The support of your friends and family can have a huge bearing on your ability to finally kick the habit of smoking.
There will most certainly be times during the process of giving up smoking when you will get the urge to have a smoke or feel that the pain of giving up is too difficult and the support of others will help you to get through those times.
Even the support of workmates can influence your chances of success.
There are many quit smoking support groups and centers throughout the country and these can make the difference between success and failure. In addition to offering the social support that can help you to achieve your goals they will have extensive information that can help with the decisions you make towards quitting.
You will also be meeting with other people in a similar situation to yours and this will help with the understanding of the problems that you will be faced with while trying to give up smoking.
Most of these support groups will offer structured programs that can be followed and they will usually have specific starting times when each individual group will stop smoking together and work towards permanently quitting.
By working with a team of others the results and chances of success have been shown to increase quite considerably.
Joining a group also sets a specific starting point in your program and when you feel you might consider giving up you will have the support of others and the predetermined meeting times that help to add some structure to your program and an incentive to continue.
The best of the support groups understand the problems that people have when trying to quit and no matter what problems you might be having they will be able to help.
Support groups are also ideal for people who don’t have friends and family to offer them the support that is needed.