Many people substitute the oral addiction of smoking with the oral addiction of eating but you can turn the situation to your advantage and make the oral addiction of eating benefit your health and lose weight.
For every 20 cigarettes smoked in a day, you have 20 foods or drinks to substitute each cigarette with. You can’t allow yourself to eat anything other than a food/drink from the list at the time you crave a cigarette and you must eat/drink all 20 from the list each day.
The list below is your checklist to carry around at all times to tick off the list as you eat through the day.
When you are eating/drinking you must also consider how long it took you to smoke a cigarette and make a conscious effort to take a similar length of time with each food/drink.
Food/drink
Hot water with juice or ½ lemon
Orange or apple
Glass water x 8
2 sticks celery
Red capsicum, 6 raw sliced
Small plain low-fat yogurt and berries
2 dried apricots or 2 prunes
30g raw nuts
Kiwi fruit or ½ cup berries
Green tea
Tomato
Green salad / tabouleh / steamed vegies
