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A great opportunity to improve your health
You should receive this e-mail about thirteen weeks after your quitting date.
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Hello!
In previous e-mails, we drew your attention to certain habits that could help you become and remain a non-smoker:
- Building a good support network
- Taking time to relax
- Drinking plenty of water
- Regularly congratulating yourself and not being too hard on yourself in cases of relapse
- Maintaining a positive outlook
- Being physically active
- Eating a varied, balanced diet.
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These habits will help ensure that you:
- Resist the urge to smoke
- Reduce stress
- Improve self confidence
- Better control your weight
- Enhance your overall health
- Enrich your quality of life.
It’s worth a try, isn’t it?
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Where do you stand?
After more than three months in your new smoke-free life, where do you stand when it comes to these suggestions? Have you tried to integrate some of the recommendations into your daily life?
If you haven’t done so, why not?
- Are these recommendations already part of your life? Good for you! Keep it up!
- Quitting smoking is already enough for you and you don’t feel ready to make other changes? Of course, you have to respect your own pace, but ask yourself if some of these suggestions could actually help you stay a non-smoker. You don’t need to turn everything upside down! Health improvements can be introduced gradually, with little changes that can make a big difference: a 15-minute break for yourself twice a day, a glass of water when you get up in the morning or before each meal, etc.
If you have decided to adopt one or more of these suggestions?
- Have you reached the goals you set yourself (for example, eating more fruits and vegetables, limiting the amount of coffee you drink, taking two short walks a day, etc.)? If so, keep it up and set yourself new goals when you feel ready.
- If you run into trouble, try to identify the obstacles that prevented you from reaching your goals. Were the people around you less than supportive? Was it a question of not having enough time? Was it too hard? Make a list of possible solutions for overcoming these obstacles. Use your imagination!
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Seven strategies to help you stay a non-smoker
- Si vous faites plutôt cavalier seul, quelles en sont les raisons? Aimeriez-vous qu’il en soit autrement ou êtes-vous satisfait de la situation?
- Focus more often on the benefits you feel: less bad breath, less easily winded, more money in your pocket, greater sense of pride, less anxiety at the prospect of dining with non-smokers, etc.
- If you haven’t yet done so, estimate how much money you will save in a year or longer. You can use the calculator.
- Give yourself regular pats on the back for having butted out and treat yourself to little rewards.
- Avoid risky situations (e.g. social activities where people smoke) and be well prepared when you have to deal with one.
- Stay in touch with the on-line community:
- You’re using a pharmacological aid and your treatment is ending? In certain cases, it is possible to prolong the treatment in order to improve your chances of staying a non-smoker for good. Talk to you doctor or pharmacist.
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