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Benefits Of Establishing Smoke-Free Zones In Your Environment |
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When you are addicted to smoking, there are several
associations that are used in relation to having a cigarette. One of the
large associations is the environments that you created to support your
smoking need. When you decide to quit smoking, establishing smoke-free
zones will help you to stop your habit. Having the right environment to
quit smoking is a way to give yourself the support that you need to stop
smoking.
One of the zones that you can create
to help with a smoke-free environment is in your kitchen. When you
decide to quit smoking, toxins and chemicals will begin to move outside
of your body. You will need to balance this with the right kinds of
foods that will help to move the toxins outside of your body and allow
vitamins and nutrients to become part of your diet. Multi-vitamins and
healthy snacks will help your body to get the fuels that it needs in
order to begin changing your body. Often times, smoking will cause your
body to become sick, as the vitamins and other parts of your body are
being normalized, which your body is not used to anymore. Make sure that
part of your environment is allowing yourself time to get extra rest and
let your body rejuvenate.
If you have certain places that you
associated with smoking, then these can be changed to help with breaking
your habit. One of the places where many smoke is in the car. You can
keep water, candies and gum in your car in order to get through
withdrawal periods. You can put these in the same places where you kept
your cigarettes to help change your associations. If you know that part
of your smoking habit was in relation to the physical sensation, then
you can keep straws, lollipops and cinnamon sticks at your disposal to
chew on and relieve the physical craving. If you have other places in
your home or outside of your home that you associate with smoking, you
can place these other tools there to help you fight your cravings.
One
of the things that will help you to remain smoke free is by continuing
to educate yourself and make tools for yourself, such as a quit smoking
journal. If you constantly remind yourself why you are quitting through
gaining knowledge and allowing yourself time to gain insights, it will
help to establish and maintain a smoke-free zone. Giving yourself time
to read books about the effects of smoking, and doing things that will
remind you why you decided to quit will help in the process of you not
smoking. Several will keep a list of why they decided to quit smoking
and periodically look at it to remind them not to relapse.
Smoking
is often related to calming down stressful or hard emotional situations.
If you are angry, sad, or stressed, your first reaction may be to get a
cigarette. Creating a smoke-free environment means placing substitutes
around your home to replace the cigarette habit. Having good music on
hand, creating spaces for meditation and relaxation, finding stress
relievers, and creating peaceful places in your environment to replace
your emotions will all help you to keep being smoke-free.
If you
are having anxiety and withdrawal symptoms, sometimes the best solution
is to take yourself out of the environment. An easy way to do this is to
go for a walk outside of your home, allowing your energy to be used in a
different way. Another way of taking yourself out of the environment is
to simply stop what you are doing in your environment, and simply
concentrate on breathing deeply or on something that is peaceful to you.
This will help to calm the anxiety that you feel and bring you back to
focusing on your life instead of the cigarette cravings.
Because
cigarettes are a habit, the best way to fight them and create a smoke
free environment is to find ways to substitute the habit. Changing your
habits with eating, and creating spaces around you to fight against the
urge to smoke will all help your environment to be a way to support
yourself when you decide to quit smoking.
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