Are you ready to quit?

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How Daily Activities Impact Nicotine Addiction

After months or years of smoking, cigarettes become a part of your daily life. You may light a cigarette out of habit as soon as you get into the car or when you drink a cup of coffee.

Smoking habits can also be formed by the way you feel – many smokers reach for a cigarette when they feel bored, stressed or angry. Even if you have been smoking for many years, you can learn to live without cigarettes. But it takes practice. It’s important to know your triggers and plan how you will deal with each of them before you quit.

Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence

How soon after you wake up do you smoke your first cigarette?



Do you find it hard not to smoke in places that you shouldn’t smoke such as a public building or in your car?

Which cigarette would you hate most to have to give up?

How many cigarettes do you smoke each day?



Do you smoke more in the first few hours after waking than you do during the rest of the day?

Do you still smoke even if you are so sick that you are in bed most of the day, or if you have the flu or a severe cough?

You are highly addicted to nicotine and may benefit from a smoking cessation program including medicines for treatment of nicotine addiction.

You have a moderate addiction to nicotine; however, you may benefit from a smoking cessation program, with or without medicine for treatment of nicotine addiction.

You have a low to moderate addiction. You may benefit from a smoking cessation program; however, you are not likely to need medicine for treatment of your nicotine addiction.

Please answer all of the above questions

Readiness Ruler

People usually have many things they would like to change in their lives – smoking
may be only one of those things. How important, confident, and ready you are
to change your smoking habits can depend on other things that are going on in
your life. Slide the blue circle along the bar to select the level to answer each question.  

1.How important is it to quit or cut down on your use of tobacco?



2.How confident are you about your ability to quit or cut down?



3.How ready are you to make this change?





Why are you at your current score and not zero?

What would it take for you to get from your current score to higher score?

What has made this change important to you so far, as opposed to it being unimportant (zero)?

What would it take to make this change even more important to you?

What would you need that would support you in making a change, if you chose to do so?

Why are you at your current score and not zero?

What would it take for you to get from your current score to higher score?

What has made this change important to you so far, as opposed to it being unimportant (zero)?

What would it take to make this change even more important to you?

What would you need that would support you in making a change, if you chose to do so?

Why are you at your current score and not zero?

What would it take for you to get from your current score to higher score?

What has made this change important to you so far, as opposed to it being unimportant (zero)?

What would it take to make this change even more important to you?

What would you need that would support you in making a change, if you chose to do so?

  • Why are you at your current score and not zero?
  • What would it take for you to get from your current score to higher score?
  • What has made this change important to you so far, as opposed to it being unimportant (zero)?
  • What would it take to make this change even more important to you?
  • What would you need that would support you in making a change, if you chose to do so?

Some people choose to quit smoking because of financial stress. To determine how much money, you would save by quitting smoking, use our Found Funds calculator below.

The Readiness Rules can also be used to explore readiness to change other behaviours, such as healthier eating, exercise, or use of alcohol or other drugs.

Feel free to discuss this information with your healthcare provider.

Found Funds

Some people choose to quit smoking because of financial stress. To determine how much money, you would save by quitting smoking, use our Found Funds calculator below.

1. What is the average number of cigarettes you smoke per day?



2. How much is one pack of cigarettes?



3. How many cigarettes are in each pack?



Think of an item or experience you would like to have enough money to buy. Enter in the item/experience name, the approximate cost of this item, and select SUBMIT to find out how soon you will have saved enough to enjoy the item you chose.




Great news! If you quit smoking today, you will be able to use your found funds by month, date, year or in XXX days.

Not only will you have reduced your risk of cancer and other chronic diseases as a result of quitting smoking, you will also save money and have found funds to spend elsewhere.

  • In 1 year, you will have saved $X.
  • In 5 years, you will have saved $X.
  • In 10 years, you will have saved $X.
  • In 20 years, you will have saved $X
  • In 30 years, you will have saved $X.

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