Tools to Help You Quit
Use These Resources to Aid in Smoking Cessation
Finding Your Triggers
What are common triggers for smoking
and how do you defeat them?
(download PDF)*
Fears About Quitting
What are common fears about quitting
and how do you overcome them?
(download PDF)*
Quit Calendar
Calendar for recording your
first thirty Freedom Days!
(download PDF)*
The Butt Stops Here Contract
Contract for your Quit Day.
(download PDF)*
Common Pitfalls for New Non-Smokers
What are the common pitfalls you might encounter
after you stop smoking, and how can you overcome
these pitfalls?
(download PDF)*
Chemicals Identified in Tobacco Products
There are over 4,000 chemicals in tobacco products.
(download PDF)*
Health Effects
Smoking can harm you in many ways.
(download PDF)*
Medications
Product, benefits, drawbacks.
(download PDF)*
Reasons for Quitting
Make a list of all the reasons why you want to quit smoking.
(download PDF)*
What kind of smoker are you?
What do you get out of smoking?
(download PDF)*
Your quiz score
To score your quiz...
(download PDF)*
Practice being a non-smoker
Mess it up!
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Practice being a non-smoker (cont')
Say Yes!
(download PDF)*
The 6 "D's"
The 6 D's are tips that quitters say helped them a lot.
(download PDF)*
Coping with withdrawal
When you quit smoking, you can experience both physical and emotional symptoms.
(download PDF)*
Distractions for when cravings hit
There is no way around it - cravings are going to hit.
(download PDF)*
Emotional triggers
Make a plan for what you need to do when you experience emotional triggers.
(download PDF)*
Emergency plan
Plan ahead and prepare yourself in the event of an emergency.
(download PDF)*
H.A.L.T. Principle
Hungry, angry, lonely, tired...
(download PDF)*
Stay tuned in & talk back
Even though you are moving ahead in the quitting process, you have to stay tuned in to that "little devil" inside of you who tries to talk you into smoking again.
(download PDF)*
Oops! I slipped!
Don't slip.
(download PDF)*
The truth about smoking and weight
Here's the bad news...Here's the good news...
(download PDF)*
Quit Smoking
by Reader's Digest
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