HOW TO GIVE UP SMOKING
Before I start I want to give this some context. Sugar has a very similar effect on the pleasure senses on the brain as does cocaine.
The food industry has been using scientists to create the ultimate combinations to create products that is the perfect “bliss point” (food industry term)
I have given up sugar now for 5 months but I don't smoke! Before you dial out read the next sentence.
I am taking care of a dementia individual who used to smoke 30 a day.
I was forced to intervene when the individual smoked 73 in one day!! A result of a lack of understanding that it was a 4 day supply.
Initially I gave the Individual a pack on 20 a day.
After about 9 months I switched to using 3 cigarette cases and split the 20 into the 3 cases. I moved the 3 cases to 3 separate visible locations in the living room. After a month I noticed 3 cigs left in one of the boxes. I left it for 3 weeks to see if there was a pattern. There was. So I split 17 in 3 boxes. After about 5 weeks I noticed 3 left in a box. I waited a few weeks to see if the pattern remained. It did. I dropped to 15. I continued this philosophy until I got to a ¾ cigarette. I have leveled on this ¾ cigarette. The individual sometimes leaves that cigarette for up to 5 days. For the time being I am stabilising on the one cigarette.
From this experience I want to share a modified method to those who wish to give this program a try.
You'll only need one cigarette case or in the case of rollups x number of papers.
You can start immediately or begin in 4 weeks or a calendar month.
Set yourself a target of smoking 1 less than your current daily amount. Rollups are supposedly better but the number of papers used in a day is not clearly defined. So you either leave the cigarettes for the day in the packet or you leave x number of papers in a container for the day.
You then give yourself a whole month to get used to that one less a day. Also you mentally prepare yourself for the one less the next month.
In 12 months after your first preparing month you are on 12 less.
This won't work if you allow exception days. If it happens get straight back onto the number for the month.
