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When you first stop smoking or nicotine vaping, your cravings and nicotine withdrawal symptoms may be powerful. Understanding your cravings is essential for overcoming them and breaking free from smoking or nicotine vaping. Here are some tips for avoiding cravings and relieving those withdrawal symptoms.
1. Identify what makes you crave a cigarette or vape
Write down all the things and situations that make you want to smoke or vape – these are your triggers! You can help to strengthen your willpower and increase your chances of quitting for good by limiting or skipping these triggers.
2. Avoid your triggers by breaking the habit
Do you smoke or vape on your work break? When you’re out drinking with friends? When you are feeling stressed?
Forming a habit takes time and breaking it doesn’t happen instantly. In any situation where your normal response would be to reach for a cigarette or your vape, do something different.
Rather than going out for drinks at your usual spot, try going somewhere that you don’t associate with smoking or vaping. Maybe this is the cinema, or out shopping?
If alcohol is one of your triggers, try to avoid it where you can, especially in the first week where your cravings may be the toughest.
If you crave a cigarette or vape when you are stressed, then find other ways to relax. Try calling a friend, listen to your favourite song or go for a walk (exercise is a great stress reliever too!)
3. Be prepared
We understand it can be difficult to stay smoke-free or vape-free when you’re around other people smoking or vaping but there’s no need to cut social ties – just be prepared!
If you are on a work break and surrounded by vapers, consider taking Nicorette QuickMist Mouthspray to relieve the urge to vape.
Nicorette products can support your willpower and help you cope with the desire to smoke a cigarette by relieving nicotine withdrawal symptoms. To help cope with a craving to smoke in a social situation, consider chewing Nicorette Gum or using Nicorette Cools Lozenge or Nicorette Fruit Lozenge.
4. Stay positive
Try to stay focused on your reasons for quitting. Try making a list of all the reasons you want to quit.
Play out these positive thoughts in your head. Better yet, make a list of them and hang it somewhere where you’ll see it often, like the fridge. This might give you a boost when you need to say “no” to another cigarette or vape.
5. Relieve the cravings
For fast-acting relief, Nicorette QuickMist Mouthspray can start to relieve cravings after just 30 seconds to help you carry on with your day.
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*Nicorette 2mg Gum, Nicorette Cools 2mg Lozenge, Nicorette Fruit 2mg Lozenge, Nicorette QuickMist mouthspray, Nicorette Invisi 25mg Patch contain nicotine. Stop smoking Aid. Requires willpower. Always read the label. Nicorette QuickMist mouthspray contains nicotine. Stop nicotine vaping aid. Requires willpower. Always read the label. UK-NI-2300205
