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How to Kick the Smoking Habit

Tips to Help You Stop Smoking

By Michelle Graham

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  • Keep active: Try exercising, swimming or jogging. Ask your midwife or doctor what type of exercise you can continue to do once you are pregnant.
  • Take up a new hobby: Try knitting, crafts, scrapbooking, etc. – anything that will keep you busy.
  • At the beginning of each day, congratulate yourself on having made it through another day. Make your goal to get through today without smoking.
  • Write a list of all the reasons why you want to stop smoking and pin them up all around your home and workplace as a constant reminder of why you are stopping. Here are a few you could use to help you: I want to give my baby a healthy start in life. I want to improve my own health. I don't want my children to become smokers. I want to save money. I don't want to be addicted to anything. I don't want to smell of smoke. Try adding your own.
  • Every week or month that you do without a cigarette, reward yourself with a gift (flowers, your favorite bottle of perfume, new clothes, etc.) or you could save your money for a vacation or something that you have always wanted.

    • Good luck and don't give up. You can do it!

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