One of the hardest ways to quit smoking is to go cold turkey. This often results in smoking again, and therefore, the sense of failure is acute, the result of which might be to give up trying to quit.

For some people (I was one of them), it is just too difficult to stop smoking all of a sudden, especially if you have smoked for many years.

If you find it is too difficult to just stop smoking quickly, think of stopping slowly. In the long run this will be a quicker option, and you won't have that feeling of failure. Here are ten tips which might help:

1. Form a plan and stick to it, but don't give up on yourself if it occasionally goes wrong, just keep at it.

2. Aim to cut out a couple of cigarettes a day for the first few days - then a couple more for another few days, keep this up and you will soon be smoking far less.

3. Always try and find something to do to occupy your hands, as idle hands can reach for a cigarette.

4. Don't reward yourself with a cigarette, but rather reward yourself with a little treat when youdidn't have that cigarette.

5. Put a few dishes of chopped up fruit or vegetables around the house or on your desk and eat them instead of reaching for a cigarette, they will do you good as well.

6. Chewing nicotine gum, or even just regular gum will help stave off the craving for a cigarette.

7. If you have any spare time try and go for a brisk walk ( leaving the cigarettes behind, of course), get some fresh air into your lungs to start freshening them up and getting them back to being healthy and clean again.

8. Don't feel guilty if you sometimes fail to stick to your plan, quickly resume the plan again as soon as possible.

9. The only downside of quitting smoking slowly is that you might tend to forget, to help remind yourself, get some little stickers and stick them round the home of office, on mirrors, desk, wallet etc. Only you will know what they are, and they will remind you to not smoke those extra cigarettes.

10. Often remember why you are giving up, maybe for health reasons, maybe family, or financial reasons.

If you now smoke twenty cigarettes a day, and aim to smoke two less every week, in ten weeks' time you will have stopped smoking altogether.

This gentle way of quitting will not only be much easier to do, but has much more chance of being really permanent, as gradually your body will have adjusted to no more nicotine.

How to Quit Smoking Naturally?

Smoking is not just a harmful habit but it's a killing one. Many people claim that they found quitting smoking a very daunting task. This is mainly due to the lack of willpower. Experts have been agreed that the best way to quit smoking is to go natural. Before going in for any meditation you should first be aware of all its implications. Although natural remedies are the best way to go but they tend to take longer time as compared to other non-natural ways. That is the main reason why people often opt for other ways which normally have some form of side effects attached to them.

Nicotine is one of the most powerful drugs but remember its power is nothing when we compare it with the power of a human brain. So start using your brain and follow these tips to quit smoking naturally:

• Oats: One of the classic example of use of oats as a medicinal herb was when it was successfully used to treat opium withdrawal. Then the same principle was applied for nicotine withdrawal as well.

• Another very successful remedy is the mixture of certain herbs like peppermint, mullein, golden seal and white horse hound. A liquid solution of the above mentioned mixture is prepared and some drops can be placed on your tongue whenever you face that urge to smoke.

• Some habits are very hard to resist and smoking is one of them. So now when you have decided to quit smoking naturally it's time to get rid of this habit and what better way to do it than to replace it with some harmless habit. Most people gain weight in their attempt to quit smoking. Try to adopt even healthier habits such as reading a book or chewing sugarless gum etc.

• Self Hypnosis: Majority of the cigarettes a smoker smokes are purely because of habit rather than any urge to smoke. Here comes the power of your mind. Self hypnosis is a very useful way of curbing this habit.

• Acupuncture: This technique can be used in a variety of ways to help you quit smoking. In this therapy hair like needles are used to pressurize certain pressure points around ear and it can also be used in combination with certain medicinal oils for better results.

Along with the above mentioned methods there are herbal cigarettes, herbal lozenges, herbal liquids and tons of other natural products and remedies to help you kick off this habit for good. The only thing to remember is to have patience and follow these great tips to quit smoking naturally.

