Plan a quitting ceremony
If you have kids that are old enough or your SO and other family, get them involved. You can move your favorite smoking chair(s) from it's usual place, drown your cigarette butts so you can't pull them out to smoke, bust up and bury your ash trays, lite a fire in a metal pail or other small fire appropriate container and burn up any remaining cigs, matches... Give your lighters to panhandlers (keep at least 1 for lighting the fireplace next winter).
Clean it up
Get your drapes and carpets cleaned, detail the inside of your car, make sure your clothes are all smoke free - air them out or get them cleaned, especially your coats that you haven't worn for a few months. Plan this and pull it all together in the days right before your quit date. If you get the car detailed in advance, no smoking in the car from then on. If you get the carpets and drapes cleaned, no smoking in the house from then on... You get the idea.
Am I really depriving myself?
Don't think of quitting smoking as depriving yourself of smokes. Instead think of the things you are giving yourself such as better health, the ability to smell and taste, to walk/jog/swim farther without getting out of breath, your clothes smell better, you don't have to plan how many smokes will be enough for your next trip. If you want to think of things it deprives you, try some of these -- how about morning cough, wheezing, burn holes in your clothes (c'mon I know you have a least one hole in a pair of pants or a shirt), maybe bad breath, bad teeth, yellow stains on your hands.
Source:-smartrecovery.org
Source:-smartrecovery.org
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