November 28, 2007

Does The 0Smoker Personality0 Resist Common Stop-Smoking Approaches?

If you0re a smoker, and people around you know it, you0re probably barraged by demands to stop. Some are caring and kindly. Others abrasive, even disgusted. Do the people you love quote scary facts and figures at you? Does it make you want to stop? No? Thought so.
Or maybe you yourself want to stop smoking. You may even be heard to say that you desperately want to stop smoking. Uh-oh. Desperation may make it harder to stop.
So is there no way out? Nothing you can do? There is something. And it0s startlingly simple. Here it is: Let smoking cessation be a desire for you. Something you want0and choose0to do.
Even if your doctor, your spouse, and your best buddies say 0You absolutely must stop smoking!0 make it that you want to stop smoking. It0s a desire. Desires are more compelling than orders, aren0t they? That0s because orders make you angry and you want to ignore them.
Give an adult an order and he or she quickly reverts to a willful five-year-old. 0I will NOT!0 The voice may have gotten deeper but the attitude stays the same.
What if you were ordered to eat your favorite cake? Maybe you0d eat it. Maybe not. But […]

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