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Remove cigarettes and other tobacco from
your home, car, and work
Getting rid of things that remind you of smoking
will also help you get ready to quit. Try these ideas:
• Make things clean and fresh at work, in your car,
and at home. Clean your drapes and clothes.
Shampoo your car. Buy yourself flowers. You will
enjoy their scent as your sense of smell returns.
• Throw away all your cigarettes and matches.
Give or throw away your lighters and ashtrays.
Remember the ashtray and lighter in your car!
• Have your dentist clean your teeth to get rid of
smoking stains. See how great they look. Try to
keep them that way.
• Some smokers save one pack of cigarettes.
They do it “just in case.” Or they want to prove
they have the willpower not to smoke. Don’t!
Saving one pack just
makes it easier to start smoking again.
Don’t use other forms of tobacco
instead of cigarettes
Light or low-tar cigarettes are just as harmful as
regular cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco, cigars, pipes,
and herbal cigarettes also harm your health. For
example, bidi cigarettes are just as bad as regular
cigarettes. Clove cigarettes are even worse. They
have more tar, nicotine, and deadly gases. All tobacco
products have harmful chemicals and poisons.

Talk to your doctor about getting help to quit
Quitting “cold turkey” isn’t your only choice. Talk to
your doctor about other ways to quit. Most doctors
can answer your questions and give advice. They can
suggest medicine to help with withdrawal. You can
buy some of these medicines on your own. For others,
you need a prescription.
Your doctor, dentist, or pharmacist can also point
you to places to find support or toll-free quit lines.
(The National Cancer Institute’s Smoking Quitline can
help, too. It can help you find support in your area.
See “Where to Find Help” on page 21.)
If you cannot see your doctor, you can get some
medicines without a prescription that can help you
quit smoking. Go to your local pharmacy or grocery
store for over the counter medicines like the nicotine
patch, nicotine gum, or nicotine lozenge. Read the
instructions to see if the medicine is right for you.
If you’re not sure, ask a pharmacist.

Medicines that help with withdrawal
When you quit smoking, you may feel strange at
first. You may feel dull, tense, and not yourself.
These are signs that your body is getting used to life
without nicotine. It usually only lasts a few weeks.
Many people just can’t handle how they feel after
they quit. They start smoking again to feel better.
Maybe this has happened to you. Most people slip
up in the first week after quitting. This is when feelings
of withdrawal are strongest.
There are medicines that can help with feelings of
withdrawal:
• Bupropion SR pills
• Nicotine gum
• Nicotine inhaler
• Nicotine lozenge
• Nicotine nasal spray
• Nicotine patch

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