6. Ask people not to smoke around you and never buy, hold or light cigarettes for others.
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Like telling people you are stopping this is about making it harder for yourself to go back to smoking.

It is also about reducing the number of times you get cravings by not having things around you that might lead you back to smoking.

Not being around people who smoke may mean changing the things you do (and the people you see) at break times at work, in the evenings and weekends. Especially during the first few weeks.

To make it work, you may decide to arrange other places to meet your friends or get them involved in trying to help you stop. If you do carry on going to places where you used to smoke it will probably always be a difficult thing to cope with, and a situation in which you will always have to be on guard.


Getting over the problem of what to do in break times at work where you used to smoke can be hard: try doing something active rather than sitting thinking about going for a cigarette.

If you do find yourself wondering if it would be more fun if you went back to smoking go back to your list of reasons for giving up and remind yourself why you stopped.

These changes don't necessarily have to be permanent: the main thing is to get yourself through those first few hard weeks without slipping back into smoking.

 
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