3. Keep yourself busy to prevent the urge for smoking.
When to quit?
You must quit only when you have firmly decided to quit FOREVER. You are just not going back.
Decide a quit date, which must be only about three to four weeks away. Go ahead with your plan and stick to the quit date.
Staying stopped – make rules to help you stay stopped
Throw out the ashtrays. No more dirty ashtrays! You are not a smoker; you don’t need ashtrays. If you have friends that smoke, make sure they smoke outside your house and bring in the butts when they are done to put in the garbage. Don’t let them litter the lawn or sidewalk.
Make rules that help you stay a non-smoker and write them down. Stick to them after you quit.
Rule for your hands: "My hands are not permitted to touch a cigarette".
Speak out this rule three or four times aloud every morning.
Rules for your house and surroundings: "Smoking is Prohibited Here".
Rules for your friends and family members who smoke: “Please don’t offer me a cigarette." Post it in your house. Post it on your front door.
Being a non-smoker will become a way of life - you will look back and wonder how you ever became so involved in something so stinky. You will notice just how bad cigarettes smell to others, because now you can smell good. You can 78.