouldn't want to.
- Stop emptying your ash trays. Use them as a visual reminder of your
commitment to quit. However, your family/ roommates may find this a
little disturbing.
- Break up the ritual. Use the opposite hand to smoke.
- Set a number. Choose how many cigarettes you will smoke tomorrow.
For each additional cigarette smoked, force yourself to do something
distasteful - like an extra 1/2 mile on the treadmill, etc.
- Smoke only half of each cigarette, then throw it out.
- Postpone lighting up for 1/2 hour, then an hour, etc.
- Make a list of which foods lead to cravings and avoid them.
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