Despite a full court press by the Michigan Department of Community Health, the proposed ban on smoking looks like it will not pass in the last days of the lame duck session of the state legislature. Both houses have passed smoking ban plans, with the Senate passing a bill which would ban all smoking in public, but the House voting to exempt casinos in Detroit. The two bills are currently in a conference committee where members of both houses are trying to hammer out a deal before the end of the lame duck session.

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Without these two steps your intention to quit smoking may be designated to another failure.
Willingness:
It needs to be recognised that being willing to quit smoking and wanting to stop smoking isnt quite the same. I have met so many people who have said to me, Yes, I want to quit smoking but then had to think more carefully when I have asked them if they are really willing to quit smoking.
Commitment:
Once you decide you are willing to quit smoking, there has to be commitment, and that commitment needs to be absolute and unconditional. Commitment needs to be like diving from a high diving board - one is not committed until ones feet has left the board and one is hurtling towards the swimming pool below. There is no turning around in mid air, that is commitment.
Using the mind and imagination, imagine what such a commitment would be like. Imagine that the only thing that would change it would be something that was beyond your control like a sudden tornado or hurricane that would come along and blow your body back up to the diving board again. Highly unlikely, right?
Now imagine this Your word to quit smoking is your word to yourself. In order for you to quit, nothing short of some highly unlikely event beyond your control, will thwart you from your commitment to better health and improved wealth that you will experience when you have quit smoking.
If you break this commitment, it is likely that you will spend the rest of your life quitting smoking. Just like Mark Twain humorously said, Quitting smoking is easy, Ive done it a thousand times!
If this is how you want your life to be, keep TRYING to quit smoking. If you want that improved health and wealth, dont TRY. COMMIT TO QUIT SMOKING. Again note the distinction between trying and committing to quit smoking!
Once your commitment is in place - and it should be if you are really serious with your intent to quit smoking - you can now begin to use the power of imagination and visualisation.

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I thought I'd post about my relationship with nicotine. It seems that everyone, including smokers themselves, know that smoking is a bad idea. Smoking's the only thing I can think of just now that's bad for you even in moderation.

I started smoking regularly when I was... oh, say 20 years old. I THINK. I can't even remember. I remember why I started though. At the time I was hanging out with people who smoked rollies, something I had never really encountered before. I had always regarded rolling your own cigarettes as quite old-fashioned and I didn't think people really did that anymore. My boyfriend at the time smoked occasionally (but thinking back, he was probably addicted from the tobacco he chopped into his mixes) and when I proclaimed my desire to learn to roll ciggies, he offered to teach me. So off I went to buy the necessary supplies, a pouch of tobacco (I got Champion Blue), filters and papers. I was soon practising this novel skill and smoking what I made with delighted satisfaction.

That's how it began. Why did it continue? Having a cigarette in your hand gives you an advantage in certain situations. When you're at a social gathering and you don't know many people, smoking makes you feel more comfortable in the same way playing with your phone does. When you're at uni, or out and about elsewhere, smoking gives you an excuse to just sit and think, to take a break. Smoking is the next level up from doing nothing.

Another reason why I smoked for as long as I did was that I regarded that time of my life as the time to do stupid shit like that. I knew I didn't intend to become a lifelong smoker. I knew that it was stupid. But I still felt that I had to devote some time of my life to doing dumb stuff that was bad for me. Weird, I know. I also knew that I wasn't addicted, that although I was smoking regularly, I knew I could stop if I wanted to badly enough.

One day I decided I did want to badly enough. It was just time to stop. My asthma had got worse and worse (unsurprisingly of course). The small joy I got from smoking was getting old. I was starting to realise that I didn't NEED to smoke to take a break, or to feel like I wasn't doing nothing. I guess I grew out of it. I've grown out of most of the dumb stuff I did back then.

BUT on occasion I still find myself bumming cigarettes off people. Always because I'm feeling socially awkward. That old trap. And when I first moved out I once again began smoking like a chimney, because my housemates did.

But seriously I'm over it now. Okay I'm bored of talking about this now (it didn't turn out as good as I thought it would) so byyeee.

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