STOP SMOKING TIPS

1. Taking 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda 3 times a day will help you quit smoking. The soda neutralizes the body acids, retains nicotine in the blood, and thus reduces the desire for tobacco.

2. Eat plenty of fresh lemons and lemon juice to reduce your desire for cigarettes. Eating lots of salads and other fruits will also help. Avoid meat and alcohol.

3. To avoid irritability: take 1 tryptophan (667 mg.) tablet 3 times a day, plus 1 Vitamin B complex (100 mg., time release) with your evening meal.

4. Before breakfast, take 1/2 teaspoon each of Rochelle Salts and Cream of Tartar.

5. Try chewing Ginseng Root; swallow the juice.

6. Dont keep cigarettes by your bed. When you wake up, breathe deeply and brush your teeth right away.

7. Eliminate situations in which you normally smoke; for example, give up one coffee break each day. Exercise or go for a walk instead. After dinner, brush your teeth immediately or go for a brisk walk.

8. Dont take your cigarettes to work or anywhere else.

9. Always sit beside non-smokers in public situations such as meetings.

10. Always put away your cigarettes, lighter and ashtray so that getting them will require an effort.

11. Change your brand of cigarette often. Each week smoke a brand with a lower nicotine and tar content.

12. Switch to a brand of cigarette you dont like; change to filter if you prefer non-filter, menthol if you prefer regular.

13. Cut back on drinks which encourage your smoking habits; for example, eliminate lunchtime coffee.

14. Make a point of having your first cigarette a bit later each day. Stop smoking a little earlier each night.

15. Alternate between giving up a morning, afternoon and evening cigarette.

16. Avoid smoking in certain habitual places, for example, on the telephone, while watching TV or sitting with the newspaper.

17. Make a list of the reasons you want to quit and keep it with you all the time; whenever you feel the urge, read your list.

18. Always choose seats in No Smoking sections of restaurants, trains and other public places.

19. Initiate a 3-day program, each day smoking 1/2 of what you smoked the day before.

20. Limit your smoking to alternate hours; the next day or the next week increase your no-smoking periods to 1-1/2 hours; then increase them to 2 hours, etc., until you have stopped altogether.