Stimulation – your score:
If your score is high, you are one of those smokers who use cigarettes as a means of giving yourself stimulation. It helps to keep you alert, to muster your energy and to go further. If you try to give up smoking, you will have to choose a healthy alternative: brisk walking and some exercise at those moments when you feel the strongest urge for a cigarette.

Keeping your hands occupied – your score:
It may be satisfying to play with an object, but there are plenty of other ways to keep your hands occupied without smoking a cigarette. Why not play with a pencil instead, doodle, or just fiddle with any other object?

Increasing your feeling of well-being – your score:
It isn’t easy to ascertain if you smoke to make yourself feel good, i.e. for the pleasure of smoking or to reduce negative sensations. Around two thirds of smokers have high or very scores in the column “relaxation-pleasure”. Half of them also come out high on the scale of “reduction of negative sensations”.

Reduction of negative sensations – your score:
Many smokers use cigarettes in situations where they feel stressed or uneasy; the cigarettes thus act as a sort of tranquilliser. But they don’t really provide any real help to a heavy smoker who is trying to compensate for serious personal problems. When such people decide to give up, they experience little difficulty in doing so, but may be tempted to start again if they go through a crisis period. Physical exercise or some sort of social activity can act as useful diversions, even during a tense period.

Psychological dependence – your score:
Smokers who have a high “psychological dependence” score find it most difficult to give up smoking. For them, the urge to light up the next cigarette starts from the moment that they stub out the previous one. The method of stopping progressively is, therefore, ineffective.

Habit – your score:
Smokers in this category no longer really enjoy smoking. They are content just to light up a cigarette at regular intervals, without even being aware that they are doing so. They can find it easy to stop and not start again if they can manage to break the smoking gesture habit. Reducing progressively can be an effective method if the circumstances where the smoker lights up are altered. The smoker then becomes aware of each cigarette smoked. He then has to ask himself: “Do I really need this cigarette?” Smokers are surprised at the number of cigarettes that they don’t really want.