Re-learn Your Smoking Triggers

1. Leave your cigarettes out in another room. That way, you won't be able to roll over and immediately start smoking afterward. Just break up that pairing of "sex = smoking."

2. Before getting up to have a cigarette, spend some time complimenting your partner. (Hopefully, they'll do the same.)

3. Lay back, relax and enjoy the moment just as it is.

4. Afterward, make yourself get up and leave the room to have a cigarette.

5. Here's another way to delay having a cigarette -- instead of immediately lighting up, click here and take a few moments to score the performance.

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