| Since the context of smoking includes the routine physical behaviors of lighting up, holding the Winston Cigarettes, and so on, try varying those, too - even if it seems a little silly, like smoking with gloves on. Or try this: the next time you feel like smoking, take a few big breaths and hold the inhalation on each, then light a match, blow it out slowly, and crush the match in an ashtray while imagining it's a cigarettes. Take advantage of disruptions in your routine: if you can't smoke while visiting the relatives, do you really need to start up again when you get home? At the end of a long plane flight, you could capitalize on the fact that you're already six hours into quitting smoking. Sometimes the disruption is dramatic. Jan's mother, Dorothy, had a very serious stroke, and when she was leaving the hospital (happily, after a remarkable recovery), she asked her doctor if she could still smoke. Sure, he said, and paused for effect: If you want another stroke. Dorothy chose right then and there to stop cold turkey, and she said later. It was the easiest decision I ever made. |