| DAY 42 - Learning to live without cigarettes
Keeping your hands busy
Do you believe it? You've gone three whole weeks without smoking! Great job! Keep up the good work!
Research shows the best way to prevent boredom is to develop new skills and create new challenges. Smoking gave you something to do with your hands. You probably miss that. It will help to have something new to hold or do, as well as to prevent boredom. Here are some great ways to keep both your hands and mind busy:
* Drawing
* Puzzles
* Photography
* Sculpture
* Beadwork
* Sewing
* Needlepoint
* Crocheting
* Carving
* Writing
* Painting
* Gardening
* Knitting
* Woodworking
* Website design
* Music
* Cooking
* Volunteer Work
* Enrol in a course
Can you think of others that would help you? Now would be a great time to take up a new hobby - one that relaxes you and keeps your mind off cigarettes. It could help make sure you don't go back to smoking later on.
© Health Canada
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Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.
~Ojibwe saying~
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