How to stop smoking? Hey, its the easiest thing in the world, I have done it a hundred times.. So goes the hoary old joke. It brings a smile from some, a frown from the others and hacking cough from the smokers.
It is no joke for the smokers, however they may smile at it. At heart every smoker wants to stop. Many of them are knowledgeable enough to know how, but cant quit the fags because the habit is too deeply ingrained.
A) What wont work?
Gradually decreasing it.
Buddy, the nicotine wont let you quit. It is too powerful an adversary and too cunning for you. You will find the gradual decrement plan going fine, until the day you have an excuse to forget it (tension, overwork, circumstances, party etc.).
Depending on medicines.
Medicines only help to reduce the craving. But seriously, do you smoke only when the urge hits you? Isnt it true that most of the time you smoke casually, whether there is a physical urge or not?
Talking continuously about it.
While you may think that it will help to keep the issue the uppermost in your mind, it will most probably lead to you being ridiculed in case you fail to quit. Also, words being...