Quit Smoking: When the craving hits, eat four nuts in their shell. Using your hands and mouth gives the same physical and oral sensations you get from smoking.

Quit Smoking: In place of smoking cigarettes, try sunflower seeds, sugar-free lollipops, gum, carrot or celery sticks if you’re concerned about weight gain.

Quit Smoking: After nine months, the delicate, hair-like structures inside the lungs, known as cilia, have recovered from the damage of cigarette smoke.

Quit Smoking: To be successful, smokers that want to quit need to have a plan in place to beat cravings and triggers.

Quit Smoking: Try nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). Any form of NRT – gum, inhaler or patches – increases the success rate of a smoking cessation programme.