It’s no news, nor rocket science, that smoking is injurious to health, and that tobacco cravings can be a huge pile of baggage that can wear you down when you try quitting smoking. The point you should keep in mind when you quit is that you made the decision to turn your life around, and that deserves to be kept afloat. Here are a couple of ways you can use to ensure that your status as a non-smoker remains thus.
– Nicotine replacement therapy is a useful means to deal with cravings. Whether through nicotine nasal sprays or inhalers, patches, gums or lozenges, nicotine replacement is the first step to quitting. Addiction allows your body to remain in need, and when smoking is taken away, there should be something for it to latch onto.
– Stay away from triggers. Tobacco urges can lead you to give into temptation when you are around triggers such as smoke odours, watching people smoke and even being around other smokers in general. Keep yourself distracted when you are in such situations so as not to smoke again.
– Delay your response to your cravings, and spend a few minutes to do something that distracts you tremendously, enough for you to forget about smoking.
– Keep your mouth busy when you feel a tobacco craving. A useful tip would be to chew on something – snack on raw carrots or nuts, or gum. Just keep your mouth occupied and avoid smoking.
– Don’t give in to your craving to have just one – because it never stops. You might think you can stop with one, but the fact is, you cannot. Don’t give in to the craving unless you want to get stuck in a mess.
– Keep your body healthy through exercise. A healthy body that has enough exercise will not want to crave for tobacco on any account. Walk, jog, do aerobic activity and swim, even, and you’ll find yourself moving away from tobacco.
– Relax your mind and body. Don’t work yourself up into a state of agitation on any account. Life has its challenges, and you have your strategies. Nothing you smoke is going to make a difference to the way things work out – because your full involvement and energy is necessary to help address life’s challenges.
– Indulge in aromatherapy. Smoking cues are heavily centred around odour and triggers relating to odour. By and large, avoiding the odour and anything that can remind one of the odour is a useful way to avoid smoking. Aromatherapy can help you in this regard, while also calming your mind and taking it away from addiction.

References:
http://www.patient.co.uk/health/tips-to-help-you-stop-smoking
http://www.wikihow.com/Quit-Smoking
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/quit-smoking/in-depth/nicotine-craving/art-20045454
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/quit-smoking/in-depth/nicotine-craving/art-20045454?pg=2

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