Are you facing the end of the month blues? How did I guess it? Simple, this is the time of year when most people begin breaking their New Year’s resolutions and I figured, many of my readers are like the rest of us mere mortals. Here is a challenge though. Let’ s get up, dust ourselves off and make another run for the good life where we live our lives totallly clean. Well, have you gotten your second wind yet?
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What’s that number? It’s actually a number I made up but it could represent the amount of money a typical smoker spends in a given year on tobbacco. What do you think you could do with that kind of money? Let’s see, if you would like to give yourself an immediate pay raise, break the puff puff habit today and let’s start saving the remainder of that money for real fun.
Living to a ripe old age is by far the number one goal of many people. The question becomes though, whatin hte world do you do to live that long. It’s actually very simple really. To live to be 100, you must smoke every day in most cases at least 4 to 8 packs of cigars or cigarrettes per day.
WHAT? You say you don’t believe me. Well, let me challenge you, stop smoking today and for the next 50 years and let’s just see how far you make it without lighting up? : )
It might be faster to jump from a building. Tryign to figure out what I mean by that? Well, if you ever saw the movie “Lean On Me”, you’ll know. A high school principal takes a kid on drugs up to the top of the school and tells him to jump because if he was using drugs, he was slowly killing himself so rather than waste time, he shoudl do it quickly versus slowly.
The same is true with you. If you are a smoke, chances are you are a drinker even if it is occassionally. If you smoke and drink you probably don’t eat healthy either. Well guess what? Research says you are 10 times more likely to develop heart disease and diabeties at a younger age. But why wait, if you are going to do yourself in, why not follow the example in lean on me, no, not jump from a building but rather get your life together and win.
Here’s my secret formula for ultimate success.
1. Decide - You must first decided to quit
2. Set a Date - You must establish a deadline
3. Choose a plan - You need a clear plan of action to follow
4. Resist temptation - You must identify what you will do instead of smoking. A habit can only be replaced by another habit.
Why do people start smoking? If you think abotu it, that is a very good question but I have an even better one. Why do people stop? I think what you will find is that most stop to not die but rarely to people stop so they may simply live. Rather than seeing quiting as a chore that must be accomplished so you don’t bite the big one, stopping the smoking habit should be seen in terms of teh enhancement of the quality of life it will provide.
So, is it the fear of death or the joy of life that motivates you?
With all the talk of American companies outsourcing and downsizing, we often think that only business can do such things but that is not so. It is possible for you to downsize. Perhaps you can downsize in pants or perhaps you can downsize your dresses. Or even worse, you might try downsizing the portions on your dinner plate. So, are you downsizing?
Just say “no”. Listen, I know this stuff is habit forming and many people find it incredibly hard to stop but come on. Are you really going to allow your life to be controled by a small peice of paper and tobacco?
Here are a few of my best tips for breaking the shacles that have held you back for so long. Just one of these many tips can provide insight into how you might lead a more productive life by quiting. Your plan must be:
1. Individualized
2. Convienent
3. Interactive
4. Affordable
5. Simple