Out Of All The Quit Smoking Tips, Read This One First...You'll fine thousands of quit smoking tips on the internet, but this one is one of the most important to remember. Most people - in fact, I should say all of us - have a habit of putting off things for another day. This habit is called procrastination and it's a smoking habit’s best friend. As long as we have this habit of procrastination, we are never going to stop. The funny thing about procrastination is that we only tend to postpone unpleasant tasks. The good things in life we try to do as early as possible and the things that involve hard word, giving up comforts, or a little bit of pain, we try to put off till the last possible date. The dangerous thing over here is that in the case of most smokers there no real last possible date. Many people become serious about quitting after a first heart attack or a stroke. Don't tell me that you too are waiting for a real warning like that. If we are waiting for a doctor's warning, then we can't be too far from falling terminally ill. There is absolutely no sense in putting it off. There is a law in Physics that states that a body continues to be in a state of rest or of uniform motion until an external force is applied. This rule can be applied to smoking as well. Smoking is not a habit that can die a natural death all of a sudden. It is something that has to be worked on. It is something that involves a lot of mental effort, restraint and control. The only cases in which I have seen a smoker stop at one go is when the doctor shook his head and said “I'm sorry but you have only a few months left to live.” So come on, get a grip on yourself. You are much stronger than you think. So why do you have to postpone it any further. There is no better day than today. It is not something that you have to wait until New Year’s to do as a part of your New Year’s resolutions. Do it today itself and you can increase your chances of succeeding and …gulp…surviving. Just think about it for a minute. Did you really want to become a smoker? Was that really your ambition as a child, to grow up into a smoker? Chances are that you became a smoker as a result of habit. Look at yourself. You have a respectable job and you have people who you care about, and who care about you. If one of your friends were to approach you with a problem and ask you to think of the most sensible decision wouldn't you do it for them? Now if you would do that for a friend, shouldn't you be able to do it for yourself as well? If you are capable of making sensible decisions for others, don't you owe it to yourself to make sensible decisions as far as your own health is concerned? Of course you do. So what is stopping you? Quit smoking tips may come and go, but this one will always be a biggie. Make today the day you decide to quit smoking for good. |