March 26th, 2010 
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I smoked cigarettes for 10 years, I reduced to 1 mg of light and smoke about 20 a day. I am TTC now and find it very difficult to quit smoking. My partner is also a smoker, and this makes it even stronger, he said that he would go when I'm doing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
You need to be firm with your partner. You want to quit – and seeing other people smoke is even worse for you.
If you haven’t already, ban smoking inside the house. From now on, make yourself and your partner smoke outside. This kind of "breaks" some habits (smoking first thing in the morning, smoking after a meal) and makes breaking more easier.
After a meal and first thing in the morning, try to force yourself to go an extra 30 min to an hour without allowing yourself a cigarette. The more "habits" you break, the easier it will become to cut back dramatically. When you are down to say… five cigarettes a day – imagine how much easier it will be to cut down to 2.. then 1… . then … poof! No more.
The key is to break habits. Yes there is nicotine addiction – but I found that the urge to light up in the car, during coffee, after meals, etc was stronger just because i would associate those things with cigarettes. Forcing myself NOT to light up immediately really helped with phasing it out all together.
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