Stop Smoking Cravings

Video Transcript

"We recommend that you come up with a plan. You need to know the triggers for smoking. For some people it may be finishing a meal. For some people it's talking on the phone. For some people it's being at a certain place or with a certain friend. So just make a list of those triggers and then make a plan for how you're going to cope with that. And we actually recommend writing it out so it's not just in your head, so that it's concrete. So when you get in that situation, you're going to know how to cope. We also recommend something we call the four Ds, that when the urge to smoking comes on to you, you do the four Ds. That would be to do deep breathing, and actually kind of mentally imagine the clean air coming in and filling the lungs and the bad air going out. To drink, and we recommend of course drinking water and drinking that slowly just because it's giving your mouth something to do. To do something else, weather that is get up and take a walk or call a friend, do some stretching, just do something else and that urge is going to pass. And the we ask you just to delay ten minutes. And if the urge hasn't passed in ten minutes, delay ten more minutes. And it's you know, those ten minutes are going to keep adding up and eventually the urge to smoke will pass."