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Possible Ways to Help Your Significant Other Quit Smoking

By: Walter Hilliam

If your Significant Other or someone you care about has tried to quit smoking for ever, you can play a very crutial role in helping him or her. Not only are they doing themselves a big favor by saying goodbye to this deadly habit, they are helping their coworkers as well because of the side effects of second hand smoke.

Here are numerous ways to help your Significant Other or someone you care about quit smoking.

Quit With Them Him or Her

If you are a smoker, then by joining your Significant Other, their chances for quitting cigarettes can increase as you get instant feedback from someone you can relate to. Even if you are not a smoker, there must be an area in your life on which you have been meaning to work on. Make that your goal. It could be losing weight or eating healthy. Whatever it may be, start helping your partner quit smoking by setting goals for yourself too. So in case she feels the urge to smoke, you can help him by modeling how you too are staying away from fast food restaurants.

Keep Him Away from Triggers and Triggers Away from Him

Some people or situations can be triggers for wanting to smoke again. As a way to help him quit smoking, try to make plans that do not revolve around friends who smoke or places where everyone is happily puffing away. Put away ashtrays and other stuff from around place which can serve as constant reminders of the harmful habit. Unsubscribe from smoker promotional emails and mailings that send discount coupons and other incentives to continue smoking. Sporting Events can be littered with smokers and smoking advertising. Find alternative forms of entertainment.

Get Busy

Enroll in a cooking class or learn ballroom dancing together. It may not be a magic pill, but it may help you get his mind off smoking and in to some other creative outlet.

Focus on the Positive

Help Significant Other quit smoking by clipping out articles (or emailing them to him) about the financial and health benefits of kicking the habit. Of course, he may know all of it already, but subtle reminders can act as motivation and may just make the difference between lighting up another cigarette or not.

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Many researchers suggest that working towards any goals becomes easier if done with friend. That’s what Weight Watchers is based on. They say people who join with a someone they care about are three times more likely to stick with the program and hence lose weight and keep it off. The same applies to helping someone quit smoking. Give them the support and the shoulder they need.

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Walter Hilliam is a joyous ex-smoker and an expert on quitting smoking. His Squidoo Lens on Stop Smoking can be found at www.squidoo.com/help-quit-smoking/

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