How To Devise A Plan To Quit Smoking

How do I devise a plan to quit smoking?

If you want help to quit smoking, and you're serious about it, I would do three things. One, find a friend who wouldn't mind you calling them frequently, who has already been successful and has quit smoking. Tell them what you're planning to do, learn what worked for them, find out what resources in your community you can access, either a stop smoking program, an addiction counselor, a stop smoking counselor. Where in your community are there groups of people that you could use to get support from? The second thing I would do is, I would check out all the information I need to convince myself, deep inside myself, I've got my support community going, but why do I like to smoke and what do I want to change. So that would be the second step, dig deeply into yourself and say why do I want to do this. Write it on a piece of paper and look at it everyday. The third step is set a quit day. I want to quit by my birthday, make it something significant. I want to quit by Mother's Day, it'll be a gift to my son, I want to quit on his birthday. I'll quit by Christmas. So pick a date and then work toward all the steps it will take to be successful at that time. The fourth step would be talk to your health care provider. Find out if you need medications to quit smoking. If you are going to use medications, time the start of your medications and understand how to use them so that it can really support your quit date. And then stay faithfully on the program once you've started that.