Habits, once ingrained in our minds, are often impossible to quit. As difficult as it is to begin a new, healthy habit, such as working out, it is just as difficult to break a bad habit, such as smoking. The key is to identify the cravings and situations in which you smoke, and replace them with something else.
1. Working out. Not only does working out repair a lot of the damage that was done to your body during the time in which you were smoking, but it also facilitates the production of endorphins, which go a long way towards cancelling out all of the negative chemicals nicotine produces in your brain.
2. Drink A lot. No, not alcohol, other fluids. These other fluids can wash a great deal of the toxins and pollutants that build up in your body away.
3. Chewing Gum. Nicotine gum is another story all together, but traditional sugar free gum stimulates many of the same oral receptors that nicotine usage does. In many ways it is about tricking your body into accepting a healthier substitute for nicotine.
4. Rediscover food. No, don't overeat and develop a separate unhealthy habit, but rediscover smells and tastes. Cigarette smoke destroys a great deal of your bodies natural ability to differentiate between tastes and smells. Once you start to quit, take time to reexamine things you used to love.
5. Do something else with your time. What is the first thing you do in the morning? After a meal? After sex? You get the point. In order to break the psychological bonds that dictate your dependence on nicotine you need to find replacement behaviors for those activities. Workout, grab a water, grab a healthy snack, anything besides smoking a cigarette.
Quitting cigarettes is not easy. For most smokers it has been one of the few constants throughout their lives. But it is literally killing you. It is going to take effort, but isn't living longer worth it?
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