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Stage 4 (Fourth or Fifth Week)
The Quitting

Plan your acts wisely. Take advantage of your knowledge on your smoking habits that you’ve gathered by your daily writing and act accordingly to your "sub-habits" and smoking states. For example: decide to stop drinking coffee for a week or two (until any connection between coffee and cigarettes will be gone). Avoid situations that usually awake the passion to cigarettes in you. In brief, avoid, temporarily, any activities that has a strong connection with cigarettes in you.

Choose to quit smoking when you’re calm. A time of many pressures or excitement is not the proper time for this task. Nonetheless, don’t use those times as an excuse to postpone the decision. Before quitting smoking, the habit of smoking must be "defrosted" and broken, systematically, for at least two weeks.

There are some smokers who set to themselves the absolute quitting date in advance and according to that decision they attack their "sub-habits"(decreasing them) and then, without considering their amount of progress, they completely stop smoking in the date they set to themselves. There are some smokers, who don’t set the quitting date in advance, and during the reduction they reach to an amount of 1-5 cigarettes per day and then wait with the smoking for an hour and another hour, and afterward they postpone it to the evening, to the next morning, to the next day etc. This way or another, after you’ve succeed not smoking for a whole day - tell all your friends the next day that you’ve decided to quit smoking for good. Say it in pride. Such a thing will strengthen your decision, prevent other people to automatically offer you a cigarette, help you be strong in difficult moments and make the quitting process easier.

The response of your friends about your declaration and your attempt to quit will probably differ. Usually, both smokers and non-smokers will back you up, but that response from smokers might be just skin deep - it is possible that they will respond with surprise or mock joined with a lighting of a cigarette. Naturally, those friends want to quit also, but they are unable to do so - yet.

The attitude of your friends depends on you too. For example: if you want to convince them to quit smoking, it is likely to assume that you’ll bump into hostility and scorn. The preaching on the importance of quitting smoking, may cause even your best friends to try and divert you from your own decision to quit.

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