Quit Smoking for Good-Laminated Card- Proven Strategies

If you have tried to quit smoking before and you've failed, you know how difficult it can be. For most, quitting smoking is a long, up-hill battle that usually ends in disappointment and failure.

A big reason that people fail is that they don't spend time practicing and planning. But what if you could do a lot of planning and practicing strategies of quitting long before you actually quit? What if you had time to get used to the idea of quitting? What if you could learn ways to deal with cravings, restlessness and feeling out of sorts before you quit?

This 8½" x 11" laminated card from DayOne Publishing is jam-packed with ideas, activities, approaches and strategies that give you the important practice and planning long before you actually quit smoking. Written by a former smoker and successful quitter, this card is your best single resource for getting ready to quit smoking and for preparing for life without tobacco. With practice and a change of attitude, you can be better prepared for your Quit Day and the days beyond, and you'll have a much better shot at success.

Your Five-step Plan

The card gives you a simple five-step plan that is the core of your quit-smoking program. As part of that program you'll learn:

• Why quitting smoking is so difficult---and what you need to do to maximize your chances of success.
• How to get ready to quit---including strategies for making smoking inconvenient, changing your attitudes about smoking, approaching smoking with more mindfulness, identifying your triggers, practicing cravings, flooding, grieving the loss of cigarettes, and much more!
• How to select a Quit Day---and how to adjust your selection to match your readiness to quit.
• Seven Secrets of Quitting---these seven ideas come from successful quitters and provide you with more action plans for your own quitting campaign.
• Things to think about with each cigarette---these strategies will help you to focus on your smoking and consider its effects on you, your body and on those around you.
• How to know when you're ready to quit---and what to do if you're not quite ready.
• Why quitters go back to smoking---learn the top eight reasons that quitters give for going back and how these reasons are just excuses.
• Action steps for your Quit Day and the days that follow---here are effective techniques and strategies to use that will help keep you smoke-free! These include how to use a calendar to motivate yourself, the role of celebrations, creating posters, what to do with the money you're saving by not smoking, and much more!
• The BIG FOUR----Learn the four situations where you are most likely to go back to smoking and how to avoid them

And that's just a few of the items on this card! 

For about the cost of one pack of cigarettes, this convenient, colorful, easy-to-read card will give you access to dozens of powerful, proven strategies that will help you get tobacco out of your life for good!

Also on this card:

Information about the nicotine

patch, nicotine gum and other

medical tools.

Information about the effects

and dangers of smoking.

You'll meet "Nick the

Negotiator," a name for that

inner voice that trys to get you

back to smoking again.  You'll

also learn how to silence Nick's

voice.

This card is ideal for anyone who is thinking about quitting smoking, anyone who supports quitters in smoking-cessation programs, or any health professionals who could use a rich resource on this topic.

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