
Whether it’s, you know, whether it’s whatever, and there are thousands of good reasons to give up smoking.Īnd to always keep them at the forefront of your mind. Look at the specific reasons, whether it’s your health, whether it’s the financial aspect of it. But if you want to, if you really want to give up, look at the reasons you want to give up and prioritise those. But I think it makes it a bit more of battle.

I don’t think, it doesn’t make it impossible. If you want to, if you’re just doing it because you feel like you should then I think you’ve got a battle in front of you. Blodwen, however, said she could make it sound easy, but you have to persevere.įor me the best way of looking at it, is to look at the reasons why you want to give up, because I think for me, that really was the key issue for me, look at the reasons why you want to give up. She said that, ‘It’s not going to be easy’, but that the benefits were worth it. I think the hardest bit is thinking right I’m going to do it, and then once you’ve done it you suddenly think oh that actually wasn’t that bad.Ĭhris had a difficult time giving up, but wanted to tell others to keep going to find the right combination of help out there that might work. So just small little bits is the best thing and to go for it. You know that they’re right but you choose not to listen to it. So great big chunks of information to read, it puts you into information overload and as a smoker you actually switch off. First of all, about why you smoke and then what the benefits would be if you didn’t smoke, you know, so what damage you’re doing to your health through smoking. You just need to kind of little bite sized bits, every now and then.

Well my message definitely is to learn as much as you can about why you smoke, but not learn it in one great, big, long blob. Giving up smoking Messages to other smokers Unsolicited advice from health professionals, family and friends.‘Cutting down’, unsuccessful attempts and trying again.Giving up smoking with others and online support.Help from pharmacists, GPs, and Nicotine Replacement Therapies.Changing culture, public health campaigns and the smoking ban.

