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This article looks at ways in which you can help beat cravings for cigarrettes and make quitting smoking a much less stressful experience. Practical tips and guidance on cravings and beating them is provided based on real experience.

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Stay Sane When You Quit Smoking

Quitting smoking is hard. No matter how strong a resolve you have and how determined you are, there are still moments when you may wish dearly for a cigarette and many people say that they find it almost consuming at times. This can lead to poor concentration, irritability and general lack of peak performance. So how do you quit, but still stay sane?

Well there are a number of tools that you can employ to ensure your sanity is maintained without those little cancer sticks. First of all recognise and believe that all cravings will pass. When you get a craving, just take a deep breath and say (silently if necessary) ‘This too will pass’. It will: the average craving is gone within 2 minutes. The deep breath will also calm your heart rate down and make you feel more relaxed.

Take a sip of water, ice cold preferably, but only a sip or two. Keep doing this throughout the day, but particularly after a craving has struck. Even the act of getting up, getting some water, saying your ‘This too will pass’ mantra, will help you to forget the intensity of the craving.

Get control of your cravings (yes it really can be done). Treat it like a little child who is crying. Acknowledge it, tell it to be quiet but don’t let it think that it is in charge. Instead, recognise that it’s there, but put it firmly in its place. It’s a craving, it will go: you are in control, not the craving.

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