Re-learn Your Smoking Triggers

How to finish dinner without a cigarette...

1. When dinner is over, don't excuse yourself for a smoke right away. Just sit. Chat if you want. Compliment the chef, especially if it was you. Just wait five minutes before having a cigarette.

2. The next time, try waiting 10 minutes. But don't have your smoke at the table. Break up your old smoking routine and step outside for that cigarette. If you want, try some napkin origami as shown to the right. Keep delaying like this and soon the after-dinner smoking trigger will lose some of its power.  

• What is a trigger?
• Track your cigarettes
• Separate the cigarette from the situation
• Separation Exercises

Napkin? Or work of art? You decide.

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