As the tagline for a famous supermarket goes, “Every little helps”. This is especially true when it comes to building motivation in order to accomplish a task. The more tactics and tricks we have, the more focused our mind can become. If you’re thinking about packing in the cigarettes, then these little stop smoking tips will help you:

1. Get a pen and paper, head to the local bar and buy yourself a drink. Then sit down and start brainstorming all the material possessions you would like to own. Perhaps a new brand name watch, or a LCD television, or a tailored jacket, or some bottles of fragrance. Just make a big list. If you smoke a pack a day, you’re effectively spending $3000 a year - imagine how many of the products from your list you could buy.

2. If you quit smoking, start putting away the cash equivalent of a packet of cigarettes in your drawer each day. If you’re living in New York, you may well find yourself with $240 or more by the end of the month.

3. Fantasise about all the fitness tasks you could accomplish if you packed in smoking. Perhaps you could run a marathon, go kayaking, take up martial arts, climbing or take up a team sport. Think about the knock-on effects of this, namely the new friends you would make.

4. Write down all the reasons why you continue to smoke. Perhaps these reasons may include “For social purposes”, or “Because it helps my anxiety”. Then start to truly assess each reason as honestly as possible and ask yourself whether you are really any better off than when you were a non-smoker.

5. Decide not to smoke for half a day. Assuming you wake up at 7am, don’t smoke until 3pm. You only need to do this once. See how much more energetic and lively you feel before you light up again.

These are simple stop smoking tips which anyone can apply. There is nothing to lose by trying them, in fact I would recommend that you continue to smoke as you apply the tips (bar the conditions for stop smoking tip number 5).

Making small changes like these is just like taking a fresh angle on your life. See how it works out for you and, most importantly, see if the vision of a non-smoking future actually appeals to you or not.

Jonty Smith is a former smoker based in the U.K.

After 10 years of smoking two packs a day, Jonty finally managed to quit in 2006. His story of how he managed to beat the habit is available for free reading at (http://www.how-i-stopped-smoking.com)

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Smoking habits in most cases have to do with psychological addiction. It is not the lack of nicotine that represents the hardest obstacle to quit smoking. Though overcoming the physical cravings for nicotine can be difficult, overcoming psychological addiction to smoking can be even more challenging. A couple of weeks after you have stopped smoking, your body doesn’t crave nicotine anymore, which means that the physical addiction is over. What remains is the physical manifestation of tobacco addiction, and this often seems so challenging that it sets aside the power of your own mind.

Which characteristics does psychological smoking addictions have? You’ll feel an overwhelming desire to light up a cigarette. Some people may even lie to their friends and family regarding their smoking cut, or even beg and steal to get their hands on a cigarette. You’ll feel that you no longer have a choice and every minute of the day is governed by your inner urges for cigarets. The addiction can be so strong that you are willing to relieve them even if they hurt your family, career, and financial security.

How is it possible to get motivation to get off of this very destructive path?

You can get help from a professional to break your smoking habits and get rid of your addiction now and for the rest of your life. You may feel that this is too expensive or you don’t have time and so on. Well, now that the internet has come you have no excuses anymore. More and more companies establish themselves on the web and those also include professional addiction help companies. They can offer programs to help you stop smoking and release you from your tobacco addictions with nicotine patches, anti-smoking pills, nicotine gums or psychological programs.

In most of these programs you will be encouraged to take some certain actions every day, both as exercises and in your daily life. The purpose with most of these programs is to motivate people addicted to cigarets to increase their willpower incrementally, by taking these daily moments as the program prescribes.

The first thing I will recommend is that you sit down, relax and seriously take a look at your life and realize how important it is to keep yourself out of the tobacco addictive loop. When you feel you are starting to get motivated, go online and search for stop smoking products. I wish you good luck.

Terje Brooks Ellingsen is a writer and internet publisher. He runs the website 1st-Self_Improvement.net
Terje is a Sociologist who enjoys contributing to the personal growth and happiness of others. He tries to accomplish this by writing about self improvement issues from his own experience and knowledge. For example, how to quit smoking,
motivation and self esteem and more.

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Here is a quit smoking hypnosis exercise you can use to stop smoking. Try it, because it might just help you in utilizing your mind power to stop smoking like it has helped many other tobacco addicted people. Reading the text and doing the quit smoking exercise at the same time is very impractical, so I recommend that you read the text aloud while you tape it. Play the tape each time you’re doing this stop smoking exercise. The exercise combines traditional self hypnosis with NPL or Neuro Linguistic Programming.

Sit or lie down, relax and close your eyes

“Now I am in a future moment when I no longer smoke. I can see my environment, I can hear the sounds, smell the smells and feel all my emotions. I have no cravings for cigarettes. This seems real, this is real.

I’m now taking a trip on my future time line to a time when I have completely forgotten about smoking, where not smoking does not bother me a at all.

I’m now looking back on the time line and I remember how easy it was for me to stop smoking, how amazed I felt when I realized that I stopped having any craving for tobacco, and after that I never gave smoking another thought.

Now, I can feel the freedom I have without tobacco, how great I feel when I am no longer owned by cigarettes. My thoughts are my own. I am free to choose what I want to do and where I want to go, without the thought of smoking cigarettes coming into my thoughts. I want to stay here in this moment of no smoking for a long time and when I go back I will let my mind take these future moments of no tobacco cravings back with me.”

Now, you create the anchor for these future non-smoking resources: Press your thumb and index finger together on your right hand and hold it for a few seconds.

“Now I am even farther in the future, and now I don’t even think about smoking at all. This is very real.”
Anchor your good smoke-free feelings again with your thumb and index finger for a few seconds.

Now, the touch of the thumb and index finger connects the good smoke-free feeling in your brain.

Now, bring yourself back to the present moment while you are still holding your thumb and index finger together. You have now made an anchor for the state of being a non-smoker. Repeat this anti smoking hypnotic exercise until it works instantly.

Terje Brooks Ellingsen is a writer and internet publisher. He runs the website 1st-Self_Improvement.net.
Terje is a Sociologist who enjoys contributing to the personal growth and happiness of others. He tries to accomplish this by writing about self improvement issues from his own experience and knowledge. For example, using mind power to build better relationships and helping tobacco addicted people to quit smoking.

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