Ways To Reward Yourself Instead of Smoking
81Reward Myself Without Smoking
These are just mine
Please give me Ideas of how you reward yourself (without smoking) These are some ideas of rewards!!!
Grow your own flowers!
Pet your dog or cat or talk to them ..they do understand!
Planting and caring for a living thing is a wonderful growth experience!
Start your own garden with herbs, fruits and or vegetables.
Go to the zoo
Take a trip to the art museum
Take a walk in the park
Buy a new CD or DVD
Burn a scented candle
Get your hair done
Take a candlelit bubble bath
Go on a scenic bike ride
Take a walk in the countryside
Listen to relaxing music
Read a good book
Listen to a good book
Go to a movie
Rent an old favorite movie
Buy a new book and get lost in reading it!
Sign up for a course at a local college
Contribute time, treasure or talent to a local charity
Learn to use the computer, or become more proficient at it
Get a manicure
Get a pedicure
Paint a room in your home a vibrant new shade
Make curtains for a bright new look
Buy a new top
Buy a new pair of shoes
Go to the opera or symphony
Send yourself flowers...anonymously!
Adopt a pet
Study a 2nd language
Go to the library
Teach a child to read
Take up a new sport
Sew something
Take up woodworking
Learn a craft
Paint a picture
Go to the park with a sketchpad and sketch your world!
Volunteer for Big Brothers or Big Sisters
Volunteer for any good cause!
Bake cookies and deliver them to the local fire-house (be on the look out for hunks!)
Arrange a choral group to go sing at a local nursing home
Spend the day reading to the seniors at a nursing home
Do a random act of kindness
Soup kitchen duty
Go skydiving (yikes!)
Celebrate major Milestone reaching rewards:
A weekend at a bed and breakfast
A Spa Weekend
A full day of beauty and makeover
A new piece of jewelry
A new car
A 2nd Honeymoon
Build and equip a home gym
Put in a new pool
Begin your own business
Look for a new job
Pursue a new dream!
Splurge on a new coat
Take an exotic vacation
Visit an historic place
OR, how about a new “breakout” reward
Go skydiving (yikes again!)
Sing the national anthem at a sporting event
Try something you never thought you could do!
Join Myspace
Join Facebook
Make a hubpage Http://www.hubpages.com
Hubpages are kind of addictive once you do your first one!!
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im really glad that im not the only one going through the stress of quitting smoking.
although its my first day im finidng it hard, but reading all of the above, i hope that i can be happy and be a non-smoker.
i spent atleast £20 a week on smoking, and reading this makes me think that, that amount of money could be spent on nice things for me.
i just hope that i can stick to it.
You are so right DeeJaynyc... Smoking is a very expensive habit!
Lela
Hi Lela,
As you know, cigarettes in NYC have skyrocketed up to $10 a pack! I smoke a pack a day!!!! The math is easy, but the reality is quite harsh: Each month I continue to smoke is another month I throw away -- burn up, if you will -- $300 - $310!!!! Urgh!*(3@! (Explicative, hopefully sufficiently masked...) One of the things I've been wanting lately is a new computer. By ditching this habit, I'd could -- without doing anything else -- easily get a VERY tricked out machine in about 10 months. (By adding some other positive activities to that, I'll be able to get it even faster.)
What do I want more than that next smoke? A VERY tricked out computer and wide screen monitor (yesterday!).
Peace and Love,
DeeJay
I am glad you like it Misty!!
This will be so cool Lela, I can't wait and I love your course so far. I feel truly confident this will work :)
Misty,
The best news is that you don't need willpower with this program and also you will learn how be around friends that drink and smoke and not be affected by them!!
Lela
If our friends are smokers will it be difficult to spend time socially with them at first, especially after a few alcoholic drinks (as my willpower tends to die a death if I have a drink)?
Hey Lela, have checked out your site, and have to admit the content has really convinced me you can help me, and the testimonials are great. Really need to give your course a try ASAP, and even have convince my Hubby that this looks like our best chance. Thanks :)
Yes you will Misty,
There is more to life than the next cigarette!! You will see ..It is a gradual process to stop smoking.
To read more about being happy about stopping smoking go to http://www.nicotinesolutions.com
Thanks for your comments Mistyhorizon
Wow Lela, great suggestions all round. I only hope that I will soon be one of the happy bands of people that have quit after taking your course, and can give myself some of these rewards. Thanks :)
I put the $$ I would have spent on cigarettes in a big glass jar on kitchen counter. Watching those bucks add up helped make me realize what a jerk I'd been to smoke, and let me fantasize about how I'd treat myself with the money I saw adding up! Became addicted to facials with cigarette money! had never had one earlier in my life...thought they were too expensive...boy did I have some messed up economic/nicotine addicted priorities!
mslizzee Level 4 Commenter 10 months ago
Well, I just started eating and I haven't stopped :)