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It's unbelievable to see many smoker's going about quitting the wrong way. They simply miss a few of the key tactics that are essential to boosting your chances to quit and stay quit.

And no, you don’t need nicotine patches, dangerous prescription medicines or a myriad of other things on the market in order to quit.

Let me share with you some of the steps my client’s use to quit these nasty cancer sticks for good.

STEP 1 – Don’t Expect To Quit Overnight

Your smoking habit has been ingrained into your thinking over many years, and as it has taken a strong hold over you, and so you will need some pretty heavy elbow work to remove this habit. Like all things great in life, your success comes about by putting in the necessary foundations and building upon these. If you quit overnight, your foundations will be weak, and you will relapse before you know it.

Having said this, you should still expect success within weeks rather than months. Be careful not to go to the other extreme and procrastinate your quit date.

Aim for about a month or less to quit your nasty habit.

STEP 2 – Take One Day At A Time

No doubt, quitting smoking is a large task at hand. Like any large task, they can be daunting at the start as you just have so much ground yet to cover.

So don’t think about it as a “large task”. Think about it as “today”. What do I need to do to get through today. What do I need to do to get through “this evening”.

It’s like eating a steak. You would never plop the whole thing in your mouth and try to swallow it. Instead, you would cut it up into small pieces, chew it, and then swallow it. The same goes with quit smoking.

You’re addicted to nicotine. You love a fag that first thing in the morning. You cannot imagine enjoying an upcoming dinner without lighting up. There will always be excuses and challenges. And did you know that the majority of these excuses are only in your head? You’re merely looking for an easy way out so you have an excuse to why you failed.

It’s time to stop thinking about the future and the huge task ahead of you. You cannot control this. Instead, concentrate on what you can control – the present.

Stay focused on the day at hand where you have control of what’s in front of you now.

STEP 3 – Stop Thinking Negatively

You ultimately become what you think. If you think about your failures, how tough things are, how things wont work, then in the end, these thoughts will materialize into your present life.

It’s time to think you can and will. The powers of positive thoughts help create the leaders and successes of today’s world.

There’s no point beating yourself up for things you can’t change, or for your past failures. This achieves squat.

Action will follow more easily if you learn to suppress your negative thoughts, and concentrate on how your changes are now making a positive impact on your life.

Do yourself a favour and start using these tactics. It will make the whole process of quitting that so much easier.

Cessation is a journey. Learn to take a step at a time, and before you know it, you too will be an ex-smoker.