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If you are trying to cut down a certain amount per day before you quit, all you are going to be focused on all day is how many you have left.
TALK ABOUT STRESSFUL!
It's much less stressful to learn to delay than deny, that way, the cutting down can happen naturally.
Here's how you do it:
When you want to smoke you just say to yourself, "I'm going to wait a little longer."
Once you start realizing you don't have to smoke every time you want to smoke it becomes empowering, even exciting. You begin to understand you really can take control. It get's your mind in a much better place to begin. After a few weeks you can be down to 25% of what you started without stressing at all.
When you get down to around 5, you need to start your quit. Otherwise you will be in continual withdrawal. You want to avoid doing that.
i cut down from a pack a day to 5 a day over a four week period and the only reason i knew was smoking less was because i wasn't buying cigarettes as often. I went into my quit with no built up stress about quitting. You can too!
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