Smoking Triggers: Planning for Specific Situations
Quitting involves learning to handle situations in which you have the urge to smoke. Every cigarette has a situation or context. Part of quitting involves figuring out what situations trigger you to smoke and then creating strategies to do something “instead of” smoking in those situations. By rating your confidence to resist the urge to smoke in the following situations, you will be able to start to identify what might be the easier and more difficult situations for you when you quit and what you might do about them. Part of your quit plan will be to decide what you can do and say in each of your “hot spots” for smoking and who is going to help you.
Please indicate how confident you are that you can resist the urge to smoke or use other tobacco products in each of the situations listed below.
