Stop Smoking Tip #1110

Hi there, I'm Angela Oberer and today's good idea comes from Nicole who has been smoking

a pack a day for 15 years. Nicole, it is awesome that you've decided that you want to quit smoking.

That is awesome. (Screen says: You can email us at Info at LifeLongProductions.com)

Okay, smoking is you against your self discipline, it is you against your own habit.

You are the only one who can make yourself stop smoking. So the fact that you've decided to do this

totally rocks. The number one reason that people don't stop

smoking, is they are afraid they are going to get fat.

And they are replacing the smoking with eating food and other habits. They are replacing

a bad habit with another bad habit. So what you have to realize is, smoking, in

and of itself is a physical addiction and a psychological habit. As you replace the

physical addiction which is nicotine, you will find yourself in a better position to

deal with the psychological aspects. So the nicotine first of all, you can either go cold

turkey, and totally cut it out. Or you can wean yourself off of it in half's.

You smoke a pack a day, tomorrow you smoke a half a pack, the following day you smoke

a fourth of a pack all the way down until it's one puff of nicotine, and now you've

weaned yourself off of that. They psychological habit of smoking, is people

smoke with... With a cup of coffee, with their friends,

with their business buddies or whatever. And you have to dis-associate yourself from that situation.

And now I hang out with my friends and I don't smoke.

I now have my cup of coffee and I don't smoke. I now do my internet stuff and I don't smoke.

And you break yourself away from the smoking part of it.

Okay, so STOP smoking. S.T.O.P.

S= stands for See yourself as a Non-Smoker T= Tell all your friends you are now a non-smoker

and they will help you to not smoke. O = Oxygenate. When you're smoking you take

a deep breath, and you hold it, and you exhale. That is so important to good living. You still

have to breathe in and breathe out. Too much of the time we don't get enough oxygen for

our bodies. So oxygenate your body and your brain.

And then P stands for Physical Activity. If you are smoking a pack a day, that is a

lot of smoking breaks. Right? So instead of standing there smoking, do something

of physical activity. Go run around the block. On your next smoking break, go run up and

down a flight of stairs. Your next smoking break do fifteen pushups,

the next smoking break, do fifteen lunges, fifteen squats. Replace that with some kind

of physical activity. And if you're doing the oxygenation and you're doing the physical

activity, you won't gain the extra weight that you would have been gaining if you replaced

the habit by eating snacks and food. So if you want to quit smoking, I know you

can do it. Lots of people quit every single year. Not

only is that a good idea, but that is a GREAT idea and Nicole, I know you can do it.

It's a Good Idea

It's a good idea, a lot like these dance moves, it's a good idea.