How Do You Stop Smoking Cold Turkey?
I smoked the occasional cigarette during my younger days-shh! don’t tell my kids-and was fortunate enough not to get a smoking addiction. However, some of my friends and family members were not so lucky and ended up with awful smoking habits. A couple of them have since managed to stop smoking cold turkey. Here is what worked for them. One has been smoke-free for nearly 10 years and the other one for a little over two years. The first step in how to successfully stop smoking cold turkey is to think positively. You cannot expect to quit a smoking habit with a bad attitude-that’s the fastest way to self defeat. Go into this with a yes-I-can approach and you’re one step closer in your goal to stop smoking now. This next step may surprise you, but it’s what has worked for those two friends I mentioned earlier: Do NOT throw out all your cigarettes! Keep an entire pack or just one lonely cigarette. The idea here is to have that “out” so you still feel in control as you stop smoking. Just kno