Quit Smoking - 3 Positive Motivation Methods

Motivation is a strange beast! We can be highly motivated to stop smoking but do nothing to actually quit smoking. How can we turn that motivation into positive action? Here are three ways to turn motivation into action...

1. Tell your friends you are quitting smoking

A good way to turn your motivation to stop smoking into positive action is to get your friends and colleagues to help you. Tell everyone that you have quit smoking and illicit their help and support by asking them to boost your efforts rather than undermine them. Far too often our friends try to sabotage our efforts to improve ourselves, not from any mal-intent but from their own sub-conscious envy of your ability to be so strong and positive. However, by making an effort to bring them on to your team as you battle to overcome your smoking habit, they will feel less intimidated by your effort and can then be a great asset to you. This can be especially true when you are finding it hard to resist the temptation to smoke. Use your friends to increase your motivation and support your action.

2. Stop buying cigarettes

A great way to turn your motivation into positive action is to be strong and stop buying cigarettes. Part of the ritual of smoking is buying them in the first place. If you can change this behaviour by simply not buying another packet, then you start to break down the ritual nature of the smoking process. Whenever you refuse to purchase cigarettes you are taking positive action towards your goal of stopping smoking. Be very positively aware of each time you do this and it will help boost your motivation and your ability to succeed.

3. Refuse offers of cigarettes and take a pat on the back

Our friends and colleagues whom smoke will undoubtedly forget you have stopped smoking and casually offer you a cigarette from time to time. At these times it is important that you be strong and refuse the temptation. In this situation, your motivation is good but you are being seriously challenged. Take positive action by quietly thanking them but explain again that you have quit and don't want or need to smoke. This is positive action and each time you do this give yourself a very big mental 'pat on the back' to boost your pride in your ability to be stronger than your habit.

Quit Cigarettes in 60 Minutes

Do you think you are addicted to nicotine? And if you were not addicted do you think it would be easier to quit smoking?

So let's first define addiction. The type of addiction I want to talk about at the moment is physical addiction.

Firstly, who tells us that cigarettes are addictive?

I have an idea.... the media, the government, and the cigarette industry. And have these industry bodies ever lied to you before?

They are very certain that cigarettes are addictive, but I must share with you - thousands of people quit cigarettes every day, and not one of them experiences any kind of physical withdrawal symptoms that you would see in a normally addicting chemical like cocaine or heroin.

Remember, I am referring to the physical addiction. That is, the physical malfunction that a human body goes through when being deprived of a substance upon which they have become dependant.

No-one's body malfunctions when they stop smoking cigarettes.

In fact, think about it, how long can you go without a cigarette? Do you sleep at night? How many hours? Do you smoke in your sleep?

Have you ever witnessed someone suffering from withdrawals who are addicted to heroin or methamphetamines? It is not a pretty sight. People who are truly addicted to a chemical like heroin or meth cannot sleep through the night, they have to get up and take a hit, just to go back to sleep. No one does that with cigarettes.

Doesn't this make you wonder how addictive cigarettes really are?

You see, even with just looking at your own life you have demonstrated that cigarettes do not have the same addictive characteristics biologically that truly addictive drugs do. Now, I'm not into conspiracy theories or anything, but think about it, who benefits the most by us thinking that cigarettes are addictive?

Sure, you may suffer from headaches and crankiness but are they not simply irritations instead? Irritation and malfunction are not the same things. Irritations just cause discomfort... which is not a word used to describe the addictive withdrawals from any other truly addictive drug.

You've probably heard about people who contracted lung cancer from breathing in second-hand smoke. Now the nicotine and all the chemicals are strong enough to kill them, but they aren't strong enough to addict them. For years people breathed in all that nicotine but it didn't make them want to smoke.

So if it isn't a physical addiction, what is it?

It's a habit. Now it might sound a little trite to say it's just a habit, but it's probably one of the most powerful habits that exist.

When you wake up in the morning and you have that first cigarette you are reinforcing the habit of smoking. Then 20 times during the course of the day you are reinforcing the habit of smoking. Every time the hand goes up to the mouth, say about 10 times with each cigarette, so that's about 200 times a day, you are reinforcing the habit.

