Quitting Smoking: Preventing Slips Or Relapses: Why Is It Important To Deal With Slips Quickly

Quitting Smoking: Preventing Slips Or Relapses
Introduction
What is a slip? What is a relapse?
Why is it important to deal with slips quickly?
How can you deal with and avoid slips and relapse?
Where to go from here
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Why is it important to deal with slips quickly?

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A slip is a warning sign that something is not quite right with your quit attempt. A slip may lead to a sense that you have no control and, possibly, to more slips. Having several slips in a row or facing conditions where you are seriously tempted to start smoking again increases the chance that you will relapse.

Whether you have a single slip or a full relapse, smoking again can make you feel bad about yourself and can trigger depression. If you slip, try to think of it as an opportunity to correct yourself before it leads to a full relapse.

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Last updated:	March 27, 2008
Author:	Merrill Hayden
Reviewed By:	Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine, John Hughes, MD - Psychiatry
Editors:	Katy E. Magee, MA, Michele Cronen

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