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Don’t Just ‘Try’ to Quit Smoking
Filed Under (Quit Smoking) by Guest Author on 22-12-2009
‘Try’ is a very weak word. Just ask any coach or personal trainer. They’ll both tell you that you won’t get very far by just trying. You have to commit. Without a totally committed level of thinking, it becomes very difficult to be successful. The same goes for quitting smoking.
Don’t be led astray by your own beliefs by saying the word ‘try’. Don’t even use it to soften your words to your friends. Using this word will do nothing but set you up for future failure.
Need an example? How about this. My wife has a fear of roller coasters and I don’t know where it came from. She’s not afraid of heights and not really afraid of speed, so why this is, I still haven’t figured it out. And the funny thing is she can’t tell me why either.
And during the rare times my son and I have been persuasive enough to get her into the line, it is always tempered with ‘I’ll try’. This gives her the opportunity to reneg on her offer without too much teasing. And she always does.
Her way out? She only said she would ‘try’. And trying as we all know doesn’t really commit you to much. The same is true of smoking. I realize that saying ‘I’ll try’ is what everyone else says, so when you want to quit, you say the same thing. However as we know, this will only soften your efforts whether you realize it or not because you have now given yourself a way out.
I encourage you to seek out any smoker who has failed in their quest to quit and in almost all of the cases they will say these exact words to you – I tried! And perhaps they might even say that they soon plan to ‘try’ again.
So what you need to do if you are to commit is remove the word ‘try’ completely. Use a statement like this. ‘I am going to quit to better my health. For the betterment of my family. For the betterment of my finances. No exceptions.’ Can you see the difference? You must state the exact reasons for why you want to quit. With no allowances for weakness or failure.
Write your commitment down – everywhere. Carry it in your purse or wallet; your coat pocket; in your car; your bathroom or anywhere else you will see it to remind yourself the reasons why you want to quit smoking. Refer to these commitments often – it will make your efforts that much more solid.
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