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  • Selecting Your Quit-smoking Program
    Comparing Programs

    The best way to compare programs would be to find out for each One the percentage of people who successfully quit smoking out of all who attempted. That sounds easy enough. But, in practice, this is very difficult. First, many organizations and companies do not know the success rates of their programs.
  • Your Comprehensive Program
    Develop Your Program

    Regardless of what specific program or techniques you use, there are a number of other strategies that successful smoking-cessation plans often include. Let's go over the essentials you'll want in your program.
  • The Psychologically Aversive Strategies
    Making Smoking Psychologically Unpleasant

    There are some programs that have used the power of the mind to develop an aversion to cigarettes.

    One popular approach is to have smokers save their cigarettes in a water-filled butt-jar. They are asked to stare at the jar and concentrate on the unsavory aspects of smoking. This exercise serves to disgust, if not nauseate, some smokers.
  • Drug Abuse - Drugs in Beverages and Tobacco
    Any drug when used for a non-medical purpose, is said to be misused or abused. During the last few decades, drug abuse has become a serious problem for the individual and the society. Besides adversely affecting the well being, progress, and the health of the user, it leads to a tragic family life
  • The Smoking­Reduction Strategy
    Weaning Yourself From Cigarettes

    Some smokers cannot face the idea of quitting cigarettes cold turkey. Those who don't try nicotine replacement may prefer to g.adually wean themselves, either by cutting down by degrees through the use of special filters or by switching to cigarettes with lower tar and nicotine ratings.
  • Cigarettes - The Substitution Strategy
    Finding Something New

    Quitting cigarettes may make you feel that something is being taken away from you. Your body may feel the absence of nicotine. Your hands may fidget without the feel of a cigarette. Your mouth may miss the oral stimulation. Your image of yourself may feel incomplete without smoking.
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