Enjoy Life As an Ex-Smoker

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Congratulations! Making it through a month of prep and a month without smoking is a huge accomplishment. Keep looking forward -- and follow these steps for day 62 and beyond:

• Breathe. Enjoy how quitting has made your lungs happier and healthier.
• Build on your strengths. Use your newfound vitality to strengthen your body. Start with this strength-building video. As you grow stronger, keep pushing yourself, but never increase your physical activity by more than about 10% a week.
• Love life without the patch. Every 2 months, decrease the dose of your nicotine patch by one-third. Your goal is to be patch-free after 6 months.
• Say bye-bye bupropion. But make it a slow goodbye. At 5 months, decrease your bupropion to one tablet in the evening, and aim to be off it entirely by your 8-month anniversary. Tip: Just in case you feel a craving, carry one bupropion tablet with you at all times for the rest of your life so you can take it if you need to.
• Stay smoke-free. Maintain your nonsmoker status with these eight reminders.