Online Guide to Quitting
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Remove Cigarettes and Other Tobacco From Your Home, Car, and Work
Getting rid of things that remind you of smoking will also help you get ready to quit. Try these ideas:
- Make things clean and fresh at work, in your car, and at home. Clean
your drapes and clothes. Shampoo your car. Buy yourself flowers. You will
enjoy their scent as your sense of smell returns.
- Throw away all your cigarettes and matches. Give or throw away your
lighters and ashtrays. Remember the ashtray and lighter in your car!
- Have your dentist clean your teeth to get rid of smoking stains. See
how great they look. Try to keep them that way.
- Some smokers save one pack of cigarettes. They do it "just in case." Or they want to prove they have the willpower not to smoke. Don't! Saving one pack just makes it easier to start smoking again.
Don't use other forms of tobacco instead of cigarettes
Light or low-tar cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco, cigars, pipes, and herbal cigarettes also harm your health. For example, bidi cigarettes are just as bad as regular cigarettes. Clove cigarettes are even worse. They have more tar, nicotine, and deadly gases. All tobacco products have harmful chemicals and poisons.
