Yar this is one area where I fail miserably ........... this Ramazan I was totally low on my regular quota, but as soon as Ramazan ended I am back again on the track. Any tips?
Guys like us will never listen to anyone. The pressure has to build up from within. To a breaking point of total disgust.
Your ego is a massive ally in this fight. Massive ego, bigger ally.
Being stubborn and hard headed and dheet also helps.
Just quit cold turkey one morning. No planning nothing. Bus sutta nahin jalana hai. Period.
I bought lots of chewing gum, and when the urge hit, I popped in a new gum. And kept chewing whole day.
The urge hits and is really bad for about the first three minutes. Get over that period. Till the next one. The periods become longer.
Not being around friends who smoke might help in the initial days. After that its ego and taking perverse pleasure in showing them how great your self control and determination is, and what big phuddus they are. lol
I also downloaded a Quit Meter .exe file from the net and had it on my desktop.
It showed you how many days, weeks, months, years down to hours, minutes and seconds since your last fag.
How many hours, days, weeks of life you had increased.
How your biological age started reducing.
How much money you had saved (you needed to key in the price of your brand and how many a day you smoked on an average).
Its a fascinating thing to every morning log on and see the number add up. As the numbers add up, it gives you further motivation not to give in to temptation and take even a puff and have to reset it all back to zero.
Small things like this. But ultimately it is your will power and the recognition that nicotine is a devious and very insidious drug. That once a smoker, always a smoker. For life. Once your body is primed to nicotine, you can go near 10 years like me without a puff. But I know and always remind myself when in smoker company, that the first drag I take even today, I will be back to being a smoker full time within a week. All that effort gone back to ZERO.
Cheers, Doc