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With special thanks and credit to NCI and NIH for creating this program

Immediately After Quitting

  • Develop a clean, fresh, nonsmoking environment around yourself –at work and at home. Buy yourself flowers–you may be surprised how much you can enjoy their scent now.

  • The first few days after you quit, spend as much free time as possible in places where smoking isn't allowed, such as libraries, museums, theaters, department stores, and churches.

  • Drink large quantities of water and fruit juice (but avoid sodas that contain caffeine).

  • Try to avoid alcohol, coffee, and other beverages that you associate with cigarette smoking.

  • Strike up conversation instead of a match for a cigarette.

  • If you miss the sensation of having a cigarette in your hand, play with something else–a pencil, a paper clip, a marble.

  • If you miss having something in your mouth, try toothpicks or a fake cigarette.

Avoid Temptation

  • Instead of smoking after meals, get up from the table and brush your teeth or go for a walk.

  • If you always smoke while driving, listen to a particularly interesting radio program or your favorite music, or take public transportation for a while, if you can.

  • For the first 1-3 weeks, avoid situations you strongly associate with the pleasurable aspects of smoking, such as watching your favorite TV program, sitting in your favorite chair, or having a cocktail before dinner.

  • Until you are confident of your ability to stay off cigarettes, limit your socializing to healthful, outdoor activities or situations where smoking is not allowed.

  • If you must be in a situation where you'll be tempted to smoke (such as a cocktail or dinner party), try to associate with the nonsmokers there.

  • Try to analyze cigarette ads to understand how they attempt to "sell" you on individual brands.

When You Get the Crazies

  • Keep oral substitutes handy–try carrots, pickles, sunflower seeds, apples, celery, raisins, or sugarless gum instead of a cigarette.

  • Take 10 deep breaths and hold the last one while lighting a match. Exhale slowly and blow out the match. Pretend it's a cigarette and crush it out in an ashtray.

  • Take a shower or bath if possible.

  • Learn to relax quickly and deeply. If you have not practiced this particular "magic trick" and superlative shortcuts, you're in for a massive treat. Make yourself limp, visualize a soothing, pleasing situation, and get away from it all for a moment. Concentrate on that peaceful image and nothing else.

  • Light incense or a candle instead of a cigarette.

  • Never allow yourself to think that "one won't hurt"–it will.

Nature abhors a vacuum - New habits are a MAJOR shortcut to quitting smoking

  • Change your habits to make smoking difficult, impossible or unnecessary. For example, it's hard to smoke while you're swimming, jogging, or playing tennis or handball. When your desire for a cigarette is intense, wash your hands or the dishes, or try new recipes.

  • Do things that require you to use your hands. Try crossword puzzles, needlework, gardening, or household chores. Go bike riding or take the dog for a walk; give yourself a manicure; write letters.

  • Enjoy having a clean mouth taste and maintain it by brushing your teeth frequently and using a mouthwash.

  • Stretch a lot.

  • Get plenty of rest.

  • Pay attention to your appearance. Look and feel sharp. You will notice the difference.

  • Try to find time for the activities that are the most meaningful, satisfying, and important to you.

With Respect To Gaining Weight When You Stop Smoking

Many people who are considering quitting are very concerned about gaining weight. If you are concerned about weight gain, keep these points in mind:
  • Keep in mind that when you quit smoking it certainly doesn't have to mean you'll automatically gain weight. When people gain it's because they often eat more once they quit.

  • The benefits of giving up cigarettes far outweigh the drawbacks of adding a few pounds. You'd have to gain a very large amount of weight to offset the many substantial health benefits that a normal smoker gains by quitting. Watch what you eat, and if you are concerned about gaining weight, consider the tips that follow.

Mister Shortcut reminds you that, as with EVERY facet of the
Longevity Expressway,
knowing something is meaningless untill it is acted upon

Tips to Help You Avoid Weight Gain

  • Make sure you have a well balanced diet, with a reasonable balance of protein, carbohydrates and fat.

  • Don't set a target date for a holiday, when the temptation of high calorie food and drinks may be too hard to resist.

  • Drink a glass of water before your meals.

  • Weigh yourself weekly. Small weight gains are infinitely easier to take off, so it pays to be aware of even small changes.

