The best way to quit smoking cold turkey
Eight years ago I smoked about two packets of cigarets a day. The office that I worked in allowed smoking at our workstations, so every time I had a split second of waiting time (eg waiting for my computer to start up an application like Word), I would lit up a cigaret.
When my wife and I were told that we were going to have a baby, we both decided that it was time to quit smoking, so it woldn’t harm the unborn child more than it already had.
Your motivation is everything when you want to quit something. Here are the steps that we used to build up and strengthen our motivation to quit smoking cold turkey:
We scheduled a date
The things you dislike about smoking can be various: Risk of cancer, harming your surrounding, be out of condition etc. But if you are just a little like other smokers you are enjoyed when you smoke and doesn’t think about the consequences.
To build up a mindset and our motivation we needed time. Therefore we scheduled a date about one month from the decision to quit smoking. That way we could build up our motivation while enjoying our last cigarettes with easy conscience.
Toward the day
Towards the day that we picked to quit smoking we were building up motivation, by keeping track of how may days left. We reminded our selfes that these were the were the steps to our new and healthy lifestyle. By counting days and the awareness that we soon were going to lay of cigarrets actually made us smoke less each day.
The last day before we quit smoking
At the last day of smoking I was down to less than a packet a day. Since this would be the last day we wanted to make it special and celebrate, so my wife and I went out and bought our last packets together.
At night we made a special dinner enjoying and celebrating saying good bye to the old lifestyle with manner. And just before we went to bed we both had some cigarrets left in our packets. We decided to snap them and flush them out the toilet one-by-one.
The first week after quitting smoking
The first week was hard, but by supporting each other and thinking of our unborn baby we got through it. For the office I had bought plenty of nicotine gum just in case. However I did not like the taste of it so I never really used it.
I contribute much of my success in quitting smoking to e-cigs as I had tried many different ways to stop such as nicotine patches, and chantix, and other ways such as sunflower seeds and nothing helped. I have been using my xhale o2 vape for about 6 months now and I havent had an urge to pick up a deadly cigarette since.