Distractions & Replacements

Use these methods to run interference against smoking.

   1. Sleep when your cravings are the worst: During bad withdrawl hours, just take a nap.
   2. Chew Milkbones: One woman killed cravings by chewing on Milkbone dog biscuits.
   3. Do something physically engaging: Bike, run or do something else you wouldn’t think to smoke while you’re doing it.
   4. Play games instead: Instead of taking a cigarette break at work, play Solitaire.
   5. Light something else: If you have to light up, do it to a candle or incense.
   6. Take up a new hobby: Combat boredom or loneliness with something you can be passionate about.
   7. Go nuts: Eat a few nuts in their shell when you want to smoke to occupy your hands and mouth.
   8. Play the lottery: Instead of spending money on cigarettes, allow yourself to play the occasional lottery ticket without guilt.
   9. Be more comfortable: If you smoke to feel more comfortable socially, try counseling, public speaking classes, or a makeover.

Psychological

These ideas will help get smoking out of your head.

   1. Bury your cigarettes: Wrap your packs in a plastic bag and bury it in the backyard so you’ll have to dig them up each time you want a smoke.
   2. Use creative visualization: Imagine cigarettes wearing boxing gloves and beating you up-and you should punch back.
   3. Get hypnotized: Hypnosis can work for some smokers.

Motivation

Stay motivated to quit smoking with these ideas.

   1. Visit lung cancer victims: Go to the hospital and sit down with patients who have smoke-induced lung cancer, and see what they have to say about smoking.
   2. Spend the money elsewhere: Take the money you’d normally spend on cigarettes, and treat yourself to something fun instead.
   3. Remember other difficult things you’ve conquered: Keep in mind challenges you’ve faced in the past to give yourself confidence.
   4. Look at photos of lifelong smokers: Check out photographs of people who never stopped smoking to see how you’ll look if you don’t quit.
   5. Plan treats: Along each milestone, have a reward prepared to give yourself in return for making it so far without a smoke.
   6. Put your savings in a glass jar: Physically see how much you’re not spending on cigarettes.
   7. Learn about smoking facts: Look up dismal facts about the disadvantages of smoking.
   8. Imagine your children smoking: Each time you want to smoke, think about what your kids would look like smoking-because it’s likely that they will if they grow up with a smoking parent.
   9. Plan a cruise: At the end of a period in which you haven’t smoked, have a reward set up like an Alaskan cruise or visit to an old friend who wants you to quit.

Gross & Painful

Definitely on the crazy end of the spectrum, these methods are gross, maybe even painful, but effective.

   1. Drink baking soda: This woman mixed baking soda in water and it killed her desire to smoke.
   2. Wear a rubber band: Snap a rubber band against your wrist when you want to smoke to associate it with unpleasantness.
   3. Look at smoking disease photos: Check out photos of diseased lungs, mouths, and throats so they’ll be burned into your mind any time you want to smoke.
   4. Keep just one: Hang onto a solitary cigarette and light it when you need a smoke, then extinguish it and save it for later.
   5. Smell some wet cigarettes: Gather up some butts, put some water on them and sniff the mess to gross yourself out about smoking.
   6. Fill a room with smoke: Close off windows and doors, then light a few cigarettes and let them burn to see how gross it is. Be careful to do this with supervision.
   7. Check out YouTube: Watch anti-smoking videos of oral cancers, brains, and more.
   8. Smoke yourself sick: Chain smoke until you’re just sick of it, crush your pack and don’t look back.

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