If you're a smoker, there will come a point in your life, and it may even be now, that you will seriously be thinking of quitting. There are any number of reasons why this may be. Perhaps you don't cherish your lovely smoker's cough. Perhaps you are becoming more concerned about your health. It doesn't really matter. The fact is that we know what smoking does to us, how it is affecting our lives and that eventually, we need to stop. But actually moving forward with that plan is sometimes the hardest part.

Perhaps, due to the ever-increasing methods of quitting available nowadays, choosing one has become a more difficult task. The best recommendation I can make here is to analyze each for its pluses and minuses and try to choose one that goes with your current lifestyle. Just by doing a little homework first, finding the method that will be the most successful for you, becomes far easier.

This was very difficult for me, as I had absolutely no clue as to which product would work best for my situation. The first stop I made was to discuss this with my doctor asking which method had the highest success rate, and the least side effects.

We discussed many of the methods available and their side effects, but we also focused a lot of the conversation on the psychological part of quitting as well, since for most people, including myself, that would be the most difficult part of quitting smoking.

Preparing yourself mentally to quit smoking is not something that I even considered. I always assumed that to quit smoking, you did just that - quit! Maybe go on a wild emotionally charged fit for a week or so when nobody wants to be around you and that's it, you're done. I hadn't even thought about the fact that quitting would necessitate lifelong lifestyle changes.

With the conversation with the doctor behind me and with my method of quitting chosen, I picked a day two weeks out and used those two weeks to prepare myself and my home for the new lifestyle. I went so far as to steam clean my carpet and drapes; dispose of all my ashtrays; wash all my clothes; and lastly, began to smoke outdoors.

As I have told everybody looking for my advice on quitting smoking, it is one of the hardest things you will ever do in your life. But it is also one of the most rewarding. Start now. Get your game plan in place - and quit! Nothing will give you more satisfaction.

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