  • Chew sugarless gum when you want sweet foods.

  • Plan menus carefully, and count calories. Don't try to lose weight–just try to maintain your pre-quitting weight.

  • Have low calorie foods on hand for nibbling. Use the Snack Calorie Chart to choose foods that are both nutritious and low in calories. Some good choices are fresh fruits and vegetables, fruit and vegetable juices, low-fat cottage cheese, and air-popped popcorn without butter.

  • Take time for daily exercise, or join an organized exercise group. Remember that nature abhors a vacuum. Replacing an undesired habit with a desired one carries several lateral and simultaneous benefits, so boost your "wisdom factor" quickly with this PowerGem of a shortcut.
Table of Contents:
Preparing Yourself for Quitting
    Knowing What to Expect
    Involving Someone Else
Ways of Quitting
Just Before Quitting
    On the Day You Quit
Immediately After Quitting
Snack Calorie Chart
What Happens After You Quit Smoking
Withdrawal Symptoms and Activities that Might Help
Quitting for Keeps
    Congratulations!
    Keep Your Guard Up
How to Dampen That Urge
Not Smoking is Habit-Forming
    Relapse: If You Smoke Again
    Marking Progress
Common Rationalizations
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Quitting Cigarettes - If not as easy as we'd wish, it IS helpful financially as well as health-wise.

If you have really and fully determined to quit smoking permanently, remember that nature rarely tolerates a vacuum!
If you wish to be sure that your "quit smoking" efforts are successful, it's vitally important to find another habit to take the place of the one
that's being eliminated. The process is far easier, and less stressful when we find something to take its place....
switching the undesired habit with one that is desirable.     Makes it that much easier for us to stop smoking forever.

Please don't underestimate the power of this axiom, this "unchanging truth" of nature avoiding tolerance of a vaccum.
Find something that is healthy or useful or at the very least, NOT harmful, that you can engage in each time you find yourself
reaching "automatically" for the smoke. You'll quickly see the benefits of this huge shortcut to success, and considering the price we pay in health
for our smoking, in this case it's also a shortcut to longevity, to living stronger longer, living healthier and happier.

Provided you understand that luck is just an acronym for Laboring Under Correct Knowledge,
Mr Shortcut wishes you great good luck in quitting smoking forever.

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and his most appreciative student, known to so many as the Godfather of EyeCandy and Shortcuts"
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over one hundred million dollars over 25 years... and used it all to feed people.

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This is your largest naturopathic website. Decide for yourself whether it is your healthiest website.

Using the best health tips of people who live stronger for longer is wise.
The Longevity Expressway is designed for your life, with the understanding that you will make use of its wisdom,
that you'll enjoy the fruits of its successful experience,
and then have the decency to pass it to those who need it.
There is always someone worse off than us, individually and otherwise.
Without exception, each time you considerately think of them, or act for them,
the universe and all of its laws gives you the positively sumptious guarantee of return.
You already know that anything we do has equal and opposite reaction.
What might distract you into thinking that this fact is immune?
The rules of life that hold true most of all, all PowerGems,
apply to all we survey. Faith and science combined.
Created by your Godfather of EyeCandy,
The Longevity Expressway and Shortcuts is HUGE
Tap any keyboard letter, number or character (even upper-case!) for another Mr-Shortcut website of EyeCandy and empowerment

MisterShortcut, committed to the reduction of the citizenry's foolish reliance upon
the strictly money-based decisions of doctors who provably love money more than life,
demonstrating this in TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND "doctor error" deaths in America EVERY YEAR
by living luxurious lifestyles directly from the suffering of women, children, the elderly,
and perhaps most egregiously, the suffering of America's work force, our honest laborers.
If a doctor wants to be rich, he or she should join the merchant class, not the medical.
We understand that you believe your doctor is an exception, and cares greatly.
The best test? Look at your doctor's car or house. Even one step above average,
and we have proof that material interests supercede any care for healing.
In hope of you learning more in order to live more, naturally,
MisterShortcut is thrilled to present for your edification,
many hundreds of healthy websites filled with health tips,
including the Longevity Expressway,
filled with your best health tips for living stronger for longer... naturally

Always remember that no vitamin or human or surgery can cure or heal us;  they can only help us to heal ourselves!