For less than the cost of a pack of cigarettes, this comprehensive pocket guidebook to stop smoking is loaded with tips, suggestions, and ideas to guide any smoker through the quitting process. Based on clinical research proven to be effective, the information is divided into four steps: Building motivation, Creating a plan to be successful, Quit Day, Preventing relapse.
A site that encourages smokers to quit and provides tips to friends and family on how to motivate a smoker to quit without nagging, shaming or blaming. Also check out my website with several videos on becoming smoke-free at: www.VJSleight.com and connect with me on LinkedIn at :www.linkedin.com/in/vjsleight .
Thursday, July 14, 2011
"Crush Your Butts", An effective five step process to Stop Smoking and Stay Quit forever
Are you one of millions of smokers stuck on the ambivalence fence having a love/hate relationship with your cigarettes? Do you want to quit but you also enjoy smoking? Learn the practical steps to get off the fence and become smoke-free on your own terms.
How many times have you tried to stop smoking? Read this e-book to make your next time, your last time. Learn the secret to successful behavioral change instead of relying on luck, willpower or before paying for latest gimmick. Don't spend hundreds of dollars on something that may or may not work for you because while every method to quit smoking will work for some smokers but there is NO method that will work for every smoker. Learn what method works for you not what worked for some other smoker.
This e-book is not just another method to quit but a simple 5 step process to help you figure out what will work best for you based on the psychology of changing behaviors. What makes quitting so difficult is trying to figure out what will work for each individual and it's not just one thing--it's not just a habit, not just physical, not just emotional but smoking is a complex behavior that is linked to a wide variety of issues---which can be different for each smoker--which is why something may work for one person but doesn't work for someone else--every smoker has different connections to their cigarettes.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Should couples quit together?
In a relationship where both are smokers, three things can happen:
1. Both really want to quit.
2. One wants to quit and the other does not.
3. One wants to quit and while the other really isn't ready to quit, but they go along with their mate.
For the best chance at success, you need to decide to quit for yourself regardless of the decision of your partner. When Don and Susan quit together, Don was excited about being smoke-free but when Susan would come home from having lunch with friends and smelled like smoke, he questioned whether she really had quit. She hadn't, she just stopped smoking around her husband.
It's important to talk to your partner about what if one is successful and the other isn't or just isn't motivated to quit. One common feature of everyone who relapses is that cigarettes are readily available and if you live with a smoker, a pack is always right there. A discussion might include how the smoker can still be supportive of the other's attempt to become smoke-free. What mutual boundaries can be established? As much as the quitter wants the other to join them in being smoke-free, it is a very individual choice and you can't force someone to be in a different step in the process than where they are.
It's important to talk to your partner about what if one is successful and the other isn't or just isn't motivated to quit. One common feature of everyone who relapses is that cigarettes are readily available and if you live with a smoker, a pack is always right there. A discussion might include how the smoker can still be supportive of the other's attempt to become smoke-free. What mutual boundaries can be established? As much as the quitter wants the other to join them in being smoke-free, it is a very individual choice and you can't force someone to be in a different step in the process than where they are.
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