"I sometimes find myself smoking without realizing that I started."

If you chose this box, you probably:

• Smoke out of habit - not just as a chemical addiction.
• Smoke because cigarettes are so readily available to you.
• Smoke before your body signals you to get your "nicotine fix."  This means you probably don't have experience with feeling the recovery symptoms associated with quitting.

These are some tips that helped people like you quit:

• Hide the ashtrays and cigarettes. Out of sight, out of mind. A simple yet helpful maneuver.
  
• Keep cigarettes someplace where you will have to make some effort to get them: your locker, coat pocket, or a little-used room in your house... Every time you want a cigarette you will have to get up and get one. Don't make them handy. Do everything you can to avoid the "unconscious" cigarette and you will cut down significantly with little effort at all.
  
• Don't buy your next pack until you've finished the last. Never buy a carton. This helps reduce temptation.
  
• Clean ashtrays, cigarettes and matches out of the house. Lock them in the attic or cellar.
  
• Put away your ashtrays or fill them with objects so they cannot be used for ashes. Plant flowers in them or fill them with walnuts. The latter will give you something to do with your hands.
  
• Each day try to put off lighting your first cigarettes.

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