What else do you do 200 times a day?

Nothing, except breathe.
So it's a very powerfully conditioned habit.

The only way to stop smoking cigarettes is to just stop smoking cigarettes. And because it's just a habit, you can break it easily.

Once you decide that you want to quit cigarettes and smoking once and for all, the powerful combination of Neuro Linguistic Programming and Hypnosis makes the process of quitting easier. It works like this.

We have two parts of the mind; the conscious and subconscious.

The conscious part of the mind thinks it is in control of everything. However, if it were we would all probably be dead because we would have forgotten to keep our lungs working, our hearts beating and our cells dividing!

A habit begins in the conscious part of the mind and much like anything you do for the very first time; you have to "think" about it. Then you do it a few more times and before you know it, it becomes automatic and it's at this point that it has shifted from your conscious mind into your subconscious mind-the place that is the hub of you-your control panel if you like.

Now the Prime Directive of the subconscious mind is to protect you and usually people start smoking to avoid a negative feeling. So, because your subconscious mind wants to protect you, it has kept you using cigarettes because it thinks that the cigarettes are the protector from the negative feelings.

Little does the subconscious know that the cigarettes are actually killing you slowly!

With the powerful combination of NLP and Hypnosis, we can tap into this part of the mind that has you using cigarettes for what it thought was protection, and switch it around so that it now thinks it is protecting you by being a NON SMOKER.

It is a natural easy way to quit and with the Quit Cigarettes in 60 Minutes system, 95% of people quit in the first session!

Here are some facts:

Only 7% of smokers quit through willpower
10% quit through use of gum
16% quit through the use of nicotine patches

Not very high statistics are they? Which means that 84-93% of people fail to quit. This is because you are not addicted to nicotine, so there is no point giving you more nicotine, even if it is getting to you in another form. None of these techniques are effective because they do not address the source of the problem.

Quit Cigarettes in 60 Minutes is a natural, safe and proven way to quit once you decide you want to.

Stop Smoking - How to Face the Monster Called Addiction and Live

Those people who have never smoked before are always so smug and smarmy about the whole thing. They will tell the smoker to just throw their cigarettes away and simply never buy another pack. If it were that simple, there would be even less smokers than there are right now. The truth is, it is an addiction, a horrible, terrible, difficult to walk away from addiction and until you face that, you will not be able to quit smoking at all. In fact, the most successful smoking cessation programs rely on you understanding what you are really facing.

There are steps you have to take to stop smoking successfully, steps that have to be followed in order or the program, no matter what program it is, will not be effective. Of these, realizing how serious the problem really is may be one of the most important. Imagine that you are learning to drive a car. You want to learn how to park the car, but first, you actually have to learn how to start it, how to drive it to where you are going. You do not have to park a car until you drive to where you are parking. It is the same concept when you are trying to stop smoking: you have to recognize that you have a smoking problem and that you need some help to quit. You have to admit that you are an addict, that you have to have a cigarette, even when you do not want one at all. You have to admit that you do not have control over these needs any longer and that you would like to be able to gain control over your physical self once again.

Once you admit that you have a smoking addiction, you will have to face the realization that if you stop the addictive behavior, in this case, when you stop smoking, you will also face the problem of withdrawal symptoms. For everybody, these are different. For some people, they are mild and will be nothing more than a little bit of discomfort or inconvenience. For others, thought, the withdrawal symptoms can be so serious, like a real, physical pain that can leave them sweating and nauseous on the floor. They may even think they are having a heart attack, the withdrawals from quitting smoking can be that serious. Those are rare instances however, and most people are more than able to cope, they simply have to want to do so. For some people, the thought of doing anything that is slightly unpleasant is enough to stop them from trying at all.

Having a plan in mind to deal with the problem of both addiction and withdrawals when you are finally ready to stop smoking will help you achieve your goals more successfully. they say that most people try and fail six times before they find the one way that helps them to finally quit smoking once and for all.